• 2006 – Washington, D.C. (with OAH) – Our America/Nuestra América
  • 2005 – Kansas City, Missouri – Defining Region: Public Historians and the Culture and Meaning of Region
  • 2004 – Victoria, British Columbia (with ASEH) – Cultural Places and Natural Spaces: Memory, History, and Landscape
  • 2003 – Houston, Texas – Beyond Boundaries: Diversity, Identity, and Public History
  • 2002 – Washington, D.C. (with OAH) – Overlapping Diasporas: Encounters and Conversions
  • 2001 – Ottawa, Ontario – Belonging: Public Historians and Place
  • 2000 – St. Louis, Missouri (with OAH) – The United States and the Wider World
  • 1999 – Lowell, Massachusetts – History in the Public Sense: Historians and Their Publics
  • 1998 – Austin, Texas – International, Multicultural, Interdisciplinary: Public History, Policy and Practice
  • 1997 – Albany, New York – Public History and Public Memory
  • 1996 – Seattle, Washington – History and the Public Interest
  • 1995 – Washington, D.C. (with OAH) – The Hidden History of Mestizo America: A Reflection on Historical Interpretation and the Contemporary Condition
  • 1994 – Sacramento, California (with SOHA and NOHA) – Public History and the Environment
  • 1993 – Valley Forge, Pennsylvania – The Valley Forge National Historical Park Centennial
  • 1992 – Columbia, South Carolina
  • 1991 – Toledo, Ohio – The Audiences of Public History
  • 1990 – San Diego, California (with SOHA) – History: Cities, Parks, and People
  • 1989 – St. Louis, Missouri (with OAH) – American Equality and Foreign Revolution
  • 1988 – Denver, Colorado
  • 1987 – Washington, D.C. (with SHFG)
  • 1986 – New York, New York (with OAH) – The Pertinence of Political History: Reflections on the Significance of the State in America
  • 1985 – Phoenix, Arizona
  • 1984 – Los Angeles, California – Diversity of Public History
  • 1983 – Waterloo, Ontario – Public History in Action: International Perspectives
  • 1982 – Chicago, Illinois – History and its Publics
  • 1981- Raleigh, North Carolina
  • 1980 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • 1979 – Montecito, California