138th Annual Meeting (January 3-6, 2025)

Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday

Friday, January 3, 2025

8:30 AM-3:00 PM


AHA Council Meeting (invitation only)

9:30 AM-12:00 PM


Preconference Workshop: Building a Small Liberal Arts College History Department
AHA Session

10:00 AM-1:30 PM


Meetup: Preconference Coworking Space

10:00 AM-6:00 PM


Meetup and Coworking Space

11:00 AM-5:00 PM


ACHA Information Table
American Catholic Historical Association

11:00 AM-7:00 PM


AHA Registration, Information, and Headquarters

LAC Office

Multifaith Room

Nursing Room

Nursing Room

11:30 AM-12:30 PM


K–12 Welcome Reception

Meetup: Board Games

12:00 PM-1:00 PM


Kosciuszko Foundation Presentation
Polish American Historical Association

12:00 PM-1:30 PM


ACHA Executive Committee Meeting
American Catholic Historical Association

12:00 PM-6:00 PM


Quiet Room

Quiet Room

12:30 PM-1:30 PM


Getting the Most Out of the Annual Meeting

12:30 PM-5:00 PM


AHA Sheraton Information Table

CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

1:30 PM-2:30 PM


Meetup: AHA Reads

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Contested Commemorations in the South and West
AHA Session 1

Resilience and History Education: The 2025 K–16 Content Cohort
AHA Session 2

What High School Teachers Teach about US History
AHA Session 3

Graduate and Early Career Committee Guided Conversation on Mentorship and Advising in History: Rethinking Approaches for the Post-COVID Era
AHA Session 4

Global Mobilities: Pilgrimage, Political Negotiation, and Racial Resistance in the Iberian Pacific–Atlantic
AHA Session 6

The Death Penalty in the "Ages" of Abolition: Barbados, Canada, and the Philippines in Comparative Perspective
AHA Session 7

Brazil from Inside Out: Thinking the Country’s History through Its Interior
AHA Session 8

Latin American Cold War Internationalisms, Left and Right
AHA Session 9

History Gateway Courses as a Catalyst for the Transformation of General Education
AHA Session 10

A New Global Order? Interconnected Energy Histories of the 1970s
AHA Session 11

Histories of Queer Censorship in the Late 20th-Century US and Canada
AHA Session 12

Between Two Continents: Africans' Real and Imagined Connections to Europe after Empire
AHA Session 13

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and History: Mapping, Spatial Modeling, and the Visual Chronicling of Period and Place
AHA Session 14

Growing up in Transit: New Perspectives in the History of Migration
AHA Session 15

Black American Emigrants and the Pursuit of Black Possibility
AHA Session 16

Translating the Body: Anatomy in Asia
AHA Session 17

Teaching Trans History in the Undergraduate Classroom
AHA Session 18

Teaching Feminist Premodern History in Public Institutions
AHA Session 19

Elite Women and Class Politics in Birth Control Movements around the World in the 20th Century
AHA Session 20

Surfacing Theory, Discipline, and Archive: Critical Shipwreck Studies
AHA Session 21

After Silence: Gender-Based Violence and Feminist Resistance across Asia
AHA Session 22

Technology as Politics by Other Means in the 1980s United States
AHA Session 23

The State of Race and Policing Today in New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia
AHA Session 24

American Catholic Responses to the 1960s–70s Urban Crisis
AHA Session 25

Insecurity and Wageless Life in the New Deal Order
AHA Session 26

Treasures of America’s Pastime: Black Baseball Histories for Popular Audiences
AHA Session 26A

Plowing into Empire: Rural Colonialism and the Agrarian Spaces of Law
Agricultural History Society

Encounters: Colonies, Borderlands, and Indigeneity
American Catholic Historical Association 2

Crafting Catholic Histories: Archivists and Historians in Conversation
American Catholic Historical Association 3

Teaching Catholic History: Public University, Catholic University, and Seminary Perspectives
American Catholic Historical Association 4

"Spain Is Different"(?): Integrating Spanish History into College-Level Survey Courses
Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies 1

Colonial Studies Section: New Directions on Colonial Women’s and Gender History
Conference on Latin American History 4

Exploiting Landscapes: New Approaches to the Capitalocene
Conference on Latin American History 5

Andean Studies Section: Indigenous Communities' Resistances and Workers Uprisings in the Highland Andes
Conference on Latin American History 6

Caribbean Studies Section: New Approaches to the Study of Empire in the Caribbean’s Long 20th Century
Conference on Latin American History 7

Roundtable on Academic Publishing
Coordinating Council for Women in History 1

Mediterranean Nation Building: The Cases of Greece and Serbia
International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions 1

Chronicling Polish America: A Panel Discussion of Three Recent Publications
Polish American Historical Association 1

Comics and Recent History: Culture, Politics, and Subversion
Radical History Review 1

Princes and Courtiers in Baroque Italy
Society for Italian Historical Studies 1

The Ideological Origins of US Settler Colonialism
Society for US Intellectual History 1

Unlocking New Perspectives on the Holocaust: Voices from the Ghettos of District Lublin
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies 1

