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

Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Friday, January 9, 2026

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

8:00 AM-5:00 PM


AHA Palmer House Information Desk

ACHA Information Table
American Catholic Historical Association

8:00 AM-6:00 PM


AHA Registration, Information, and Headquarters

LAC Office/Information

Multifaith Room

Nursing Room

Nursing Room

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


Meetup: American Historical Review "Write-In"

The History and Future of HBCUs
AHA Session 50

Survey Says: Data on Historians Teaching Off the Tenure Track
AHA Session 51

Publishing 101: Image Rights, Contracts, and Promotion for Historians
AHA Session 52

Obsolete? Textbooks in the History Classroom
AHA Session 53

Teaching Secondary History in the Shadow of the State: Polarization and Censorship
AHA Session 54

Graduate and Early Career Committee Guided Conversation
AHA Session 56

From Wheat Fields to Ballot Boxes: Farmers, Populism, Paranoia, and the Fight for Rural Power
AHA Session 57

AI-Mediated Historiography: Models, Misinformation, and Methodology
AHA Session 58

New Approaches to the Chicago Convention and Global Aviation History
AHA Session 59

Language, Hegemony, and Early Modern Archives: A Reassessment
AHA Session 60

Energy, Ethnicity, and Economics: Everyday Politics in Post–World War II Eurasian Coal-Mining Regions
AHA Session 61

From Pitch to Product: Constructing the Memory of Negro Fort Podcast
AHA Session 62

History of Antisemitism—A Conversation
AHA Session 63

Mapping Resistance and Memories: Digitizing Community Histories of Migration, Labor, and Resistance
AHA Session 64

Teaching Environmental Change During the Middle Ages: Virtual Reality and Analog Games in Postsecondary and Elementary Classrooms
AHA Session 65

Minority Thought(s) and the Making of Modern India
AHA Session 66

The Historian as Librarian: Conversations About Professional Librarianship with Historians of Latin America and the United States
AHA Session 67

Imagining a World After Empire: Writing Global Histories of Decolonization
AHA Session 68

The Freedom Movement: A Transatlantic Radical, Indentured Servants, Slaves, and Abolitionists in 19th-Century Illinois
AHA Session 69

Beasts, Borders, and Bureaucrats: Animals, Ecology, and the Histories of Interactions in Modern Contexts
AHA Session 70

Women in the Military Since 1976: The History and Legacy of Women’s Integration into the Wider Military, 50 Years Later
AHA Session 71

Transcending Historiographic Paradigms in Cuba’s Revolutionary Transitions, 1930s–60s
AHA Session 72

Militarized Modernities in 20th-Century China
AHA Session 73

Embodied Contestations: Medical and Legal Interventions of the State in Guatemala and Mexico, 1760–1950
AHA Session 74

An Armed Nation versus a Disarmed Continent? Gun Culture and Gun Control in the USA and Europe, Part 1: The “Banality” of Guns: Everyday Uses of Firearms in the United States and in Europe
AHA Session 75

Fields of Influence: Presidents, Farming, and Food Policy
Agricultural History Society

Freedom and Constraint: Catholicism in 20th-Century American Higher Education
American Catholic Historical Association 10

Catholic Negotiations in the 16th Century
American Catholic Historical Association 11

Miraculous Migrations and Spirited Sites: Exploring Spaces, Places, and Paths of Healing
American Catholic Historical Association 12

Gendered Labor, Cultural Knowledge, and Resistance in Women’s Everyday Practices
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 7

Disability, Vulnerability, and Resistance: Examining the Lives of Disabled Black Girls and Women
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 8

Law, the State, Nationality, and Well-Being
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 9

Navigating the Uncertainties of Publishing History Monographs
Chinese Historians in the United States 1

Provincializing Global Histories: Local Narratives and Alternative Frameworks
Conference on Latin American History 11

Borderlands–Frontiers Studies Section: Beyond the Lines—Reimagining the Porous Borders of Latin American History
Conference on Latin American History 12

Colonial Studies Section: How We Adapt—Colonial Latin American History for the Climate Crisis
Conference on Latin American History 13

