The 2015 OAH Annual Meeting in St. Louis prompted thousands of tweets from topics ranging from Ferguson to the unexpected appearance of Ben Franklin. We’ve gathered some of them here. If you have created a Storify collection of your own from #OAH2015, please let us know in the comments so that we can add it here. Thanks to all of you who tweeted the conference.
Thursday, April 16:
Friday, April 17:
- Closer to Freedom: The Life and Work of Stephanie Camp
- State of the Field: Digital Humanities
- National Histories are Moribund!: Finding New Borders in Cold War History
- Illicit Economies and Taboo Trades
- Digital Humanities and Teaching
- Geographic Taboos: Why the Caribbean Matters to U.S. History
- Early American Worlds: A State of the Field Conversation (compiled by Michael Hattem)
- Friday Night Plenaries
Saturday, April 18:
- Twitter and the U.S. History Classroom: A Roundtable Discussion
- Ethnic Cleansing or Genocide? Native Peoples and the United States
- When Private Talk Goes Public: Gossip in American History
- The “Latino/a Turn”: Is There a Future for Chicano and Puerto Rican Histories?
- The JAH in the Digital Age: A Conversation
- Business Meeting, Awards, and Presidential Address
- Historicizing Ferguson: Police Violence and the Genesis of a National Movement
Sunday, April 19:
General meeting tweets: