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

Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday

Sunday, January 5, 2025

7:30 AM-9:30 AM


Journal of Urban History Editorial Board Meeting

8:00 AM-9:30 AM


Gender Equity Breakfast: The Culture Wars Are about Gender

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

8:00 AM-5:00 PM


ACHA Information Table
American Catholic Historical Association

8:00 AM-6:00 PM


AHA Registration, Information, and Headquarters

AHA Sheraton Information Table

LAC Office

Multifaith Room

Nursing Room

Nursing Room

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


K–16 Educators’ Workshop, Part 1: Finding and Elevating Missing Voices from the Past

Catherine Hall's Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism
AHA Session 169

Founders of Major History Museums
AHA Session 170

Historians for Mental Health: An Open Discussion
AHA Session 171

More Silence Than Archive: Innovative Approaches to Early History
AHA Session 172

Hidden Voices: New York City's Transformative Curricular Project
AHA Session 173

Unpacking the History of Higher Education in the United States
AHA Session 174

Navigating Nationalism through Pragmatism: Central European Actors in the First Half of the 20th Century
AHA Session 175

New Directions in the History of Sexual Labor, Migration, Race, and Governance
AHA Session 176

Rediscovering Historical Memories and Reshaping Identities in the Post–Cold War Era: Comparing Europe, the US, and Asia
AHA Session 177

Concepts, Metaphors, and Time in Ibero-Atlantic History: Javier Fernández Sebastián and the Iberconceptos Research Network
AHA Session 178

Mining Women in Europe and the Americas, 1500–1800
AHA Session 179

From Pixels to Pedagogy: Exploring Best Practices in Teaching Digital History
AHA Session 180

Precarious Labor, Capitalist Transformation, and the State: An ILWCH Roundtable Discussion on Work and Precarity in Central Asia
AHA Session 181

Negotiating Urban Nature: A Global Perspective on Health, Water, and Industrial Development in Cities during the 20th Century
AHA Session 182

Space, Geopolitics, and Institutions in Transimperial History
AHA Session 183

Contesting Empire: Black Political Activism in the Interwar Caribbean
AHA Session 184

Historians and the Courts
AHA Session 185

Rightwing Extremism across Borders: New Perspectives on the Transnational Far Right
AHA Session 186

The COVID-19 Pandemic in New York City: Documenting, Commemorating, and Interpreting Its History
AHA Session 187

Slavery in Chinese History: Facts, Debates, Research Frontiers, and Sources
AHA Session 188

New Global Histories of Sovereignty: International Organizations, Decolonization, and the Reimagining of Global Order, 1940s–60s
AHA Session 189

Imperial Dimensions of US Belonging and Exclusion: New Directions in Asian American History
AHA Session 190

Planning for Grant-Seeking from the National Endowment for the Humanities (and Other Funders)
AHA Session 191

Powerful Objects: Colonial and Postcolonial Politics in and from the Global South
AHA Session 192

Trans and Queer Histories between Germany and the US: Against Whitewashed National Exceptionalism
AHA Session 193

Whose Independence? Declarations of Independence during the Era of the American Revolution
AHA Session 194

Black Women and Mass Incarceration: Then and Now
AHA Session 195

How to Do Things with Textbooks in the High School Global History Classroom
AHA Session 196

New Borderlands Histories, Part 1: Global Borderlands
AHA Session 197

Saints, Starlets, and Soldiers: Devotion and Materiality in the United States
American Catholic Historical Association 19

Religious Charisms in Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities for Lay Involvement and Leadership
American Catholic Historical Association 20

Women and Catholic Modernism
American Catholic Historical Association 21

Bridging Global Medieval/Modern Studies: Rethinking Medieval Transitions, the Great Divergence, and the Making of Modern China in Global History
Chinese Historians in the United States 12

Health and Medicine in Latin America’s Cold War
Conference on Latin American History 39

Innovative Approaches to Teaching a Modern Latin American History Survey for K–16 Educators
Conference on Latin American History 40

Teaching and Teaching Materials Section: AI—Potential Approaches in Teaching and Evaluating Latin American History
Conference on Latin American History 41

Gran Colombia Studies Section: Writing Black and Indigenous Histories of Gran Colombia—Archives, Politics, and Challenges
Conference on Latin American History 42

Coordinating Council for Women in History Graduate Student Research Lightning Round 2
Coordinating Council for Women in History 9

Spreading Good Words and Doing Good Deeds: British Efforts at Home and Abroad in World War II
North American Conference on British Studies 3

Polish American Activism
Polish American Historical Association 8

Labor Educators, Labor Historians, and Labor Activists: A Conversation
Radical History Review 11

8:30 AM-10:30 AM


Poster Session #1
AHA Session 198

8:30 AM-6:00 PM


Exhibit Hall

9:00 AM-6:00 PM


Meetup and Coworking Space

Quiet Room

Quiet Room

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


K–16 Educators’ Workshop, Part 2: Finding and Elevating Missing Voices from the Past

Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul: 25th Anniversary Reckoning
AHA Session 199

Navigating the Transition: Historians' Journeys into Higher Education Administration
AHA Session 200

American Historical Review Drop-In Session
AHA Session 201

K–12 Teachers' Advice to College Faculty: What We Should Know about Our Entering Students
AHA Session 202

State of the Field for Busy Teachers: Graphic History—A Panel on Panels
AHA Session 203

Listening Session: LGBTQ+ Challenges and Strategies in an Era of "Anti-Woke" Legislation
AHA Session 204

Feminist Lives, within and beyond the Academy
AHA Session 205

Rethinking Industrialization and Economic Development in Postwar East Asia: The Case of Taiwan
AHA Session 206

Rediscovering the Rice Family of Newport, Rhode Island
AHA Session 207

The Power of Education and Cinema: The Transpacific Making of Modern Chinese Womanhood
AHA Session 208

Investing in Ourselves: Black Community Building and Economic Uplift in the Mid-20th Century
AHA Session 209

Lost, Kidnapped, Missing, Untamed: How “Discarded People” Challenged the Legal and Social Order
AHA Session 210

Why Focus on the Ear? New Approaches in American Deaf History
AHA Session 211

Leading Public History Institutions in a Divided Moment: Lessons from the Field
AHA Session 212

Information, Credibility, and Political Legitimacy in 20th-Century Latin America
AHA Session 213

New Approaches to Indenture, Emancipation, and Imperial Citizenship
AHA Session 214

CANCELED Black Migrations in Brazil and the Caribbean in the 19th and 20th Centuries
AHA Session 215

What Is History in the Age of AI? A Conversation about Historical Research and the Archives
AHA Session 215

Shared Archives, Distant Narratives: Bridging Queer History and Police Studies
AHA Session 216

How the New Deal Got Lost in New York City and How We Are Finding It Again
AHA Session 217

Time and South Asian Early Modernity Outside Empire
AHA Session 218

The Politics of Globalization in the Modern United States
AHA Session 219

Working and Organizing in Diaspora: Syrian, Puerto Rican, and Sephardic Jewish Women Workers in the ILGWU
AHA Session 220

Using Local History to Engage Students
AHA Session 221

Early Modern Experiments in Genre
AHA Session 222

Repositioning Ethnic Minority Identities through Colonial Institutions: Cham, Corsicans, and Hmong in Early 20th-Century French Indochina
AHA Session 223

Social Media for Historians: How We Got Here and What We Do with It Now
AHA Session 224

Undergraduate Lightning Round: Research across the Fields
AHA Session 225

Historians Engaged in Public Policy
AHA Session 226

The Large and the Small: Trade-list History, Biography, and Memoir, Part 1: Biography, Memoir, and Creative Nonfiction in Trade-List Writing
AHA Session 227

Media Jubilees: History of the Holy Years through Mass Media
American Catholic Historical Association 22

Catholic Asymmetries: Ecclesiastical Universality and Eastern Rites
American Catholic Historical Association 23

The Era of Experiments: Catholics and Media in the 1960s
American Catholic Historical Association 24

Beyond Archival Silences: Clergy Abuse and Catholic History
American Catholic Historical Association 25

Documentary Editing in Research and the Classroom
Association for Documentary Editing

Beyond the Body–Mind Dichotomy: Labor and Intellect in 20th-Century China
Chinese Historians in the United States 14

Another Kind of "Slave Society"? Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Freedom in 19th-Century Puerto Rico
Conference on Latin American History 45

New Approaches to Latin America’s Cold War: Transnational Solidarities, Spatial Mobilities, Generational Conformities, and Ambiguous Chronologies
Conference on Latin American History 46

Women, Gender, and Conservatism in Latin America, Part 1
Conference on Latin American History 47

Afro-Descended and Indigenous Spatial Imaginaries in Early Colonial Mexico
Conference on Latin American History 48

Makers and Movers
Polish American Historical Association 9

Genocide in Palestine: Understanding the Nakba and the Holocaust
Radical History Review 13