Responses to the US National Security State After Vietnam
Historians for Peace and Democracy 4

University Activism, Academic Freedom, and the Question of Palestine
Historians for Peace and Democracy 5

Contributing to American Polonia: Yesterday and Today
Polish American Historical Association 2

8:30 AM-11:30 AM


Op-Ed Workshop
AHA Session

9:00 AM-10:00 AM


Exhibitor Meet and Greet with K–12 Teachers
AHA Session

9:00 AM-5:00 PM


Exhibit Hall

9:00 AM-6:00 PM


Meetup and Coworking Space

Meetup and Coworking Space

Quiet Room

Quiet Room

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Content Cohort, Part 1

Sinclair Workshop on Historical Podcasting: NPR's Throughline Keynote and Conversation
AHA Session 76

Scholarship and the Tenure Track: Conventional Wisdom, Unconventional Strategies
AHA Session 77

Historians and the Politics of Genocide Studies
AHA Session 78

Publishing in the AHR: Early Career Experiences
AHA Session 79

The Problem of Teaching Imperial History: Lessons from Different Empires
AHA Session 80

Teaching Premodern Women's Health in Modern America
AHA Session 81

Offsite Session: Circulations in Premodern Maritime and Silk Road Inter-Asia: Perspectives from the Field Museum
AHA Session 82

Neoliberalism and State Power
AHA Session 83

Mississippi Crossroads: New Histories of Place, People, and Movements
AHA Session 84

Undergraduate Lightning Round: Research Across the Fields
AHA Session 85

Teaching History in the Anthropocene
AHA Session 86

Teaching with Limits of History: The “Field” from the “Discipline”
AHA Session 87

Ottomans in the World: Frontiers, Conflict, and Borderlands
AHA Session 88

The University Park Water Crisis: Lead Poisoning, a Private Utility, and the Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago’s Southland
AHA Session 89

African American History in Reconstruction and the Gilded Age
AHA Session 90

Complicating the Rural Queer Midwest: (Homo)Normalcy, Space, and Pleasure
AHA Session 91

Borderland Ecologies, Indigenous Perspectives
AHA Session 92

Transacting in the Imperial World: The Interplay of Business, State, and Society in 20th-Century Asia
AHA Session 93

The Blackwell School National Historic Site: Historic Preservation, Heritage, and Legacies
AHA Session 94

The Canary Islands as Crossroads of the Atlantic World: Transimperial Networks and the Atlantic Slave Trade in the Early Modern Period
AHA Session 95

Making Markets Visible: Measurement, Metaphor and the Making of the Economy in the 20th Century
AHA Session 96

Sources of Intellectual Authority: Renaissance, Enlightenment, and 19th-Century Science in Latin America
AHA Session 97

Commodity Frontiers of the 19th-Century Qing Empire: Sino-Russian Trade, Copper Currency, and Economic Institutions
AHA Session 98

Prosopographical Approaches to Premodern Women’s History
AHA Session 99

Historical Games in Research and Teaching, Part 1: Play as Pedagogy for Medieval History
AHA Session 100

An Armed Nation versus a Disarmed Continent? Gun Culture and Gun Control in the USA and Europe, Part 2: Wars, Revolutions, and the Long-Term Consequences for Gun Control and Gun Cultures in Europe and the United States, 17th–20th Centuries
AHA Session 101

Aligning Illinois State Disciplinary Standards with Community Engagement to Support Inquiry-Based Social Science Learning
AHA Session 101A

Midwest Is Best: American Catholicism in Regional Studies
American Catholic Historical Association 13

Priests Abroad: Clerics and Culture Across Time and Space
American Catholic Historical Association 14

Sex, Secret Societies, and Patriarchy: A Catholic History
American Catholic Historical Association 15

Cultivating a New Generation of Women Historians
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 10

Abortion: Histories of Care, Resistance, and Reproductive Justice
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 11

Gender and Agency in Wartime China
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 12

Relationships and Well-Being: Women and Power in American History
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 13

Brazil and Mexico in the 1980s
Conference on Latin American History 15

Reframing the Age of Revolutions: The Global Silver Trade, the South Atlantic, and the Iberian World, 1750–1850
Conference on Latin American History 16

