David Zawrotny

The 9/11 Memorial in New York City.

The Local Arrangements Committee for the 129th annual meeting has organized a wide-ranging series of tours highlighting what New York City has to offer historians.

Highlights include:

• A bus tour of Harlem, the Bronx, and Arthur Avenue

• Walking tours of New York City neighborhoods, including Brooklyn Heights, the Lower East Side, Greenwich Village, the Upper East Side, the Upper West Side, and Wall Street

• Tours of the United Nations Archives and the New York City Municipal Archives

• Tours of local cemeteries

• Tours of the New-York Historical Society, the Museum of the City of New York, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, the new National 9/11 Memorial Museum, and other local history museums

A complete list of tours, including times and ticket prices, will be posted on the AHA website when registration opens.

Debbie Ann Doyle is the AHA’s coordinator for committees and meetings.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Attribution must provide author name, article title, Perspectives on History, date of publication, and a link to this page. This license applies only to the article, not to text or images used here by permission.

The American Historical Association welcomes comments in the discussion area below, at AHA Communities, and in letters to the editor. Please read our commenting and letters policy before submitting.