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

Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Saturday, January 10, 2026

8:00 AM-9:30 AM


Gender Equity Breakfast: Gender as a Conservative Category of Analysis?

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


K–16 Educators' Workshop, Part 1: Revolutionary History Teaching

Meetup: American Historical Review "Write-In"

History Majors and Employability: Insights, Innovations, and Opportunities
AHA Session 152

Hands-On History: Interactive Activities in the Small Liberal Arts History Classroom
AHA Session 153

Sinclair Workshop on Historical Podcasting: Engaging Storytelling
AHA Session 154

The History of Chicago Teachers Union, AFT Local 1
AHA Session 155

New Directions in Human Rights History
AHA Session 156

Web and Computer Network Histories: State of an Emerging Field
AHA Session 157

Islam, Translation, and the Transmission of Knowledge: Connecting Mediterranean and Indian Ocean Worlds, Medieval to Modern
AHA Session 158

Digitizing for Justice: Leveraging Digital History for Equity and Advocacy in Trump’s Second Term
AHA Session 159

Negotiating Histories of Fascism in the Contemporary Classroom
AHA Session 160

Black Liberation in Cold War and Decolonization Historiography
AHA Session 161

Encounters, Dialogues, and Misunderstandings: The United States and Latin America During the Cold War Era
AHA Session 162

Rearticulating “Ming” in Cultural Encounters: Knowledge Production and Information Order in Transnational Asian History, 1400–1950
AHA Session 163

Remade to be Remembered: Conservative Presidents in American Memory
AHA Session 164

Seeking People, Keeping People: Migration Policy as Political–Economic Strategy
AHA Session 165

Between Outrage and Voyeurism: Moral Panics About Sexual, Gendered, and Racialized Violence in the United States and Europe
AHA Session 166

Revisiting Colonialism in the Pacific Islands
AHA Session 167

Afro-Mexican Lives in the Long 19th Century
AHA Session 168

Revisiting Indigenous Identities in Colonial Spanish America: Agency and Accommodation
AHA Session 169

Symbols of Desire and Diplomacy: A Material Cultural History of US–China Connections
AHA Session 170

Destabilizing the American Family During the 20th Century
AHA Session 171

Beyond the Battlefield: New Histories of Modern Weapons
AHA Session 172

Crossing Borders—Sessions in Honor of R. Po-chia Hsia, Part 1: Religious Authority and Conflict in Early Modern European Communities
AHA Session 173

Horse Cultures, Catholic Missionaries, and Settler Colonialism in the Indigenous Northwest
American Catholic Historical Association

Catholics and Their Nations During the World Wars
American Catholic Historical Association 21

Medieval Catholicism from Europe to Asia
American Catholic Historical Association 22

Broadening the Scholarly Paradigm: Documenting, Preserving, and Creating a Framework for Chicago History
American Catholic Historical Association 23

Conceptualizing Mental and Physical (Ill) Health
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 20

Strategies for Teaching the History of Women’s Voting Rights in K–12 and University Classrooms
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 21

Trade Wars and Global Order Since 1800
Business History Conference

Unraveling the Fabric of Control: Tracing China’s Transformations Through Evolving Vocabularies, Cultural Practices, and Social Imaginaries
Chinese Historians in the United States 7

Conference on Faith and History Complimentary Breakfast
Conference on Faith and History

Gran Colombia Studies Section: Beyond Borders—New Ways of Thinking of Northern South America in the Early Modern World
Conference on Latin American History 29

Caribbean Studies Section: The Intimacies of Extractivism—New Works on Resource Extraction, Energy, and Disruption
Conference on Latin American History 30

Environment, Infrastructure, and Contestation
Conference on Latin American History 31

Notes on the Study of Palestinian Histories: A Roundtable Discussion
Historians for Peace and Democracy 12

Organizing Against the Attacks on Higher Education
Historians for Peace and Democracy 13

