Last year we hosted our first ever conference, right here on reddit, and it went so well, we’re doing it again! The conference will be taking place here, October 19th to the 21st, with the theme [Deleted] & Missing History: Reconstructing the Past, Confronting Distortions. We have some amazing speakers lined up again this year and can’t wait to share them with you.

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For those who missed it and are wondering what all the fuss is about, you can catch up on the 2020 AHDC keynote and panel recordings on our YouTube channel, and Q&A sessions in these threads:

• Indigenous Histories Disrupting Yours: Sovereignties, History, and Power
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Apocalypse: Imagining Mass Destruction
• Pick Your Poison: Climate, Disease, and Human Disaster from the Middle Ages to Today
• Sinners, Saints, and Spies: Historical Women and Cultural Propaganda
• Power and Projections of Trauma in the 19th and 20th Centuries
• Being the Change That Others Don’t Want: Asserting and Resisting Racial Hierarchies in Midcentury North America
• In Whose Trenches? Violence, Voice, and the Experience of War from Below
• Building the Nation, Dreaming of War: Nation-Building Through Mythologies of Conflict
• “The Atomic Bomb and Visions of the New Post War Order”, Keynote Address by Prof. Alex Wellerstein
• The first AskHistorians Conference Roundtable, ‘Making History in 2020: Contemporary Issues in Historical Practice
• The second AskHistorians Conference Roundtable, 'Using Quantitative Data to Disrupt Historical Narratives and Archives'

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