The Local Arrangements Committee has organized 28 tours highlighting the historical resources of New York City. Several are offered through Big Onion Walking Tours, which specializes in tours led by current doctoral candidates or recent PhDs in history. Participants will have a unique opportunity to take these tours with their fellow historians. Tickets for a tour of New York religious sites organized by the American Society of Church History will also be sold through AHA registration. See the AHA website for details and ticket prices.
Preregistration for tours is highly recommended. Tour tickets are nonrefundable and cannot be exchanged. Tour participants must be registered for the AHA meeting. Those who want to review the annual meeting program (to be published in mid-November) before purchasing tickets may log in to the registration resource center or call 508–743–0510 to add tickets to an existing registration.
All tour groups will meet in the New York Hilton Midtown’s Americas Hall I. Tours may travel by bus, subway, or on foot. Fares and admission fees are included in the price of the tour. Accessible buses or alternate transportation for people with disabilities will be available on request. Contact aha@historians.org for additional information.
Tour Dates and Times
| Tour 1: | Bus Tour of Harlem, the Bronx, and Arthur Avenue, Friday, January 2, 8:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m. |
| Tour 2: | Big Onion: The Upper West Side, Friday, January 2, 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. |
| Tour 3: | Twentieth-CenturyQueens, Friday, January 2, 11:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m. |
| Tour 4: | FDR Four Freedoms Park Tour, Friday, January 2, 1:15–3:30 p.m. |
| Tour 5: | Big Onion: Historic Lower Manhattan/Wall Street, Friday, January 2, 1:30–4:30 p.m. |
| Tour 6: | History on the Hoof in the Gentrifying City: Maverick Women of Greenwich Village, Friday, January 2, 2:00–5:00 p.m. |
| Tour 7: | Museum of the City of New York Tour: Gilded New York, Friday, January 2, 2:15–5:15 p.m. |
| Tour 8: | Museum of the City of New York Tour: Activist New York, Friday, January 2, 2:15–5:15 p.m. |
| Tour 9: | Museum of the City of New York Tour: Mac Conner: A New York Life, Friday, January 2, 2:15–5:15 p.m. |
| Tour 10: | Museum of the City of New York Tour: The Theater Collection, Friday, January 2, 2:15–5:15 p.m. |
| Tour 11: | American Society of Church History Tour of Harlem Religious Sites, Friday, January 2, 2:30–5:30 p.m. |
| Tour 12: | United Nations Archive Tour, Saturday, January 3, 10:15 a.m.–12:45 p.m. |
| Tour 13: | Big Onion: The Upper East Side, Saturday, January 3, 10:30–2:00 p.m. |
| Tour 14: | Museum of the City of New York Tour, Saturday, January 3, 1:15–4:15 p.m. |
| Tour 15: | Melting Pot, Six Feet Under: Trinity Church Cemetery as Muse for American Studies: Washington Heights, Saturday, January 3, 1:15–4:45 p.m. |
| Tour 16: | The Restaurants of Madison Square Park, 1859–2014, Saturday, January 3, 1:30–4:30 p.m. |
| Tour 17: | Revolutionary Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan, Sunday, January 4, 9:15 a.m.–1:15 p.m. |
| Tour 18: | Museum of Jewish Heritage, Sunday, January 4, 11:15 a.m.–2:15 p.m. |
| Tour 19: | The “New” New-York Historical Society, Sunday, January 4, 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. |
| Tour 20: | National 9/11 Memorial Museum, Sunday, January 4, 12:30–3:30 p.m. |
| Tour 21: | Big Onion: Historic Brooklyn Heights, with the Brooklyn Historical Society, Sunday, January 4, 1:15–5:45 p.m. |
| Tour 22: | Big Onion: A Multi-Ethnic Eating Tour of the Lower East Side, Sunday, January 4, 1:45–5:15 p.m. |
| Tour 23: | Museum of the City of New York Evening Reception and Exhibition Tour, Sunday, January 4, 5:15–8:45 p.m. |
| Tour 24: | Big Onion: Greenwich Village, Monday, January 5, 8:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. |
| Tour 25: | Lower East Side Tenement Museum, Monday, January 5, 9:00–11:45 a.m. |
| Tour 26: | Tour of the George Gustav Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian, Monday, January 5, 10:45 a.m.–1:45 p.m. |
| Tour 27: | Green-Wood Cemetery Tour, Monday, January 5, 11:00 a.m.–3 p.m. |
| Tour 28: | Big Onion: Historic Harlem, Monday, January 5, 11:15 a.m.–2:45 p.m. |
| Tour 29: | Municipal Archives, Monday, January 5, 2:30–4:30 p.m. |
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