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

Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday

Saturday, January 4, 2025

7:00 AM-8:30 AM


Journal Editors' Breakfast (invitation only)

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

8:00 AM-5:00 PM


AHA Sheraton Information Table

ACHA Information Table
American Catholic Historical Association

8:00 AM-6:00 PM


AHA Registration, Information, and Headquarters

LAC Office

Multifaith Room

Nursing Room

Nursing Room

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


Honoring James Grossman: Reflections on His Career as a Historian and AHA Leader
AHA Session 54

Career Transitions Discussion Sessions, Part 1: From Graduate School to Your First Position
AHA Session 55

Large-Scale Research for History: What Will It Take? What Can We Do?
AHA Session 56

State of the Field for Busy Teachers: Native American History
AHA Session 57

Interested in Working at a Small Liberal Arts College? A Mentoring Session for Early Career Scholars
AHA Session 58

Migration, Surveillance, and Sending States: The Case for Transnational Perspectives
AHA Session 59

Oral History, Memory, and Positionality in Latin America
AHA Session 60

Love and War: Gender, Intimacies, and Resistance in Times of Upheaval
AHA Session 61

Truth, Half-Truth, Fake Truth: Global History of Disinformation and Political Paranoia
AHA Session 62

Is the "New World History" Old Now?
AHA Session 63

Designing the Un-survey: New Approaches to the Introductory World History Syllabus
AHA Session 64

Corporations in US–China Trading Relations, 1870s–1980s: A Century of Interaction and Interdependence
AHA Session 65

Reconsidering Anticommunism in Cold War Japan: Historiographical Challenges and New Perspectives
AHA Session 66

Varieties of Capital in the Eastern Mediterranean
AHA Session 67

Early American Environments: Natural and Unnatural Histories
AHA Session 68

Making Property: Transformations in the Governance of Land and Common Resources in (Post-)Imperial Contexts, 18th–19th Centuries
AHA Session 69

Race, Space, and Segregation in the Colonial City
AHA Session 70

Beyond a Moment: Emerging Scholarship in Dutch Atlantic Historiography
AHA Session 71

What They Say about Us: Fictional Characters and 20th-Century US History
AHA Session 72

Nostalgia in Contemporary European History
AHA Session 73

Contending Visions: The Plural Histories of Self-Determination
AHA Session 74

Historical Partnerships for the Public Good: The Founding of the Upstate New York Policing Research Consortium
AHA Session 75

Warming Frequencies: Radio and the Cold War across the Global South
AHA Session 76

Entanglements of Race, Nation, and Diaspora in Post-1965 Asian American Politics
AHA Session 77

Using Innovative Programs to Teach Difficult Topics While Addressing Parental Rights in Long Island’s Public Schools
AHA Session 78

Arguing with Data-Driven History: Ethical and Methodological Reflections
AHA Session 79

Digitizing Black History at HBCUs: A Collaborative Public History Approach
AHA Session 80

Gender? I Hardly Know Her: The Uses of Gender as a Category of Analysis in Queer Urban Histories
AHA Session 81

Schooling for Freedom: Black and Native Educational Solidarities in the Midst of Settler Colonialism across the 19th and 20th Centuries
AHA Session 82

Making Saints: Three Medieval and Modern Case Studies
American Catholic Historical Association 8

Catholic Currents in the Colonial Caribbean
American Catholic Historical Association 9

German Catholics, American Catholics
American Catholic Historical Association 10

"Lost Worlds" of the Third Reich: Reconstructing Traditions in Central Europe and Beyond, 1933–45
Central European History Society 3

The Transformation of Information in Modern China: Technologies, Ideas, and Mediums
Chinese Historians in the United States 4

Mexican Studies Section: Indigenous and Afro-Black Mexico—Multiethnic and Multiracial Mexican Studies
Conference on Latin American History 16

20th-Century Intellectual Histories of Mexico and Peru
Conference on Latin American History 17

Central American Studies: New Research on the History of Gender in Central America
Conference on Latin American History 18

Brazilian Studies Section: Decolonizing Brazilian History? A Roundtable on Methodologies
Conference on Latin American History 19

Emotional Histories of Rupture
Coordinating Council for Women in History 4

Making Empire in a Sea of Islands: New Views on Colonialism in the Early Transpacific
Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions 1

Between the Human Constitution and Human Consciousness
International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions 3

Teaching and Case Studies in Applied History
New England Historical Association

War and Displacement
Polish American Historical Association 3

Boycotts and Divestment in Historical Perspective
Radical History Review 3

Celebrating American Contact: Objects of Intercultural Encounters and the Boundaries of Book History
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing

8:30 AM-11:30 AM


Op-Ed Workshop
AHA Session

9:00 AM-6:00 PM


Exhibit Hall

Meetup and Coworking Space

Quiet Room

Quiet Room

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


The Machiavellian Moment at 50
AHA Session 83

Black Women and Biography
AHA Session 83A

Career Transitions Discussion Sessions, Part 2: Mid-Career Shifts
AHA Session 84

Pulse Check: A Roundtable on the AHA’s Guidelines for Broadening the Definition of Historical Scholarship
AHA Session 85

Funding History: An Inside Look at Foundation and Government Decisionmaking
AHA Session 86

Historical Thinking for Everyone: Making Introductory Courses Matter
AHA Session 87

Open Knowledge as Pedagogical Praxis: How Faculty and Students Are Opening up the Field of History by Improving Wikipedia
AHA Session 88

Women in Revolutionary-Era New York City: Opportunities and Consequences
AHA Session 89

Challenges of Teaching African American History in Secondary Schools
AHA Session 90

Institutional Histories and the Work of Archivists
AHA Session 91

Intimate African Histories: Archives, Methods, and Practice
AHA Session 92

Charting a Community College Career: Challenges and Opportunities
AHA Session 93

Cultures of Information in 20th-Century China
AHA Session 94

Authors Meet Critics: Max Felker-Kantor's Dare to Say No and Melanie Newport's This Is My Jail
AHA Session 95

Pragmatism and Socialism: A Long American Tradition?
AHA Session 96

Recovering Indigenous Agency from Narratives of Exploration
AHA Session 97

The Other Sister: Noncloistered Religious Women in the Middle Ages
AHA Session 98

Unauthorized European Immigration to the United States in the 20th Century
AHA Session 99

Correspondence, Care, and Camaraderie in 20th-Century US Trans Histories
AHA Session 100

Enemies in Common: Anticommunism in Global Perspective
AHA Session 101

Rethinking the Parameters and Methodologies of Central American History
AHA Session 102

Imperial Entanglements: Empire and the Cold War in East Asia
AHA Session 103

Works in Progress: A Roundtable on Community Archives, Kinship, and the Uses of Creative Nonfiction
AHA Session 104

From Rights to Lives: The Evolving Black Freedom Struggle
AHA Session 105

Global Currents of Colonial Violence and Third World Intellectual Exchange: Looking South toward Palestine
AHA Session 106

Family History, Genealogy, and the Historical Profession: A Roundtable on 10 Million Names and Descendant Communities
AHA Session 107

Making Movements: Dance and the Historian
AHA Session 108

Truth and Transformation: The Legacy and Preservation of the Humanities and Social Sciences at HBCUs
AHA Session 109

Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Cold War Americas, Part 1: Space, Region, Empire—Cartographic Sciences and the Latin American Cold War
AHA Session 110

Digital Religion: Crusaders, Saints, Athletes, and Cloistered Nuns Online
American Catholic Historical Association 12

Intervention, Reform, Removal: Catholic Approaches to Indigenous Children from Early Missions to Vatican II
American Catholic Historical Association 13

Haunted by the Ghost: An(other) Irish Turn in Catholic Studies
American Catholic Historical Association 14

Contesting "Democracy" in Postwar Germany: Narratives of Democratization and Everyday Practices across the Iron Curtain
Central European History Society 5

Human Trade and Slavery in and beyond China, 1600–1900
Chinese Historians in the United States 6

Roundtable on Leah Payne’s God Gave Rock and Roll to You
Conference on Faith and History

Biographical Approaches to Women and Gender in Mexico and Chile
Conference on Latin American History 21

Voices from the Margins: Exploring Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 22

The Festival at Home and in the Streets: Reaffirming and Challenging Identity, Faith, and the King in New Spain and Peru
Conference on Latin American History 23

State Projects in Mexico and Brazil, 1940–90
Conference on Latin American History 24

Women's History as Pedagogy: Advancing Women's History in US Survey Courses
Coordinating Council for Women in History 5

Pacifist Internationals: Reflections on a Century of Nonviolent Activism for Peace and Justice
Peace History Society 1

Polish Writers and Publishers in the Diaspora
Polish American Historical Association 5

Reflections on the New Cold War: Perils and Prospects
Radical History Review 6

Custom and Law in Medieval Italy and Its Mediterranean
Society for Italian Historical Studies 2

11:00 AM-12:30 PM


Tour 1: Queer History of Midtown Walking Tour

11:00 AM-1:15 PM


AHR Board of Editors Luncheon and Meeting (invitation only)

11:30 AM-12:30 PM


Meetup: Fiber Arts Circle

12:00 PM-1:30 PM


Working Luncheon for Directors of Graduate Studies

12:00 PM-2:00 PM


ACHA Presidential Luncheon
American Catholic Historical Association

1:00 PM-3:00 PM


Film Screening: John O'Connor Film Award Winner, Documentary—The Lady Bird Diaries

