Event Overview:
The AHA was founded in 1884 and has held an Annual Meeting since 1885. Meetings are held Thursday-Sunday, the first weekend in January following New Year's Day.
The annual meeting offers many opportunities to explore career paths, hone your job search skills, and expand your professional network. Whatever the stage of your career search, there is a workshop, panel session or networking opportunity to aid you at the AHA annual meeting.
Why Attend the Annual Meeting?
Explore historical connections with scholars outside your field
Catch up with that best friend from your grad school cohort
Reconnect with scholars you met in the archives last summer
Meet face-to face with historians you engaged online through social media or email
Build relationships for future panels, edited volumes, and more
Attend sessions covering every subfield within the discipline
Present your work and get feedback from diverse perspectives
Pitch your latest project to editors from dozens of top presses
Identify new trends in the discipline from both established and emerging historians
Participate in teaching workshops for K-12 and undergraduate instruction
Get new insights into important historiographical questions to bring to your classroom
Find course materials from textbooks to digital primary source collections
Join critical discussions about issues facing historians in all professions
Learn about the full diversity of historians’ employment
Plan what’s next for your career, whether you’re an undergraduate, PhD candidate, early career historian, or beyond
Gain new skills to improve your research, teaching, and public engagement
Explore the unique history of the host city and region
Join a tour with local experts to top museums and historic sites
Discover local cuisine with new and old friends
Exhibitor Information:
Since 1884, the American Historical Association annual meeting has been the premier gathering for historians to come together to share research, engage in professional development, and network with other scholars from across the world. Young historians attend to learn about the discipline and career opportunities.
The Exhibit Hall is a major attraction for historians who seek publishers for their work, books for course adoption, and new teaching resources. Attendees can investigate the latest monographs, edited volumes, and journals, as well as explore a variety of digital tools applicable to their work.
Why Exhibit at the AHA Annual Meeting?
Support your authors by promoting their books
Meet new potential authors waiting to pitch their projects to you
Demonstrate your electronic database, digital program, or other tool
Connect with educators seeking new books for course adoption
Convince attendees to recommend your books and databases to their institutions for purchase
About AHA:
The American Historical Association (AHA) is the largest professional organization in the United States devoted to the study and promotion of history and historical thinking. Only the AHA brings together historians from all specializations and professions, embracing their breadth, variety, and ever-changing activity.
Learning from Evidence: Using Student Work to Understand Their Learning
International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History 1
Symposium on Advanced Placement History
College Board
Getting Started in Digital History Workshop
Tour 1: The Frederick Douglass Home and National Historic Site
CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History
Teacher, Historian, Scholar: The Professional Identity of Two-Year Faculty
AHA Session 1
On the Job: Talking about History Skills with Employers
AHA Session 3
New Directions in Military History: A Roundtable Discussion on US Military Influence and Infrastructure at Home and Abroad
AHA Session 4
Innovations in Historical Teaching: The History Harvest
AHA Session 5
Public History in Contentious Times: The Crowdsourced Syllabus
AHA Session 6
The State and the Archives in the Post-fact Age
AHA Session 7
Beyond Nationalism: Globalizing China’s World War II
AHA Session 8
Writing Global History in Early Modern Europe
AHA Session 9
Animating Human Rights: Animal Histories from Abolition to the Long Civil Rights Movement
AHA Session 10
Black Women and Internationalism in the 20th Century
AHA Session 11
Children’s Health, Corporate America, and Nationalism in the Cold War
AHA Session 12
Unfreedom: A Roundtable—Constructing Race and Class in the Early Modern Atlantic World
AHA Session 13
The Digital History of 19th-Century US Religion
AHA Session 14
The #NoDAPL and Water Is Life Movements and Historians
AHA Session 16
Outing the Early American Past: Case Studies from Academic and Public History
AHA Session 17
Environmental History in East Africa and the Indian Ocean World
AHA Session 18
Knowledge Production and Economic Life in the Long Gilded Age
AHA Session 19
Fascist Legacies: The Afterlife of Fascism in Italy and Beyond
AHA Session 20
Cultural Diplomacy, Science, and Brazil-US Relations, 1930s–50s
AHA Session 21
What Is the African Diaspora in a “Post-racial Society”? The Case of 19th- and 20th-Century Mexico
AHA Session 22
Final Passages, Part 1: New Perspectives on the Intra-American Slave Trading Routes
AHA Session 23
Research and Scholarship in Federal History Jobs
AHA Session 24
New Research on the Economic Causes and Consequences of Discrimination and Segregation
AHA Session 25
A People’s Journey: Exploring African American Experiences in a National Museum on a World Stage
AHA Session 26
Migrancy and Empire in the 18th Century: A Roundtable
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 1
Spatial History in Border Regions of Modern Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 4
Crossing Borders in Latin American History: “Pioneer” Women Historians and Their Stories
Conference on Latin American History 5
Kinship, Ethnicity, and the Law in the Iberian World
Conference on Latin American History 6
Annual Business Meeting of the CCWH
Coordinating Council for Women in History
History and Public Policy Centers: A Roundtable Discussion
National History Center of the American Historical Association 1
Roundtable: Teaching Polish and Polish-American History
Polish American Historical Association 1
Reflecting on Renaissance Refugees and Forced Migrations in the Era of the Muslim Ban
Renaissance Society of America
Tour 3: The Folger Shakespeare Library
Tour 4: Tour of Decatur House Led by the White House Historical Association
NEH Information Table
National Endowment for the Humanities
Slavery and the University—Research in Action
AHA Session 27
Historians Behaving Badly: Intellectual Citizenship, Professional Behavior, and the Public Good
AHA Session 28
Digital Projects Lightning Round
AHA Session 29
Teaching Queer Themes and Experiences in World History
AHA Session 30
Globalizing Disability History: Contributions from Latin America, the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia
AHA Session 31
Race, Sport, Spectatorship
AHA Session 32
Final Passages, Part 2: New Perspectives on the Intra-American Slave Trading Routes
AHA Session 33
Workshop: Federal Jobs Revealed
AHA Session 34
