Instructor of History Yvonne Pitts’ article about the anthology on the history of the U.S. South, "I Desire to Give My Black Family Their Freedom: Manumissions, Inheritance, and Visions of Family in Antebellum Kentucky" in Women Shaping the South: Creating and Confronting Change (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006). In addition, Pitts gave a conference presentation titled, "The Arbiters of Sanity: Doctors, Mental Capacity, and Inheritance Law in Nineteenth Century Kentucky," at the Southern Historical Association Conference, Atlanta, GA in November, 2005.