Making Community in Late Medieval Italy
Society for Italian Historical Studies 5

New Perspectives on Age: Older Jews and the Holocaust
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies 2

10:30 AM-12:30 PM


Poster Session #2
AHA Session 228

11:00 AM-1:00 PM


Tour 3: Tour of Central Park’s North End

11:00 AM-2:00 PM


Sunday Affiliated Society Table Schedule

12:00 PM-1:30 PM


Department Chairs' Luncheon

Modern European History Luncheon

12:30 PM-3:00 PM


AHA Career Contacts at the Annual Meeting

1:00 PM-3:00 PM


Poster Session #3
AHA Session 229

1:00 PM-3:30 PM


Tour 4: Sinister Secrets of the South Street Seaport

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Annual Meeting of Affiliated Society Representatives

Teaching Things Workshop

Immigrant Economies and Ethnic Networks in Comparative Perspective
AHA Session 230

Reflections on Writing Southern History
AHA Session 231

Native America and the Carceral State
AHA Session 232

State of the Union: How We Teach US History and Why
AHA Session 233

Teaching Graduate Courses Online
AHA Session 234

Local Arrangements Committee Session: Book Battles
AHA Session 235

The Civil War of Desegregation: The Use of Civil War Memory in 20th-Century School Integration Efforts
AHA Session 236

Labor, Violence, and Resistance in Revolutionary America
AHA Session 237

Resistance and Community Formation Under Slavery and Colonialism in the 17th-Century Atlantic World
AHA Session 238

Why You Can’t Teach American History without American Indians: Films and Resources for the Classroom
AHA Session 239

Multispecies Colonialism: Human–Animal Encounters in the 16th-Century Iberian Atlantic World
AHA Session 240

The Confederative Imagination: History, Historiography, Political Theory
AHA Session 241

Global Perspectives on the 20th-Century "Biometric Turn" in State Power
AHA Session 242

The United Nations, France, and Imperial Politics on the Eve of Decolonization
AHA Session 243

Protesters, Politicians, and Pirates: New Perspectives on Radio History
AHA Session 244

Indigenous Literacies and Popular Education in Latin America from the Colonial Period to the Cold War
AHA Session 245

Creating a Source-Based Exam: The Evolution of Assessment in the AP Histories
AHA Session 246

Doing Sex in 20th-Century Queer and Trans Histories
AHA Session 247

Counterrevolutionary Solidarities: Recentering the International History of Anticommunism on Cold War Japan
AHA Session 248

Doing History Digitally: Perspectives from the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East Field
AHA Session 249

Fifty Years Later: Critical Engagements with The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
AHA Session 250

Rethinking the Early Greek Immigration Experience in the United States, 1910s–30s
AHA Session 251

History Podcast Pitch Party: New Ideas for New Podcast Series
AHA Session 252

The Power of Immersion: Experiencing Histories of the Black Diaspora through Virtual and Augmented Reality
AHA Session 253

Undergraduate Lightning Round: Community Organizing, Activism, and Political Engagement
AHA Session 254

Evolving Trends in Nigerian History, Part 1
AHA Session 255

Women, Gender, and Conservatism in Latin America, Part 2
AHA Session 256

The Large and the Small: Trade-list History, Biography, and Memoir, Part 2: “Big Ideas” Histories and Trade-List Writing
AHA Session 257

Windows, Tables, and Thrones: Vernacular Shrines and Their Makers
American Catholic Historical Association 26

The Catholic Life of the Mind: European Intellectuals and the World
American Catholic Historical Association 27

Reproductive Politics in Post–Vatican II America
American Catholic Historical Association 28

Catholic Education in the Diocese of Brooklyn
American Catholic Historical Association 29

Transcultural China: Women and Christianity, 1899–1945
Chinese Historians in the United States 15

Reconsidering Women’s Activism in Cold War Central America: Case Studies from Panama, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala
Conference on Latin American History 51

Interrogating Power, Identity, and Resistance in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 52

Below the Surface: Histories of the Subsoil in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 53

The Modern Endangered Archive Program in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 54

Creating Community, Creating Identity
Polish American Historical Association 10

Middle and High School Educators Teaching Uncomfortable, Contentious, and Difficult Subjects in Politically Volatile Times
Radical History Review 14

Another Man Who Knew Everything? The Antonio Possevino Project
Society for Italian Historical Studies 6

3:00 PM-4:00 PM


Teaching with the Tenement Museum Tour

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Presumption, Performance, and Custody: The Legal Fiction of Property in Persons
AHA Session 258

Answering the Call of History and the Humanities at Two-Year Colleges
AHA Session 259