Is This Thing On? How History Podcasts Can, and Should, Change the Discipline
AHA Session 35
Freedom Tactics: Inventing Alternatives to Enslavement and Race in the 18th- and 19th-Century Black Atlantic
AHA Session 36
November 11, 1918, in the Middle East
AHA Session 37
1960s GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums)
AHA Session 38
State Ritual and Symbolic Power in Early Modern Eurasia
AHA Session 39
Interactive Approaches to Teaching 20th-Century German History
AHA Session 40
Green Places, White Faces: Park Creation and Indigenous Self-Determination in the Global 20th Century
AHA Session 41
Bringing Women and Girls into the Development Discourse: Global Historical Inquiries into Female Work and Value
AHA Session 42
“Third World” Anticolonial Nationalism and the Chicana/o Movement
AHA Session 43
The Identity Concept and Its Futures Past. A Roundtable on Gerald Izenberg's Identity: The Necessity of a Modern Idea
AHA Session 44
Dancing Reformers or Reformed Dancers? Dance, Religion, and Gender in the Reformation
AHA Session 45
Constitutions and Minority Rights: Case Studies from South Asia
AHA Session 46
Beyond Haiti: Race and the Limits of Revolutionary Freedom in France’s Global Empire, 1789–1815
AHA Session 47
Political Imaginaries at the End of Empire
AHA Session 48
After War: Recognizing, Representing, and Remembering Veterans in American Society, 1945–2016
AHA Session 49
Economic Histories of Forced Labor in Africa: Insights from New Sources and Approaches
AHA Session 50
Teaching Conservatism in the Age of Trump
AHA Session 51
The Latin American Middle Classes: An Interdisciplinary Approach
AHA Session 52
PLACEHOLDER: Late Breaking Session
AHA Session
ACHA Executive Council Meeting
American Catholic Historical Association
Migration and Irish Identity
American Conference for Irish Studies
Moral Limits: Inequality in Ethics in the Atlantic Human Sciences, 20th Century
Conference on Latin American History 9
Social Control, Violence, and Religion in the Caribbean and Central America
Conference on Latin American History 10
Organizations and Collaboration: A Conversation about Women in History
Coordinating Council for Women in History 2
Understanding the Past to Plan the Future: Historical Inquiry and Philanthropic Grant-Making
National History Center of the American Historical Association 2
PAHA Board Meeting
Polish American Historical Association
Politics, Culture, and Identity in 20th-Century Italy
Society for Italian Historical Studies 2
The Fight for Global Equality
Toynbee Prize Foundation
Getting the Most Out of the Annual Meeting
Undergraduate Orientation to the Meeting
Reception for Graduate Students
Reception for History Bloggers and Twitterstorians
Film Screening: In Our Son's Name: A Family Responds to 9/11
CLAH General Committee Meeting
Conference on Latin American History
American Historical Association Awards Ceremony
Plenary Session: New Perspectives on Histories of the Slave Trade
Journal Editor's Breakfast (invitation only)
Tour 5: National Museum of African American History and Culture
SHE National Advisory Board Meeting
Society for History Education
NEH Information Table
National Endowment for the Humanities
CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History
SHAFR Council Meeting
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
United to Combat Racism: UNESCO and the Concept of Race, 1945–65
AHA Session 53
Tackling the Issue of Enrollments in History Courses, Part 1: Strategies and Ideas from the Frontlines
AHA Session 54
Free Speech on Campus
AHA Session 55
Facilitating Global Historical Research on the Semantic Web: MEDEA (Modeling Semantically Enhanced Digital Edition of Accounts)
AHA Session 56
The Modern Legacy of Premodern Racial and Ethnic Concepts, Part 1: Ethnicity in Imperial and Nationalist Discourses, Then and Now
AHA Session 57
Teaching History in Independent Schools: A Career for PhDs in History
AHA Session 58
The Workings of Race and Nationhood in African American, Arab, Chaldean, Chinese, and Jewish Cemeteries in 19th-Century America
AHA Session 59
Sex, Gender, Intimacy, and Race and Lingering Questions of Justice in World War II’s Southwest Pacific Theater
AHA Session 60
Cuba in a Revolutionary World, 1940s–60s
AHA Session 61
Renegadism and Transimperial Alliances in the Early Modern Mediterranean
AHA Session 62
Family, Household, Community, and the Court: Extending and Defying Domestic Male Authority in Colonial Latin America
AHA Session 63
Animals in the Early Modern Atlantic World
AHA Session 64
The Politics of Domestic Service in Asia and the Americas, 1870–2015
AHA Session 65
Mining Unexpected Sources: A Roundtable on External Funding for Historians
AHA Session 66
Placing the American Community: Lessons from the Digital Harrisburg Project
AHA Session 67
Postslavery Lives around the Caribbean: Social Control, Representation, and the Possibilities of Narration
AHA Session 68
Translating Global Ideas through Confucian Paradigms: Intellectual Exchange across Religious Paradigms and State Boundaries in China
AHA Session 70
Rethinking the State in Ancien Régime France, Then and Now
AHA Session 71
From South to North: Latin America’s Impact on the 19th-Century United States
AHA Session 72
Ideologies of Industrialization in the Early American Republic
AHA Session 73
Queer Contortions: New Directions in the History of Race, Sexuality, and the Body
AHA Session 74
Spain, Latin America, and the Transatlantic Cold War
AHA Session 75
Nations of the Commonwealth: State Formation and Ethnic Identity in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania
AHA Session 76
What It Means to Be a Citizen: Student Veterans in History Classrooms
AHA Session 77
Projects of Economic Development and Statehood between Empire and Nation: Africa and South Asia, 1945–79
AHA Session 78
Catholicism in the 20th-Century American West
American Catholic Historical Association 1
American Catholics in 19th-Century Politics
American Catholic Historical Association 2
Beyond the Convent School: New Perspectives on Education for Girls in Colonial and 19th-Century Mexico and Guatemala
American Catholic Historical Association 3
Rethinking the Legal Profession in the Colonial Andes
Conference on Latin American History 16
Remembering the Eastern Andean Imperial Frontier: Exploration, Consolidation, and Identity in Colonial Spanish Charcas
Conference on Latin American History 17
The End of the Palestine Mandate
National History Center of the American Historical Association 3
Americans on Poland
Polish American Historical Association 2
Out of the Shadows: Industry and Its Social Ramifications in Northern Italy, 16th–18th Centuries
Society for Italian Historical Studies 3
Periodicals and the Shaping of National Identity
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing 1
Techno-Fixes Past and Present: Promise and Performance
Society for the History of Technology 1
Federal Agency and Funder Display
K–16 Teaching Workshop: Assignments Charrette
Tour 6: Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Science and Difference in History: Biology, Genetics, and the Politics of Race
AHA Session 79
Should Ethics Training Be Part of Historical Pedagogy?
