While Twitter provided a space for quick commentary on the 126th annual meeting, more detailed coverage of sessions, events, and discussions on the history profession at the meeting can be found in a number of news articles and blog posts online.

Today, we’ve rounded up of coverage of the 126th annual meeting, from the AHA itself, to the New York Times, Chronicle, and Insider Higher, to the blogosphere. If we’ve overlooked any articles or posts on the meeting, please feel free to share links to them in the comments section below.

And check back here at AHA Today for at least one more session post, as well as links to multiple videos from the meeting.

AHA Coverage
Blog posts from the 126th annual meeting, prepared by members of the AHA staff.

Welcome

• • • Welcome from Jim Grossman

Main Events

• • • Opening of the 126th Annual Meeting
    • General Meeting: Presidential Address and Awards

Sessions

• • • James M. McPherson: A Life in American History
    • TeachingHistory.org Workshop Highlights Teaching with Innovative Tools
    • Historians and the Obama Narrative
    • Turning Your Dissertation into a Book
    • Geeks Bearing Gifts: New Tools for the Humanities
    • U.S. State Archives and Government Information Secrecy
    • Digital Humanities: A Hands-On Workshop

An Undergraduate Perspective

• • • Day 1
    • Day 2
    • Historians and the Obama Narrative

Daily Overviews

• • Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Interviews
AHA Executive Director Jim Grossman and former AHA President Anthony Grafton sat down for interviews on the 126th annual meeting, the history of the AHA, and state of the history profession.

Radio 720 WGN

• • • Rick Kogan’s interview with AHA Executive Director Jim Grossman

HistoriansTV

• • Accomplishments and Challenges Facing Historians: Interview with Tony Grafton
  • AHA Executive Director on the 2012 Meeting: Interview with Jim Grossman

News
Coverage of the 126th annual meeting from a number of news outlets and perspectives.

C-SPAN

• Video: Henry Luce & Publishing in the 20th Century
• Video: The Civil War: Career of Historian James McPherson

Chicago Tribune

• Passions for the past — and jobs — come alive at history convention

The Chronicle

• Historians Reflect on Forces Reshaping Their Profession
• A Conversation With a ‘Luddite’ Who Championed New Scholarly Directions for History
• The Chronicle has also recently posted on jobs in history and AHA leadership:
  • Jobs for New Ph.D.’s in History Show ‘Modest’ Uptick, Association Reports
  • OK, Let’s Teach Graduate Students Differently. But How?
  • New Leader of History Association Has Already Felt Spotlight’s Heat

In These Times

• What to Do About Historians’ Job Crisis

Inside Higher Ed

• A Tough Sell
• Second Draft of History
• Inside Higher Ed also recently posted articles on the history job market:
  • A Small Bump
  • Fear of Being Useful

New York Times

• Government Secrecy May Be a Relic From the Cold War and a Wave of the Future

Windy City Times

• American History Assoc. coming to Chicago, many LGBTQ and AIDS panels planned
• American Historical Assn. conference covers LGBT issues
• AIDS: History panel looks at healthcare and identity issues
• Historians talk Southern lesbians and respectability
• AIDS: ‘Patient Zero’ discussed at history association panel
• LGBTQ historians reveal survey results at confab

Blogs
We begin our blog coverage round up with HNN’s extensive coverage, including numerous videos, and follow up with an alphabetical listing of other blogs.

HNN
The History News Network covered the 126th annual meeting extensively, reporting on as well as filming a number of sessions and events.