Pathways to the Deanship
AHA Session 260

Risks and Challenges: Conducting Historical Research in Increasingly Illiberal Times
AHA Session 261

Graphic Narratives and History: A Global Approach
AHA Session 262

State of the Field for Busy Teachers: Eve of American Revolution
AHA Session 263

Public Education, Service, and Policy: Stepping up for K–12 Education
AHA Session 264

Doing History at Small Liberal Arts Colleges: A Conversation with the AHA’s Newest Working Group
AHA Session 265

Counternarratives of Postwar Global Decolonization
AHA Session 266

The Allied Occupation and Its Lasting Influences in Japan’s Postwar: A New Perspective
AHA Session 267

Teaching History with Integrity in Public: Contested Memories, Memorials, and Memorialization of Modern Atrocity and Trauma
AHA Session 268

Striving for Infrastructural Modernity in 20th-Century China
AHA Session 269

The Return of Political Economy in Modern European Intellectual History
AHA Session 270

Revolutionary Women of the Global 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s: Disrupting Persistent Narratives of Revolution and Feminism
AHA Session 271

Race, Religion, Property, and the Law in the Portuguese Atlantic World
AHA Session 272

The Problem of Immigration in the Largest Slaving Polities of the Americas: A Roundtable on the Comparative Emergence of Migration Regulation in 19th-Century Brazil and the United States
AHA Session 273

Opera as Festival: Transatlantic Perspectives and Practices
AHA Session 274

Beyond Conflict: Alternative Approaches to Violent Pasts in the 19th-Century Anglo-American World
AHA Session 275

Writing Narrative History for Fun and Profit: A Roundtable on Modes of Historical Discourse for Academic and Trade Publishing
AHA Session 276

New Directions in Public Histories of New York City
AHA Session 277

The Personal Is the Historical: Trans Historians on Time, Archives, and Experience
AHA Session 278

A Century-Long Chemical Weapons Taboo: 100 Years since the 1925 Geneva Protocol
AHA Session 279

Underground Print Culture: Clandestine Publication Networks and Their Influence on the US War in Vietnam
AHA Session 280

"All Roads Lead to Newark, New Jersey": Teaching and Researching the Local
AHA Session 281

Narrating Presence and Absence: Gender in the Medieval Archive
AHA Session 282

New Histories of Caribbean Migration: Oral Histories, Social Network Analysis, and Community Based Praxis in 20th-Century New England
AHA Session 283

New Directions in African American Women's History
AHA Session 284

Researching Race and Space in the Digital Era: African American Spatial Biographies
AHA Session 285

Evolving Trends in Nigerian History, Part 2
AHA Session 286

Eyes to See: David Gonzalez's Photography of Faith and Community in Nueva York
American Catholic Historical Association 30

American Catholicisms: New Directions for Religious History
American Catholic Historical Association 31

Reimagining Catholic History
American Catholic Historical Association 32

US Response to the Synod on Synodality
American Catholic Historical Association 33

Zhou Enlai: His Life, Thought, and Legacies
Chinese Historians in the United States 16

Settler Colonialism beyond Borders: The United States and Latin America in the Age of Empire
Conference on Latin American History 57

CLAH Presidential Panel: Latinx/Latin American Histories and the Rise of Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Conference on Latin American History 58

The Ongoing Social Constructions of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Early Modern and Modern Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 59

The Polish American Landscape
Polish American Historical Association 11

Histories of the Hidden Global Economy
Radical History Review 16

Data-Driven Histories Showcase
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media 2

Transnational Networks and Competing Visions of the State in 19th-Century Italy
Society for Italian Historical Studies 7

Labor, the African Diaspora, and American Freedom "from Below"
Society for US Intellectual History 3

3:30 PM-5:30 PM


Undergraduate Poster Session
AHA Session 287

3:45 PM-4:45 PM


Teaching and Learning Networking Opportunity

5:15 PM-6:15 PM


ACHA Business Meeting
American Catholic Historical Association

5:15 PM-6:30 PM


AHA Business Meeting (AHA members only)

5:30 PM-7:30 PM


Hispanic American Historical Review Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

The Americas Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

6:30 PM-7:30 PM


CEHS Business Meeting
Central European History Society

7:00 PM-9:00 PM


Warp Catholicism: Fantastic Voyages in Space and Time
American Catholic Historical Association 34

7:30 PM-9:00 PM


CEHS Reception
Central European History Society

8:00 PM-9:30 PM


Plenary: The American Revolution—A New Film Directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt, Written by Geoffrey Ward