AHA Events

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Workshop on Undergraduate Teaching

8:45 AM-9:00 AM


Coffee for Workshop on Undergraduate Teaching Participants

9:00 AM-9:50 AM


History’s Role on an Individual Campus

9:00 AM-12:00 PM


How to Get Started in Digital History

9:00 AM-5:00 PM


AHA Council meeting (invitation only)

9:30 AM-12:30 PM


Tour 1: Up Close with Original Civil War Photos

Tour 2: Tour of the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center and Historic Spaces in the Capitol Building
Workshop on Undergraduate Teaching

9:50 AM-10:30 AM


Thinking about Gen Ed as Part of a Larger System

10:45 AM-11:30 AM


Approaches to History Pedagogy in General Education Curricula

11:30 AM-12:15 PM


Quantitative Fluency in the History Classroom

12:00 PM-6:00 PM


Local Arrangements Office open

12:00 PM-7:00 PM


AHA Headquarters Office open

AHA Meeting Registration open
Workshop on Undergraduate Teaching

12:15 PM-1:00 PM


Building Bridges to STEM Students and Faculty Colleagues: Interdisciplinary Approaches

12:30 PM-6:00 PM


Break Room open

Internet Center open

Job Center open

Nursing Mothers’ Room

Quiet Room open

4:00 PM-5:00 PM


Getting the Most Out of the Annual Meeting

5:00 PM-6:30 PM


Reception for Graduate Students

5:30 PM-7:00 PM


Reception for History Bloggers and Twitterstorians

5:30 PM-7:30 PM


Lesbiana: A Parallel Revolution

6:30 PM-7:00 PM


Opening Reception

7:00 PM-8:00 PM


American Historical Association Awards Ceremony

8:00 PM-9:30 PM


Plenary Session: “Other” Civil Wars of the 1860s: Strife in a Time of Nation-Building

Friday, January 3, 2014

7:30 AM-9:00 AM


Committee on Minority Historians Mentoring Breakfast

8:00 AM-6:00 PM


AHA Headquarters Office open

AHA Meeting Registration open

Local Arrangements Office open

9:00 AM-11:00 AM


Tuning Project Meeting (Invitation Only)

9:00 AM-6:00 PM


Break Room open

Exhibit Hall open

Internet Center open

Job Center open

Nursing Mothers’ Room

Quiet Room open
Historians and History Museums: An Offsite Workshop at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


History Museum Directors on the Past, Present, and Future of History Museums: A Roundtable Discussion

11:30 AM-2:30 PM


Affiliated Societies display

12:00 PM-2:00 PM


Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music
Historians and History Museums: An Offsite Workshop at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History

12:00 PM-2:15 PM


Lunch and Tours of the National Museum of American History

12:30 PM-1:30 PM


Meet the Editors and Staff of the American Historical Review

12:30 PM-2:00 PM


Department Chairs’ Luncheon

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Negotiating Your Employment Contract

2:00 PM-5:30 PM


Tour 3: The Diplomatic Reception Rooms of the Department of State

2:15 PM-5:15 PM


Tour 4: Folger Shakespeare Library

2:30 PM-3:30 PM


Graduate and Early Career Committee Open Forum
Historians and History Museums: An Offsite Workshop at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History

2:30 PM-4:30 PM


Historians and the Work of History Museums: A Roundtable Discussion

2:30 PM-5:30 PM


Tour 5: The Freer and Sackler Galleries: The Smithsonian’s Museums of Asian Art

Tour 6: Curator-Led, Behind-the-Scenes Tour and Discussion of the Historic Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress

2:45 PM-5:15 PM


Tour 7: Federal Preservation Case Study: Rehabilitation and Reuse of the Historic Old Post Office Building

Tour 7b: The National Library of Medicine’s History of Medicine Division

3:00 PM-5:00 PM


Tour 8: Olmsted Walk: The History and Design of the National Zoo

5:00 PM-6:30 PM


American Historical Association Presidential Address

6:30 PM-8:00 PM


Reception hosted by the American Historical Association for 2013 President Kenneth Pomeranz, University of Chicago

7:00 PM-8:00 PM


They Call it Myanmar: Lifting the Curtain

7:00 PM-8:30 PM


Reception for Two-Year Faculty

7:30 PM-9:00 PM


Public Historians’ Reception

Saturday, January 4, 2014

7:30 AM-9:00 AM


Breakfast Meeting of the AHA Committee on Women Historians

8:00 AM-9:00 AM


K–12 Coffee Networking Event

8:00 AM-6:00 PM


AHA Headquarters Office open

Local Arrangements Office open

8:30 AM-4:00 PM


AHA Meeting Registration open
Atlantic Encounters: Internationalizing U.S. History in the Classroom—A Workshop for K-12 Educators

9:00 AM-9:15 AM


Welcome Remarks

9:00 AM-1:00 PM


Tour 9: Mount Vernon and the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington

9:00 AM-6:00 PM


Break Room open

Exhibit Hall open

Internet Center open

Job Center open

Nursing Mothers’ Room

Quiet Room open
Atlantic Encounters: Internationalizing U.S. History in the Classroom—A Workshop for K-12 Educators

9:15 AM-10:15 AM


The Atlantic Spectrum of Free and Unfree Labor

10:15 AM-11:15 AM


Transatlantic Labor Free and Slave: Primary Source Connections to the Classroom

11:00 AM-12:00 PM


AHA Committee on Women Historians Brainstorming Session
Atlantic Encounters: Internationalizing U.S. History in the Classroom—A Workshop for K-12 Educators

11:15 AM-12:15 PM


Technology in the Classroom: Using ChronoZoom to Investigate Atlantic Encounters

11:30 AM-2:00 PM


AHR Board of Editors luncheon and meeting

12:00 PM-2:00 PM


A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet
Atlantic Encounters: Internationalizing U.S. History in the Classroom—A Workshop for K-12 Educators

12:15 PM-12:30 PM


Resources for Teachers

12:15 PM-1:45 PM


AHA Modern European History Section

1:00 PM-5:00 PM


Career Fair

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Annual meeting of affiliated society representatives

4:45 PM-6:00 PM


AHA Business Meeting

5:00 PM-7:00 PM


Peepli Live

6:00 PM-7:30 PM


Committee on Minority Historians’ Reception

Sunday, January 5, 2014

8:30 AM-2:00 PM


AHA Headquarters Office open

Local Arrangements Office open

9:00 AM-12:00 PM


Break Room open

Exhibit Hall open

Internet Center open

Job Center open

Nursing Mothers’ Room

Quiet Room open

9:00 AM-1:00 PM


AHA Council meeting (invitation only)