Witness to War
Polish American Historical Association 6

8:30 AM-10:30 AM


Poster Session #1
AHA Session 174

8:30 AM-5:30 PM


Exhibit Hall

9:00 AM-6:00 PM


Meetup and Coworking Space

Meetup and Coworking Space

Quiet Room

Quiet Room

10:00 AM-12:00 PM


Tour 4: Tour of Bronzeville with Chicago Mahogany Tours

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


K–16 Educators' Workshop, Part 2: Revolutionary History Teaching

Timuel Black—Activist, Historian, Teacher: An Appreciation
AHA Session 175

Classification, Declassification, and Disappearing Data: Updates and Perspectives on Government Archives and Access
AHA Session 176

Fixing the Narrative: Adding Indigenous History into the Founding
AHA Session 177

Teaching History Methods
AHA Session 178

Queering and Gendering Your Syllabi in an “Anti-Woke” Era
AHA Session 179

Local Histories in Action: Exploring Social Movements Through Punch 9 for Harold Washington and the Chicago YLO Curriculum
AHA Session 180

Turning the Tables: Mining the Archives to Reveal a Women’s History of Popular Music
AHA Session 181

Handmade Revolutions: Mapping Global Exchanges in Art, Labor, and Poetry
AHA Session 182

American–Medieval Histories: Temporal Fictions and the Cocreation of Intellectual and Institutional Identities, 1870–1970
AHA Session 183

The Arts as Labor: Working-Class Performances in the 19th- and 20th-Century United States
AHA Session 184

How to Publish in an Academic Journal
AHA Session 185

Does History Matter in Policy Analysis? The Use of History and Historians in Public Policy Schools and Departments
AHA Session 186

Can We Really Learn from History? Experiences from a German–American Project on Critical Memory
AHA Session 187

Asian American Racial Formations and the Production of Scientific Knowledge in the Pacific and the American West, 1900–77
AHA Session 188

Digital Afro-Mexico: New Digital Tools for Afrodescendiente History, Movement, and Memory, 1550–2025
AHA Session 189

Information and Political Power at the Turn of the 21st Century
AHA Session 190

New Research on Empire and Labor in the Americas and Beyond
AHA Session 191

Revisiting Francisco de Miranda’s Transatlantic Life in Revolutionary Times
AHA Session 192

How Empires Made Refugees and Refugees Unmade Empires
AHA Session 193

Central European History Society Presidential Session: Gender History—A Necessary Key to Understanding Central Europe
AHA Session 194

Television History in the Americas
AHA Session 195

Crossing Borders—Sessions in Honor of R. Po-chia Hsia, Part 2: Beyond Noble Patronage: The Complex Lives and Relationships of Early Modern Asia’s Catholic Missionaries
AHA Session 196

Perspectives on Teaching Palestine
AHA Session 197

Catholics at Prayer: Global Devotion in the 20th Century
American Catholic Historical Association 24

Making and Debating the Catholic New Deal Order, 1930s–70s
American Catholic Historical Association 25

Lessons Learned: Indigenous Communities, the Catholic Church, and Education Past and Present
American Catholic Historical Association 26

US–China Visions in Transnational Fragments: American Jesuit Filmmaking in Cold War China, 1947–49
American Catholic Historical Association 27

Murder, Mayhem, and Asylums: The State’s Rendering of the Inconceivable
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 22

Revisiting “Violence Against Women”: Feminist Activisms in the Late 20th Century
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 23

Fluidity and Integration of Property Rights in State Building: Resource Distribution, Personal Naming, and Privilege Economy in 20th-Century China
Chinese Historians in the United States 8

Understanding and Teaching Religion in US History
Conference on Faith and History

Histories of Utopias in 20th-Century Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 34

Centennial Panel: CLAH’s Institutional Past
Conference on Latin American History 35

Royalists, Revolutionaries, and Reactionaries
Conference on Latin American History 36

Projects of State Control in 20th-Century Mexico
Historians for Peace and Democracy 14

Anglican Slavery in New Jersey: Reparations Work in the Diocese of New Jersey and Episcopal Church
Historical Society of the Episcopal Church

Chicago Is a Polish Town
Polish American Historical Association 7

10:30 AM-12:30 PM


Poster Session #2
AHA Session 198

11:30 AM-12:30 PM


Meetup: Meet Your Online Friends

12:00 PM-1:30 PM


AHA Modern European History Section Luncheon

Department Chairs’ Luncheon

12:30 PM-1:30 PM


Meetup: Conversation for Members of Organizations Defending K–12 Teachers’ Professional Autonomy

