Meal Functions
All OAH Conference on American History attendees are invited to take part in several networking events designed to allow you to meet, mingle, and connect with peers who have similar interests or with those who are in similar situations. All but one reception is open to all attendees and includes limited food and beverage, and all paid lunch options offer free or subsidized tickets to specified groups such as graduate students.
Morning Mixer: Networking Welcome Breakfast
Kick off your morning with complimentary coffee or tea and a light breakfast. Meet with colleagues and friends, OAH staff, committee members, and leadership to discuss, socialize, and make new connections. Join a conversation pod to talk about the topics that matter to you most. Pods include:
- Educators and Teaching
- Publishing
- Public History
- Adjunct and Contingent Faculty
- New Members
- Advocacy
- Research and Resources
- Job Seekers
Submit a conversation pod category to meetings@oah.org
FRIDAY, March 31
6 pm–7:30 pm
Open to all attendees
Meet and Mingle Reception
Join us following the Award Ceremony to meet and mingle with attendees, publishers, and committee members. Join in for conversation, make a new acquaintance, or meet up before dinner. Browse the various committee stands to learn about their goals and how you can get involved.
SATURDAY, April 1
8 am–8:45 am
Open to all K-12 Eductors
Sponsored by the University of Colorado Boulder History Department and the OAH Committee on Teaching
K-12 Educators Coffee Break
The OAH Committee on Teaching and Gilder Lehrman Institute invite all K-12 educators to coffee on Saturday morning before a full day of workshops and sessions. Meet with committee members and representatives from the Gilder Lehrman Institute.
SATURDAY, April 1
9 am–10:30 am
Open to all
The Saturday Morning Perk Up!
Mornings are hard. Join us for a complimentary cup of hot coffee or tea to help you perk up and jumpstart a day full of amazing sessions and networking! Visit the exhibit hall between 9 am and 10:30 am.
THURSDAY, March 30
6 pm–7:30 pm
Open to all attendees
Complimentary drink ticket included with registration
OAH Opening Night Reception
Celebrate the opening day of the conference with peers in the Exhibit Hall. Enjoy drinks, snacks, and a chance to meet with friends while browsing the exhibits and museum displays. Take this opportunity to visit and talk with exhibitor representatives, plan your book-shopping strategy, and meet colleagues before dinner!
THURSDAY, March 30
6 pm–7:30 pm
Open to all attendees
Sponsored by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS)
Dessert Before Dinner
The Immigration and Ethnic History Society invites attendees to the annual reception for graduate students and early career scholars. The IEHS promotes the study of the history of immigration and the study of ethnic groups in the United States, including regional groups, Native Americans, and forced immigrants.
FRIDAY, March 31
6 pm–7:30 pm
By invitation only
Distinguished Members, Donors, and Award Winners Reception
The OAH is pleased to invite our longtime members, major donors, and award winners to a special reception as a token of our appreciation for their continued support and involvement with the organization.
FRIDAY, March 31
6 pm–7:30 pm
Open to all attendees
Meet and Mingle
Join us following the Award Ceremony to meet and mingle with attendees, publishers, and committee members. Join in for conversation, make a new aquaintance, or meet up before dinner. Browse the various committee stands to learn about their goals and how you can get involved.
FRIDAY, March 31
6 pm–7:30 pm
Open to all attendees
Sponsored by the College Board
Graduate Student Reception
We welcome graduate students to attend this reception, which offers an opportunity to share experiences and make lasting connections. Meet with fellow attendees and representatives from the OAH. College Board, the host of this event, will share information about how graduate students can support high school history education that includes a flexible summer employment opportunity.
FRIDAY, March 31
6 pm–7:30 pm
Open to all attendees
Community College Reception
We welcome community college faculty to attend this reception which offers an opportunity to share experiences and make lasting connections. Meet with fellow attendees and representatives from the OAH.
FRIDAY, March 31
6 pm–7:30 pm
Open to all attendees
ALANA Reception
We invite all scholars committed to advancing the histories of people of color in the United States to join us for a reception at #OAH23. Come socialize and learn more about the OAH ALANA Committee and the Huggins-Quarles Dissertation Award. Graduate students and junior faculty are especially encouraged to attend.
FRIDAY, March 31
6 pm–7:30 pm
Open to all attendees
Sponsored by the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE)
SHGAPE Reception
SHGAPE will host a reception for all SHGAPE members and meeting attendees interested in the study of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. SHGAPE was formed in 1989 to encourage innovative and wide-ranging research and teaching on this critical period of historical transformation. SHGAPE publishes the quarterly Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and awards book and article prizes for distinguished scholarship.
SATURDAY, APRIL 1
7:15 pm–8:30 pm
Open to all attendees
OAH President's Reception
All attendees are cordially invited to the OAH President’s Closing Reception in honor of OAH President Erika Lee. Please join us in thanking her for her service to the organization and the history profession following the OAH Presidential Address.
