140th Annual Meeting (January 7-10, 2027)

Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Thursday, January 7, 2027

9:00 AM-2:00 PM


Preconference Coworking and Meetup Space

9:30 AM-12:00 PM


Creating Community: Recruiting, Advising, and Mentoring at Small Liberal Arts Colleges
AHA Session

11:00 AM-12:00 PM


Meetup: Board Games

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

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 Sheraton Information Desk

ACHA Information Table
American Catholic Historical Association

CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Rebuilding Europe: US Foreign Policy and Humanitarian Interventions in Eastern Europe, 1918–24
AHA Session 2

Violence, Martyrdom, and Memory in American History
AHA Session 3

Not Exclusively Combat Exclusion: The Challenge of Keeping Women Out of Combat Operations After 1977
AHA Session 4

On Record: Documenting the History of Local Music Scenes
AHA Session 5

Challenges and Opportunities in Transnational Public History
AHA Session 6

Networks, Press, and Power: Rethinking Grassroots Democracy in Populist and Progressive America
AHA Session 7

Strengthening K–16 Collaboration: What K–12 Teachers Want Us to Know About Their Work, Their Students, and Their Challenges
AHA Session 8

From Monuments to Minecraft: Experimenting with Digital Public History
AHA Session 9

Providence and Providencia in World History: Karen Kupperman’s Providence Island Three Decades On
AHA Session 10

Conservatives and the Long Cold War
AHA Session 11

Histories of Technology and Governance from Palestine to the Philippines
AHA Session 12

Slavery and the Politics of Health and Epidemiology in the South
AHA Session 13

Contested Reconstruction: Memory, Family, and Black Political Agency in New Orleans
AHA Session 14

Ethnopolitics of the People’s Republic of China: Ruling Techniques and Popular Identification
AHA Session 15

Memory and Right-Wing Politics: Mexico, Brazil, and the United States
AHA Session 16

New Questions and Approaches to the Age of Revolutions in Latin America
AHA Session 17

South American Pacific Worlds of Labor and Community
AHA Session 18

Making, Authenticating, and Policing Uncertain Knowledge
AHA Session 19

Spectrums of Desire for the Middle Ages: Engaging Diverse Publics
AHA Session 20

Drunk on Power: Alcohol and the Making of US Global Influence
AHA Session 21

Broadening the Range of Actors in the Atlantic World
AHA Session 22

Developing Historical Consciousness in Introductory World History Classrooms, Part 1: Introducing and Practicing Historical Consciousness in Introductory History Classrooms
AHA Session 23

Spanish Catholicism and Colonialism Around the World
American Catholic Historical Association 2

New Perspectives on Irish Catholic Studies
American Catholic Historical Association 3

Religion and the Environment: Indigenous Cartographies, Popular Catholicism, and Communal Reimagining in North America
American Catholic Historical Association 4

Documenting Race and Place Through Campus History: Insights from the Tulane University History Project
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 1

Borderlands/Frontiers Studies Section: Beyond Territory—New Directions in Borderland Studies in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 5

Reconsidering Political Parties and Order in the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Regime
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era 1

Water/Worlds: New Perspectives on the Ocean as a Site of Early Modern Knowledge Production from the Pacific to the Caribbean
Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions 1

Historicizing Neoconservatism to Read the Fascist Turn: Race Liberalism, Anticommunism, and Zionism from the Mid-20th Century to the Present
Historians for Peace and Democracy 2

Settlement, Adaptation, and the Making of Self in Central European Transatlantic Experience
Polish American Historical Association 1

The Grand Tour and Italian Studies: What Can We Learn from 18th-Century Travel to Italy?
Society for Italian Historical Studies 1

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Early Modern Decision-Making in Theory and Practice
AHA Session 24

Articulating Shared Language About History Methods, Part 1, Collecting Historical Evidence
AHA Session 25

Katrina and Its Afterlives: The Continued History of Disaster and New Orleans
AHA Session 26

Segregated Mexican Schools and Their Impact on Borderland Communities
AHA Session 27

Biological Difference on the Margins: 20th-Century Minority Groups and Biological Discourse as a Means of Survival
AHA Session 28

Public Health, Medicine, and Society: Transnational Perspectives from Africa, the Middle East, and Europe
AHA Session 29