12:30 PM-2:45 PM


Tour 5: National Public Housing Museum

1:00 PM-3:00 PM


Undergraduate Poster Session #1

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Annual Meeting of Affiliated Society Representatives

State of the Field for Busy Teachers: Latin American History
AHA Session 200

The Historian as Advocate: A Strategic Seminar on Influencing Policy
AHA Session 201

Reading Nature’s Archives: An AHR History Lab Forum, Part 1
AHA Session 202

The Goals, Ideas, and Uses of the Historical Profession Today
AHA Session 203

Sinclair Workshop on Historical Podcasting: Developmental Conversations
AHA Session 204

Comparative Scholasticide in Historical Perspective, 1915 to Today
AHA Session 205

Anticommunism in World History
AHA Session 206

(Un)Freedom: Imperial Geographies of Labor, Displacement, and Control
AHA Session 207

Making Archival Violence Visible: Film Screening of Stolen Photo and Conversation with Filmmaker Kevin P. Coleman
AHA Session 208

Engaging Students in Medieval Studies
AHA Session 209

New Horizons in Hellenistic History
AHA Session 210

Cultivating History: Bringing Material Culture into the Classroom
AHA Session 211

Nazi Medical Crimes and Sterilization
AHA Session 212

Liberty’s Laboratory: Interpreting the American Paradox at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
AHA Session 213

Decentering the FBI: New Approaches to Police Surveillance in the Long 1960s
AHA Session 214

Asian American Members of Congress: Pioneers of Inclusion and Representation
AHA Session 215

Beyond Imperial Paradigms: The Local Construction of Spanish Colonialism in South America and Asia
AHA Session 216

Ruling and Living the Sino-Southeast Asian Borderlands: State Building, Environment, and the Liminality of Everyday Lives
AHA Session 217

Conceptualizing Sovereignty: Gendered Narratives of Governance and Rule in the Black Atlantic
AHA Session 218

John F. Kennedy as Statesman: Myths and Reality
AHA Session 219

Spaces and Places of Convergence in 20th-Century American Radicalism
AHA Session 220

Indigenous Chicago: Community-Engaged Curriculum Development as Public History
AHA Session 221

Women in Medicine: Medical Professionalization, Authority, and Expertise in the United States, 1870s–1970s
AHA Session 222

The Case Method in Historical Pedagogy: Enhancing Engagement and Critical Thinking, Part 1—Demonstration
AHA Session 223

Tensions and Contentions in Transimperial History, Part 1: Transimperial Times, Transimperial Chronologies
AHA Session 224

Mary Kay Vaughan (1942–2024): A Celebration of Contributions to Mexican Historical Studies
AHA Session 225

Catholics and Politics in the 20th Century
American Catholic Historical Association 28

Afro-Latinx and Indigenous Responses to and Transformations of Catholicism in Colonial Latin America
American Catholic Historical Association 29

Catholicism and American Empire
American Catholic Historical Association 30

Eastern European Catholicism in America: Visual Approaches to Devotion, Diaspora, and Documentation
American Catholic Historical Association 31

Building Support Systems in  the Early 20th-Century United States and Britain
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 24

Writing for the Popular Press: A Ms. Workshop for Feminist Historians
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 25

Global China: Transpacific Interactions and Exchanges in the 20th Century
Chinese Historians in the United States 10

Between Factory and Frame: Daniel James, Latin American History, and Paisajes del Pasado
Conference on Latin American History 41

Centennial Panel: CLAH’s Institutional Future
Conference on Latin American History 42

Gender and Right-Wing Politics: Historical Perspectives
Historians for Peace and Democracy 16

Teaching Palestine and the Middle East: Academic Freedom in Times of Crisis
Peace History Society 2