AHA Session 80
Tackling the Issue of Enrollments in History Courses, Part 2: Strategies and Ideas from the Frontlines
AHA Session 81
The Modern Legacy of Premodern Racial and Ethnic Concepts, Part 2: Deciphering Racial Markers, Medieval to Modern
AHA Session 82
New Perspectives on Women in the 20th-Century Caribbean World, Part 1: Migrations
AHA Session 83
Archiving Taste: A Roundtable on Food History at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
AHA Session 84
Reconceptualizing the African Experience with the Socialist Bloc
AHA Session 85
Collaboration for Career Diversity: Locating Expertise at the Institutional and National Levels
AHA Session 86
Colonial Archives and Publications: Digital Native American History Is/as Transformative Use
AHA Session 87
Digital Humanities and Pedagogy: Three History Projects in the Classroom
AHA Session 88
Edgy Urban Environmental History: The Ideological Built Environment
AHA Session 89
Early Modern Prisoners of War as Laborers
AHA Session 90
Race and Empire in Global Music History, 1500–1800
AHA Session 91
Banditry, Ethnicity, and Violence in Modern China
AHA Session 92
Women and the Construction of Racial Identity in Global Dutch Communities of the 17th and 18th Centuries
AHA Session 93
Beyond Grants: Strategies for Becoming Involved in NEH-Funded Projects
AHA Session 94
The National Reach of Reconstruction and “Lost Cause” Mythology in the Civil War Era
AHA Session 95
The Distinctly Human? Rethinking Actor, Agency, and Individual Consciousness in History
AHA Session 97
Optics: Race, Religion, and Technology in East Asian Photography, 1868–1949
AHA Session 98
Trans-imperial Habsburg Dynamics in the Long 18th Century
AHA Session 99
New Histories of State Surveillance
AHA Session 100
Texas Art as American History: Regional Paradigm or National Archetype?
AHA Session 101
Race and Membership in Germany
AHA Session 102
The National Park Service’s LGBTQ America Theme Study: A Roundtable
AHA Session 103
Commentary, Not Punditry: Historians, Politics, and the Media
AHA Session 104
Transgressive Marijuana: Cultivating, Performing, and Regulating the Cannabis Culture in the 20th Century
Alcohol and Drugs History Society 1
The Suffering Body: Transhistorical Explorations of Redemptive and Communicative Suffering
American Catholic Historical Association 4
The Catholic Charismatic Renewal: Origins and Transmission of a Transnational Movement
American Catholic Historical Association 5
Negotiating Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in the 19th-Century United States
American Catholic Historical Association 6
Rewriting 19th-Century Central European History, Part 1: A Discussion of Karen Hagemann's Revisiting Prussia's Wars against Napoleon
Central European History Society 4
Legal Reforms, Philosophy, and Women in the Media in China during the Late Qing and Early Republican Period
Chinese Historians in the United States 1
The Abolitionist Movement in Brazil: New Approaches
Conference on Latin American History 18
The Cacicas of Colonial Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 19
Public Health and Education in the Andes and Caribbean
Conference on Latin American History 20
Dismantling Boundaries: Women’s Historians and the Transformation of History
Coordinating Council for Women in History 4
Teaching the Cold War
Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching 1
Deliberative Decision Making in the History Classroom: The Place of Civics
International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History 2
What Does Brexit Mean for British History?