CLAH Presidential Panel
Conference on Latin American History 17

Agents of Propaganda: Congresspersons, Lobbyists, and Other Experts in US–Latin American Relations
Historians for Peace and Democracy 6

Polish Marks on the Land
Polish American Historical Association 3

New Directions in Modern Italian History
Society for Italian Historical Studies 1

11:00 AM-1:30 PM


Tour 2: Beyond the Galleries at the Chicago History Museum

11:30 AM-12:30 PM


Meetup: Fiber Arts Circle

12:00 PM-1:30 PM


Working Luncheon for Directors of Graduate Studies

History Organizations of Historians of Women, Genders, and Sexualities Confab
Coordinating Council for Women in History

12:00 PM-1:45 PM


ACHA Presidential Luncheon
American Catholic Historical Association

12:00 PM-3:30 PM


Tour 3: The World Travelers of the Pullman Company’s Chicago Works

1:00 PM-3:00 PM


Film Screening: John O'Connor Film Award Winner, Documentary—Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Meetup: Submitting to the American Historical Review

Indigenous Histories: Reckoning with the Archive from Latin America
AHA Session 103

Building K–16 Partnerships: K–12 Teachers Tell Us How College Faculty Can Best Help Them
AHA Session 104

Digital Projects Showcase
AHA Session 105

A Doctorate with a Difference: 25 Years of Digital Humanities and the PhD in History
AHA Session 106

Undergraduate Lightning Round: Research Focus
AHA Session 107

They Don’t Read—Can They Listen? Using Podcasts in the History Classroom
AHA Session 108

Energy Regimes and the History of the Climate Crisis
AHA Session 109

State of the Field: Jewish Communities and Networks in the Early Modern Atlantic World
AHA Session 110

The Craft of History in Palestine: Methods, Approaches, Archives
AHA Session 111

White Supremacists and the World: The US Influence on Global Far-Right Networks After World War II
AHA Session 112

Diagnosing the Other: Race, Psychiatry, and US Empire
AHA Session 113

Ritual and Sovereignty in Premodern Asia
AHA Session 114

The Political Economy of Anticolonial Revolution: David Scott Revisited
AHA Session 115

Industrialization and Global Markets in Maoist China
AHA Session 116

The Dilemmas of Early Modern Governance: Knowledge, Office, and Authority in Ming China
AHA Session 117

Visions of Royal Authority in the Early Modern Spanish Empire
AHA Session 118

Santo Domingo as the First Post-Plantation Society in the Americas
AHA Session 119

Resisting Colonial Containment from Hawai'i to the Midwest: Elevating Indigenous Voices and Ways of Knowing
AHA Session 120

Global Tastes: Food, Power, and Consumption in the 19th Century
AHA Session 121

Mobility, Mortality, and Medicine in Africa and the Global African World: A Historical Perspective
AHA Session 122

Historical Games in Research and Teaching, Part 2: Roundtable
AHA Session 123

Histories of Nostalgia: Case Studies from Europe
AHA Session 124

An Armed Nation versus a Disarmed Continent? Gun Culture and Gun Control in the USA and Europe, Part 3: Beyond Mutual Exceptionalism: New Research on the History of Firearms in Europe and the United States
AHA Session 125

Teaching How to Form and Be in Community
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 14

Critical Trans Histories
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 15

Women's Health Activism and Agency: At the Intersections of Sexuality, Race, and Class
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 16

Constructing German Women’s Stories: Biography as Contingent Narrative
Central European History Society 4

Early New England in an Atlantic World: War, Slavery, and Politics
Colonial Society of Massachusetts 1

Latin America in the 1980s, Part 1
Conference on Latin American History 21

Reframing the Age of Revolutions: Constitutionalism, Legal Culture, and Plebeians in the Global Iberian World, 1750–1850
Conference on Latin American History 22

The Destruction of Academic Freedom: Campus Crises in Historical Perspective
Historians for Peace and Democracy 8

Jewish Nonviolence and Cultural Resistance in Palestine–Israel and the United States
Peace History Society 1

