NEHTA regularly sponsors and co-sponsors workshops, conferences, and other professional development activities.
NEHTA runs an annual fall conference. The fall conference is designed to be a one-day seminar focused on one topic or theme and to engage teaching historians in current historiography. Recent conferences have focused on Reform in Pre-Civil War America, Visualizing the Past (using images), Atlantic History, and the 1950s and 1950s.
NEHTA has sponsored trips to such places as Plimoth Plantation and Mystic Seaport.
Every year, NEHTA co-sponsors NERC (the New England Regional Conference for the Social Studies) and hosts a luncheon and reception with a noted academic historian as a keynote speaker. Recent speakers have included Gordon Wood (Brown), Jill Lepore (Harvard), David Brion Davis (Yale), Colin Calloway (Dartmouth), and Bill Kelso (William & Mary).
NEHTA occasionally runs events in conjunction with other academic conferences. Recently, NEHTA co-sponsored a luncheon talk at the Wordl History Association annual meeting. Our speaker was James L. A. Webb, Jr. (Colby College) on the history of malaria.