National History Center of the American Historical Association 4
National and Ethnic Identity Construction in Transatlantic Context
Polish American Historical Association 3
John F. Richards Prize Roundtable Discussion of Nayanjot Lahiri’s Ashoka in Ancient India (2016 Richards Prize Winner)
Society for Advancing the History of South Asia 3
Religion, State and Cultural Practices, and the Racialization of the Nation in Italy from Fascism to the Republic
Society for Italian Historical Studies 4
The History of AI and Its Discontents I
Society for the History of Technology 2
Working Luncheon for Directors of Graduate Studies
Thinking Like a Historian at a Think Tank
AHA Session
CAH/SAHSA Luncheon
Conference on Asian History
CLAH Luncheon
Conference on Latin American History
SAHSA/CAH Luncheon
Society for Advancing the History of South Asia
NCH Board Meeting
National Coalition for History
American Historical Review: Meet the Editors Reception
CLGBTH Members’ Meeting
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History
John O'Connor Film Award Winner, Documentary: I Am Not Your Negro
NEH Information Table
National Endowment for the Humanities
Historians Writing Historical Fiction: A Discussion
Graduate and Early Career Committee Open Forum: Finding Funding in an Era of Uncertainty
The Legacy of Thomas C. Holt’s The Problem of Freedom: 25-Year Retrospect
AHA Session 105
Historians for Mental Health: An Open Discussion
AHA Session 106
Digital Drop-In
AHA Session 107
Tackling the Issue of Enrollments in History Courses, Part 3: Strategies and Ideas from the Frontlines
AHA Session 108
Doors of Hope: Histories and Memories of Black Transnationalism in Indian Territory, Canada, and West Africa
AHA Session 109
New Perspectives on Women in the 20th-Century Caribbean World, Part 2: Subject-Making within National Contexts
AHA Session 110
The Modern Legacy of Premodern Racial and Ethnic Concepts, Part 3: Racial Sciences, Old and New
AHA Session 111
Cutting a New Pattern, Part 1: Uniformed Women in the Great War
AHA Session 112
Drawing Boundaries of Belonging: Race, Ethnicity, National Affiliation, and Alienation in US-Mexico Borderlands in the 19th and 20th Centuries
AHA Session 113
Custodial Care: Histories of Dentention in the Name of the State
AHA Session 114
Everyday Technologies: Toward a History of Mass Media in the Middle East
AHA Session 115
Negotiating Power in 18th-Century South Asia
AHA Session 116
Online Media and Collaborative Learning
AHA Session 117
Selling the State: Propaganda and the Construction of Public Legitimacy in the Postcolonial World
AHA Session 118
Comics and History: New Historical Research
AHA Session 119
Ethnicity, Religion, and Nationalism in China’s Changing Positions during the Cold War
AHA Session 120
The Missing Piece: Catholic Faith and the Making of Working-Class Consciousness
AHA Session 121
The Emergence of Racial Modernities in the Global South
AHA Session 122
Reconsidering American Response(s) to the Holocaust
AHA Session 123
Listening to the Archives: Researching Radio History around the World
AHA Session 124
Globalizing Russia’s Imperial Turn: Perspectives from Kritika and Ab Imperio
AHA Session 125
Words That Shape the World: Historians, Teachers, and Partnerships for LGBT History
AHA Session 126
Returning the Landscape of Slavery to Presidential Plantations
AHA Session 127
What Will They Do Today? Five Ideas for Doing History with Students
AHA Session 128
The Culture Wars of the Texas K–12 Schoolbooks
AHA Session 129
Drugs in the Classroom: What Should We Tell Students about Alcohol, Tobacco, Drugs, and Addictive Digital Technologies in History—and in Their Own Lives?
Alcohol and Drugs History Society 2
Martyrdom, Sanctity, and Death in Medieval Europe
American Catholic Historical Association 7
Sex, Marriage, and Family in Catholic Europe
American Catholic Historical Association 8
The Holy See, American Catholics, and the Emerging of New Global Challenges after the First World War
American Catholic Historical Association 9
Jewish Masculinities in the Shadow of the Holocaust
Central European History Society 5
Continuities in Post-Nazi Society
Central European History Society 6
Surveillance, Identity, and Homosexualities in the 20th-Century United States
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 6
Experiencing War: Refugees, Alliances, and Fighters
Coordinating Council for Women in History 5
Inside/Outside: Defining, Ascribing, and Communicating “Germanness” in Different Contexts, Spaces, and Times
German Historical Institute
Race, Gender, and Prison Labor in the Era of Mass Incarceration
Labor and Working Class History Association 5
Beyond Police: Lessons from History
MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization
Documenting the History of the First Federal Congress
National History Center of the American Historical Association 5
Race and Ethnicity on the Battlefields of the Civil War
Polish American Historical Association 4
Love, Sex, and Honor in the Italian South
Society for Italian Historical Studies 5
Automobility and Political Identity in a Neoliberal Age
Society of Automotive Historians
Workshop: Preparing for the Nonacademic Job Search
Immigration and Transnationalism in the Modern Era
AHA Session 130
Dissertation Lightning Round
AHA Session 131
How Can We Make Historical Perspective More Central to Active Citizenship?
AHA Session 132
Committee on LGBTQ Status in the Profession Open Forum
AHA Session 133
1968 Mexico City Olympics
AHA Session 134
Primary Sources and the Historical Profession in the Age of Text Search, Part 1: Historical Research and Analysis in the Digital Age
AHA Session 135
Cutting a New Pattern, Part 2: Uniformed Women in the Great War
AHA Session 136
A Soul as Vast as the World: African Americans, Decolonization, and Third World Radicalism
AHA Session 137
Department Chairs and Fundraising
AHA Session 138
Ways of Seeing, Shaping, and Documenting Subjects under Postcolonial Conflicts
AHA Session 139
Bondage, Criminality, and the Humanitarian Impulse in the Long 18th Century
AHA Session 140
Conscripted Citizens: Hegemony, Race, and Nationalism in Latin American Armies
AHA Session 141
Queer in Public: Urban Space and Same-Sex Cultures in Europe, 1850–1930
AHA Session 143
Comparing the Governance of Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Plurality in the Dutch Global Empire, 1600–1800
AHA Session 145
In Their Own Words: Global Understandings of Modern Womanhood in the Mid-20th-Century Women’s Press
AHA Session 146
Guests and Outsiders: Nativism, Integration, and the Politics of Migration in Europe since 1945
AHA Session 147
