AHA Sessions

Thursday, January 5, 2023

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Turning the Page: Improving Reading Skills in the History Classroom
AHA Session 1

How to Identify and Leverage the Transferable Skills of a History PhD
AHA Session 4

Toward an Illustrated History of a Global War on Terror
AHA Session 5

The Global Animal House: Placing the Infrastructure of Laboratory Supply
AHA Session 6

Rethinking the Reagan Administration
AHA Session 7

Terrorism and the German and Italian Far Right from the 1960s to the 1980s: Between Ideology and Action
AHA Session 8

Race, Gender, and Science in US History
AHA Session 9

Histories below the Water Line: New Methods and Approaches
AHA Session 10

Transnational Solidarities: Seeing Blackness beyond Race
AHA Session 11

The Shape of Sex
AHA Session 12

Teaching European Migration History with Open Access Sources
AHA Session 13

Rethinking Imperial Institutions in Modern India and China
AHA Session 14

History, Civics, and the Constitution in the American Classroom: A Conversation
AHA Session 15

History of Violence Roundtable
AHA Session 16

Rumors, Satire, and Politics in the Spanish Empire
AHA Session 17

Where Oil and Water Meet: Land, Liquid, and Development in the 20th-Century Middle East
AHA Session 18

What’s Special about Maps? Teaching Border Regions History with Digital and Physical Materials
AHA Session 19

Latin American Antifascism(s): National and Transnational Perspectives
AHA Session 20

Subaltern Cosmopolitans in the 17th- and 18th-Century Atlantic World
AHA Session 21

Schools as Sites for Agency in 20th-Century Latin America
AHA Session 22

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Baseball and Social Change in America
AHA Session 23

Teaching History in STEM Institutions: Finding Common Ground
AHA Session 24

Curricular Change and Career Diversity
AHA Session 27

Cooperatives, Community Development, and Capitalism: A Roundtable on the Search for Alternatives in the Global South, 1900–80
AHA Session 28

Crossing Boundaries and Spanning Difference through American Jazz Performance: Philly Style
AHA Session 29

In Global Transit: Refugees and Other Forced Migrants Coping with Contingency on the Move
AHA Session 30

Race, Space, and Citizenship in Settler Societies
AHA Session 31

The Past Is Kid Stuff: The Child in American Thought/History
AHA Session 32

Gendered Violence and Legal Standards in North America
AHA Session 33

Troubling Sexual Norms: Exploring Gay Moderate Politics and “Stealth” Trans Subjects in Late 20th-Century Queer US History
AHA Session 34

New Interpretations of Reagan Foreign Relations
AHA Session 35

American Catholics and American Jews: Facing Nazism and One Another
AHA Session 36

Anticommunism, Right-Wing Politics, and Latin America’s Cold War
AHA Session 37

Hong Kong: Periphery as Center
AHA Session 38

An Entangled Empire: The Trans-Imperial Connections of the Portuguese World
AHA Session 39

Historical Gazetteers
AHA Session 40

The Archive of the Text: New Directions in Cultural and Material Histories of South Asia
AHA Session 41

Reimagining the “End” of the Western Roman Empire
AHA Session 42

Indio Identities in the Viceroyalty of Peru: Between Impositions and Adaptations
AHA Session 43

Friday, January 6, 2023

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


Defund the Police? Historical Perspectives
AHA Session 44

Historians for Mental Health: An Open Discussion
AHA Session 45

Curating Community: Remaking History in Philadelphia
AHA Session 46

Perceiving and Writing Agency in the Early Modern World: Interpretative Challenges
AHA Session 47

Intersectional Perspectives on Military History: Sexual, Gendered, and Racialized Labor in US Militarism and Empire
AHA Session 48

The South Got Somethin’ to Say: Black Women’s Experiences and Activism in Mississippi and North Carolina
AHA Session 49

Playing the Past: Historical Engagement with Video Games
AHA Session 50

Captivity, Law, and Sovereignty in the Suppression of the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans
AHA Session 51

Fraud in the Colonial Archive: Methodological Approaches to Social History in French North Africa
AHA Session 52

