139th Annual Meeting (January 8-11, 2026)

Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Thursday, January 8, 2026

9:00 AM-1:30 PM


Preconference Coworking and Meetup Space

9:00 AM-5:00 PM


Meetup and Coworking Space

9:30 AM-12:00 PM


Leadership in a Small Liberal Arts College History Program
AHA Session

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

11:30 AM-1:00 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 Palmer House Information Desk

CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Meetup: Submitting to the American Historical Review

Teaching the City
AHA Session 1

Shaping the Future of History Education: An Open Discussion of Teacher Preparation
AHA Session 2

State of the Field for Busy Teachers: Africa in World History
AHA Session 3

Teaching with Primary Sources for K–16 Educators: Introduction and Strategies
AHA Session 4

Practicing and Designing Student-Centered Learning in Introductory History Classrooms, Part 1: Practicing Student-Centered Learning in Introductory World History Courses
AHA Session 5

Engaging Public Voices in the History of Housing Discrimination in Chicago's City and Suburbs
AHA Session 6

Teaching the Global Past: Strategies for Using Primary Sources to Integrate African, Asian, and Latin American Perspectives in the Survey Course
AHA Session 7

Medicine and Culture in Medieval Europe
AHA Session 8

An Evolution of Digital Research: Methods, Limitations, and Dissemination
AHA Session 9

Historians Beyond History Departments: Navigating Interdisciplinary Academic Careers
AHA Session 10

Closing the Open Door? Revisiting Tariffs, Empires, and Great-Power Industrial Policy
AHA Session 11

A Right to Bear Arms? A Roundtable on the Contested Role of History and Historians in Current Second Amendment Debate
AHA Session 12

International and Grassroots Diplomacy in 19th-Century Abolitionism
AHA Session 13

Reading Communist Subversion in the Black Freedom Struggle
AHA Session 14

Comparing Ideas About Political Economy in the Ottoman and Qing Empires: A Discussion of Sources and Methods
AHA Session 15

Vacation + Cheap Electricity = Happiness? New Perspectives on the Late Socialist "Social Contract" in 1970s Central Europe
AHA Session 16

Before "Land Grab" Universities: Treaties, Indigenous Land, and US Higher Education in the Great Lakes Region Prior to the Morrill Act
AHA Session 17

New Approaches to Mexico's Cristero War, One Hundred Years Later
AHA Session 18

Containment and Relocation Across North America: New Directions in 20th-Century Mexican and Central American Migration
AHA Session 19

Contesting Modernization: Indigeneity and Rural Development in 20th- and 21st-Century Latin America
AHA Session 20

Seeds and Soil: Transnational Perspectives on Socialist Countrysides
AHA Session 21

Ties That Bind: Gender, Sexuality, and Fantasy in Far-Right Activism, 1960s–1990s
AHA Session 22

Historical Geography and Geographical Information Systems: North American Explorations
AHA Session 23

Toward Hybrid Materiality: Environment, Body, and Animals in the Medical History of 20th-Century China
AHA Session 24

The Stories Museums Tell
AHA Session 24A

Exploring the Intellectual Histories of 19th- and 20th-Century American Catholic Laywomen
American Catholic Historical Association 3

European Catholicism Across the Modern Period
American Catholic Historical Association 4

Fields of Controversy: Historical Perspectives on Building and Preserving Women’s and Gender History in Hostile and Retrograde Times
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 1

Gendered Threat or Tool for Liberation? Feminists Grapple with Media’s Role in Women's Health and Well-Being
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 2

Race, Gender, and Stereotyping: Intersectional Issues in Women’s Roles in the United States
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 3

Teaching and Teaching Materials Section: Teaching Histories of Hope and Resiliency in Latin American History
Conference on Latin American History 3

Women, Bodies, and Social Control
Conference on Latin American History 4

Publishing Histories of Women, Genders, and Sexualities
Coordinating Council for Women in History 4

Evaluating the Impact of the Obama Presidency
Historians for Peace and Democracy 1

