Overview of Sessions and Events of the
American Historical Association

• Thursday
• Presentation of the Roosevelt-Wilson Award
• Plenary Session
• Friday
  • Morning Sessions and Events
  • Afternoon Sessions and Events
  • Receptions
  • General Meeting
• Saturday
• Morning Sessions and Events
• Luncheons
• Afternoon Sessions and Events
• Receptions
• Business Meeting
• Sunday
• Early Morning Sessions and Events
• Late Morning Sessions and Events

Thursday, January 6

• 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Sheraton, Aspen Room. AHA Council meeting
  
  
• 12:00–7:00 p.m. Sheraton, Grand Ballrooms A and B. AHA Meeting Registration
  
  
• 12:00–6:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 202. AHA Headquarters Office open
  
  
• 12:00–6:00 p.m. Convention Center Room 201. Local Arrangements Committee and Press Office open
  
  
• 12:00–7:00 p.m. Sheraton, Grand Ballrooms A and B. Messaging Center open
  
  
• 12:30–6:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 618 and Ballroom 6E. Job Register open
  
  
• 3:00–7:00 p.m. Convention Center, Ballroom 6A–C. Exhibit Hall open
  
  
• 7:30 p.m. Sheraton, Grand Ballroom C. Presentation of the Second Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Public Service Award
  
  
• 8:00–10:00 p.m. Sheraton, Grand Ballroom C. Plenary session. Storing China’s Past: Archives, Artifacts, and Art

Friday, January 7

Morning Sessions and Events of the AHA

• 7:30 a.m. Sheraton, Suite 416. Committee on Minority Historians Mentoring Breakfast
  
  
• 8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Sheraton, Grand Ballrooms A and B. AHA Meeting Registration open
  
  
• 8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 202. AHA Headquarters Office open
  
  
• 8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 201. Local Arrangements Committee
  and Press Office open
  
  
• 9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Sheraton, Grand Ballrooms A and B. Messaging Center open
  
  
• 9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 618 and Ballroom 6E. Job Register open
  
  
• 9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Convention Center, Ballroom 6A–C. Exhibit Hall open
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Sheraton, Metropolitan Ballroom. Session 1. Sponsored by the AHA Professional Division, the AHA Committee for Graduate Students, and the Coordinating Council for Women in History. Session 1. Interviewing in the Job Market in the Twenty-First Century
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Sheraton, Grand Ballroom C. Session 2. Presidential Session. Stolen Public Records: Challenges in Archival Theft, Institutional Acquisition, and Reacquisition
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Sheraton, Aspen Room. Session 3. Sponsored by the AHA Teaching Division. Forum on the Master’s Degree in History
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 608. Session 4. Sponsored by the AHA Committee on Women Historians.Creating an Equitable Work Place: A Roundtable
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 303. Session 5. Sponsored by the AHA Task Force on Public History and the Society for History in the Federal Government. Doing Research on the History of the Federal Government
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 613. Session 6. Existential Thought and Culture in Transnational Perspective: Authenticity, Morality, and Murder
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 602. Session 7. Black Loyalists or Black Revolutionaries?
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 614. Session 8. Revisiting the Victorian “Crisis of Faith”: The Transformation of the Religious Impulse in Physics, Feminist Literature, and Art
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 615. Session 9. The Effects of Eugenics on Academic and Professional Disciplines
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 605. Session 10. War and the Modern City: Community Building and Urban Reconstruction during World War II
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 619. Session 11. Native American Autonomy in Colonial Mexico and New Granada: Individual Acts, Corporate Actions
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 616. Session 12. Disease, Health, and the State in the Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century United States: Charting the Colonial Connections
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 304. Session 13. The Roles of Noble Women in Early Modern Marriage
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 609. Session 14. Historical Perspectives on “Shock and Awe”: Destruction from the Air in the Warfare of the Twentieth Century
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 210. Session 15. Artifacts and Artifice: Collecting Memories of the American Experience
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 307. Session 16. Economic Educations for American Publics
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 308. Session 17. Dharma Crossings: Ethnic Communities, “Converts,” and American Buddhism in the Twentieth Century
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 610. Session 18. Rethinking the Historiography of Early American Communism
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 617. Session 19. Joint Session with the Conference Group for Central European History. Going to the Source: New Understandings of East German History
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Sheraton, East Ballroom A. Session 20. Recovering the Record: Sylvester Manor in the Atlantic World, ca. 1650–1750
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Sheraton, East Ballroom B. Session 21. Memory, History, and Identity in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 607. Session 22. Joint Session with the Coordinating Council for Women in History. Writing the Histories of Second-Wave Feminism: In and Beyond the Archives
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 611. Session 23. Joint Session with the Conference on Latin American History. Sources for Urban Politics in Twentieth-Century Latin America
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 606. Session 24. Enabling Research: Archives, Artifacts, and Disabilities
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Sheraton, Cedar Room. Session 25. Reading the Body in the Early American Republic: Science, Material Culture, and Memory
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 604. Session 26. Public Advocacy for Archives, Museums, and Documentary Editing
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 211. Session 27. Joint Session with the Committee on Lesbian and Gay History.Roundtable: The Historian as Archivist/The Archivist as Historian: The Politics of Collecting and Preserving Queer History
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 603. Session 28. Redefining Citizenship: Free Black Women and the State in Antebellum America
  
