The 2018 AHA Annual Meeting: Videos, News, Everything
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News
● Sexual Harassment: AHA to Survey Its Members By Rick Shenkman
● Do Historians Have a Sexual Harassment Problem? By Rick Shenkman
● What is the difference between a journalist and a historian?
● Historians find parallels between Hitler’s Nazis and today’s “alt-right”
● Reexamining the chaos of 1968 without nostalgia
● C-SPAN: Interviews with historians at the AHA 2018
● Historians urge PhD students to look beyond academic careers
● Historians look back on 1968 tumult and its lasting impact
● Teaching Conservatism in the Age of Trump (Inside Higher Ed)
● Crippling Winter Storm Came at the Worst Possible Time for Conference-Going Academics
Opinion Journalism
● Professors teaching US conservatism baffled by Trump administration (Washington Examiner op ed)
● Historians look to help activists 'resist' immigration control (Campus Reform)
Videos (Go here to see all convention videos)
● Historians and Sexual Harassment: The Challenge for the AHA
● North Korean Nuclear Crisis in History: An interview with Mitchell Lerner and David P. Fields
● What Should Historians Do in a Time of Crisis? (Radical Historians)
● "The Vietnam War" by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick: An interview with Christian G. Appy and Carolyn Eisenberg
● Should Historians Be Pundits? An interview with Ibram X. Kendi, Nicole Hemmer and Michael Kazin
● Grading Trump: An interview with Ibram X. Kendi and Michael Kazin
● Free Speech on Campus: Interviews with Carla Hesse and Jonathan Scott Holloway
● Doing History in the Age of Trump: An interview with James Loewen
● Doing History in the Age of Trump: An interview with Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
● Historians Behaving Badly: An interview with LSU's Suzanne Lynn Marchand
● The Catalonia Crisis: Through a Feminist Lens: An interview with CUNY's Kathryn Mahaney.
● The Year It Became Embarrassing to Fly the Confederate Flag: An interview with Jim Loewen
Blog and Twitter Posts
● Commentary, Not Punditry: Panel on historians as pundits
● Are Historians Pundits? (Clare Potter)
● Plenary Session: The State and Future of the Humanities in the United States
● New Perspectives on Histories of the Slave Trade
● "Someone Sat on the Remote": Teaching Conservatism in an Age of Trump
● AHA 2018 Dispatch: The K-!6 Teaching Charrette
● Spotted in the AHA 2018 Book Exhibit
●Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump is Spotted at the American Society of Church History Meeting in D.C.
● A Middle School History Teacher Reflects on Positive Changes in the Historical Profession
● AHA Dispatch: Case Studies in Evangelical Parachurch Ministries
● More Teaching Panels at the 2018 AHA
● Conference on Faith and History Session: "The Bible in American Cultural and Political History"
● AHA 2018 Dispatch: Teaching History in Community Colleges
Sessions Relevant to Events in the News
Sunday
● The North Korean Nuclear Crisis in History
Sunday, January 7, 9:00-10:30 a.m.Thurgood Marshall North (Marriott Wardman Park, Mezzanine Level)
● The Confederate Commemorative Landscape: Its Establishment, Revisions, and Future
11:00 a.m. Thurgood Marshall North (Marriott Wardman Park)
Finished Sessions
Thursday
● Contextualizing Catalonia - the History of Catalan Nationalism and the Spanish Constitution with Respect to the 1st of October
3:30-5:00 p.m.Marriott Ballroom Salon 1 (Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level)
Friday
● The Modern Legacy of Premodern Racial and Ethnic Concepts
Three sessions, morning and afternoon Room Columbia 7 (Washington Hilton, Terrace Level)
● Free Speech on Campus
8:30 - 10 a.m. Thurgood Marshall North (Marriott Wardman Park, Mezzanine Level)
● Commentary, Not Punditry: Historians, Politics, and the Media, a roundtable session
10:30 - 12 noon Thurgood Marshall West (Marriott Wardman Park, Mezzanine Level)
● The National Reach of Reconstruction and “Lost Cause” Mythology in the Civil War Era
10:30-noon Columbia 5 (Washington Hilton, Terrace Level)
● Beyond Police: Lessons from History
1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Marriott Wardman Park, Madison Room A
● The Culture Wars of the Texas K–12 Schoolbooks
1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Delaware Suite B (Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level)
● Revolt against Regulation in the Time of Trump: Historical Perspectives
3:30-5:00 p.m.Blue Room Prefunction (Omni Shoreham Hotel, East Lobby)
● Public Memory: Talking about Slavery at Presidential Plantations
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Thurgood Marshall North (Marriott Wardman Park, Mezzanine Level)
Saturday
● A Fateful Misunderstanding: A Discussion of the Film Documentary The Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
8:30-10:00 a.m.Roosevelt Room 2 (Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibition Level)
● Historians and Sexual Harassment: The Challenge for the AHA
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Roosevelt Room 5 (Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibition Level)
● “What Should Historians Do in a Time of Crisis?” H-PAD Public Roundtable at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the AHA
10:30-12:00, Roosevelt Room 4, Exhibition Level, Washington Marriot Wardman Park.
● Immigration Control and Resistance: Historicizing the Present Moment, a Conversation between Historians and Activists
3:30-5:00 p.m.Roosevelt Room 2 (Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibition Level)
● The State and Future of the Humanities in the United States
8:30 - 9:340 p.m. Marriott Ballroom, Salon 3 (Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level)
History Profession: Relevant Articles on HNN
● Amid Professors’ ‘Doom-and-Gloom Talk,’ Humanities Ph.D. Applications Drop
● Decline in History Majors Continues, Departments Respond By Robert Townsend
● For the 3rd year in a row more than 1,000 graduate school degrees awarded in history By Robert Townsend
● When a Bid for Tenure Fails, This Is What Bouncing Back Looks Like
● History Is Not a Useless Major: Fighting Myths with Data By Paul Sturtevant
● AHA’s Jim Grossman says history PhDs have a bright future if they pick up these 5 missing skills
● Get Rich. Major in History? By Jennifer Freilach
● What’s Wrong with the Way We Have Been Defending the Humanities By Jeremy C. Young
● What Use Is a Degree in History? By Vaughn Bornet
● The Case for History as a Tool to Change the World By Cody Foster
● So What Are You Doing With that History Major? By Fred Johnson