Connections and Their Consequences: Cuba, West Africa, and Spain Resisting and Adapting to Change
AHA Session 148
Mapping Black Mobilities and Identities in the Long 19th Century
AHA Session 149
Race, Risk, and Capitalism in the 20th-Century United States
AHA Session 150
The Global South in the Modern Pacific World: Asian and Latin American Connections
AHA Session 151
Public History and Public Memory: Talking about Slavery at Presidential Plantations
AHA Session 152
Apartheid’s Legacy: Reflections 70 Years after the National Party’s Rise to Power in South Africa
AHA Session 153
Teaching the Master Narrative: American History Textbooks in the 20th Century
AHA Session 154
PLACEHOLDER: Late Breaking Session
AHA Session
Anti-Drug Activism in America and China during the 1950s and Beyond: Grassroots and Government Strategies
Alcohol and Drugs History Society 3
Catholic Attitudes toward Protestantism and Judaism between the Two World Wars: American Context, Transnational Organizations, and Vatican Politics
American Catholic Historical Association 10
Encountering Modernity: Catholic Social Thought in the 20th-Century United States
American Catholic Historical Association 11
Defining El Campo: Rural Identity and the Creation of Modern Spain
Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
Rewriting 19th-Century Central European History, Part 2: The National, the Transnational, and the Global in 19th-Century European History
Central European History Society 7
Roundtable Discussion: The Bible in American Cultural and Political History
Conference on Faith and History 1
Envisioning the Nation: Mexico and the World, 1900–50
Conference on Latin American History 25
Scandalous Behavior in Colonial Latin America: Agency, Crime, and Punishment in Criminal and Inquisition Files
Conference on Latin American History 26
Piracy, Imperial Expansion, and the Making of the Modern World: New Perspectives from the Atlantic and Beyond
Conference on Latin American History 27
Remembering Marilyn Young, Activist Historian: A Memorial Panel
National History Center of the American Historical Association 6
Ethnic Political Mobilization
Polish American Historical Association 5
Peddling Print in 19th-Century America: Subscription Publishing as a Business Model
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing 2
The History of AI and Its Discontents II
Society for the History of Technology 3
Film Screening: Adios Amor: The Search for Maria Moreno
American Historical Association Presidential Address
ACHA General Meeting
American Catholic Historical Association
Caribbean Studies Committee Meeting: Flight, Migration, and Borders in the Caribbean from Carib Expansion to 21st-Century Diasporas
Conference on Latin American History 29
Central American Studies Committee Meeting: The Problem of Modernity in Central America
Conference on Latin American History 30
Colonial Studies Committee Meeting: Beyond the Archival Divide: A Roundtable on Methods, Perspectives, and Experiences from Colonial Latin American Archives
Conference on Latin American History 31
Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee Meeting: The Changing Narrative Arc of History: Workshopping Assignments That Link History to the Present
Conference on Latin American History 32
The Americas Editorial Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History
ASPHS Reception
Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
SHAFR Reception (cash bar)
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
John O'Connor Film Award Winner, Feature Film: Free State of Jones
Brazilian Studies Committee Meeting: Social Movements: Approaches, Debates, and Memory
Conference on Latin American History 33
Chile-Río de la Plata Studies Committee Meeting: The Crafting and Molding of Race in a “White” Nation
Conference on Latin American History 34
Gran Colombia Studies Committee Meeting: New Directions on Politics and Society in Pre- and Post-Gran Colombia: From the Public Sphere to Caribbean Tourism
Conference on Latin American History 35
Breakfast Meeting of the AHA Committee on Gender Equity
CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History
After Brexit: Europe Today in Historical Perspective
AHA Session 156
A Q & A with Journal Editors
AHA Session 157
Democratizing Research Access: Overcoming Exclusion from Well-Resourced University Research Libraries
AHA Session 158
Teaching Capitalism
AHA Session 159
Contemporary Afro-Latin American Feminisms
AHA Session 160
Fifty Years after 1968: Research on the Global 1960s, Part 1: “1968” as a Local/Global Event
AHA Session 161
Queering the Museum: New Directions in Curating LGBTQ History and Art Exhibitions
AHA Session 163
Why History Matters: Practical Impacts of Historians' Work
AHA Session 164
Transatlantic Perspectives on Law and Illiberalism, 1907–49
AHA Session 165
Life on the Streets: Regulating Space and Sociability in Early Modern Italy
AHA Session 166
Insects Histories: Contested Boundaries in Human-Insect Interfaces, 1700s–1950s
AHA Session 167
Free People of Color and Childhood in the US South
AHA Session 168
Digital Colonial Latin America: Experiments in Research, Teaching, and Narrative
AHA Session 169
Crossing Borders in Eurasia: 18th-Century Contacts between the Russian Empire and Its Neighbors
AHA Session 170
Race, Nation, Continent, World: Liberation Struggles and Solidarity Modes
AHA Session 171
Collaborative Teaching, Writing, and Research in Medieval and Early Modern Women’s History
AHA Session 172
Religious Nationalism in Flux
AHA Session 173
The Logistics of Drug Trafficking in the Americas: Mobility, Space, Nation, and Race
AHA Session 174
The Environmental Axis of Identity Formation: Race, Labor, and Landscape in the Americas, 19th and 20th Centuries
AHA Session 175
Race, Identity, and the Movement of Ideas and Information in the Wider French Atlantic World
AHA Session 176
Creating Popular Narratives: A Roundtable with Journalists
AHA Session 177
Total War and the Genesis of Industrial-Scale Recycling
AHA Session 178
Alt-Histories and Facts: Neo-Fascist and White Nationalist Historical Revisionism in the 21st Century
AHA Session 179
Amphibious Spaces: Colonial Legal Engagements with Watery Environments
AHA Session 180
Remembering the Dead: Slavery and Mortality through Visual Culture, a Comparative Perspective
AHA Session 181
PLACEHOLDER: Late Breaking Session
AHA Session
American Catholic Sexual Revolutions
American Catholic Historical Association 12
Catholics, Migration, and National Identity in the 20th-Century United States
American Catholic Historical Association 13
Catholic Education and Religious Identity in the Mid- to Late 20th-Century United States
