“What type of history does AI produce? Strategies for turning challenges into dialogue”

Hosted by Tony Acevedo on March 18th, 2026

History education has been rattled by fears that students are using chatbots to complete their work: that AI is now "doing" history. But less often discussed is the type of history that AI is creating. This 30-minute webinar with Tony Acevedo (Hudson County Community College), followed by a live Q&A, will examine the ways AI responds to historical queries and will explore how open discussions with students about history writing can help educators and students alike overcome new challenges. It will also open up discussion of closed and conditional assignments that allow instructors to be better equipped to accept or reject AI use.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Tony Acevedo is Associate Professor of History and Program Coordinator at Hudson County Community College in Jersey City, NJ. Outside of his work at HCCC Tony has been an NEH Summer Scholar in Switzerland and Italy, a MetroCITI Fellow at Teachers College, Columbia University, and is currently a W.W. Norton AI-Aware Faculty Fellow. He was a contributing author to Teaching and Learning History Online A Guide for College Instructors (Routledge, 2023) and was a recipient of the 2020 Dale P. Parnell Distinguished Faculty award by the American Association of Community Colleges. He is also co-Director of the Hudson Oral History Project. He is currently completing a Ph.D. in World History at St. John’s University.

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