Witness, Memory, and Recovery: Transnational Approaches to Critical Disaster Studies
AHA Session 53

Decolonizing the International Order: UNESCO’s Radical 1970s in Historical Perspective
AHA Session 54

Gender and the Occult in Modern China, Japan, and India
AHA Session 55

Monsters
AHA Session 56

Changing Paradigms: Global Taiwan as a Historical Method
AHA Session 57

Indigenous Knowledge and Colonial Entanglements in the Americas
AHA Session 58

Community Colleges and the History Gateways Experience
AHA Session 59

Teaching Digital History: 10 Design Principles
AHA Session 60

On the Edge: Public Dimensions of History in Mexico and the United States
AHA Session 61

Spatializing States: Authoritarianism and Urbanization in Latin America
AHA Session 62

Brazil and Cars in Historical Perspective
AHA Session 63

Toward an Energy History for a Planetary Age
AHA Session 64

9:00 AM-12:00 PM


Grading Writing Charrette
AHA Session

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Twenty-five Years of Exchanging Our Country Marks: A Roundtable
AHA Session 65

How Do You Teach What Is Controversial?
AHA Session 67

Graduate and Early Career Committee Open Forum:
AHA Session 68

Difficult Decisions: New Perspectives on Citizenship, Civil Liberties, and Military Service
AHA Session 69

Urban Crisis Reconsidered: Racial Capitalism, Punishment, and Resistance in Postwar Philadelphia
AHA Session 70

Queer Exile: Sexuality, Status, and Dislocation between Global North and South
AHA Session 71

Unlikely Imperialists? Expatriates and the Expansion of American Empire in the 19th Century
AHA Session 72

Methodologies from the Cracks of History: New Horizons Documenting Early African Histories and Identifying Atlantic World Legacies
AHA Session 73

Material Religion on Catholic eBay: A Roundtable Discussion
AHA Session 74

Closing the Global Inequality Gulf: UNCTAD and the World
AHA Session 75

Male Intimacy and Friendships in South Asia
AHA Session 76

From the First to the Second International: Socialists in America, from the Civil War to World War I
AHA Session 77

#DisabilityHistorySoWhite: Race and Disability in American History
AHA Session 78

Reframing Christianity in Mexico from Francis to Facebook
AHA Session 79

Getting Argentina out of the Atlantic: Rethinking the Spaces of Historical Narrative Construction in the Southern Cone
AHA Session 80

The History Lab: A New Approach to Pedagogy and Collaborative Research
AHA Session 81

Doing Accessible Digital History
AHA Session 82

Finding Common Ground: Identifying Friction Points in Researcher and Archivist Workflows and Exploring Possible Solutions
AHA Session 83

Flipped, Flexible, and Free (Resources): Reinvigorating the Big US History Survey at Texas A&M University
AHA Session 84

Intersecting Identities in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean
AHA Session 85

Resisting Reforms in Spanish America: Royal Administrators and Colonial Subjects Negotiate Hapsburg and Bourbon Rule
AHA Session 86

Mobility and Labor in the Post-Abolition Atlantic World, Part 1: Mobility and Labor in the Postabolition Atlantic World, Part 1
AHA Session 87

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Reparations Now! Perspectives on Reparative Justice in the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean
AHA Session 88

#AHR Syllabus Project: How History Works
AHA Session 89

Gateway Courses in History: Case Studies in Redesign
AHA Session 90

LGBTQ+ History Research Lightning Session
AHA Session 91

Digital Drop-In Session
AHA Session 92

Reinventing the Chinese States: Territory, Sovereignty, and the Media of Power in Late Imperial and Modern China
AHA Session 93

Problems in the Global History of Feminism
AHA Session 94

Public Health and the Public
AHA Session 95

The Transmission and Circulation of Colonial Knowledge
AHA Session 96

Environmental Justice in an Age of Civil Rights
AHA Session 97

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Content and Method: A Roundtable Discussion
AHA Session 98

