The discussion lists at H-Net are much like the sessions at the AHA’s annual meetings, in that they both focus on a wide variety of specific topics in history, covering nearly every time period, region, and theme that historians study. With this in mind, the AHA’s Matthew Keough sat down and found sessions at the 125th Annual Meeting and organized them into the same categories as a number of H-Net lists. See below for a few examples from his exhaustive spreadsheet. These of course aren’t all the sessions in each of these categories, but rather just a sampling.

U.S. Civil War History (H-CivWar)

• New Perspectives on Masculinity: Race, Class, and the Performance of Manhoodin the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction
  Sunday, January 9, 2011
  8:30 AM-10:30 AM
  Room 109 (Hynes Convention Center)
• Slavery and the American Experience: Family, Politics, and Society in the Nineteenth Century
  Saturday, January 8, 2011
  2:30 PM-4:30 PM
  Room 305 (Hynes Convention Center)

History of Death and Dying (H-Death)

• In Life and Death: The Sacred Ties of Friendship in the Early United States
  Sunday, January 9, 2011
  11:00 AM-1:00 PM
  Room 109 (Hynes Convention Center)
• Heroes and Victims, Bodies and Burials: Remembering the Dead in Poland, Hungary, and Romania
  Saturday, January 8, 2011
  9:00 AM-11:00 AM
  Grand Ballroom Salon D (Marriott Boston Copley Place)

Cinema History; Uses of the Media (H-Film)

• The Freedom Rides in History and Film: A 50-Year Retrospective
  Friday, January 7, 2011
  2:30 PM-4:30 PM
  Room 206 (Hynes Convention Center)
• Hollywood and Politics in the 1950s and Beyond
  Saturday, January 8, 2011
  11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
  Room 311 (Hynes Convention Center)

Graduate Students (H-Grad)

• Graduate and Early Career Committee Open Forum
  Friday, January 7, 2011
  5:30 pm -6:30 pm
  Marriott Harvard Room
• Careers in History: The Variety of the Profession
  Thursday, January 6, 2011
  3:00 PM-5:00 PM
  Room 302 (Hynes Convention Center)

Museums and Museum Studies (H-Museum)

• Slavery in Museums and Memorials
  Sunday, January 9, 2011
  11:00 AM-1:00 PM
  Room 310 (Hynes Convention Center)
• Memory, Slavery, and Tourism
  Friday, January 7, 2011
  9:30 AM-11:30 AM
  Room 310 (Hynes Convention Center)

Studies Related to Oral History (H-Oralhist)

• ‘Au‘a ‘Ia: Native Hawaiian Remembering
  Sunday, January 9, 2011
  8:30 AM-10:30 AM
  Room 303 (Hynes Convention Center)

Public History (H-Public)

• History and the Public: A Session in Honor of Arnita Jones’ Commitment to the Public Work of Historians
  Thursday, January 6, 2011
  8:00 PM -10:00 pm
  Marriott Grand Ballroom Salon E
• Making Equitable Tenure Decisions for Public History Faculty
  Saturday, January 8, 2011
  11:30 am -1:30 PM
  Hynes Room 11
• Presentation of the Seventh Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Public Service Award
  Thursday, January 6, 2011
  8:00 pm -10:00 pm
  Marriott Grand Ballroom Salon E

Quilting Research and Documentation (H-Quilts)

• Unconventional Virtues: Ecstasy, Quilts, and Food in American Society and Culture
  Sunday, January 9, 2011
  8:30 AM-10:30 AM
  Room 306 (Hynes Convention Center)

Women’s History (H-Women)

• Women and Electoral Politics in the Long 1920s: Race, Gender, and Political Culture
  Saturday, January 8, 2011
  2:30 PM-4:30 PM
  Marriott Orleans Room
• Black Women and Intellectual Activism
  Friday, January 7, 2011
  2:30 PM-4:30 PM
  Hynes Room 304

Again, see this spreadsheet for even more categorized sessions at the annual meeting.

This post first appeared on AHA Today.