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

Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Sunday, January 11, 2026

8:00 AM-9:00 AM


Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Business Meeting
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


AHA Palmer House Information Desk

8:00 AM-2:00 PM


AHA Registration, Information, and Headquarters

LAC Office/Information

Multifaith Room

Nursing Room

Nursing Room

8:30 AM-2:00 PM


Meetup and Coworking Space

Meetup: Sunday Coworking Time

9:00 AM-10:30 AM


Native and African Slaveries in the Americas: Connections and Comparisons

National History Day and the Power of Student Research
AHA Session 251

AHR Roundtable: The History Manifesto at 10
AHA Session 251A

Careers for History Majors
AHA Session 252

State of the Field for Busy Teachers: Post-1970s US History
AHA Session 253

Lone Digital Historians: When You Have to Answer All the Digital Questions in Your Department
AHA Session 254

The Chicago Area Friends of SNCC and the Chicago SNCC History Project, Part 1: Telling the Story
AHA Session 255

New Prehistories of Conservative Constitutional Originalism
AHA Session 256

Pioneer Lies and the Making of US History
AHA Session 257

Reconstruction Freedom Seekers: Race, Gender, and Emancipation Following Slavery’s Collapse in the United States
AHA Session 258

Redefining and Reforming Medicine in Renaissance Europe
AHA Session 259

Cataloguing Infant Life and Death in Modern America
AHA Session 260

What Makes an Empire? Integrating Denmark’s Overseas Expansion into Global History
AHA Session 261

Socialist International Tourism: Models and Strategies
AHA Session 262

The Dimensions of the Midwestern History Revival: A Discussion of Between Loving and Leaving: Essays on the New Midwestern History
AHA Session 263

Teaching Migration History Under Authoritarianism
AHA Session 264

Sex and Settler Colonialism in the Global 20th Century
AHA Session 265

Reinterpreting the History of the Contemporary Global Order
AHA Session 266

Women on the Edge: Poverty and “Miserability” in the Iberian Colonial World
AHA Session 267

Urban History in the Americas: Global Itineraries, Local Dynamics
AHA Session 268

Infrastructure and the Environment in Modern Latin America
AHA Session 270

The Long Second World War and Its Aftermath in China: Mobilization, Displacement, and Transnational Diaspora
AHA Session 271

Rethinking the Great Leap Forward: Urban Crises, Technological Ambitions, Economic Challenges, and People’s Education
AHA Session 272

Oman, the Middle East, and Indian Ocean Studies
AHA Session 273

Piracy, Privateering, Freedom, and Coercion, Part 1: New Currents in Caribbean and Atlantic History Through Maritime Predation
AHA Session 274

Feeding Change: Revisiting Intersections of Food, Health, Labor, and Education in 20th-Century America
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 28

Frances Perkins: The Force Behind Social Security and for the Way Life Should Be
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 29

Geospatial Analysis and the Politics of Exile and Expulsion
Conference on Latin American History 51

Brazil Studies Section: Current Trends in Brazilian History—Place, People, and the Environment
Conference on Latin American History 52

MAGA and the Military Regimes: Comparing Authoritarianism in 1970s South America and the United States Today
Historians for Peace and Democracy 20

Constitutional History in Eurocentria: A Review over Four Centuries
International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions 2

9:00 AM-12:00 PM


Exhibit Hall

Quiet Room

Quiet Room

9:30 AM-2:30 PM


Tour 6: Little Palestine: Stories, People, Struggles

11:00 AM-12:00 PM


Meetup: AI Is Here, We Can Help

11:00 AM-12:30 PM


What Historians Should Know About Classical Education
AHA Session 275

Pope Leo’s Chicago: From Local Boy to Global Citizen
AHA Session 276

The Chicago Area Friends of SNCC and the Chicago SNCC History Project, Part 2: Making the Way
AHA Session 277

The End of the Cold War and the Return of Central Europe: Europe’s Future and the International Order After 1989
AHA Session 278

Engaging Students in History Through CFR Education Simulations
AHA Session 279

Digital Humanities and the History of Slavery
AHA Session 280

Democratic Struggles and State Repression: Expanding and Constraining Rights in the Late American Empire
AHA Session 281

Progressive Politics in the 1980s and 1990s: Alternatives to Neoliberalism
AHA Session 282

Teaching History with Film
AHA Session 283

Environmental Histories of Catholicism and Colonialism
AHA Session 284

Spaces of Medicine: Power, Coercion, and Identity in American Social Praxis in the 19th and 20th Centuries
AHA Session 285

(Re)Organized Religion: A Case for Recentering Institutions in Religious History
AHA Session 286

Soviet Culture in the Global South
AHA Session 287

Mad Mothers and Troubled Children: Historicizing Today’s Mental Health Crisis Through the Lens of Race and Gender
AHA Session 288

International Organizations and the People: Legitimacy, Representation, and (Mis)Trust in the 20th Century
AHA Session 289

Entwining Global and Local Histories in Modern China
AHA Session 290

Mesoamerican Experts and Materials in a Settler Colony
AHA Session 291

Credit, Debt, and Economic Sovereignty in Iberia, the Caribbean, and Latin America, 1650s–1930s: Subaltern Perspectives
AHA Session 292

Making Law, Knowing Capitalism: Cross-Regional Perspectives on Agrarian and Urban Modernity
AHA Session 293

Infrastructure and Politics in 20th-Century Latin America: Urban and Rural Perspectives
AHA Session 294

Race and Imperial Governance in Comparative Perspective
AHA Session 295

Decentering the West in the Anthropocene
AHA Session 296

Piracy, Privateering, Freedom, and Coercion, Part 2: Teaching the “Ordinary” Pirate, Colonialism, and the African Diaspora
AHA Session 297

Facilitating Difficult Curriculum: Engaging Students with Race and Racism in History Education
AHA Session 298

Designing a Latino History Course
AHA Session 299

Girls Just Want to Have Fun: Writing History as a Feminist Practice of Self Care
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 30

Writings About Well-Being and Transnational Networks of Care in the British World, 1870s–1930s
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 31

Atlantic Studies Section: Experiments in Empire—Slavery, Slave Trading, and Colonization in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Conference on Latin American History 57

Andean Studies Section: Andean Histories in the Age of Revolutions
Conference on Latin American History 58

New Historical Approaches to Studies of Fascism, Antifascism, and Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean
Historians for Peace and Democracy 21