When History Happens in the Library
AHA Session 99

Transnational War Volunteerism in Southern Europe, 1880s–1940s
AHA Session 100

Philadelphia and the Black Intellectual Tradition
AHA Session 101

World Historical Approach(es) to Periodizing Comics
AHA Session 102

Motherhood Is Political: Deployments of Public Motherhood in 20th-Century China, Côte d’Ivoire, and the United States
AHA Session 103

Latin America’s Consuming Issues: A Roundtable Discussion of Two Recent Books on Commodities, Marketing, and Consumer Capitalism in Brazil
AHA Session 104

Imperial Fictions and Mexico in the American Imagination
AHA Session 105

Endurance and Evolution: Ecologies, Communities, and Families on the Move in the Early Modern Americas
AHA Session 106

Do Nonstate Actors Matter? Rethinking Inter-American Affairs across the 20th Century
AHA Session 107

New Perspectives on Refugees from Nazi Europe in the Americas
AHA Session 108

Emergent Thinking: Creating Digital Stories for the Public
AHA Session 109

Mobility and Labor in the Post-Abolition Atlantic World, Part 2: Mobility and Labor in the Postabolition Atlantic World, Part 2
AHA Session 110

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Language as Archive and Method
AHA Session 111

Planting a Seed: History for Young Readers
AHA Session 112

Building an Equity Bridge from High School to College: K–12 Teachers Respond to the AHA’s History Gateways Project
AHA Session 113

Committee on LGBTQ Status in the Profession Open Forum
AHA Session 114

Out on Campus: A History of LGBTQ+ Activism at Pennsylvania Colleges and Universities
AHA Session 114A

Digital Projects Showcase
AHA Session 115

Antistate Power: Anarchism, Communal Life, and Radical Politics in the Early 20th Century
AHA Session 116

“Asian Diasporas”: The Past, Present, and Future
AHA Session 117

The Black Silent Majority? Reimagining Black Conservatism, 1960s–80s
AHA Session 118

Public-Facing History Today: Memory, Policy, Problem-Solving
AHA Session 119

Museum Decolonization, Anti-Black Racism, and the Restitution of African Cultural Heritage
AHA Session 120

What Makes a War “Total”?
AHA Session 121

New Directions in Nigerian Popular Culture
AHA Session 122

Combating Crime, Poverty, and Ignorance: The Education and Rehabilitation of Youth and the Urban Community in the 20th Century
AHA Session 123

Toward a History of Care Work
AHA Session 124

Support and Survival: Reconsidering Irish Women’s Networks and Activism in the 20th Century
AHA Session 125

Global Circulations, Connections, and Blind Spots in the Historiography of the “West” and Beyond
AHA Session 126

Provisions, Partnerships, and Plantations: A Roundtable on Northeastern North America and Caribbean Slavery, 1630–1815
AHA Session 127

Infrastructure, Knowledge, and US Imperialism in the Americas, c. 1890–1970
AHA Session 128

World History and the Curriculum: A Conversation
AHA Session 129

Martyrs, Narratives, and Social Change in 20th-Century Mexico and Latin America
AHA Session 130

Social and Political Identity in the Spanish Empire, 1765–1830
AHA Session 131

Which Side Are You on? Advocacy Journalism and the Myth of Objectivity
AHA Session 132

Before, Below, Beyond: Mind–Body Therapies in Postwar Times
AHA Session 133

Saturday, January 7, 2023

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


“Divisive Concepts” in High School Classrooms around the World
AHA Session 134

DEI Admissions in PhD Programs after the Summer of Social Justice
AHA Session 135

Historians Engaging Publics: Graphic Histories
AHA Session 136

Big Data: Can Institutional Research Offices Help Transform Introductory History Courses?
AHA Session 137

Black Women in Motion: The Complexities of Global Travel in the 20th Century
AHA Session 138

Chinese Colonialisms: Racialization and/or Minoritization in Modern and Contemporary China
AHA Session 139

Book History in Libraries: A Roundtable with Philadelphia-Area Librarians
AHA Session 140

Race and Democracy after Slavery: From a Comparative to a Transnational Approach
AHA Session 141

