Topical Sessions at the AHA in Boston

Thursday, January 6

3:00-5:00 pm

AHA Session #1: Climate Change and Its Contested Histories

Friday, January 7

9:30-11:30 am

AHA Session #57: Aviation, Spaceflight, and the Culture of American Technological Development in the Twentieth Century

AHA Session #61: Same-Sex Marriage in Historical and Transnational Perspective

AHA Session #66: Sacred Politics: Rethinking the Rise of the Religious Right

AHA Session #67: The Borders of Immigration History: Citizenship and Politics from the Local to the Global

2:30-4:30 pm

AHA Session #75: The Crisis in Public Higher Education

AHA Session #77: The Battle over Assessment and Ranking of History Departments

AHA Session #82: The American Century: Assessing the Crucial Decade, 1965-74

Saturday, January 8

9:00-11:00 am

AHA Session #113: Historical Narratives and the Future of the Religious State

AHA Session #115: The Academic Job Market: Finding Solutions in a Time of Crisis

11:30 am-1:30 pm

AHA Session #150: The Public Uses of History and the Global War on Terror

AHA Session #169: Historical Social Network Analysis: A Practicum

2:30-4:30 pm

AHA Session #188: Valuing the Environment

AHA Session #196: The American 1980s as a Historical Period: Problematizing the Standard Narrative

Sunday, January 9

8:30-10:30 am

AHA Session #240: Teaching the History of Terrorism

AHA Session #249: An Imperial Gaze at the Sacred Myth of American Exceptionalism

11:00 am-1:00 pm

AHA Session #265: No Sacred Story: Reframing Abraham Lincoln in Historical Memory

AHA Session #266: “The Global War on Terror”: Historical Perspectives and Future Prospects

AHA Session #279: Open Secrets: The Foreign Relations of the United States Series, Democracy’s “Need to Know,” and National Security