  
• 11:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m. Convention Center, 6th Floor West Lobby. Affiliated Societies Display
  
  
• 1:45–6:15 p.m. Convention Center, Room 206. Annual meeting of affiliated society representatives

Friday, January 7

Afternoon Sessions and Events of the AHA

• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Sheraton, Grand Ballroom C. Session 29. Presidential Session. Unexpected Angles: The Potential and Challenges of Missionary Archives: A Roundtable
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 609. Session 30. Sponsored by the AHA Professional Division, the AHA Committee for Graduate Students, and the AHA Task Force on Public History. Session 30. The Job Hunt 2005
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 602. Session 31. Sponsored by the AHA Research Division. Historical Climate Reconstruction and Historians: A Roundtable
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 611. Session 32. Sponsored by the AHA Teaching Division and the AHA Committee for Graduate Students. Making Graduate Education Work: Rethinking the Doctorate through the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID)
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 608. Session 33. Hubris and the Irrationality Principle in the Foreign Policy of Recent Presidents: From Dwight Eisenhower to George W. Bush: A Roundtable
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 210. Session 34. Race, Gender, and the Law
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 211. Session 35. Warwork: Soldiering, Labor, and the Anglo-American Transition to Capitalism, 1759–1945
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 603. Session 36. Menstrual Politics: Purity, Public Life, and Consumer Culture in the United States, 1900–60
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 613. Session 37. Turkish Nation, Turkish State: Approaches to the Social History of the Republic of Turkey, 1923–38
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 605. Session 38. African American Community Organization Strategies in the Civil Rights Era Urban West
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Sheraton, Cedar Room. Session 39. Which Hui? Myths, Misconceptions, and Misinterpretations of Muslim Chinese (Hui) in Modern China
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Sheraton, East Ballroom A. Session40. Catholicism and Anti-Semitism in the Shadow of National Socialism
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 304. Session 41. Joint Session with the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Social Citizenship between Metropole and Empire: Welfare and the Reconfiguration of National Belonging in the Progressive Era
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 307. Session 42. Joint Session with the Society for Italian Historical Studies. Between East and West: Venice in the Mediterranean, 1380–1600
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 614. Session 43. Revisiting Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan: The Struggles of an Evolving Nation-State
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 619. Session 44. Joint Session with the Conference Group for Central European History. Playing God with the Vox Populi: Folklore, Nationalism, and Romanticism in Nineteenth-Century Germany and Russia—CANCELED
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 615. Session 45. Before They Came of Age: Black Children in Slavery and Freedom
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 604. Session 46. Joint Session with the Conference on Latin American History. Memories of Resistance: Biography, History, and the Brazilian Revolutionary Opposition, 1964–Present
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 606. Session 47.The “Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations”: The Official United States Government Blacklist during the Cold War
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 610. Session 48. The Body in Pain in Nineteenth-Century America
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 616. Session 49. Imperialism, Labor, and Human Displacement
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 607. Session 50 .Joint Session with the World History Association. World History and Social History: The Promise of Interchange
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 308. Session 51. Transnational Religion and Globalization in the Post-Colonial World
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 203. Session 52. Joint Session with the Conference on Latin American History. Spaces of Consumption in Modern Latin America, 1850–1968
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 617. Session 53. Sources, Archives, and Interpretations: Recovering the History of Black Abolitionism
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Sheraton, East Ballroom B. Session 54. Urban Artifacts and Identity-Formation in the Modern City
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 620. Session 55. Art Historical Anthropology: The Work of Art, the Archive, and the Pursuit of Cultural Interpretation
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 204. Session 56. Postwar? Postcolonial? Postimperial? Defining “1950s” Japan
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Sheraton, Metropolitan Ballroom. Session 57. Sponsored by the National History Center. Atlantic History: A Critical Reassessment
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Sheraton, Aspen Room. Committee on the Master’s Degree in History Open Forum