Education Institutions and the Intellectual History of Gender and Sexuality
AHA Session 142

Using Digital Archives for Teaching, Research, and Public Engagement
AHA Session 143

Forging a Nation with Transnational Science: Knowledge Production on Chinese Terms, 1880–1960
AHA Session 144

Regions and Scales in the Expansion of Migration Systems across Five Centuries: Selections from the Cambridge History of Global Migrations
AHA Session 145

Divided Christendom, 1914–38: Healing the Wounds of the Great War
AHA Session 146

Passports, Asylum, and Marronage: New Dimensions to Black Mobility in Mexico, Louisiana, and Haiti, 17th to 19th Centuries
AHA Session 147

The Political Economy of Hunger (or Lack Thereof) in 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish America
AHA Session 148

Saints, Martyrs, and Workers: Representations, Reactions, and Rhetorics of Catholic Populism in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1926–38
AHA Session 149

Labor and Compensation in the Historical Profession
AHA Session 150

Podcasting against the Grain: The History Survey—Can It Be Saved and Should It Be Saved?
AHA Session 151

The Politics of Paper: New Approaches to (Reading and Writing) Latin American Politics in the 19th and 20th Centuries
AHA Session 152

Constructing Urban Citizenship: The Built Environment and Social Belonging in Brazil
AHA Session 153

The Anthropocene versus Climate Change as Historical Frameworks, Part 1: Deep History, Current History
AHA Session 154

Teaching with Historiography: A Workshop on Facilitating Discussions about Historical Arguments
AHA Session 155

8:30 AM-10:30 AM


Poster Session #1
AHA Session 156

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


History versus Heritage: Military Historians Confront America’s Contested Past
AHA Session 157

Improving the Status of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty: Building on the AHA Statement
AHA Session 158

Free Speech and the Schools
AHA Session 159

Meet Perspectives on History
AHA Session 160

Undergraduate Lightning Round
AHA Session 161

Elitist Politics of Social Reform in 20th-Century India: Engagements in the Vernacular Public Sphere
AHA Session 162

New Research on Black Women and the History of Racial Capitalism
AHA Session 163

Race and the Supreme Court: A Discussion
AHA Session 164

Material Culture in (Changing) Contexts: Teaching 21st-Century Museum Audiences with 19th-Century Science and Technology Collections
AHA Session 165

Key Concepts from Pre-1900 Africa: Africa’s Place in Global and Diaspora History
AHA Session 166

Transnational LGBTQ+ Networks, Activism, and Publications in Europe and the Americas, 1940s–2000s: Collaborations, Interventions, Language, and Desire
AHA Session 167

Teaching the Nation after Conflict: The Politics of History Education in Japan, China, Taiwan, and Timor-Leste in the Postwar Periods
AHA Session 168

The Visible Hand in the Age of Enlightenment
AHA Session 169

Media and the Cultural Politics of Coalition Building
AHA Session 170

Varieties of Jewish Anarchism in North America
AHA Session 171

Empires and Emancipation: Freedom, Agency, and Mobility in the Atlantic World
AHA Session 172

Art Meets History: Using Contemporary Art to Engage with History
AHA Session 173

Rank-and-File Soldiers in Cold War Latin America
AHA Session 174

Do the Americas Have a Common History? On Hemispheric Forms of Imagination and Exchange
AHA Session 175

The Future of History at Liberal Arts Colleges, Part 1: Department Chairs Roundtable
AHA Session 176

The Historian as Writer and Storyteller, Part 1: The Historian as Writer and Storyteller, Part 1
AHA Session 177

The Anthropocene versus Climate Change as Historical Frameworks, Part 2: Energizing Histories
AHA Session 178

Teaching with Historiography: Join the Project to Bring Historical Research and Teaching Together
AHA Session 179

10:30 AM-12:30 PM


Poster Session #2
AHA Session 180

1:00 PM-3:00 PM


Poster Session #3
AHA Session 181

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Expanding Access for Underrepresented Students in Graduate Education
AHA Session 182