American Catholic Historical Association 14
Rewriting 19th-Century Central European History, Part 3: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in 19th-Century Central European History
Central European History Society 10
Security, Trade, and Nationalism—Perception/Misperception and US-China Relations
Chinese Historians in the United States 2
CFH Breakfast Reception
Conference on Faith and History
Transnational Mexico: Shifting Subjecthood in the Global 1960s and 1970s
Conference on Latin American History 39
The Global, the Local, the Diasporic, and the In-Between: Puerto Rican History through Different Lenses
Conference on Latin American History 40
Daily Lives in the Polish American Communities
Polish American Historical Association 6
Religion and Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Italy, Part 1: The Challenge of Sanctity
Society for Italian Historical Studies 7
Poster Session #1
AHA Session
NEH Information Table
National Endowment for the Humanities
K–16 Educators' Workshop: World War I in Global Perspective
Film Screening: Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
Anxious Masculinities in the Age of Empire
AHA Session 182
“Five Slides in Five Minutes” Session for Early Career Scholars
AHA Session 184
How Working with Teachers Impacted My Work: Historians Reflect on the Value of Education Outreach
AHA Session 185
Fifty Years after 1968: Research on the Global 1960s, Part 2: The “Violence Question” in Global 1960s Protest
AHA Session 187
The Prize? Energy, Security, and Expertise
AHA Session 188
Memory and Mimesis: Legacies of War, Violence, and Occupation in Decolonizing Europe
AHA Session 189
The Kerner Report at 50: Riots, Policing, and Liberalism in Crisis
AHA Session 190
Thinking with Objects: New Directions in Social and Cultural History
AHA Session 191
Emotions, Technology, and the American Self
AHA Session 192
Records and Revolutions: The Music Industry as an Agent of Change
AHA Session 193
New Approaches to Transnational Anarchism in the 20th Century
AHA Session 194
Eating, Body Shapes, and the Making and Unmaking of Race and National Belonging in 20th-Century America and Europe
AHA Session 195
Historicizing the Queerly Feminine in Canadian and US LGBTQ Communities
AHA Session 196
New Perspectives on the Ethnohistory of the Spanish Borderlands
AHA Session 197
Prescribing Race? Rethinking the History of Medicine
AHA Session 198
High vs. Low: A Roundtable Discussion of High Modernism and Low Modernism in the History of Agrarian Development
AHA Session 199
Oliver Cromwell Cox’s Race, Class, and Caste after 70 Years: Categories of Analysis and the Transnational Turn
AHA Session 200
Fighting against the War on Poverty
AHA Session 201
Water and Urban Power in 20th-Century Latin America
AHA Session 202
From the Crises of the European Mind to the Age of Extremes
AHA Session 203
Webs of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism in the French Empire
AHA Session 204
Historical GIS: Topics in the 19th Century
AHA Session 205
Rethinking the Family in Early America
AHA Session 206
Teaching with Material Culture and Historic Sites
AHA Session 207
Catholicism, American Identity, and Foreign Relations in the 20th Century
American Catholic Historical Association 15
Varieties of Catholic Missionary Efforts in Asia from the 18th through the 20th Century
American Catholic Historical Association 16
Catholic Images, Narratives, and Identities in Early Modern Europe
American Catholic Historical Association 17
Reconsidering the World of the Ancient Greeks and Romans
Association of Ancient Historians
Rewriting 19th-Century Central European History, Part 4: A Neglected Era: The Long 19th Century in Central European History
Central European History Society 11
Corruption and Anticorruption in Modern China
Chinese Historians in the United States 3
Visibility and Viability: Queer Communities of Color in 20th-Century American History
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 10
Roundtable Discussion: Writing Women’s Religious Biography
Conference on Faith and History 2
Slavery and Gradual Emancipation in the Americas
Conference on Latin American History 43
Implementing Authoritarianism: Overlooked Sectors under Latin America’s Cold War Regimes
Conference on Latin American History 44
The Politics of the Apolitical in Latin America: Nation, Youth, and Community, 1960–90
Conference on Latin American History 45
History and the Future
Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching 2
Federal Government Historians and the Public
National History Center of the American Historical Association 7
Female Friendships: Emotions, Experiences, Memory, and Narratives
Polish American Historical Association 7
Religion and Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Italy, Part 2: Rome and the Papal State
Society for Italian Historical Studies 8
Poster Session #2
AHA Session
AHR Board of Editors Luncheon and Meeting (invitation only)
AHA Modern European History Section Luncheon
BHC Luncheon: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism: Perspectives from Business History
Business History Conference
SHAFR Luncheon
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Film Screening: Through Chinatown’s Eyes: April 1968
ACHA Presidential Luncheon
American Catholic Historical Association
CEHS Board Meeting
Central European History Society
Annual Awards Luncheon of the CCWH
Coordinating Council for Women in History
Poster Session #3
AHA Session
Annual Meeting of Affiliated Society Representatives
Thinking Race and Race Thinking around the “Francophone” Black Atlantic
AHA Session 208
A Q & A with Publishers
AHA Session 209
New Perspectives on Female Bondage: Reproduction, Medicine, and the Archives of Slavery in the Atlantic World
AHA Session 210
The Struggle to Commemorate Reconstruction in National Parks
AHA Session 211
Fifty Years after 1968: Research on the Global 1960s, Part 3: Third Worldism in the Global 1960s
AHA Session 213
Displaying the Nation: Visions of Past and Future in Modern Japan
AHA Session 214
New Directions in Trans History: A Roundtable
AHA Session 215
Rethinking Territories: Oceans, Islands, and Geopolitics in Antarctica, the Caribbean, and the Pacific
AHA Session 216
Women’s Agency and Activism of Women Historians in Texas History
AHA Session 217
Anatomy and the Construction of Identity
AHA Session 218
Sexual Violence in Historical Context
AHA Session 219
Navigating Identity and Community in the Gray Zones of Empire
AHA Session 220
“Divide et Impera” or Prologue to Decolonization? New Perspectives on 20th-Century Partition Politics