Dividing Lines, Common Ground
Polish American Historical Association 8

1:30 PM-4:30 PM


Nonfiction Trade Book Proposal Workshop
AHA Session

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Content Cohort, Part 2

Teaching Things Workshop

Reading Nature’s Archives: An AHR History Lab Forum, Part 2
AHA Session 226

Teaching Global Histories of Authoritarianism: The AHR’s Authoritarianism 101 Project
AHA Session 227

Affiliated Societies Conversation: Responding to the Present Moment
AHA Session 228

Publishing off the Tenure Track
AHA Session 229

The James M. Banner, Jr., Lecture on the State of the Discipline of History
AHA Session 230

We Were Here—The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe: Film Screening and Conversation with Filmmaker Fred Kuwornu
AHA Session 231

Foreign Policy and Organized Labor During the Cold War: New History of a Pivotal Era
AHA Session 232

Incarceration, Crises, and Consensus: Deploying State Policing and Violence for a “More Perfect Union”
AHA Session 233

New Perspectives on the Dissemination of Nuclear Knowledge, 1949–84
AHA Session 234

Welfare States/Welfare Traditions: Tracing a Modern European Legacy Since the 16th Century—A Roundtable
AHA Session 235

Ancient Greece in War and Peace
AHA Session 236

Valuing History Minors, Certificates, and Microcredentials: The Future of History Education Beyond “Majorism”
AHA Session 237

Youth and Citizenship in the Age of Conflict: Belonging in the World War I Era
AHA Session 238

Palestinian Solidarity in Global and Historical Perspective
AHA Session 239

Women, Wealth, and the Law: Histories, Concepts, and Claims in South Asian Society
AHA Session 240

New Directions in the History of Inter-American Relations
AHA Session 241

Aren’t You Afraid to Teach That? Building Solidarity for Teaching LGBTQ+ Topics in Secondary Schools
AHA Session 242

Land in Question: Contested Meanings in Rural Politics During Cold War Colombia
AHA Session 243

Production and Manufacturing in the East Asian Developmental State
AHA Session 244

If You Love America, Teach the Truth About Its Past
AHA Session 245

Cartographic Contests Across Borders: Mapping Sovereignty, Knowledge, and Modernity in China Through Transnational Lenses, 1820s–1930s
AHA Session 246

Domestic Imaginations in Early 19th-Century Viennese Music and Spaces
AHA Session 247

The Case Method in Historical Pedagogy: Enhancing Engagement and Critical Thinking, Part 2
AHA Session 248

Tensions and Contentions in Transimperial History, Part 2: Finding the Transimperial in Environmental History
AHA Session 249

Shaping Catholic Identity in the American West
American Catholic Historical Association 32

A Michigan–Native American–Catholic Collection: Issues for the Archives
American Catholic Historical Association 33

Catholics in the Second City
American Catholic Historical Association 34

Catholic Identity Through the Arts
American Catholic Historical Association 35

Gendered Violence: Learning from the Past to Change the Future
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 26

Histories of Reproductive Justice for Fascist Times
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 27

Political, Cultural, and Diplomatic Networks in China and Beyond
Chinese Historians in the United States 11

Mary Kay Vaughan (1942–2024): A Celebration of Contributions to Mexican Historical Studies, Part 2
Conference on Latin American History 44

How to Get Published in Latin American History
Conference on Latin American History 45

Bodies, Beliefs, and Belonging: Exploring Agency and Resistance in 20th-Century Brazil
Conference on Latin American History 46

Women, Gender, and the Far Right: Ibero-American Perspectives
Historians for Peace and Democracy 17

Being Polish: Representations Across Space, Time, and Language
Polish American Historical Association 9

3:30 PM-5:30 PM


Undergraduate Poster Session #2

3:45 PM-4:45 PM


Teaching and Learning Networking Opportunity

5:15 PM-6:30 PM


AHA Business Meeting (AHA Members Only)

6:30 PM-7:30 PM


Committee on Racial and Ethnic Equity Reception

CEHS Business Meeting
Central European History Society

6:30 PM-9:30 PM


Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Dance with DJ Tess
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians

7:00 PM-10:00 PM


CLAH Awards Ceremony and Reception
Conference on Latin American History

7:30 PM-9:00 PM


CEHS Bierabend—Reception
Central European History Society