The Scientific Revolution in Historical Methodology: Assessing “Peak Document” Through Eurasian Case Studies
AHA Session 30

Warfare In and Out of the Classroom: A Pedagogy Roundtable
AHA Session 31

Resisting the Flood: US Sanctioned Environmental Destruction and the Survival of Indigenous and Black Communities
AHA Session 32

Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs at 30: A Roundtable Discussion
AHA Session 33

The Labor of Sovereignty Across the 19th-Century Americas
AHA Session 34

Witnesses to the Aftermath: Race, Public History, and the Legal Battles over Gun Violence and Social Media—A Film Screening and Conversation
AHA Session 35

Environmental Histories of the US Military: Invasions, Occupations, Infiltrations
AHA Session 36

Romani Pasts and the Remaking of Historical Narratives
AHA Session 37

Teaching Gender/Queer History in Texas
AHA Session 38

After the Declaration: The Immediate and Enduring Resonance in America
AHA Session 39

Paper Trails of Empire: Tracing Sources of Knowledge in Southeast Asia from the 1780s to the 1940s
AHA Session 40

Indian Ocean Public Histories: Moving Beyond the Local
AHA Session 41

Modern European History New Research Lightning Round
AHA Session 42

Building Socialism, Transforming Nature: Industry and Infrastructure in Mao’s China
AHA Session 43

Mobile Lives, Plural Identities: Afro-Descendant and Indigenous Communities in Iberian–American Worlds
AHA Session 44

Neoliberalism: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis? Views from Latin America
AHA Session 45

Dubious Freedoms: Status, Race, and Nationality in the 19th-Century Americas’ Carceral Systems
AHA Session 46

Laboratories of Exclusion and Citizenship: Immigration in the Americas from the Spanish–American War Through Today
AHA Session 47

Women and the Anticolonial Transnational: Activists, Organizers, Facilitators, and Revolutionaries
AHA Session 48

Developing Historical Consciousness in Introductory World History Classrooms, Part 2: Designing Activities to Promote Historical Consciousness in Introductory History Classrooms
AHA Session 49

Imperial Afterlives: Histories of the Present from Asia, Part 1: Histories of Asian Imperial Ambitions
AHA Session 50

From Yaupon to Woolton Pie: Food Histories of Race, Survival, and Agricultural Politics from India to the Chihuahuan Desert
Agricultural History Society

Catholicism and Latin America in the 20th Century
American Catholic Historical Association 5

Catholicism in Europe from the Reformation to the Cold War
American Catholic Historical Association 6

Book Panel: Joseph S. Flipper, The Black Catholic Movement: An Unfinished Fight for Self-Determination in the Church
American Catholic Historical Association 7

Negotiating the Sacred: Catholic Memory, Identity, and Institutional Boundaries
American Catholic Historical Association 8

Executive Council Meeting
American Catholic Historical Association

Teaching and Teaching Materials Section: Experimental and Innovative Approaches for Latin American History Classrooms
Conference on Latin American History 12

Gran Colombia Studies Section: Writing Histories of Gran Colombia—A Roundtable Discussion About Methods, Process, and Craft
Conference on Latin American History 13

Old Regimes and Enlightenments in Europe and the Americas
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era 2

Publishing Women’s and Gender History
Coordinating Council for Women in History 1

China and the New World Order
Historians for Peace and Democracy 3

Examining Slave Systems in the United States
Historians for Peace and Democracy 4

Does Historiography Discipline History? Or Is It the Other Way ’Round?
International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions 1

Book Panel: Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, Pierogi: An American Story of Polish Food
Polish American Historical Association 2

Toynbee Prize Foundation Lecture
Toynbee Prize Foundation

4:00 PM-5:00 PM


Undergraduate Orientation to the Meeting

5:00 PM-6:00 PM


Committee on Racial and Ethnic Equity Reception

Reception for Graduate Students

5:15 PM-6:00 PM


Business Meeting
American Catholic Historical Association

5:30 PM-6:30 PM


Opening Reception

5:30 PM-7:30 PM


Board Meeting
Polish American Historical Association

6:00 PM-8:00 PM


CLAH General Committee Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

6:30 PM-7:30 PM


American Historical Association Awards Ceremony

7:30 PM-9:00 PM


New Orleans Jazz, Past and Present—Live in Performance