Dear AHA Member,
Fortnightly News is the AHA's new e-mail newsletter to be sent out around the first and fifteenth of every month to keep members up to date with the AHA and the history profession.
In this Issue
- Annual Meeting - 2009
- Registration & Housing - Opens Today!
- 2009 Annual Meeting Dates – A Shift From Past Years
- Dates and Deadlines
- Perspectives Online - September Issue
- AHA Today Highlights
- Historians Sue VP Cheney
- NARA Releases Rosenberg Papers
- Google Digitizing Old Newspapers
123rd Annual Meeting
January 2-5, 2009, New York City
Preregistration and Housing
Preregistration and Housing opened today at 10 a.m.
Members: To preregister for the meeting, login to member services and follow the links to preregistration from there.
Nonmembers: To preregister, join the AHA now for member rates, or follow the link below to register
http://www.xpressreg.net/register/aham019/regInfo.asp
Please Note: You must preregister before you can reserve your hotel accommodations at the discounted annual meeting rates. Your preregistration confirmation will include information on making hotel reservations for standard rooms or suites.
Meeting Dates Reconfigured for 2009 Annual Meeting
As members begin to make travel and hotel arrangements to attend the 2009 Annual Meeting, please note the shift from the traditional Thursday through Sunday meeting to 2009’s Friday through Monday meeting: January 2–5. These dates allowed the staff to negotiate substantially discounted single and double hotel rates, starting at $129.
Please note the dates and times of the following events, so you can plan your trip accordingly:
Friday, January 2
- Noon – Meeting registration counters open
- 12:30 p.m. – Job Center opens
- 3:00 p.m. – Exhibit Hall opens
- 1:00–3:00 p.m. – Sessions
- 3:30–5:30 p.m. – Sessions
- 7:30 p.m.- Plenary Session
Saturday, January 4
- 9:30–11:30 a.m. – Sessions
- 2:30–4:30 p.m. – Sessions
- 8:00 p.m. –General Meeting, including the awarding of 2008 prizes and Gabrielle Spiegel’s (John Hopkins Univ.) presidential address (“The Task of the Historian”)
Sunday, January 4
- 9:00–11:00 a.m. – Sessions
- 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. – Sessions
- 2:30–4:30 p.m. – Sessions
- 4:45 p.m.– AHA Business Meeting
Monday, January 5
- 8:30–10:30 a.m. – Sessions
- 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. – Sessions
Watch for the print and online programs in October, review the At-a-Glance section, and make a note of sessions and tours you want to attend.
Dates and Deadlines - 2009 Annual Meeting
Today - Sept. 15 |
Preregistration opens. |
Today - Sept. 15 |
Housing opens. |
September 30 |
Dues must be paid and address changes registered with the Membership Department in order to receive a copy of the Annual Meeting Program. |
October 15 |
Job Center reservation forms are posted to the AHA web site for downloading by institutions that will be interviewing in New York. Rooms and tables are available on a first-come, first-served basis. |
October 20 |
Program mailed to members. |
November 14 |
Final deadline for reserving a table or room for the Job Center. |
December 3 |
Housing cut-off date for Doubletree Suites. Subsequent reservations taken on a space-available basis at convention rate. |
December 12 |
Housing cut-off date for Hilton, Sheraton, and Waldorf=Astoria. Subsequent reservations taken on a space-available basis at convention rates. |
December 15 |
Final deadline for canceling Job Center room reservations. Invoices will be mailed after this date, and no refunds will be given. |
December 19 |
AHA preregistration closes; after 12 midnight December 19, attendees registering online pay onsite rates, or must register onsite. |
December 19 |
Deadline to receive preregistration refund. |
January 2 |
2009 Annual Meeting opens at 12 p.m., Hilton New York and Sheraton New York |
Perspectives Online — September Issue Online
In the last installment of Fortnightly News, we noted that the September 2008 issue of Perspectives on History was in the mail. Now, most of the text from that issue is available online.
Read AHA president Gabrielle Spiegel’s article "Getting Medieval": History and the Torture Memos, in which she discusses the dangers of using historical analogies.
Don’t miss the next installment of Masters at the Movies, in which Michael Kammen re-views Paper Clips, a documentary film about a Holocaust-related school project; or news from the National Coalition for History, and the professional advice for presenting conference speakers. All this and much more is available in the September issue of Perspectives Online.
Stay up-to-date with annual meeting information with Sharon Tune’s To New York for the 123rd Annual Meeting, Daniel Walkowitz’s Welcome to New York, a list of the available tours from the Local Arrangements Committee, and the Registration Form and Hotel Information.
And start preparing for the 2010 meeting, with the call for proposals, meeting theme, and annual meeting guidelines.
AHA Today
Some recent posts on the AHA’s blog, AHA Today, include:
AHA Part of Lawsuit to Preserve the Records of Vice President Cheney – also see the National Coalition for History’s coverage, “Historians Sue VP Cheney Seeking Court Order to Preserve Records.”
Press Briefing on Release of Rosenberg Grand Jury Testimony – also see the National Coalition for History’s coverage of the release of the Rosenberg files at, “National Archives Releases Rosenberg Grand Jury Transcripts.”
Hearye! Hearye! Read all about it… online – news of Google’s latest project, digitizing old newspapers, and links to current newspaper resources.
The History Engine – collaborative online project that “gives students the opportunity to learn history by doing the work—researching, writing, and publishing—of a historian.”
Ghosts of Elections Past – showcasing a new online project of the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond.
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Contributions to this issue of Fortnightly News came from:
Elisabeth Grant, Vernon Horn, Pillarisetti Sudhir, and Sharon K. Tune
Last Updated: September 15, 2008