American Historical Review History Lab: Knowing by Sensing—“Nose First” Methods for Research and Education of Olfactory Heritage and History
AHA Session 183

If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress: Black Politics in 20th-Century Philadelphia
AHA Session 185

Trouble in Empire: Colonialism and Subaltern Appropriations in South and Southeast Asia
AHA Session 186

Fascism and Antifascism in the Postwar United States
AHA Session 187

The US Culture Wars in a Global Context
AHA Session 188

Making Treason Odious Again: Perspectives from the Naming Commission and the Army’s War on the Lost Cause
AHA Session 189

European Integration, Decolonization, and Racial Reconstruction: New Interconnected Histories of the Postwar Era
AHA Session 190

Shifting Boundaries of American Empire: Case Studies in Labor, Education, and War, 1870s–1970s
AHA Session 191

Complicated Entanglements “from Above” and “from Below”: American Evangelicals, US Foreign Policy, and the Shaping of Global Evangelicalism
AHA Session 192

Deconstructing “Development” in Mexico, Brazil, and the CEPAL
AHA Session 193

Decolonizing Historical Data in the Context of Colonization and Empire
AHA Session 194

Engendering the History of Latin American Capitalism: Women and Men in Brazilian Commodity Export Regions in the 19th and 20th Centuries
AHA Session 195

What’s New at the National Endowment for the Humanities for 2023: New Agency Priorities, Updated Funding Opportunities, and Special Initiatives
AHA Session 196

Computing on Cultural Heritage: Reports from an LC Labs Experiment
AHA Session 197

Ottoman Empire through the History of Commodities
AHA Session 198

Crisis in Agricultural History, Part 1: Environment, Empire, Knowledge, and Power in Comparative Perspective
AHA Session 199

Illicit Work, Race, and the Urban Economy, Part 1: Vice and Prohibition in the Early 20th Century
AHA Session 200

The Future of History at Liberal Arts Colleges, Part 2: Creating an Inclusive Classroom
AHA Session 201

The Historian as Writer and Storyteller, Part 2: The Historian as Writer and Storyteller, Part 2
AHA Session 202

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Russia’s War against Ukraine in Historical Perspective
AHA Session 203

How Do You Conceptualize a Second Book?
AHA Session 204

State of the Field for Busy Teachers: World History
AHA Session 206

The History of Reproductive Rights in Global Perspective
AHA Session 207

The Political Lives of Infrastructure
AHA Session 208

Beyond Integration: Rethinking Desegregation in American Hospitals
AHA Session 209

Histories of Climate Change: Place-Based Approaches from European History
AHA Session 210

Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth about Reconstruction
AHA Session 211

Crossing Boundaries: Global Perspectives on Labor and Mobility
AHA Session 212

Marxism: Writing the History of the Past and the Future
AHA Session 213

New(er) Directions in Queer Religious History
AHA Session 214

Race, Empire, Gender, and the Making of the US Carceral State
AHA Session 215

Unfetter Me from the Chains of Oppression: Slaves, Nationalists, and Migrants in Search of Transnational Liberation, 1793–1980
AHA Session 216

Archaeoastronomy and History: Perspectives from Africa, North America, West Asia, Oceania, and Europe
AHA Session 217

New and Old Norms: Forging and Inscribing Communities across the Atlantic World
AHA Session 218

“Feminism Practices What Anarchism Preaches”: Anarcha-Feminism in the 20th Century
AHA Session 219

Roundtable on Teaching and Visualizing Global Fashion History
AHA Session 220

Rethinking Theoretical Assumptions in the History of Medicine in East Asia: Case Studies of China, Taiwan, and Korea
AHA Session 221

The Role of Gender in Biography in Early Modern East Asia, 1400–1800
AHA Session 222

Crisis in Agricultural History, Part 2: Conflict, Activism, and Globalization in Farm Politics since the 1980s
AHA Session 223

Illicit Work, Race, and the Urban Economy, Part 2: The War on Drugs and the Working Class City
AHA Session 224

The Future of History at Liberal Arts Colleges, Part 3: Global and International History
AHA Session 225