Friday, January 7

Receptions

• 5:30–6:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 204. Committee for Graduate Students Open Forum
  
  
• 5:30–7:00 p.m. Sheraton, East Ballroom Section A. Reception for two-year college faculty
  
  
• 6:30–8:00 p.m. Sheraton, East Ballroom Section B. Reception for graduate students

  AHA General Meeting

• 7:00–8:20 p.m. Sheraton, Suite 418. Reception for recipients of 2004 AHA awards and prizes and for members of 2004 award and prize committees
  
  
• 8:30–10:00 p.m. Sheraton, Grand Ballroom C. General Meeting of the American Historical Association
  
  
• 10:00 p.m–12:00 a.m. Sheraton, West Ballroom. Reception hosted by the American Historical Association for 2004 President Jonathan Spence, Yale University

Saturday, January 8

Morning Sessions and Events of the AHA

• 7:30–9:00 a.m. Sheraton, Metropolitan Ballroom. Breakfast meeting of the AHA Committee on Women Historians
  
  
• 7:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Sheraton, Grand Ballrooms A and B. AHA Meeting Registration open
  
  
• 8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Sheraton, Grand Ballrooms A and B. Messaging Center open
  
  
• 8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 202. AHA Headquarters Office open
  
  
• 8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 201. Local Arrangements Committee and Press Office open
  
  
• 9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 618 and Ballroom 6E. Job Register open
  
  
• 9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Convention Center, Ballroom 6A–C. Exhibit Hall open
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Sheraton, Grand Ballroom C. Session 58. Presidential Session. Cartoons, Gardens, and Lost Art: The Historical Study of Cultural Artifacts
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 602. Session 59. Session sponsored by the AHA Professional Division and the AHA Task Force on Public History. Collaborations in Public History: Pacific Northwest Historians Working Together to Present the Past
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 604. Session 60. Session sponsored by the AHA Research Division. Secrecy and Access in the Archives: Washington, Moscow, and the Vatican
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 607. Session 61. Session sponsored by the AHA Teaching Division. Primary Sources and Historical Inquiry in K–12 Settings
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 609. Session 62. Session sponsored by the AHA Committee for Graduate Students. The Education of Historians for the Twenty-First Century: What Does it Mean for Graduate Students?
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 304. Session 63. Active Objects of Reform in Early Meiji Japan: Linking Theory and Practice
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 611. Session 64. English Christianities and the Shaping of Race in the Atlantic World
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 307. Session 65. Joint session with the American Society of Church History. Joseph Smith, Mormonism, and American Culture: Bicentennial Perspectives
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 308. Session 66. Christian Morality in the Age of Secularism: The Dynamics of Conservative Christian Lobbying in Post-World War II America
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 608. Session 67. Joint session with AHA Committee on Minority Historians and the National History Center. Engaged Histories I—”Natives” and the Atlantic World: The Native Americas and Africa
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 606. Session 68. Joint Session with the World History Association. Globalizing American History: Promises and Pitfalls
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 303. Session 69. Legacies and Lessons from United States Cold War Archives
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Sheraton, Cedar Room. Session 70. In the Service of America: Foreign Service Officers, Diplomatic Wives, and Military Families
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 603. Session 71. An Integrated, Web-Based Census Microdata Archive: Problems and Prospects with Reference to the History of the Family
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 612. Session 72. Rethinking African American Migration
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Sheraton, East Ballroom A. Session 73. Archives of Anguish: Chronicling Suicide in Three Cultures
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 614. Session 74. African Americans and United States Foreign Policy Toward Decolonization
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Sheraton, East Ballroom B. Session 75. Emotional History: Sympathy, Intimacy, and Boredom in Nineteenth-Century America and Europe
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 615. Session 76. To Be In-Between: Cultural Brokers and Power in Latin American Society
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 605. Session 77. Rethinking Rurality: Incorporating the North American Countryside into Post-World War II Metropolitan History
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 205. Session 78. Medieval Critiques of Intercession in Christianity and Judaism
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 616. Session 79. Guns, Violence, and Belonging in the Late Twentieth Century
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 212. Session 80. Joint Session with the Conference Group for Central European History. Medicine, Law, and Rhetorical Strategy in Seventeenth-Century Germany: The Healer Margarete Ammann
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 210. Session 81. Joint Session with the Conference on Latin American History. Beyond Paternalism: Global Markets, Labor Relations, and Gender Politics in Company Towns of the Americas
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 617. Session 82. Public Health and Public Policy across Time and Cultures
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 204. Session 83. Enlightenment and the Ends of Religion: A Roundtable
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Sheraton, Aspen Room. Session 84. Joint Session with the Conference Group for Central European History. Bodies Politic: “Körperbildung,” Politics, and Nation in Modern Germany
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 610. Session 85. Joint Session with the Labor and Working-Class History Association. Fishers and Fish Workers in the Pacific Northwest: Labor and Environmental History Reconsidered
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 619. Session 86. The Age of Bandung and the Fate of Nationalism
  

