The AHA is committed to making the annual meeting a professional home for working teachers. That’s why our annual meeting program offers dozens of workshops, networking opportunities, and sessions for educators at all levels and at every stage of their careers. Use this guide to navigate the full spread of teaching events and topical sessions at AHA23.

Opportunities this year include sessions drawn from the AHA’s work on History Gateways and Career Diversity for Historians, panels on lessons learned from the pandemic, assignment and syllabus design workshops, sessions on approaches to digital pedagogy, and more.

Whether attendees are looking to incorporate new sources and methods into their teaching or to continue to develop their teaching as an expression of disciplinary identity—or both—there are sessions for teachers of all levels at AHA23.

Free registration for Philadelphia public K–12 teachers
Current K–12 teachers at public schools in Philadelphia are eligible to receive free annual meeting registration and can bring up to two students at no cost. Email annualmeeting@historians.org from your school address to receive the discount code.

Letters of attendance for professional development credit
K-12 teachers who register for and attend the meeting can request a certificate of attendance for professional develpment credit. Contact annualmeeting@historians.org for details.

Workshops

Grading Writing Charrette 
Friday, January 6, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 
Organized by the AHA Teaching Division

Working Luncheon for Directors of Graduate Studies
Friday, January 6, 12:00-1:30 p.m.

K-16 Educators' Workshop: Exploring Collective and Collected Memory
Saturday, January 7, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Teaching with Historiography: A Workshop on Facilitating Discussions about Historical Arguments
Saturday, January 7, 8:30-10:00 a.m.

Teaching Things Workshop
Saturday, January 7, 1:30-4:30 p.m.

Op-Ed Workshop
Sunday, January 8, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Assignment Charrette and Course Syllabus Workshop
Sunday, January 8, 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Organized by the AHA Teaching Division

Events

Reception for Graduate Students
Thursday, January 5, 5:00-6:00 p.m.

HBCU Networking Event
Friday, January 6, 4:00-5:00 p.m.

Reception for Two-Year Faculty
Friday, January 6, 7:30-8:30 p.m.

Teaching and Learning Networking Opportunity
Saturday, January 7, 3:45-4:45 p.m.

K-12 Reception
Saturday, January 7, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Sessions

A variety of sessions focus on specific themes and problems in the world of teaching, such as the politicization of classroom teaching, the challenges and opportunities facing graduate education, and emerging educational tools and approaches. From time periods and geographic regions to classroom concerns, there’s a session that caters to you.

Introductory Courses

Flipped, Flexible, and Free (Resources): Reinvigorating the Big US History Survey at Texas A&M University
Friday, January 6, 10:30 a.m. -12:00 p.m.
Organized by the AHA Teaching Division

World History and the Curriculum: A Conversation
Friday, January 6, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Planting a Seed: History for Young Readers
Friday, January 6, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Big Data: Can Institutional Research Offices Help Transform Introductory History Courses?
Saturday, January 7, 8:30-10:00 a.m.
Organized by the AHA Teaching Division

State of the Field for Busy Teachers: World History
Saturday, January 7, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Organized by the AHA Teaching Division

The Ethics of Curriculum and Lesson Construction, from High School to College Introductory Gen-Ed Courses
Sunday, January 8, 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Teaching with Digital Tools

Teaching European Migration History with Open Access Sources
Thursday, January 5, 1:30-3:00 p.m.

What's Special about Maps? Teaching Border Regions History with Digital and Physical Materials
Thursday, January 5, 1:30-3:00 p.m.

Teaching Digital History: 10 Design Principles
Friday, January 6, 8:30-10:00 a.m.

Podcasting Against the Grain: The History Survey - Can It be Saved and Should It be Saved?
Saturday, January 7, 8:30-10:00 a.m.

Using Digital Archives for Teaching, Research, and Public Engagement
Saturday, January 7, 8:30-10:00 a.m.

Teaching History Now

History, Civics, and the Constitution in the American Classroom: A Conversation
Thursday, January 5, 1:30-3:00 p.m.

