AHA24 Digital History Guide
This guide highlights sessions focused on digital history projects and practice. These sessions include presentations and discussions about innovative new tools in the digital landscape, how historians are bringing their specialties into the digital age, and challenges and opportunities sparked by digital innovation.
Thursday, January 4, 2024
Creating Knowledge and Connecting Communities: Undergraduate Research in Digital Humanities
1:30–3 p.m.
Experiencing the Immersive Global Middle Ages: A Workshop and Digital Lab
1:30–3 p.m.
Joint session with the Medieval Academy of America
Resettlement: Chicago Story—A Cinematic Digital History Project
3:30–5 p.m.
Women's History in the Digital Age
3:30–5 p.m.
Coordinating Council for Women in History Session
Queer Pasts and Digital Archives
3:30–5 p.m.
Friday, January 5, 2024
Historians among the Machines: From Reproducible Computational Experiments to Persuasive Historical Arguments
8:30–10 a.m.
Joint session with the North American Conference on British Studies
Audiovisual Archives, Research, and Teaching in the Digital World: Challenges and Opportunities
10:30 a.m.–12 p.m.
Teaching Writing Workshop: Teaching Writing in the Age of AI
10:30 a.m.–12 p.m.
Free advance registration is required
Digital Projects Showcase
1:30–3 p.m.
Organized by the AHA Digital History Working Group
Sponsored by Clemson University Digital History PhD Program
Teaching History in the Digital Age
1:30–3 p.m.
Embracing Messy Numbers: A Roundtable on Finding, Making, and Using Historical Data
1:30–3 p.m.
Challenging Racial and Imperial Structures: Digital History and Collaborative Community Based Projects
1:30–3 p.m.
Organized by the AHA Research Division
Hayward Is Home: Understanding and Belonging in the Heart of the Bay
1:30–3 p.m.
Digital Drop-In Session
3:30–5 p.m.
Organized by the AHA Digital History Working Group
Sponsored by Clemson University Digital History PhD Program
Designing, Editing, and Implementing a New OER Textbook: Openstax World History
3:30–5 p.m.
Colonial Studies Section: Ways of Knowing—Colonial Knowledge and Digital Histories of Latin America
7:15–8:45 p.m.
Conference on Latin American History Session
Saturday, January 6, 2024
Bumps Ahead? New and Old Paths to Queer History Education
10:30 a.m.–12 p.m.
Beyond the Research Paper: Innovative K–16 Lessons through Experiential Learning
10:30 a.m.–12 p.m.
Podcasting and the Art of Audio Documentaries
3:30–5 p.m.
Publishing Digital History: A State of the Field
3:30–5 p.m.
Joint session with the Association for Computers and the Humanities
Sunday, January 7, 2024
Reimagining American History: How Digital Scholarship and Media Enhance Historical Accessibility and Teachability
11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Expanding the Practice, Reach, and Impact of Historical Scholarship through Born-Digital Publication
11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
AI and the Historical Profession: Applications and Implications
11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Podcasting, Pedagogy, and Publics: A Roundtable on History Delivered Right to your Ears
11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.