Saturday, January 8

Luncheons

• 12:15–1:45 p.m. Sheraton, Douglas Room. Advanced Placement History Luncheon, cosponsored by the AHA Teaching Division, the College Board, and the World History Association
  
  
• 12:15–1:45 p.m. Sheraton, Suite 418. AHA Modern European History Section luncheon
  
  
• 12:30–2:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 204. Task Force on Public History Open Forum
  

Saturday, January 8

Afternoon Sessions and Events of the AHA

• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Sheraton, Grand Ballroom C. Session 87. Presidential Session. Mesopotamian Archives
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 604. Session sponsored by the AHA Teaching Division. Session 88. Forum: Impact of Teaching American History Projects in the Classroom
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 606. Session sponsored by the AHA Committee for Graduate Students. Session 89. Fellowship Funding for Graduate Students
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 611. Session sponsored by the AHA Task Force on Public History. Session 90. Museums in the Twenty-First Century
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 304. Session 91. Documenting Conversion, Converting Documentation: Histories of Religious Conversion in the Early Modern Mediterranean
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 307. Session 92. State, Criminals, and Working Class: Rethinking Criminalization in Modern China
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 615. Session 93. Reconstructing History and Homeland: Migration, Memory, and Identity in a Transnational Context
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 602. Session 94. Kissinger Revised: The Challenge of New Sources
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 603. Session 95. Joint Session with the North American Conference on British Studies. London by Night: Cosmopolitanism and the Pleasure Economy
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 205. Session 96. Sponsored by the AHA Research Division. The Cold War: Opening European and Asian Archives
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 308. Session 97. The Therapeutic State in the Twentieth Century: The United States, France, and Germany
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 616. Session 98. Race, Gender, and Religion: Perspectives from the North American West
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 617. Session 99. Teaching Europe in a Global Context in the European History Survey Course
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 619. Session 100. Vision, Image, and Representation in the Later Middle Ages
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 612. Session 101. Subjects of History: Archives and Historical Consciousness
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 605. Session 102. Joint Session with the North American Conference on British Studies. Anglo American Atlantic Crossings and Cultural Exchange in Wartime
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 609. Session 103. American Communist History after the Espionage Turn
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 608. Session 104. Session sponsored by the AHA Committee on Minority Historians and the National History Center. Engaged Histories II—Africa and the "Native" Americas
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Sheraton,Cedar Room. Session 105. Rights of Way: Contested Space on America's Roads and Rails, 1880–1960
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Sheraton, East Ballroom. Session 106. Sports and the Politics of Identity in the Twentieth Century: Local, National, and Global Perspectives
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 610. Session 107. “American Congo”: A Roundtable Discussion
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Sheraton, East Ballroom B. Session 108. Fighting Words: The Work of Terror and Violence during Reconstruction
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 607. Session 109. So You Want to Write a Biography? Four Reflections on the Intellectual, Personal, and Political Stakes
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 210. Session 110. Engendering Ecumenism: New Perspectives on the Ideological Middle Ground in Colonial American Religion
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 303. Session 111. The Home Front and the Battlefield in the Civil War
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Sheraton, Metropolitan Ballroom. Session 112. Sponsored by the National History Center, the Conference Group for Central European History, and the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Modern German Historiography: James J. Sheehan and the Evolution of the Field
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 212. Session 113. Joint Session with the Conference on Latin American History. The Social Construction of the Brazilian “Povo”: Race, Illegitimacy, and Citizenship
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Sheraton, Aspen Room. Session 114. Joint Session with the World History Association. United States Empire, Race, and the City, 1848–1919
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 209. AHA-OAH Joint Committee on Part-Time and Adjunct Employment meeting
  