• Upcoming Sessions of Interest at the American Historical Association Convention
• Full coverage
  • Day 1: January 5, 2012
  • Day 2: January 6, 2012
  •  Day 3
  • AHA Features Panels on the Indifference of Journalists to History
  • Notes from the AHA Business Meeting
• Videos
  • Lynn Hunt: Jobs for Historians: Approaching the Crisis from the Demand Side
  • John Dichtl: Jobs for Historians: Approaching the Crisis from the Demand Side
  • Edward J. Balleisen: Jesse Lemisch: Jobs for Historians: Approaching the Crisis from the Demand Side
  • Jesse Lemisch: Jobs for Historians: Approaching the Crisis from the Demand Side
  • Padraic Kenney Interview on Popular Protest Movements
  •  Andrew J. Bacevich: The Revisionist Imperative: Rethinking the Twentieth Century
  • Juan Cole: Interpreting the Arab Spring
  • Thomas Bender: Where Did We Go Wrong? The Past and Prospects of the History Profession
  • Anthony Grafton: Presidential Address: The Republic of Letters in the American Colonies

AndrewDevenney.net

• My AHA 2012 Debrief: Sunshine in the Windy City

Archives Next

• Some observations on the “archival divide,” or what I said at AHA about historians and archivists
• Archivists and historians–Am I giving archivists too much credit?

Blueprint for History Education

• Blueprint at the American Historical Association Conference

Brian Sandberg: Historical Perspectives

• AHA 2012

Classics Librarian

• Disciplinary Meetings, Technology and Self-Reflection

Cliotropic

• AHA 2012: a report from Day 2

Crowdsourcing History

• History in Harmony: Exploring Collaboration

Digital Humanities Now

• Editor’s Choice: Round-up of AHA and MLA Conferences

Elon University Career Fellows

• 126th Annual American Historical Association Conference

Jacksonian America: Society, Personality, and Politics

• AHA 2012: Where Two or Three Are Gathered Together

Legal History Blog

• Blogging the AHA: Kornbluh on Welke, “Telling Stories”
• Blogging the AHA: Mumford on Honores, “Lupakas and the Law”

LiveJournal – Imas317

• AHA, Retrospectively

Miriam Posner: Blog

• Why I went (back) to the AHA
• Utopianism and its detractors

Monty’s World

• American Historical Association 2012 Meeting Recap

More or Less Bunk

•  AHA Day 1: Keeping up with the Jones (Digital Humanities edition).
• AHA Day 2: A disaster of biblical proportions.

Nearly There

• Nearly There – Experiencing a Conference Online

Nicholas

• AHA 126th Annual Meeting: Chicago, Day One
• AHA 126th Annual Meeting: Chicago, Day Two

Parezco Y Digo

• the AHA and “racial silence” in the criminal archive

Ponderings on a Faith Journey

• Historians and Religion — Sightings

Profhacker

• Crowdsourcing Transcription: FromThePage and Scripto

Rob Voss’s Weblog

• Why I didn’t go back to the AHA

Sapping Attention

• Practices, the periphery, and Pittsburg(h)

The Scottish Emigration Blog

• The Mother of All Conferences – The AHA 2012

Slideshare

• Invisible Australians: Living under the White Australia Policy
• Presenting Historical Research Using Digital Media

Society of Architectural Historians: SAH Communities

• Catching up with MLA and AHA

Tenured Radical

• Are You Attending the Queer American Historical Association Meeting?

U.S. Intellectual History

• The Utopianism of the Digital Humanities

Twitter
This post from earlier today provides highlights from the Twitter stream of the 126th annual meeting. For a more complete picture of the Twitter activity at the meeting, see the following roundups of tweets.

• Archive of 126th Annual Meeting Tweets – The Broadside
  Sharon Howard has put together archives of tweets using the hashtags #AHA2012 and #AHA12 , from THATcamp at the AHA, and from session #138 on Crowdsourcing History.
• Jobs for Historians: Approaching the Crisis from the Demand Side.”
• Crowdsourcing History – Session 138 Twitter Archive
  A list of tweets, compiled by SearchHash, from session 138, “Crowdsourcing History: CollaborativeOnline Transcription and Archives.”

• Andrew Devenney
  Devenney used Storify to track the Twitter conversation from two sessions:
  • Live-Tweeting “Presenting Historical Research Using Digital Media” Panel at AHA 2012
  • Live-Tweeting the Teaching History Online Panel at AHA 2012

Last Updated: 1/26/2012

This post first appeared on AHA Today.