Gendered Journeys
Polish American Historical Association 4

New Directions in Medieval and Early Modern Italian History
Society for Italian Historical Studies 2

1:45 PM-3:15 PM


Pope Leo XIV: Perspectives on the First American Pope, the Contemporary Catholic Church, and the Study of American Catholicism
American Catholic Historical Association 16

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Enslaved Histories: Reckoning with the Archive from Latin America
AHA Session 127

Teaching Interdisciplinary Humanities and Loving It: My Favorite Course
AHA Session 128

What Historians Need to Know About Developing Curricula for Grades 6–12
AHA Session 129

Ask a Digital Historian Anything
AHA Session 130

Doing History at Small Liberal Arts Colleges in Times of Crisis
AHA Session 131

The Making of a Teacher: Looking Back, Looking Forward
AHA Session 132

The Legacy of Weber’s “Monopoly of Legitimate Violence” in Early Modern History
AHA Session 133

The Politics of Transgenerational Trauma, Displacement, Naturalization, and Repair: New Research Perspectives on the Holocaust and Its Aftermath
AHA Session 134

World War I in the Middle East
AHA Session 135

The Collaboration Between Historians and Documentary Filmmakers
AHA Session 136

Liberal Scholars and US Policy
AHA Session 137

Slavery and Freedom in New England
AHA Session 138

Displacement and Dislocation in Mexican American Ethno-Catholic Spaces in Urban Communities
AHA Session 139

The USA at 250 and the Meanings of Patriotism
AHA Session 140

A New World Order? Latin America in the Post–Cold War Era
AHA Session 141

Death, Birth, Breast, Mind: Maternity in the 20th Century
AHA Session 142

Global Commodities and Local Transformations: Silver, Cotton, Labor, and Land in Late Qing and Republican China
AHA Session 143

Carceral Connections: Transnational Networks Between the United States and Latin America
AHA Session 144

Historicizing Historiography: Reassessing the Politics of History in Korea
AHA Session 145

Transforming Humanities Education in a Time of Gun Violence
AHA Session 146

Decolonization, Nation Building, and Global Entanglements in South Asia
AHA Session 147

The Struggle for Food Justice: Food, Place, and Political Organizing in the Long 20th Century
AHA Session 148

Historical Games in Research and Teaching, Part 3: Speed-Networking with Games in the Classroom
AHA Session 149

Histories of Nostalgia: Case Studies from Boston
AHA Session 150

Career Contacts at the Annual Meeting
AHA Session

From Sickrooms to Battlefields: Modern Catholic Approaches to Health, Science, and Dying
American Catholic Historical Association 18

Catholic Sisters and the State
American Catholic Historical Association 19

A Geography of Modern Clergy Abuse: Confessionals, Cities, and the Country
American Catholic Historical Association 20

Beyond “I Do”: Marriage in the 20th-Century United States
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 17

Communities of Care
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 18

Utopian Hope, Protest, and Radical Futures in German-Speaking Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Central European History Society 5

Xi’s China and Its Neighbors
Chinese Historians in the United States 5

Latin America in the 1980s, Part 2
Conference on Latin American History 24

Central America Studies Section: Black and Indigenous Resistance Histories of Central America
Conference on Latin American History 25

Southern Cone Studies Section: Community-Engaged Research and Southern Cone Studies
Conference on Latin American History 26

Coordinating Council for Women in History Plenary
Coordinating Council for Women in History 20

China and the US: Where Are We? Where Do We Go from Here?
Historians for Peace and Democracy 9

World War I and the Shaping of Polish Diasporic Identity
Polish American Historical Association 5

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

4:00 PM-5:00 PM


HBCU Networking Event

5:00 PM-7:00 PM


Hispanic American Historical Review Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

The Americas Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

5:30 PM-6:30 PM


American Historical Association Presidential Address

5:30 PM-7:30 PM


CEHS Executive Board Meeting
Central European History Society

Coordinating Council of Women in History and Berkshire Conference for Women Historians 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

7:00 PM-10:00 PM


CHUS Business Meeting
Chinese Historians in the United States

7:30 PM-8:30 PM


Public Historians’ Reception

Reception for Two-Year Faculty