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Springfield Technical Community College is honored to host a two-day symposium on the 220th anniversary of Shays’s Rebellion. The symposium will take place Saturday, January 27 and Sunday, January 28, 2007. Distinguished historian from the University of Connecticut Robert A. Gross will give the keynote address. Contributor, editor, and author of several books, Professor Gross is the editor of In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion.
Paper topics on any aspect of Shays’s Rebellion are welcome. Final papers should be no longer than ten typed double-spaced pages, and must be readable in 20 minutes. One-page proposals should be sent to Dr. Arlene Rodríguez, Dean, School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, and Professor John Gately, Chair, Department of English, Springfield Technical Community College, One Armory Square, STE 1, P.O. Box 9000, Springfield, MA 01102-9000, or via email to ARodriguez@stcc.edu and Gately@stcc.edu. The deadline for proposals is October 16, 2006.
Located on the 55-acre Springfield Armory National Historic Site in Western Massachusetts, the STCC campus is also major site, perhaps the highwater mark, of Shays’s Rebellion. In January 1787, Daniel Shays led 2000 rebels to Springfield down the Bay Path, now State Street, attempting to capture the military stores in protest of heavy taxes following the Revolutionary War.
The Sheraton Springfield is offering symposium visitors and presenters a special rate. For room reservations call 413-781-1010 or 800-426-9004.
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