The AHA annual meeting offers many sessions on public engagement, including presentations on a wide variety of public history and public-facing projects, discussions on professional issues faced by historians working with public audiences, and workshops about incorporating public history and engagement into history education and practice.
Thursday, January 4, 2024
Peeking behind the Professional Curtain: Public Facing Research and the Application of History
1:30–3 p.m.
Creating Knowledge and Connecting Communities: Undergraduate Research in the Digital Humanities
1:30–3 p.m.
The Before Silicon Valley Project: A Women Public Historians’ Website Project on Mexican American Agricultural and Cannery Workers
1:30–3 p.m.
Coordinating Council for Women in History Session
Framing Borders in Material and Visual Archives: Tracing Voices, Resilience, and Transnational Mobilities
1:30–3 p.m.
Missing No More: Researching, Writing, and Selling Women’s Biographies
1:30–3 p.m.
IRL Reception for Online Historians
5:30–6:30 p.m.
Friday, January 5, 2024
Hidden No More: Uncovering Black Women’s History through National Parks
8:30–10 a.m.
Op-Ed Workshop
8:30–11:30 a.m.
Free advance registration is required
Land Acknowledgments: Permanent, Performance, or Pro Forma?
8:30–10 a.m.
How to Queer Public History: A Guided Discussion
10:30 a.m.–12 p.m.
Joint session with the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History
The Role of Historians in Community Controversies over Public Monuments and Art: The Case of San Francisco’s George Washington High School Murals
10:30 a.m.–12 p.m.
Communicating History to Young Audiences: Historians Reflect on Writing Children’s Books
1:30–3 p.m.
Urban History and Public Scholarship: Fostering Campus–Community Collaboration
1:30–3 p.m.
Public Historians’ Reception
7:30–8:30 p.m.
Saturday, January 6, 2024
American Lesson Plan: A Progress Report from the AHA’s Mapping the Landscape of Secondary US History Education Project
10:30 a.m.–12 p.m.
Collaborative Public History Projects That Serve Native Communities: The Indigenous Chicago Project
1:30–3 p.m.
Joint session with the Newberry Library D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies
Open Water: Afroaquatics and History
1:30–3 p.m.
Podcasting and the Art of Audio Documentaries
3:30–5 p.m.
Joint session with the Conference on Latin American History
Gran Colombia Section: Gender, Environment, and Public and Global History in the Region
6–7:30 p.m.
Conference on Latin American History Session
Rethinking the Far Right in American History: Questioning Old Paradigms, Asking New Questions, and Engaging Broad Publics
8:30–9:45 p.m.
Sunday, January 7, 2024
Experiential Learning and Public History in the Classroom
9–10:30 a.m.
Taking It to the Streets: A Historians’ Roundtable on Translating Scholarship into Community Change
9–10:30 a.m.
Local History Is Global History: From Shanghai to Los Angeles, Promoting Cultural Understanding through Storytelling in the Secondary History Classroom
11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Joint session with the World History Association
Podcasting, Pedagogy, and Publics: A Roundtable on History Delivered Right to Your Ears
11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Reimagining American History: How Digital Scholarship and Media Enhance Historical Accessibility and Teachability
11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.