Why Attend the Annual Meeting?
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 last summer
- Meet face-to face with historians you engaged online through social media or email
- 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 important 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, whether you’re an undergraduate, PhD candidate, early career historian, or beyond
- 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
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Faculty-Student Group Rate
Help your own students attend the AHA annual meeting through the AHA’s deeply discounted faculty/student group rate. For an additional fee of only $10 for each K-12, undergraduate, and precandidacy graduate student ($20 after December 14), AHA members can bring students to the annual meeting. The AHA’s faculty/student group rate is a great way to mentor students, nourish their interest in history, and encourage their professional growth. To add students to an existing faculty member’s registration, call (508) 743-0510 or go to the Registration Resource Center and select Add Student.
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Important Dates & Deadlines
February
- February 15: Deadline for proposals for the 2020 annual meeting.
May
- Early May: The Program Committee notifies submitters of its decisions.
Summer
- Program participants receive an email with the date, time, and hotel assignment of their session, as well as a proof of the session as it will appear in the printed program.
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.