Dear #Twitterstorians; my kid in attendance at #AHA19 announced she wants to be a historian and activist. I think my work here is done.

— Naomi Rendina (@NaomiRendina) January 6, 2019

Key Links

• AHA Annual Meeting (homepage) 
• Twitter:  AHA Annual Convention 2019 (Use #AHA19.  If you want to live tweet a session use the session number.  Example: #AHA19 #s25.)
• Program Guide
•  AHA on Facebook 
• Twitter:  Main AHA Account 

Interesting choice Macmillan... not sure I’d have brought those to the #AHA19 but sure... pic.twitter.com/FBqbGRAqv6

— Adam Domby (@AdamHDomby) January 5, 2019

 

PSA: Women with PhDs in history are not "little girls." #AHA19 #twitterstorians #womenalsoknowhistory https://t.co/xIcbjjIYpX

— Coordinating Council for Women in History (@TheCCWH) January 6, 2019

News

• What Can Historians Teach The Media In The Era of Trump? 4 Historians Weigh In By Kyla Sommers (See also this post from John Fea's blog.)
• History in Crisis: 5 Challenges to Organizing Graduate Student Workers and 3 Ways to Still Succeed By Kyla Sommers
• Historians discuss efforts to evaluate student learning far beyond a grade.

.@JLWeisenfeld opens her paper by noting that she presented her first scholarly paper as a grad student at ASCH 29 yrs ago. At that conference, she was 1 of 2 scholars of color on the program + the only one presenting on AfAmerican religion. #ASCH19 pic.twitter.com/n0v2bS8xm2

— Christopher Jones (@ccjones13) January 4, 2019

 

What Historians Are Tweeting (most recent entries at top)

• Statistical analysis of #AHA19's social media footprint
• Silent Sam controversy:  What's at stake
• The issues facing historians who use social media -- Live tweeted here
• What historians of race and gender think of Elizabeth Warren's DNA disclosures
• On academic blogging
• On Sam Wineburg's critique of history education 
• A high school teacher reflects on her day at the AHA By Megan Jones, history teacher
• On politics and race in the 1990s
• AHA leaders should make a commitment to bar job interviews that don't pay candidates to attend the annual meeting
• Mid-career malaise
• Loyalists in the Revolution
• Linda Kerber on the women's movement and gendered history
• Pedagogical Skills to Promote Historical Thinking
• Women’s Global Activism in the Twentieth Century
• Historians are still assigning Time on the Cross?
• Beware sexual harassment at conferences
• Collective list of men historians who are known sexual harassers & predators
• Claire Potter's advice for job candidates
• Problems candidates for jobs face
• Polarization and Partisanship in Contemporary America (John Fea's blog)
• Taking Stock of Gender History at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting 2019
• Re-imagining the way historians do the whole conference thing
• It is Time for a President of the AHA Who Does Not Work at a Research University By John Fea
• The Relevance of the Enlightenment By Megan Jones, history teacher
• "The AHA, like all of our professional organizations, is shaped by the people who populate its paid, elected, & volunteer leadership."
• New Narratives of Revolutionary and (Post) Revolutionary Haiti

 

Q from audience on the progress of women’s history: LKK says that women’s progress in historical profession is linked symbiotically to the existence of women’s history—there is no either/or. #AHA

— Dr. Ann M. Little (@Historiann) January 5, 2019

 

Linda Kerber speaking RN at the #AHA19 Cmmee on Gender Equity breakfast talking ‘bout her generation of scholars graduating in 1969. pic.twitter.com/IC0Mr0VFaB

— Dr. Ann M. Little (@Historiann) January 5, 2019

Sessions Relevant to Topics in the News (Links to tweets may not be active until after sessions have begun)

Thursday, January 3, 2019

• Divided Loyalties in the United States: Polarization and Partisanship in Contemporary America  3:30 PM-5:00 PM (Click here for tweets:  #AHA19 #s25) Here's a summary.
• A Church in Crisis: Catholic Sex Abuse in Historical Context 3:30 PM-5:00 PM 
• Displaced Persons: The Present Crisis and Its Histories (Plenary) 8:00 PM-9:30 PM

Friday, January 4, 2019

• Why Can't We All Just Get Along? The Debate over Free Speech on Campus  8:30 AM-10:00 AM (Click here for tweets:  #AHA #s68)
•  "Nunca Mais?": Reflections on the 2018 Brazilian Presidential Election 8:30 AM-10:00 AM (Click here for tweets:  #AHA19 #s71a)
• Two More Years of Trump: What Is to Be Done? (Historians for Peace and Democracy Roundtable) 10:30 am to 12:00
• New Perspectives on Black Women's Internationalism 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
• Archives Burning: The Fire at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro and Beyond 1:30 PM-3:00 PM (Click here for tweets:  #AHA19 #s119a)

Saturday, January 5, 2019

• Federal Agency Records: Who Decides What Is Kept? 10:30 AM-12:00 PM (Click here for tweets:  #AHA19 #s190a)
• Rapid Response History: Native American Identities, Racial Slurs, and Elizabeth Warren 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
• Genealogy, Genetics, and History (Plenary)  8:30 PM-9:30 PM

Sunday, January 6, 2019

• Removing Silent Sam: History, Memory, and Activism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 9:00 AM-10:30 AM (Click here for tweets: #AHA19 #s262a)
• Social Media for Historians  9:00 AM-10:30 AM

 

“I was told there would be no math.” -@KevinMKruse

this quote is how you know you are at a conference of Historians#aha19 #s25

— Thomas Harvell-DeGolier (@DeGolierThomas) January 3, 2019

 

 

Do historians miss the ideals of assessment, as some have suggested? https://t.co/VXkK9PnLGb

— History News Network (@myHNN) January 4, 2019