Tour 2: Center for Women’s History at the New-York Historical Society

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Working from Home: Historians Writing about Themselves and Their Ancestors, Part 1
AHA Session 111

Career Transitions Discussion Sessions, Part 3: Leaving the Professoriate
AHA Session 112

What Forms Can History Writing Take? AHR's History Unclassified and Experimental Historical Narratives
AHA Session 113

Teaching Global Perspectives in US History Survey Courses, Part 1: Global Perspectives on Migration, Labor, and Cultural Diversity in US History Survey Courses
AHA Session 114

Artificial Intelligence in History Education Lightning Round
AHA Session 115

Perilous Times: LGBTQIA+ Scholars Teaching in Interdisciplinary Departments
AHA Session 116

Digital Projects Showcase
AHA Session 117

Cross-Border Trade, Silver, and Capitalism in Early Modern East Asia, 1600–1900
AHA Session 118

Mobilizing Oral and Public History: Approaches to Participatory, Community Based, Interdisciplinary Projects
AHA Session 119

Visualizing Queer/Trans Life, Love, and Politics through Photography
AHA Session 120

No Borders: Transnational Anarchism in Global History
AHA Session 121

Race-Making, Citizenship, and Diaspora: Transoceanic Currents in Global Philippines Studies
AHA Session 122

The End of the British Empire in the Middle East: Commentary on Wm. Roger Louis’s Latest Book
AHA Session 123

Church, Café, and Campus: The Collaborative Creation of Punk Spaces
AHA Session 124

Informalities: A View from the Social History of Law, 1890–1950
AHA Session 125

Religious Modernists, Scientists, and the Culture Wars of the Scopes Era
AHA Session 126

Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement
AHA Session 127

Print Culture in Colonial India and the Possibilities of the Political
AHA Session 128

World War I as a Revolutionary Moment beyond Europe
AHA Session 129

Biographies of Resistance: The Ethics of Documenting Haitian Lives
AHA Session 130

Academic Freedom in Historical Perspective
AHA Session 131

Concealment and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions
AHA Session 132

Navigating Network Collaborative Course on Student Voting Rights
AHA Session 133

50 Years after Roe v. Wade: Reproductive Rights in Peril
AHA Session 134

Islam and New Directions of Pan-Africanism
AHA Session 135

What Can You Do with Your Undergraduate Research? Examples from Undergraduate History Journals and Community Engagement Projects
AHA Session 136

Capitalism, Slavery, and Early Postemancipation in the Atlantic World, Part 1
AHA Session 137

The Pasts and Futures of Ethnic and Area Studies, Part 1
AHA Session 138

Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Cold War Americas, Part 2: Expertise, Technology, and Transnational Networks in the Latin American Cold War
AHA Session 139

Join the Club: Voluntary Associations and the State in 20th-Century Central Europe
Central European History Society 6

The Many Lives of Confucianism: Political, Ideological, and Cultural Appropriations of Confucianism in Contemporary China
Chinese Historians in the United States 8

Latin America at the End of the Cold War
Conference on Latin American History 26

New Perspectives in the History of the Brazilian Military Dictatorship: A Roundtable Discussion
Conference on Latin American History 27

Voices from the South: Public History Perspectives from Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 28

Imagining Latin American Economic Futures before the Neoliberal Era, Part 1
Conference on Latin American History 29

Caring for Mothers: Honoring the Scholarship of Sandra Trudgen Dawson
Coordinating Council for Women in History 6

From the Bicentennial to the Semiquincentennial: Problems and Possibilities for History and Heritage Projects
LGBTQ+ History Association (formerly CLGBTH) 7

The Military Recruiting Crisis in Historical Context
Peace History Society 2

The Family Story Told and Retold
Polish American Historical Association 6

The Past and Present of Hindutva
Radical History Review 8

The 2024 Presidential Election: Where Do We Go from Here?
Radical History Review 9

Another Man Who Knew Everything? The Antonio Possevino Project, Part 1
Society for Italian Historical Studies 3

2:00 PM-3:15 PM


ACHA Presidential Roundtable: Global Catholic Cinema
American Catholic Historical Association

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Working from Home: Historians Writing about Themselves and Their Ancestors, Part 2
AHA Session 140

Career Transitions Discussion Sessions, Part 4: Retirement from Academia
AHA Session 141

How Historians Can Respond to the US Supreme Court’s Originalist Turn
AHA Session 142

Abandoned Histories: Work We’ve Left Behind
AHA Session 143

Teaching Global Perspectives in US History Survey Courses, Part 2: Global Perspectives on Nationalism, Environmentalism, and Identity Formation in US History Survey Courses
AHA Session 144

