2023 Virtual Conference Series on American History
The 2023 OAH Virtual Conference Series on American History invites those interested in American history to register to access recorded sessions and new live content every Thursday between April 13 and May 4. The conference includes live sessions and access to recorded sessions from the in-person conference. Pre-circulated paper sessions allow attendees to watch the presentations at their leisure before the conference and then join participants in discussion during the live event. All sessions will be recorded and made available following, ensuring that you never miss a session.
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Access to the Virtual Conference Series is available to all registered attendees.
Recorded Sessions
Recorded sessions may be viewed at anytime after April 13
*Recorded sessions are subject to change*
- Plenary Session:Teaching American History in Uncertain Times
- Presidential Address by Erika Lee
- Transformative Oral History
- New Directions in Immigration History
- New Approaches to Carceral Studies
- The State of Academic Freedom
- Teaching Underprepared and Nontraditional Students: The Community College Perspective
- Uneasy Spaces: Capitalism, Race, and Pleasure
- Indigenous and Immigration History in ConversationThe Past, Present, and Future of the American University: Putting the Perpetual and Worsening Crisis in Perspective
- Lawrence v. Texas (2003) at Twenty: Law, Sexuality, and Social Justice
- Rewriting U.S. History from Prison
- Historians in the Line of Fire: Intersections of DEI Work & Reality on Campuses
- Roe v. Wade at 50: Reproductive Rights and Justice in Historical Perspectives
Live Sessions: available every Thursday, April 13-May 4, 2023
Time
Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Transpacific Migration and Intermediary Brokers: The Case of Chinese Migration, 1882-1971
Tags: Asian American, Ethnicity, Immigration and Internal Migration, 20th Century
Tags: Asian American, Ethnicity, Immigration and Internal Migration, 20th Century
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Confronting the Pandemic Crisis & Renewing History Pedagogy Along the Way
Tags: Oral History, Public History and Memory, Teaching and Pedagogy, 21st Century
Tags: Oral History, Public History and Memory, Teaching and Pedagogy, 21st Century
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Disrupting Transpacific Infrastructures: Mobility, Intimacy, and Empire
Tags: Asian American, Race, Science and Technology, 20th Century
Tags: Asian American, Race, Science and Technology, 20th Century
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Professional Standards and Scholarly Rights: A Roundtable for Contingent Historians
Tags: Professional Development, Teaching and Pedagogy
Tags: Professional Development, Teaching and Pedagogy
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Teaching Reconstruction in a New Age of Democratic Crisis
Tags: Civil War and Reconstruction, Politics, Teaching and Pedagogy, 19th Century
Tags: Civil War and Reconstruction, Politics, Teaching and Pedagogy, 19th Century
Time
Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Five Chinatowns of Los Angeles
Tags: Asian American, Local and Community History, Oral History, 20th Century
Tags: Asian American, Local and Community History, Oral History, 20th Century
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
More Than Just a Paycheck: Black Women’s Stories of Work, Family, and Community Building During Desegregation, 1960s–2000s
Tags: African American, Women's History, 20th Century
Tags: African American, Women's History, 20th Century
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Confronting Crises with Vicki L. Ruiz: The Future of Latina History in Uncertain Times
Tags: Latino/a, Public History and Memory, Women's History, 20th Century
Tags: Latino/a, Public History and Memory, Women's History, 20th Century
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Re-centering Los Angeles’s Beach Histories from the Jim Crow era to Contemporary Beach Reparations
Tags: African American, Latino/a, Local and Community History, 20th Century
Tags: African American, Latino/a, Local and Community History, 20th Century
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
What Makes Democracy Work?: Teaching History in the Secondary Classroom in Uncertain Times
Tags: Education, Professional Development, Survey
Tags: Education, Professional Development, Survey
Time
Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Wounded Knee ’73 at 50
Tags: Film, Native Americans and Indigenous Peoples, 20th Century
Tags: Film, Native Americans and Indigenous Peoples, 20th Century
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
New American Religions and Social Change in the Long Nineteenth Century
Tags: Race, Religion, Social and Cultural, 19th Century
Tags: Race, Religion, Social and Cultural, 19th Century
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Slave Stampedes on the Missouri Borderlands
Tags: Digital History, National Park Service, Slavery, 19th Century
Tags: Digital History, National Park Service, Slavery, 19th Century
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Finding a Place for Black History at the National Museum of American History
Tags: African American, Museums, Public History and Memory, 21st Century
Tags: African American, Museums, Public History and Memory, 21st Century
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
A Woman Built This: Place-Based Evidence of Female Crisis Management
Tags: Local and Community History, Public History and Memory, Women's History, 19th Century
Tags: Local and Community History, Public History and Memory, Women's History, 19th Century
Time
Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
The Homestead Act in Indian Country: Reconciling Land Loss and Tribal Sovereignty
Tags: Native Americans and Indigenous Peoples, Race, West, 19th Century
Tags: Native Americans and Indigenous Peoples, Race, West, 19th Century
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Curriculums for Liberation: Chicago and Black Education in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Tags: African American, Archives and Bibliography, Education, 20th Century
Tags: African American, Archives and Bibliography, Education, 20th Century
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Center vs. Periphery: Reexamining the History of the American Right
Tags: Intellectual, Politics, Social and Cultural, 20th Century
Tags: Intellectual, Politics, Social and Cultural, 20th Century
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Demanding Justice: A History of Domestic Workers
Tags: Labor and Working-Class, Women's History, 20th Century
Tags: Labor and Working-Class, Women's History, 20th Century
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
New Perspectives on the Archival Recovery of Black Women's History
Tags: African American, Gender and Sexuality, Women's History, 20th Century
Tags: African American, Gender and Sexuality, Women's History, 20th Century
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Interrupting Student Discipline: Youth and Community Resistance to Public School Discipline and Policing, 1945-Present
Tags: Crime and Violence, Education, Race, 20th Century
Tags: Crime and Violence, Education, Race, 20th Century