Why Attend?
Networking and Reconnecting
- Explore historical connections with scholars outside your field
- Catch up with that best friend from your grad school cohort
- Reconnect with scholars you met in the archives
- Meet face-to face with historians you engaged online
- Build relationships for future panels, edited volumes, and more
A Hub of Scholarship
- Attend sessions covering every subfield within the discipline
- Present your work and get feedback from diverse perspectives
- Pitch your latest project to editors from dozens of top presses
- Identify new trends in the discipline from both established and emerging historians
Resources for Educators
- Participate in teaching workshops for K-12 and undergraduate instruction
- Get new insights into historiographical questions to bring to your classroom
- Find course materials from textbooks to digital primary source collections
Career Development
- Join critical discussions about issues facing historians in all professions
- Learn about the full diversity of historians’ employment
- Plan what’s next for your career at every level
- Gain new skills to improve your research, teaching, and public engagement
Insights into Local History and Culture
- Explore the unique history of the host city and region
- Join a tour with local experts to top museums and historic sites
- Discover local cuisine with new and old friends
COVID-19 Update
After careful deliberation, the AHA has determined that it will be impossible to hold the annual meeting in Seattle from January 7–10, 2021, as originally planned. The best available information from public health authorities and medical experts suggests that the global health crisis will not be sufficiently resolved by January. With regret, the Association has concluded that canceling the face-to-face meeting is necessary to maintain the health and safety of our members, our staff, and the public.
We do not make this decision lightly, as we know how important the annual meeting is to the discipline. Members rely on the opportunity to meet in person to build professional relationships, share their scholarship, and engage in professional development. While we will not be able to connect in person, the AHA staff is preparing a variety of web-based programming over the next 10 months to continue to bring together our communities of historians to further advance our mission.
A PDF program, documenting all sessions accepted by the AHA Program Committee and the affiliated societies, will be posted in the fall so that participants can document their expected participation for their CVs. Anyone who was expecting to deliver a prepared presentation will have the opportunity to post written remarks on the AHA website.
Code of Conduct
The AHA is committed to creating and maintaining a harassment-free environment for all participants in the Association's activities. All members and participants, including employees, contractors, vendors, volunteers and guests, are expected to engage in consensual and respectful behavior and to preserve AHA's standard of professionalism at all times. Please read the code of conduct that applies to all AHA-sponsored activities.
What People Are Saying
2021 Annual Meeting FAQs
Will the meeting take place in Seattle as originally planned?
No. We have determined that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it will be impossible to meet in Seattle as originally planned.
Press
Our annual meeting press policy covers important information regarding press credentials, our policy for filming or recording sessions, premissions to record sessions, and sound and electric during the meeting.
You can also download our Press Kit here.
Land Acknowledgement
The American Historical Association acknowledges that this year we would have met on the historic and contemporary lands of the Duwamish, Suquamish, and Muckleshoot nations and other Coast Salish peoples who call the waters and coastline of the Salish Sea home.