Marginalized Scholars at Midcareer
AHA Session 145

Digital Drop-In Session
AHA Session 146

Central European History Society Presidential Session: Volksdeutsche beyond German History—Recentering “German” Communities in Central Europe and the Americas
AHA Session 147

New Horizons in Hellenistic History
AHA Session 148

OutHistory and the Past, Present, and Future of a Queer Public History Website
AHA Session 149

Black Literacy in Latin America, 18th and 19th Centuries
AHA Session 150

Cold War Urbanization in Japan
AHA Session 151

Gender, Care, and Labor Dynamics in the Early People’s Republic of China
AHA Session 152

Earthly Bodies, Heavenly Bodies, Bodies Politic: Conceptualizing Republics and Their Defenders in Europe, Britain, and America
AHA Session 153

Breaking the Waves: Women's Activism in 20th-Century Southwest Asia and North Africa
AHA Session 154

Geographies of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas
AHA Session 155

International Expositions in Historical Context: Understanding the Social, Cultural, and Diplomatic Consequences of World’s Fair Planning
AHA Session 156

Nature and Decolonization in West Africa
AHA Session 157

Inclusion, Exclusion, and Citizenship
AHA Session 158

New Works in Puerto Rican History: A Roundtable Discussion
AHA Session 159

Dismantling the Master’s House: Caste, Race, and Envisioning Emancipation in South Asia and Beyond
AHA Session 160

Historians and Reparations: A Roundtable
AHA Session 161

Scholasticide in Palestine and the American Historical Profession
AHA Session 162

Punk as History
AHA Session 163

The James M. Banner, Jr., Lecture on the State of the Discipline of History
AHA Session 164

Imagining Latin American Economic Futures before the Neoliberal Era, Part 2: Imagining Alternative Latin American Economic Futures on the Eve of Neoliberal Reform
AHA Session 165

Capitalism, Slavery, and Early Postemancipation in the Atlantic World, Part 2
AHA Session 166

The Pasts and Futures of Ethnic and Area Studies, Part 2
AHA Session 167

Writing, Filming, and Teaching the Camden 28
American Catholic Historical Association 15

Women's Work: Catholic Women in the 20th-Century United States
American Catholic Historical Association 16

The History and History Making of St. Pats for All: A Roundtable
American Catholic Historical Association 17

Global Catholicism from a Latin/o American Perspective
American Catholic Historical Association 18

The Business of 19th Century Firearms
Business History Conference 2

Risk and Redefinition: Regime Change and Ethnic Politics in 20th-Century Central Europe
Central European History Society 8

Multiple Shifts of 20th-Century China
Chinese Historians in the United States 10

Black Political Thought in the Atlantic World
Conference on Latin American History 34

Interstitial Spaces of Empire and Resistance in Latin America: A Panel Honoring Leslie Offutt
Conference on Latin American History 35

Revisiting Commodities in Latin American History: Cultural and Political Dimensions
Conference on Latin American History 36

Coordinating Council for Women in History Plenary
Coordinating Council for Women in History 8

Secrecy, Lies, and Misinformation in Primary Sources
Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions 2

From Swastika to Jim Crow: Five German Jewish Refugee Scholars at Three Black Colleges
Leo Baeck Institute

Alternatives to War in US History
Peace History Society 3

Polish and Slavic Émigrés and the Homeland
Polish American Historical Association 7

Rethinking Italian History through Water
Society for Italian Historical Studies 4

George C. Marshall Lecture in Military History
Society for Military History

4:00 PM-5:00 PM


HBCU Networking Event

5:15 PM-6:15 PM


Peace History Society Meet and Greet
Peace History Society

5:30 PM-6:30 PM


American Historical Association Presidential Address

5:30 PM-7:00 PM


CEHS Executive Board Meeting
Central European History Society

5:30 PM-7:30 PM


Coordinating Council for Women in History Sandra Trudgen Dawson Memorial Reception
Coordinating Council for Women in History

6:30 PM-8:00 PM


American Historical Association Presidential Reception

7:00 PM-8:00 PM


LGBTQ+ Historians’ Reception

ACHA Liturgy
American Catholic Historical Association

CHUS Book Launch
Chinese Historians in the United States

LGBTQ+ Historians' Reception
LGBTQ+ History Association (formerly CLGBTH)

7:00 PM-10:00 PM


CLAH Awards Ceremony and Reception
Conference on Latin American History

7:30 PM-8:30 PM


Public Historians' Reception

Reception for Two-Year Faculty

8:00 PM-10:00 PM


ACHA Social
American Catholic Historical Association

CHUS Business Meeting
Chinese Historians in the United States

8:30 PM-9:30 PM


Late Breaking Plenary