  
• 4:45–6:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 204. Business Meeting of the American Historical Association
  

Saturday, January 8

Receptions

• 5:30–7:00 p.m. Sheraton, East Ballroom Section A. Reception sponsored by the AHA Committee on Minority Historians
  
  
• 5:30–7:00 p.m. Sheraton, East Ballroom Section B. Public Historians Reception sponsored by the AHA Task Force on Public History, the American Association for State and Local History, the National Museum of American History, the National Council on Public History, and the Society for History in the Federal Government
  
  
• 6:30–7:30 p.m. Sheraton, Suite 418. Reception for life members of the AHA
  
  
• 7:30–9:00 p.m. Sheraton, East Ballroom Section A. Reception sponsored by the AHA-OAH Joint Committee on Part-Time and Adjunct Employment

Sunday, January 9

Early Morning Sessions and Events of the AHA

• 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 208. AHA Council meeting
  
  
• 8:30 a.m.–2:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 202. AHA Headquarters Office open
  
  
• 8:30 a.m.–2:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 201. Local Arrangements Committee and Press Office open
  
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 304. Session 115. Session sponsored by the AHA-Canadian Historical Association Joint Committee. It’s All in Your Head: Comparative Studies of Health Issues in North America
  
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 204. Session 116. Sponsored by the AHA Task Force on Public History. Historic Site as Prosthetic Memory
  
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 606. Session 117. Presidential Libraries and Museums: Greater Access to Historical Information
  
  


• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 609. Session 118. The American Revolution in the United States History Survey
  
  


• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 210. Session 119. Joint Session with the Conference on Latin American History. “Quítate Tú Para Ponerme Yo”: Corruption, Reputation, Political Culture, and Exercise of State Power in Postcolonial Venezuela
  
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 610. Session 120. African Americans and “Others”: Ambiguities of Multigroup Alliances in the Civil Rights Era
  
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 607. Session 121. Joint Session with the North American Conference on British Studies. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Rethinking and Rewriting the History of Britain
  
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 611. Session 122. Conducting Research Using Non-Traditional Archival Materials: The Secret Presidential Recordings of Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon
  
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 613. Session 123. Reclaiming the Marginalized Voice in Japanese History
  
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 616. Session 124. Generations in Play: Childhood in Twentieth-Century American Culture
  
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 619. Session 125. Veterans and Empire: Race, Nationalism, and Anti-Imperialism in the Twentieth Century
  
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 212. Session 126. Joint Session with the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. Ethnic Communities in Decline; or, Whatever Happened to German America?
  
