Tours at AHA15

The Local Arrangements Committee has organized 28 tours highlighting the historical resources of New York. Participants will have a unique opportunity to take these tours with their fellow historians. Tickets for a tour of Harlem religious sites organized by the American Society of Church History will also be sold through AHA registration.

Several tours are offered through Big Onion Walking Tours, which specializes in tours led by current doctoral candidates or recent PhDs in history. Since 1991, Big Onion Walking Tours has offered innovative historian-led walks through New York’s historic and ethnic neighborhoods. Tours weave together the diverse fabric of urban neighborhoods, combining traditional academic research with public history and cutting-edge teaching techniques. Big Onion offers more than 25 tours. The Local Arrangements Committee has selected some of its most unique and interesting outings specifically for the AHA annual meeting.

Tour 1: Bus Tour of Harlem, the Bronx, and Arthur Avenue

Tour 2: Big Onion: The Upper West Side

Tour 3: Twentieth-Century Queens

Tour 4: FDR Four Freedoms Park Tour

Tour 5: Big Onion: Historic Lower Manhattan/Wall Street

Tour 6: History on the Hoof in the Gentrifying City: Maverick Women of Greenwich Village

Tour 7: Museum of the City of New York Tour: Gilded New York

Tour 8: Museum of the City of New York Tour: Activist New York

Tour 9: Museum of the City of New York Tour: Mac Conner: A New York Life

Tour 10: Museum of the City of New York Tour: The Theater Collection

Tour 11: American Society of Church History Tour of Harlem Religious Sites

Tour 12: United Nations Archive Tour