AHA Annual Meeting
Join Us in New York!
We hope to see you at the 138th annual meeting of the AHA, which will take place from Friday to Monday, January 3–6, 2025, in New York City. At the nation’s largest gathering of historians, we hone our professional skills and connect with historians working across numerous fields and professions. Whatever your career stage or path, there is a place for you at our annual meeting.
Registration
Registration is open! All US-based historians presenting at AHA sessions must be AHA members, and all participants must register.
Program
The conference includes an all-time record of nearly 550 sessions and events. Explore the schedule and plan your meeting experience.
Resources & Guides
Check out our guides to getting ready for the meeting and highlighting sessions on digital history, teaching & learning, learning new skills, and much more.
Call for Proposals
The call for proposals for #AHA26 is open until February 15, 2025. Our 2026 annual meeting will take place on January 8–11, 2026, in Chicago, IL.
All historians are welcome and encouraged to submit proposals for annual meeting sessions. The AHA also invites historically focused proposals from colleagues in related disciplines and from AHA affiliated societies. The Program Committee will consider all proposals that advance the study, teaching, and public presentation of history.
Online Events
AHA Online
AHA events bring together scholars to discuss history and current events, hash out issues of professional development at every career stage, exchange teaching resources and strategies, and develop networks of historians doing similar kinds of work.
History Behind the Headlines
History Behind the Headlines events feature prominent historians discussing the history behind current events. Open to the public and free of charge, events in this series are generously sponsored by AHA member Jared Brubaker.
AHA Learn
Open to the public and offered free of charge, AHA Learn programs endeavor to encompass the diversity and creativity of history education across the country and around the world.
Washington History Seminar
The Washington History Seminar series is held weekly on Mondays (unless otherwise noted) during the Fall and Spring academic semesters. The series is co-sponsored by the AHA and the Wilson Center’s History and Public Policy Program.
AHA Online Recordings
Watch recordings of hundreds of past AHA webinars and events on the AHA's YouTube channel.
Institutes & Workshops
Professional Development, Teaching, & More
The AHA hosts online and in-person institutes and workshops on topics ranging from world history, to writing op-eds, to material culture and much more.
Online Teacher Institutes
The AHA hosts online professional development programs for educators, including middle and high school teachers and 2- and 4-year college faculty.
AHA25 Workshops
The AHA annual meeting features a number of workshops for attendees, including on op-eds, podcasts, and material culture.
Past AHA Workshops & Institutes
The AHA has held workshops focused on online teaching, career development, advocating for historians, and more.
Applications Open for NEH-Funded Institutes
The AHA will hold two institutes, both funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, in summer 2025. “Africa in World History” will bring together K–12 teachers. At a second institute, historians working in higher education will divide their time between the Clinton Presidential Library and online activities to explore “Changes Across the Land: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century United States Environmental History and Policy.”
AHA Regional Conferences
Virginia Conference on Introductory History Courses
The AHA will hold the inaugural Virginia Conference on Introductory History Courses on Friday, March 28 and Saturday, March 29, 2025, at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture (VMHC) in Richmond. With support from New American History, VMHC, and other partners, this two-day, regional conference facilitates conversations among educators who teach introductory history courses, whether in secondary schools, community colleges, or four-year universities.
Michigan Conference on Introductory History Courses
The AHA held the inaugural Michigan Conference on Introductory History Courses on Friday, September 20 and Saturday, September 21, 2024, at the Oakland Univ. in Rochester, Michigan.
Annual Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses
Since 2015, the AHA and local partners have held a two-day conference on college-level introductory history courses.
Utah Conference on Introductory History Courses
The AHA held the inaugural Utah Conference on Introductory History Courses on Friday, October 6 and Saturday, October 7, 2023, at the South City Campus of Salt Lake Community College.
For Department Chairs
Annual Department Chairs' Workshop
Are you facing the professional challenge of serving as department chair? The AHA offers an annual in-person Chairs' Workshop.
Online Programs for Department Chairs
Since 2020, AHA has hosted a regular series of online webinars to support the work of history department chairs. The webinars are small group discussions facilitated by experienced department chairs on topics related to the faculty-facing, student-facing, and administrative-facing work of chairs.
Congressional Briefings
History & Public Policy
The AHA’s Congressional Briefings series seeks to provide Congressional staff members, journalists, and other members of the policy community with the historical context essential to understanding contemporary issues. The sessions are strictly nonpartisan and avoid advancing particular policy prescriptions or legislative agendas.
January 29, 2025
History of the US House of Representatives
September 24, 2024
American Lesson Plan: Teaching US History in Secondary Schools
September 11, 2024
History of US Military Alliances
Upcoming Events
AHA Events Calendar
The AHA Events Calendar shares upcoming events, including conferences, webinars, and virtual events. Anyone may submit events of interest to historians to the calendar.
September 8 - 10, 2025
2nd International Summit on Infrastructure and Construction Engineering
Upcoming Opportunities
Calls for Opportunities
The AHA’s Calls for Opportunities Calendar shares upcoming calls for papers, conference proposals, and other activities. Anyone may submit opportunities of interest to historians to the calendar.
