This guide highlights sessions at the AHA25 annual meeting in New York 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. You can also find and schedule these sessions as a Thematic Track in the AHA25 meeting app.
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and History: Mapping, Spatial Modeling, and the Visual Chronicling of Period and Place
Friday, January 3, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
AI: Possibilities and Perils for Historical Research
Friday, January 3, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Visualizing the Past: Exploring the Video Essay as a Dynamic Historical Methodology
Friday, January 3, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Arguing with Data-Driven History: Ethical and Methodological Reflections
Saturday, January 4, 8:30-10:00 a.m.
Digitizing Black History at HBCUs: A Collaborative Public History Approach
Saturday, January 4, 8:30-10:00 a.m.
Open Knowledge as Pedagogical Praxis: How Faculty and Students Are Opening up the Field of History by Improving Wikipedia
Saturday, January 4, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Family History, Genealogy, and the Historical Profession: A Roundtable on 10 Million Names and Descendant Communities
Saturday, January 4, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Digital Religion: Crusaders, Saints, Athletes, and Cloistered Nuns Online
Saturday, January 4, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Affiliate session: American Catholic Historical Association
Artificial Intelligence in History Education Lightning Round
Saturday, January 4, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Digital Projects Showcase
If you would like to present a digital project you are involved with at the showcase, please complete this form.
Saturday, January 4, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Digital Drop-In Session
If you plan to attend, we ask that you complete this form so our digital historians will be prepared to discuss your questions.
Saturday, January 4, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
OutHistory and the Past, Present, and Future of a Queer Public History Website
Sunday, January 5, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Joint session with the LGBTQ+ History Association (formerly CLGBTH)
From Pixels to Pedagogy: Exploring Best Practices in Teaching Digital History
Sunday, January 5th, 8:30-10:00 a.m.
Teaching and Teaching Materials Section: AI—Potential Approaches in Teaching and Evaluating Latin American History
Sunday, January 5, 8:30-10:00 a.m.
Affiliate session: Conference on Latin American History
Social Media for Historians: How We Got Here and What We Do with It Now
Sunday, January 5, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Doing History Digitally: Perspectives from the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East Field
Sunday, January 5, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
The Power of Immersion: Experiencing Histories of the Black Diaspora through Virtual and Augmented Reality
Sunday, January 5, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Researching Race and Space in the Digital Era: African American Spatial Biographies
Sunday, January 5, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
The Digital Florentine Codex (DFC): An Illustrated, Multilingual Encyclopedia of Indigenous Knowledge from 16th-Century Mexico
Monday, January 6, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
History Education in the Age of AI: Challenges and Opportunities
Monday, January 6, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Colonial Ranchos of California’s Opposite Shore: A Digital Community Engagement Project
Monday, January 6, 9:00-10:00 a.m.
Teaching Writing Workshop: Teaching Writing in the Age of AI
Monday, January 6, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.