3:30 PM-4:30 PM


Meetup: American Historical Review and Public History

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Indigenous and Black Fridays: What Robinson Crusoe Tells Us about Race
AHA Session 27

AI: Possibilities and Perils for Historical Research
AHA Session 28

State of the Field for Busy Teachers: Africa in World History
AHA Session 29

LGBTQ+ History Research Lightning Session
AHA Session 30

Mentorship and Advising in History: Rethinking Approaches for the Post-COVID Era
AHA Session 31

W(h)ither the History Survey Course? Perspectives from Small Liberal Arts Colleges
AHA Session 32

Reproductive Health, Eugenics, and Freedom of Choice in the 20th-Century United States
AHA Session 33

Big City, Big Problems: Challenges to New York's Primacy after World War II
AHA Session 34

Hemispheric Black Politics in the Age of Abolition
AHA Session 35

Global Histories of Cold: Rethinking Capitalism, Colonialism, and Climate during the Late Little Ice Age, 1850s–1930s
AHA Session 36

Toward a Gendered History of Old Age in the Modern World
AHA Session 37

Ghana in Focus: Diaspora, Pan-African Discourses, and the Architectural Legacies of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
AHA Session 38

New Perspectives on Complicated Loyalties in the Revolutionary Era
AHA Session 39

One Small Change You Can Make Tomorrow in Your Introductory History Course
AHA Session 40

Toward a Theory of Conspiracy Theories from the Blood Libel to QAnon
AHA Session 41

Subjecthood and Subjectivity: Ottoman Armenian Personal Testimony and the Big Questions of History
AHA Session 42

Parliamentary Institution Building and Human Rights in South Asia
AHA Session 43

Science, Medicine, and Technology in the Global Middle East and Mediterranean
AHA Session 44

Global Chinese Lives: Work, Exchange, and Activism across Borders
AHA Session 45

Visualizing the Past: Exploring the Video Essay as a Dynamic Historical Methodology
AHA Session 46

The Worth of the History MA
AHA Session 47

Sayyid `Ali Akbar’s Book of China and the Ming Empire in Global History
AHA Session 48

Channeling Emotions: Early 20th-Century Affective Engineering in Canada, Brazil, Italy, and the South Caucasus
AHA Session 49

Engaging History: Fresh Ideas on How to Reach a Broader Public and More Varied Audiences
AHA Session 50

Performative Pedagogy: Radical Reimaginations of Cultural Citizenship in 20th-Century Latin America and the Caribbean
AHA Session 51

Naturalization and Its Dis/Contents: Nationality and Citizenship in Imperial and Postcolonial Contexts across the Americas
AHA Session 52

Roundtable on The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization
AHA Session 53

Drug and Alcohol Use in 19th-Century America: On the Rocks (or "In the South"), in Congress, and in College
Alcohol and Drugs History Society

Gender, Resistance, and Authority in the Early Modern Catholic Archive
American Catholic Historical Association 5

Reader Reports: How to Write Them, How to Read Them
American Catholic Historical Association 6

Nations, States, and Catholics
American Catholic Historical Association 7

The Circulation of Information in the Early Modern Iberian World
Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies 2

Book Reviews in the Internet Age
Chinese Historians in the United States 2

Rethinking Brazil’s Democratic Transition
Conference on Latin American History 11

Informal Empires: Abolition, Education, and the Archives, 19th–20th Centuries
Conference on Latin American History 12

Chile–Río de la Plata Studies Section: The Politics of Doing Southern Cone History
Conference on Latin American History 13

Borderlands/Frontier Studies Section: State of the Field of Latin American Borderlands
Conference on Latin American History 14

Coordinating Council for Women in History Graduate Student Research Lightning Round 1
Coordinating Council for Women in History 3

Roundtable Discussion on Academic and Trade Publishing for Historians of American, European, and Global/Transnational History
German Historical Institute Washington 2

Poland, Polish America, and US Policy
Polish American Historical Association 2

Teacher Unions and the Battle for Racial Justice, Academic Freedom, and Progressive Education in K–12 Classrooms
Radical History Review 2

Toynbee Prize Foundation Lecture
Toynbee Prize Foundation

4:00 PM-5:00 PM


Undergraduate Orientation to the Meeting

5:00 PM-6:00 PM


Reception for Graduate Students

Undergraduate Reception

5:30 PM-6:15 PM


SIHS Business Meeting
Society for Italian Historical Studies

5:30 PM-6:30 PM


Committee on Racial and Ethnic Equity Reception

5:30 PM-7:00 PM


PAHA Board Meeting and General Membership Meeting
Polish American Historical Association

6:00 PM-7:00 PM


Opening Reception

6:00 PM-7:30 PM


CLAH General Committee Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

6:30 PM-7:30 PM


SIHS Reception
Society for Italian Historical Studies

7:00 PM-8:00 PM


American Historical Association Awards Ceremony

US Holocaust Memorial Museum Mandel Center Reception
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies

8:00 PM-9:30 PM


Plenary: 100th Anniversary of The New Negro