AHA Session 221
Historical Perspectives on Sovereignty in the Americas
AHA Session 222
Teaching Hidden History: Learning by Developing Digital Modules
AHA Session 223
State Building and Transnational Indian Policies in the Americas, 1940–80
AHA Session 224
Writing History for the General Reader: A Roundtable with Grantees in the NEH Public Scholar Program
AHA Session 225
Race and Nation (or Not?) in the Premodern Mediterranean
AHA Session 226
Competing Visions of Reform: Early Modern Conceptions of Christian Reform
AHA Session 227
Revolutionaries, Refugees, and Smugglers: New Directions in Inter-American Exchanges during the Age of Revolution
AHA Session 228
Arguing with Digital History: A Roundtable on Using Digital History to Make Arguments for Academic Audiences
AHA Session 230
Over There and Back Here: Community History through the Diversity of the Veteran Experience in Florida
AHA Session 231
Filtering the Frontier: Migrants and Refugees at the Border in the Arab Middle East
AHA Session 232
The Law Matters Even in Mexico: New Perspectives on 20th-Century Legal History
American Society for Legal History 2
From Hidden History to Public History: Challenges in Representing Same-Sex Desire in Film, Theater, and Literature
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 12
Writing Colombian History after the 2016 Accord: Questions and Methods
Conference on Latin American History 49
New Perspectives on Puerto Rican Nationalism
Conference on Latin American History 50
Tradition, Suspicion, and Inquisition: Catholic Anxieties of Portuguese Converso, Chino, and Nahua Heterodoxy in 17th-Century New Spain
Conference on Latin American History 51
The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Big History (AKA Big History Meets the History of Science): A Roundtable Discussion
National History Center of the American Historical Association 8
Polish Immigrants in the United States since the 1970s
Polish American Historical Association 8
Religion and Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Italy, Part 3: Devotion and Discipline
Society for Italian Historical Studies 9
Trading Secrets of the Craft: A Macro Examination of Oral Histories
AHA Session 233
Affiliated Societies Workshop: Membership Recruitment and Retention
Black Europe in Sound: African Diasporic Contributions to Art Music in Europe
AHA Session 234
Building a Professional Profile on LinkedIn
AHA Session 235
History from below in 3D: Digital Approaches to the History of Carceral Institutions
AHA Session 236
“Walls, Borders, and Boundaries in World History”: A Panel Discussion with the Contributors to the AHR Conversation
AHA Session 237
New Directions in American Military History: Race and Gender in the 20th-Century US Military
AHA Session 238
World Heritage and the New Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument
AHA Session 240
Fifty Years after 1968: Research on the Global 1960s, Part 4: Black Power in the World in the Global 1960s
AHA Session 241
Reacting to the Past Workshop, Part 2: A Discussion of Frederick Douglass, Slavery, Abolitionism, and the Constitution: 1845
AHA Session 242
Comics in the History Classroom: A Workshop
AHA Session 243
C.L.R. James’s Black Jacobins 80 Years On: The Haitian Revolution and Its Reverberations
AHA Session 244
Identity and Belonging in Premodern Imperial Discourses: A Roundtable
AHA Session 245
The Material Politics of Revolution and Government
AHA Session 246
Talking about the (Bourgeois) Revolution
AHA Session 247
DNA, Ancient and Modern: Genomic and Historical Analysis of Lombard and British Populations
AHA Session 248
Starving Women’s Bodies
AHA Session 249
Assessing the State from the Peripheries: The Construction of Governance in 19th-Century Latin America
AHA Session 250
Race and Nation: A Case Study of Taking Scholarship to the Public
AHA Session 251
Raising the Nation: Youth, Nationalism, and State-Building in the 20th Century
AHA Session 252
Diaspora Intellectuals between Late Colonialism and the Early Cold War, 1880s–1960s
AHA Session 253
Infrastructures and Events in Global History
AHA Session 254
Order beyond Borders
AHA Session 255
Global Abolition: Britain, Africa, and America, 1780s–1840s
AHA Session 256
Teaching LGBT History with Digital Humanities
AHA Session 257
Populism, Nationalism, and Global Nativist Movements in the Long 20th Century
AHA Session 258
Native American History: New Perspectives, New Approaches, New Frontiers
AHA Session 259
PLACEHOLDER: Late Breaking Session
AHA Session
Urban Catholic Parish Life in the United States: Tales from Two Cities
American Catholic Historical Association 18
Saints and Miracles in Early Modern/Modern Europe and Colonial America
American Catholic Historical Association 19
Faith, Doubt, and Religious Transformation in Modern Europe
American Catholic Historical Association 20
Monumental Deviations: Public Monuments, Audience Engagement, and Alternative Scripts of Memoralization in Central Europe, 1890–1990
Central European History Society 12
Antisemitism and Racism: Sources, Similarities, and Differences
Central European History Society 13
CHJ Business Meeting
Conference of Historical Journals
The Early Modern Iberian Empires in Global Perspective
Conference on Latin American History 53
Encountering Women in Development in 20th-Century Bolivia
Conference on Latin American History 54
Left Development Projects
Conference on Latin American History 55
Executive Orders and Presidential Power since FDR
National History Center of the American Historical Association 9
Polish Immigrants in Greenpoint, Brooklyn: Exploring the Transformations of a Polish Ethnic Enclave
Polish American Historical Association 9
Oral History Jukebox
AHA Session
Undergraduate Poster Session
AHA Session
Teaching and Learning Networking Opportunity
Tour 10: The African American Civil War Memorial and Museum in the Historic U Street Neighborhood
CEHS Business Meeting
Central European History Society
AHA Business Meeting (AHA Members Only)
ACHA Liturgy
American Catholic Historical Association
George C. Marshall Lecture in Military History
The George C. Marshall Foundation
SIHS Business Meeting
Society for Italian Historical Studies
Committee on Minority Historians' Reception
Atlantic World Studies Committee Meeting
Conference on Latin American History 56
Andean Studies Committee Meeting: The Andes and the Pacific World
Conference on Latin American History 57
Borderlands and Frontier Studies Committee Meeting: Borderlands and Border-Crossing Histories on Land and at Sea
Conference on Latin American History 58
Mexican Studies Committee Meeting: How Atlantic/Pacific Is Ethnohistory?
Conference on Latin American History 59
Hispanic American Historical Review Editorial Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History
NACBS Reception
North American Conference on British Studies
Film Screening: Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
CEHS Reception
Central European History Society
SIHS Social Hour
Society for Italian Historical Studies
National History Center Reception
NHC Reception
National History Center of the American Historical Association
George C. Marshall Lecture Reception
The George C. Marshall Foundation
CHUS Membership Meeting
Chinese Historians in the United States
CLAH Cocktail Reception
Conference on Latin American History
Council meeting (invitation only)
Geneticism, Nation, and Jewish Identity
AHA Session 260
“What Do Public History Employers Want?” A Report from the National Council on Public History
AHA Session 261
Reconstructing Reconstruction: Interpreting the Epic Story of Reconstruction in Beaufort County, SC and Nationwide
AHA Session 262
Fifty Years after 1968: Research on the Global 1960s, Part 5: Mass Higher Education in the Global 1960s: Inclusions/Exclusions
AHA Session 263
Grassroots Activism in 20th-Century Asia: Lessons from Russia, China, and North Vietnam
AHA Session 264
Teaching and Archiving Lesbian Histories and Subjects
AHA Session 265
The US Military as an Economic Institution since World War II
AHA Session 266
Race, Place, and Nation in the Early Modern World: A Pedagogical Roundtable
AHA Session 267
Reevaluating Science for the People: New Directions in Teaching and Scholarship
AHA Session 268
Experimenting with New Dramatic Histories
AHA Session 269
Freedom’s Frontier: The State of the African American West in 20th- and 21st-Century History
AHA Session 270
Diplomacy in Action: Diplomatic Simulations in the Classroom
AHA Session 271
Teaching Race as an Integral Part of European History: A Roundtable
AHA Session 272
The Body Politic: Health, Disease, and Political Imagination in the Antebellum United States
AHA Session 273
Black Economic Internationalism in the 20th Century
AHA Session 274
Caribbean Circulations: Race, Nation, and Citizenship in Cuba, 1890–1980
AHA Session 275
Forging Empires, Creating Colonies: The Practical and Intellectual Toolkit of Atlantic Empires
AHA Session 276
Resurrecting Clio: Teaching against the Textbook, Engaging the Historian’s Sensibility
AHA Session 277
Thinking with, through, and against Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities: The Legacies of a Major Historical Paradigm
AHA Session 278
Curricular Innovation for Transforming Enrollment
AHA Session 279
Making International Law in Africa and Asia, 1850–1900
AHA Session 280
Eyes on Different Shores: Early African American Immigration and Identity Formation
AHA Session 281
Roundtable: Teaching and Learning Historical Skills through a Crowdsourced Women’s History Project
AHA Session 282
Nation-Making beyond Slavery: The United States and the Transformation of 19th-Century Brazil
AHA Session 283
Matters of State, Matters of Dispute: Collecting and Display in 19th- and 20th-Century Mexico
AHA Session 284
PLACEHOLDER: Late Breaking Session
AHA Session
Urbanization, Mobility, and Modernization in the 20th Century
Conference on Latin American History 63
Slavery and Emancipation
Conference on Latin American History 64
Conquest, Communal Rights, and Population in Colonial Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 65
Nationalism: Notions and Practices
National History Center of the American Historical Association 10
The Wish to Be a Red Indian: The Native American Dream in East-Central Europe
Polish American Historical Association 10
NEH Information Table
National Endowment for the Humanities
Tour 11: Foggy Bottom and the West End
Tour 12: President Lincoln's Cottage
Race in Transnational Perspective: Racial Difference across Time and Space
AHA Session 285
How Can I Be a Historian in This Job
AHA Session 286
Mixed Method Digital History
AHA Session 287
Incorporating Queer History into African History Survey Courses: A Roundtable
AHA Session 288
Private Funding in the Humanities
AHA Session 289
Fifty Years after 1968: Research on the Global 1960s, Part 6: The Other Sixties: Cold War Conservatism and the New Right
AHA Session 290
Iconoclasm and Public History: From Hatshepsut and the Calvinists to Robert E. Lee and ISIS
AHA Session 291
Race, Loyalty, and Allegiance in the Colonial British Caribbean: A Roundtable
AHA Session 293
The Cost of Empire: Compensatory Justice in the United States
AHA Session 294
An Unholy Alliance: Historical, Counterfactual, and Scientific Reflections on the Relations between Race and Genetics
AHA Session 295
The Black Nation, Mobility, and the Colored Conventions Movement in the Digital Age
AHA Session 296
Fake News, Then and Now
AHA Session 297
Infrastructures of the “American Century”: Technology, Mobility, and Materiality in Post-World War II US History
AHA Session 298
Creando Cubanos: Cuban Educational Systems in the 19th and 20th Centuries
AHA Session 299
Frederick Douglass at 200: His Legacy in Our Time
AHA Session 300
Muslims in America: Denaturalizing Christian-Centered Narratives of American History
AHA Session 301
Primary Sources and the Historical Profession in the Age of Text Search, Part 5: Theory and Method in the Digital Age
AHA Session 302
Teaching Slavery Comprehensively and Conscientiously
AHA Session 303
Global Crisis and International Organization in the Americas
AHA Session 304
Policing Black Radicalism
AHA Session 305
Race and Immigration in the Era of Decolonization
AHA Session 306
Digitizing Military History: New Frontiers in Race, Gender, Urban Studies, and Education
AHA Session 307
Internationalizing the Teaching of US History
AHA Session 308
Rethinking the Left in 20th-Century Latin America
AHA Session 309
Empire, Race, and Sovereignty in Hawai'i: From Kingdom to Statehood
AHA Session 310
Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Paradiplomacy: The International Venturing of Subnational Governments in the Caribbean with Focus on Puerto Rico’s Experience
Conference on Latin American History 70
Creating and Imagining a Unified Spanish Empire in the Early 18th Century: Views from the American Viceroyalties
Conference on Latin American History 71
New Books on the Transnational Political Activism of Poles: From World War II to the Fall of Communism
Polish American Historical Association 11
Political Catholicism and Christian Democracy in Modern Italy
Society for Italian Historical Studies 10
Understanding Sacrifice: A Lens for Studying World War II through Art, Science, Literature, and History
AHA Session