3:30 PM-5:30 PM


Undergraduate Poster Session
AHA Session 226

Sunday, January 8, 2023

9:00 AM-10:30 AM


50 Shades of the American Curriculum: A Progress Report on the AHA’s Mapping the Landscape of Secondary US History Education Project
AHA Session 227

The US Army as a Social Laboratory in World War II
AHA Session 229

Maritime Microhistory and Public History: Global Perspectives
AHA Session 230

Mission Accomplished? American Political and Cultural Perspectives on the Iraq War, 20 Years Later
AHA Session 231

Rethinking 19th-Century America
AHA Session 232

The Antebellum Afterlives of African American Slavery
AHA Session 233

Developmental Histories from the Global South: Actors, Practices, Impacts
AHA Session 234

The Strange Recrudescence of Thomas Carlyle’s Historical Writings
AHA Session 235

NATO and the European Order: Past, Present, Future
AHA Session 236

Unfinished Revolutions, Uncommon Solidarities: Irish Rebels in the American Left
AHA Session 237

Climate Education: The Case for History and the Social Sciences
AHA Session 238

The Ethics of Teaching History in Today’s K–12 Classrooms
AHA Session 239

Bridging Cultural and Political Divides: Unique Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching Modern China as CHUS Historians in the Postpandemic World
AHA Session 240

Rethinking Histories of State Formation, Community, and Resistance through Ethnic Mexican Transborder Migration and Labor
AHA Session 241

Interviews with the Liberator: Four Momentous Meetings with Simón Bolívar
AHA Session 242

Debates on Citizenship in Latin America, 19th and 20th Centuries
AHA Session 243

Using Reacting to the Past (RTTP) to Teach Historical Conflict in a Time of Social Conflict, Part 1: Demonstration
AHA Session 244

Locating Space and Place in History: Pedagogy and the Spatial Turn, Part 1: History and the Spatial Turn: Pedagogical Approaches, Part 1
AHA Session 245

9:00 AM-12:30 PM


Op-Ed Workshop
AHA Session

Writing Beyond the Academy: How to Secure a Commercial Book Deal
AHA Session

11:00 AM-12:30 PM


Tag Team! Creating a Network of Support between Faculty and Professional Educators to Support Graduate Student Career Development
AHA Session 246

The Civic “Apathy” Crisis: How Americans Responded to Political Disengagement in the Post-1970 Era
AHA Session 247

The Battlefield of Memory: Antiwar Activists and the Contested Meaning of the Vietnam War in the 1970s and 1980s
AHA Session 248

Social Movements and Queer Legal Histories in the Late 20th-Century United States
AHA Session 249

Slavery and Law: New Histories of American Immigration
AHA Session 250

New Perspectives on the Rise and Decline of the American Century
AHA Session 251

Working for the State in War and Peace: Gender, Race, and Labor, 1898–1945
AHA Session 252

Black Female Empowerment through Education in the Late 19th and 20th Centuries
AHA Session 253

The Revolutionary Archive: New Directions
AHA Session 254

Constructing Peace History: An Editors’ Roundtable
AHA Session 255

The Ethics of Curriculum and Lesson Construction from High School to College Introductory Gen-Ed Courses
AHA Session 256

Integrating Colored Conventions Histories into Curricula, Community, and Public Memory
AHA Session 257

Beyond the Campus Gates: Broadening the Reach of Historical Scholarship
AHA Session 258

Engaging Policymakers and the Public on US–Mexico Border and Migration History
AHA Session 259

Christianity and Wartime Political Movements in the 20th-Century Postcolonial World
AHA Session 260

Empire and the Control of Human and Other-Than-Human Diseases
AHA Session 261

Local and Transnational Scales in the History of Science, Race, and Medicine in the Americas, 1909–65
AHA Session 262

Using Reacting to the Past (RTTP) to Teach Historical Conflict in a Time of Social Conflict, Part 2: Roundtable
AHA Session 263

Locating Space and Place in History: Pedagogy and the Spatial Turn, Part 2: History and the Spatial Turn: Pedagogical Approaches, Part 2
AHA Session 264