Methodologies from the Cracks of History: New Horizons Documenting Early African Histories and Identifying Atlantic World Legacies
Friday, January 6, 10:30 a.m. -12:00 p.m.

How Do You Teach What Is Controversial?
Friday, January 6, 10:30 a.m. -12:00 p.m.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Content and Method: A Roundtable Discussion
Friday, January 6, 1:30-3:00 p.m.

Teaching the Nation after Conflict: The Politics of History Education in Japan, China, Taiwan, and Timor-Leste in the Postwar Periods
Saturday, January 7, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Round Table on Teaching and Visualizing Global Fashion History
Saturday, January 7, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth about Reconstruction
Saturday, January 7, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Climate Education: The Case for History and the Social Sciences
Sunday, January 8, 9:00-10:30 a.m.

The Ethics of Teaching History in Today's K-12 Classrooms
Sunday, January 8, 9:00-10:30 a.m.

Bridging Cultural and Political Divides: Unique Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching Modern China as CHUS Historians in the Postpandemic World
Sunday, January 8, 9:00-10:30 a.m.

Integrating Colored Conventions Histories into Curricula, Community, and Public Memory
Sunday, January 8, 9:00-10:30 a.m.

Rethinking Resources and Pedagogy

Turning the Page: Improving Reading Skills in the History Classroom
Thursday, January 5, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Organized by the AHA Teaching Division

Curricular Change and Career Diversity
Thursday, January 5, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Teaching History at STEM Institutions: Finding Common Ground
Thursday, January 5, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Organized by the AHA Teaching Division

The History Lab: A New Approach to Pedagogy and Collaborative Research
Friday, January 6, 10:30 a.m. -12:00 p.m.

Gateway Courses in History: Case Studies in Redesign
Friday, January 6, 1:30-3:00 p.m.

#AHR Syllabus Project: How History Works
Friday, January 6, 1:30-3:00 p.m.

"Divisive Concepts" in High School Classrooms around the World
Saturday, January 7, 8:30-10:00 a.m.

Teaching with Historiography: Join the Project to Bring Historical Research and Teaching Together
Saturday, January 7, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

History and the Spatial Turn: Pedagogical Approaches
Sunday, January 8, 9:00-10:30 a.m.

History and the Spatial Turn: Pedagogical Approaches 2
Sunday, January 8, 11:00 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

On Campus

Schools as Sites for Agency in 20th-Century Latin America
Thursday, January 5, 1:30-3:00 p.m.

Community Colleges and the History Gateways Experience
Friday, January 6, 8:30-10:00 a.m.
Organized by the AHA Teaching Division

When History Happens in the Library
Friday, January 6, 1:30-3:00 p.m.

Building an Equity Bridge from High School to College: K-12 Teachers Respond to the AHA's History Gateways Project
Friday, January 6, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Organized by the AHA Teaching Division

The Future of History at Liberal Arts Colleges, I: Department Chairs Roundtable
Saturday, January 7, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Improving the Status of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty: Building on the AHA Statement
Saturday, January 7, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Organized by the AHA Teaching Division

The Future of History at Liberal Arts Colleges, II: Creating an Inclusive Classroom
Saturday, January 7, 1:30-3:00 p.m.

Expanding Access for Underrepresented Students in Graduate Education
Saturday, January 7, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Organized by the AHA Professional Division

The Future of History at Liberal Arts Colleges, III: Global and International History
Saturday, January 7, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Tag Team! Creating a Network of Support between Faculty and Professional Educators to Support Graduate Student Career Development
Sunday, January 8, 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

History of Education

Playing the Past: Historical Engagement with Video Games
Friday, January 6, 8:30-10:00 a.m.

Monsters
Friday, January 6, 8:30-10:00 a.m.

Free Speech and the Schools
Saturday, January 7, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

50 Shades of the American Curriculum: A Progress Report on the AHA's Mapping the Landscape of Secondary US History Education Project
Sunday, January 8, 9:00-10:30 a.m.