132nd Annual Meeting (January 4-7, 2018)

Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Sunday, January 7, 2018

8:00 AM-9:30 AM


Farewell Reception

8:00 AM-2:00 PM


AHA Headquarters Office

AHA Information Desk

Nursing Mother's Room

8:30 AM-12:30 PM


Council meeting (invitation only)

9:00 AM-10:30 AM


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

Late Breaking: The North Korean Nuclear Crisis in History
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

9:00 AM-12:00 PM


Coat Check (unattended)

Exhibit Hall

Job Center

Quiet Room

NEH Information Table
National Endowment for the Humanities

10:00 AM-12:30 PM


Tour 11: Foggy Bottom and the West End

10:30 AM-1:00 PM


Tour 12: President Lincoln's Cottage

11:00 AM-12:30 PM


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

Rethinking “Race” in the Spanish Atlantic: Shaping Imperial Laws and Defining Categories of Difference, Belonging, Royal Vassalage, and Religious Lineage
AHA Session 292

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

12:30 PM-4:00 PM


Understanding Sacrifice: A Lens for Studying World War II through Art, Science, Literature, and History
AHA Session