1:30 PM-5:00 PM


Meetup and Coworking Space

3:00 PM-5:00 PM


“The Reading Problem”: Tackling Reading Challenges from High School to Higher Ed
AHA Session

3:15 PM-6:45 PM


Tour 1: Chicago SNCC History Project Tour and Reception at the Carter G. Woodson Library

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Mexico, the United States, and the Uncomfortable Neighbor: A Roundtable with Erika Pani
AHA Session 25

Navigating the Global and the Transimperial
AHA Session 26

Practicing and Designing Student-Centered Learning in Introductory History Classrooms, Part 2: Designing Student-Centered Learning for Your Introductory Courses
AHA Session 27

Making AI Work for History: Tools, Workflows, and Research Possibilities in Archival Collections
AHA Session 28

Experiential Learning and Latinx History: Teaching with the Chicago History Museum’s Aquí en Chicago Exhibit
AHA Session 30

The History and Practice of Philanthropy
AHA Session 31

Histories of Boycott in Palestine and Beyond
AHA Session 32

Rewriting the Past? AI, Interpretation, and the Future of History Education
AHA Session 33

Teaching Local History in Chicago and Beyond
AHA Session 34

New Work and Work-in-Progress in Transimperial Approaches to the Study of Empires
AHA Session 35

Grief, Love, Solidarity: Studying Emotions in 20th-Century Jewish History
AHA Session 36

New Histories of Atlantic Slavery and Emancipation
AHA Session 37

War at Home: Domestic Encounters with Armed Conflict in the United States
AHA Session 38

Gender and World History: Research and Pedagogy
AHA Session 39

Unlikely Subjects of Biography: Writing Mid-20th-Century US Court Cases as Narrative History
AHA Session 40

Freedom and Slavery in the Philosophy of the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution
AHA Session 41

Revolt, Resistance, and Rights: New Perspectives in Black Appalachian History
AHA Session 42

Strategic Testimonies: How Movements Create Archives and Archives Create Movements
AHA Session 43

Carceral Midwest
AHA Session 44

The Politics of Childhood(s) and Youth in Latin America
AHA Session 45

Policing Black Life: Medicalization, Criminalization, and the Public Health of State Violence
AHA Session 46

Teaching Asian History in a New Global Era
AHA Session 47

Biographies of Capital Between the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean Worlds
AHA Session 48

Paper, Printing, and Proper Behavior in 19th-Century Latin America
AHA Session 49

Mexican American Catholics in Texas Before and After Vatican II
American Catholic Historical Association 6

Catholicism and Human Rights
American Catholic Historical Association 7

Structures of Power in Black Catholicism
American Catholic Historical Association 8

Nuns on Film
American Catholic Historical Association 9

Childbirth and Childcare in Nigeria and the US
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 5

Mexican Studies Section: Beyond (and From) the Nation—Revisiting Mexican History Through a Transnational Lens
Conference on Latin American History 7

The Military, Politics, and Policy in 20th-Century Brazil
Conference on Latin American History 8

Transgressive Mobilities: Sex, Crime, and Mobility
Coordinating Council for Women in History 6

Natural Law in Court: A History of Legal Theory in Practice—Appreciation for the Work of RH Helmholz
International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions 1

Remembering Thaddeus Gromada
Polish American Historical Association 1

SIHS Business Meeting
Society for Italian Historical Studies

Toynbee Prize Foundation Roundtable: Reflecting on 20 Years of the Journal of Global History
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

5:00 PM-7:00 PM


PAHA Board Meeting
Polish American Historical Association

5:30 PM-7:00 PM


SIHS Reception
Society for Italian Historical Studies

6:00 PM-7:00 PM


Opening Reception

6:00 PM-8:00 PM


CLAH General Committee Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

7:00 PM-8:00 PM


American Historical Association Awards Ceremony

8:00 PM-9:30 PM


“Let Facts Be Submitted to a Candid World”: Historians, their Publics, and the 250th Anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence