Virtual AHA is a series of online opportunities to bring together communities of historians, build professional relationships, discuss scholarship, and engage in professional and career development. A service to our members as they navigate the current emergency, Virtual AHA provides a forum for discussing common issues, building research networks, and broadening and maintaining our professional community in dire circumstances. It also provides resources for online teaching and other professional and career development. We are creating various kinds of content to help historians connect, while helping us learn more about what our members want and need.
Virtual AHA will run through June 2021. It incorporates the AHA Colloquium, our name for content drawn from the canceled 2021 annual meeting. It also includes an online teaching forum, career development workshops, a series of History Behind the Headlines webinars, National History Center programming, and more. These programs are free, and AHA membership is not required to register. Many of the webinars will be available for later viewing on the AHA’s YouTube channel at youtube.com/historiansorg.
See www.historians.org/VirtualAHA for details. Download the Virtual AHA app at guidebook.com/g/virtualaha for the latest schedule updates and links.
Virtual Exhibit Hall
The AHA Virtual Exhibit Hall will be available online through June 2021. The Virtual Exhibit Hall provides an opportunity to learn about the latest historical scholarship, take advantage of publisher discounts, and network with editors and press staff. If you normally look forward to the exhibits at the annual meeting, the Virtual Exhibit Hall offers a similar experience from the comfort of your home. Best of all, no name badge is necessary: the Exhibit Hall is free and open to the public. Check it out at www.historians.org/ExhibitHall.
Programming Content Streams
- AHA Colloquium: Bringing together communities of historians who ordinarily meet face-to-face at our annual meeting through web-based programming. Visit www.historians.org/Colloquium for a full list of staff- and participant-produced content.
- History Behind the Headlines: Featuring prominent historians discussing the histories behind current events and the importance of history and historical thinking to public policy and culture.
- Online Teaching Forum: Helping historians plan for teaching in online and hybrid environments.
- Virtual Career Development: Emphasizing career exploration and skill development for graduate students and early career historians.
- Virtual Seminars for Department Chairs: Supporting department chairs through the transitions and uncertainties resulting from COVID-19. Webinars will be small-group discussions (capped at 10 participants) and facilitated by an experienced department chair.
- National History Center Congressional Briefings: Briefings by leading historians on past events and policies that shape the issues facing Congress today.
- Washington History Seminar: Facilitating understanding of contemporary affairs in light of historical knowledge from a variety of perspectives. A joint venture of the National History Center of the AHA and the History and Public Policy Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Upcoming Events
Visit www.historians.org/VirtualAHA for details on these and other events that will be scheduled between now and March.
- April 1: AHA Colloquium—Tanzania, 60 Years since Independence
- April 5: Washington History Seminar—You Are Not American: Citizen Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers
- April 6: AHA Colloquium—Poster Lightning Round
- April 8: AHA Colloquium—Temporary Unions in the Early Modern World
- April 8: AHA Colloquium—US Immigration and Labor Policy during the Long Age of Restriction: Unimagined Complications and Responses at Borders and in Fields
- April 12: Washington History Seminar—Stalin: Passage to Revolution
- April 13: AHA Colloquium—Business History Today
- April 19: Washington History Seminar—Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
- April 20: AHA Colloquium—A Century of American Drug Use: Psychoactive Drugs among Native Americans, Hippies, and the Working Poor
- April 22: AHA Colloquium—The Assassination of Patrice Lumumba: Looking Back after 60 Years
- April 26: Washington History Seminar—Latin America and the Global Cold War
- April 29: AHA Colloquium—The New Western History, 40 Years On
In Case You Missed It
The following recordings are available on the AHA’s YouTube channel at youtube.com/historiansorg.
Online Teaching Forum
- History TAs in the Time of COVID
- Deep Thoughts: Metacognition and Teaching History
- The Role of Higher Ed in AP History Courses and Exams
Career Development
- Careers for Historians in the Tech Industry
- Making the Most of Your Postdoc
AHA Colloquium
- History PhDs in the World of Entrepreneurship
- History and Historians in Response to COVID-19 (three-event series): Plagues Past and Present; Containing Contagion; Infection and Inequality
- New Military History
- Teaching Premodern Women and Gender
- Shifting How History Is Taught
- Late-Breaking Plenary: The International Implications of the US Election
- Plenary: Erasing History
- 2021 Presidential Address: Slow History
History Behind the Headlines
- Presidential Debates in Historical Perspective
- History Behind the Headlines: Historians Reflect on the 2020 Election
- Preserving Records: Archives and Presidential Transitions
Washington History Seminar
- Recordings are available on the National History Center’s YouTube channel.
Further Information about the AHA Colloquium for Those Accepted for the 2021 Program
People originally scheduled to be on the 2021 program will have a variety of options for sharing their work. We are looking forward to working with participants on creative new ways to share their work. Keep an eye on www.historians.org/VirtualAHA for regular updates.
A PDF program, documenting all sessions accepted by the AHA Program Committee and the affiliated societies, is posted on the AHA website atwww.historians.org/programso that participants can validate their expected participation for their CVs. Anyone who was expecting to deliver a prepared presentation will have the opportunity to post written remarks on the AHA website.
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