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 602. Session 127. Gender, Religion, and National Identity: A Comparative Global Perspective
  
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 608. Session 128. World Affairs during the Reign of the Second Bush: Doing History without the Archives
  
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Sheraton, East Ballroom A. Session 129. The “Cosmopolitan Order of the Ages”? Transnational Approaches to the History of Freemasonry
  
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Sheraton, East Ballroom B. Session 130. Artifacts of the American Entertainment Industry: Vaudeville, Broadway, and the Silent Screen
  
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Sheraton, Aspen Room. Session 131. Re-Reading in the Present Tense: Analyzing the Archives of Slavery
  
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Sheraton, Douglas Room. Session 132. Treaties, Alliances, and Friendship in Indian Country: New Perspectives
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 604. Session 133. When “Sources” Speak for Themselves: Turning the Tables on Oral History
  
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 603. Session 134. The Permeable Boundaries of Race: Interactions between Free People of Color and Whites in the Antebellum South,
  1780s –1860
  
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 307. Session 135. Negotiated Fascisms: Resistance, Collaboration, and Nationalism in the Social Mainstream, 1922–45
  
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 303. Session 136. Feminism, Postcoloniality, and the Doing of History: Responses to Dwelling in the Archives
  
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 614. Session 137. Joint Session with the Conference Group for Central European History. Community, Plurality, and Exclusion: Negotiating ReligiousDifferences in Germany, 1890–1933
  
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 617. Session 138. Labors in New Lands I: Class Struggles in Urban Early America
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 620. Session 139. Hidden Cases and Unspeakable Transgressions in the Circum- Caribbean
  
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 308. Session 140. The Dilemma of the African American Intellectual
  
  
• 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 618 and Ballroom 6E. Job Register open
  
  
• 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Sheraton, Grand Ballrooms A and B. Messaging Center open
  
  
• 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Convention Center, Ballroom 6A–C. Exhibit Hall open
  

Sunday, January 9

Late Morning Sessions and Events of the AHA

• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 613. Session 141. Archives, Artifacts, and Artistry in the Secondary Classroom: The Vietnam War as Case Study
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 302. Session 142. The Battlefield as Artifact: A “New” Gettysburg for the Twenty-First Century?
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 314. Session 143. Identity (Trans)Formation in the Diaspora
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 210. Session 144. Setting the Labor Records Straight: Past Accomplishment and Future Obstacles
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Sheraton, East Ballroom A. Session 145. Institutionalizing International Exchange: The United States, Germany, and Japan, 1850–1957
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 603. Session 146. Joint Session with the World History Association. Teaching the Analysis of Primary Sources and Change over Time in the World History Survey Course
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 604. Session 147. Religion and Democracy in the United States: From the Market Revolution to the Rights Revolution
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 304. Session 148. Beyond Negative and Positive Liberty: New Conceptions of Democracy in Postwar Europe
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 608. Session 149. The Modern Girl around the World—A Roundtable
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 307. Session 150. Joint Session with the Conference on Latin American History. New Perspectives on State and Society in the Brazilian Empire, 1822–89
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 212. Session 151. Joint Session with the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies. Spanish Saints and Spanish Clerics: The Construction of National Identities and National Catholicism from Philip IV to Franco
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 606. Session 152. “Art and Fact”: The Archival Record of Plundered Artworks during World War II
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 616. Session 153. Gender and the (Re)Making of Cherokee History
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 617. Session 154. Haiti in the Making of the Black Atlantic: From Saint Domingue to the American Civil War
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 619. Session 155. Labors in New Lands II: Class Struggles in Rural Early America
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 611. Session 156. Joint Session with the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. American Citizenship in Nation and Empire
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 609. Session 157. Historians, the Media, and the Politics of Academic Scandal
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 607. Session 158. Antislavery's Legacy
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Sheraton, Douglas Room. Session 159. “Negroes with Guns”: Armed Self-Defense during the Black Freedom Movement
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 620. Session 160. Joint Session with the Conference Group for Central European History. Policing and Crime in Germany, 1885–1955: Perceptions, Definitions, Patterns
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Sheraton, East Ballroom B. Session 161. Environmental Matters: Rethinking the Political Economy of 1970s Environmentalism
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Sheraton, Aspen Room. Session 162. American Sports and the National Body Politic
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 303. Session 163. Cultural Identity, Group Empowerment, and Poverty Wars in the American West
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 308. Session 164. Joint Session with the Conference on Latin American History. Race, Caste, and Religion in Colonial Latin America: New Approaches to Identity Formation
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Sheraton, Cedar Room. Session 165. Churching the State: Religious Values Permeating American Law, 1870 to the Present
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 610. Session 166. Indian-African Interactions in the Early South: Race and the Transformation of Native Cultures and Identities
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 204. Session 167. Civil Rights and Conservatism in Postwar America