Instructor of History Yvonne Pitts presented "The Arbiters of Sanity: Doctors, Mental Capacity, and Inheritance Law in Nineteenth Century Kentucky" to the Southern Historical Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2005.
Professor Pitts' article "'I Desire to Give My Black Family Their Freedom': Manumissions, Inheritance, and Visions of Family in Antebellum Kentucky" was published in the peer-reviewed anthology Women Shaping the South: Creating and Confronting Change, published by Columbia: University of Missouri Press in January 2006 and edited by Angela Boswell and Judith McArthur.