FRIDAY, March 31
12 pm - 1:30 pm
Pre-registration required
Limited seating: 80
Cost: $66
Sponsored by the OAH Committee on the Status of Women in the Historical Profession
Women's Committee Luncheon: A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community
Presenter: Natalia Monina, University of Southern California
Chair: Mary Ann Irwin, California History
In 1951, Doña Natalia Barraza opened the Nayarit, a Mexican restaurant in LA’s Echo Park. Granddaughter/historian Natalia Molina explores how Doña Natalia created an urban anchor for ethnic Mexicans and various Latinx neighbors, nourishing themselves and one another. Doña Natalia immigrated alone from Mexico to L.A., adopted two children, ran a successful business, and sponsored, housed, and employed dozens of immigrants. Despite anti-Latinx racism, Doña Natalia and her Nayarit family claimed not just the restaurant space, but the whole of Los Angeles, in the process helping all to become insiders.
FRIDAY, March 31
12 pm - 1:30 pm
Pre-registration required
Limited seating: 80
Cost: $66
Limited complimentary for graduate students
Sponsored by the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
SHGAPE Luncheon and Presidential Address: "Legislating Morality in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: The 'White Slave' Case that Changed America"
Presenter: Nancy Unger, Santa Clara University
Nancy C. Unger is Professor of History at Santa Clara University. She is the author of the prize-winning biographies Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer and Belle La Follette: Progressive Era Reformer. She co-edited A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and is also the author of Beyond Nature’s Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History (a California Book Award finalist).
Nancy’s op-eds applying the lessons of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era to the present have appeared in dozens of publications and websites, including The Washington Post, CNN, and TIME. She has provided on-screen commentary for PBS, and has been featured on C-SPAN.
SHGAPE is able to offer a limited number of luncheon tickets to graduate students on a first-come, first-served basis. After you have registered for the OAH conference, please send an email to alwood@ilstu.edu before March 14 if you would like a ticket to the SHGAPE luncheon.
FRIDAY, March 31
12 pm - 1:30 pm
Pre-registration required
Limited seating: 80 (SOLD OUT)
Cost: $66
Limited $45 tickets for NTT faculty/ adjuncts
Limited complimentary for graduate students
Sponsored by Al Camarillo and the OAH Committee on the Status of African American, Latino/a, Asian American, and Native American (ALANA) Historians and ALANA Histories
Al Camarillo ALANA Forum on Race and Ethnic Studies in American History: Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire and Revolution in the Borderlands
Presenter: Kelly Lytle-Hernandez, University of California, Los Angeles
Kelly Lytle Hernandez is a professor of History, African American Studies, and Urban Planning at UCLA where she holds The Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History and is the director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. One of the nation’s leading experts on race, immigration, and mass incarceration, Professor Lytle Hernandez is the author of the award-winning books, Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (University of California Press, 2010), and City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles (University of North Carolina Press, 2017). Currently, Professor Lytle Hernandez is completing a new book on the magonista movement, which helped to spark the outbreak of the 1910 Mexican Revolution, and she is the Principal Investigator for Million Dollar Hoods, a university-based, community-drive research project that maps the fiscal and human cost of mass incarceration in Los Angeles. For her leadership of Million Dollar Hoods, Professor Lytle Hernandez has won numerous awards, including the 2018 Local Hero Award from KCET/PBS, a 2018 Freedom Now! Award from the Los Angeles Community Action Network, and the 2019 Catalyst Award from the South L.A. parent/student advocacy organization, CADRE. For her historical and contemporary work, Professor Lytle Hernandez has been named a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. She is also an elected member of the Society of American Historians and the Pulitzer Prize Board.
The OAH Committee on the Status of African American, Latino/a, Asian American, and Native American (ALANA) Historians and ALANA Histories with the support of Al Camarillo is able to offer a limited number of free lunch tickets for graduate students and $45 subsidized tickets for non-tenured track and adjunct faculty. Please email alana@oah.org before registering if you would like a ticket.
SATURDAY, April 1
12 pm - 1:30 pm
REGISTER HERE | Limited to 40
Sponsored by the Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000
The Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600—2000 Luncheon
Panelists:
• Rebecca Jo Plant, University of California, San Diego, co-editor of Women and Social Movements in the U.S. since 1600
• Judy Wu, University of California, Irvine, co-editor of Women and Social Movements in the U.S. since 1600
• Jill Jensen, editor of Women and Social Movements, Development and the Global South, 1919–2019
Please join us for lunch and a program featuring the editors of Women and Social Movements in the U.S since 1600; the editor of Women and Social Movements, Development and the Global South, 1919–2019; and the co-editor of Queer Pasts.
Learn about the newest offerings from Alexander Street Press and ProQuest about women’s and queer histories, how to incorporate primary source-driven projects in the classroom, opportunities for publication and editorial leadership, and more!
REGISTER HERE
