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- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- The past is popular
- History in public
- Why a textbook?
- The 2022 textbook of practice
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Part I: Public history: past, present, and future of the field
- 1 Defining public history
- Why (not) a definition of public history?
- A very difficult and potentially counter-productive task…
- … that might yet be necessary
- Public his’tree
- The public(s) in public history
- Public history, applied history, and uses of the past
- History for the publics? Activist history
- From historians to public history practitioners: who is doing public history?
- Public history versus academic history?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 2 A long history of public history
- Public historical practices before public history
- The ivory tower: truth or fiction?
- Historians outside academia
- International redefinitions of history’s public role in the 1960s and 1970s
- The institutionalization of public history in the United States
- Note
- Bibliography
- 3 Internationalization of public history
- Public histories in the Anglosphere in the 1980s
- Economic and public policy approaches in Britain
- Public history and communication in Australia
- Public history: a North American model?
- A new process of internationalization in the 2000s
- The International Federation for Public History
- National public histories
- The future of international public history
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 4 Collaboration, expertise, and authority: history with publics
- Shared authority
- Why share authority?
- Public history in an ocean of memories
- Criticisms
- Memories and the multiplication of narratives over the past
- No radical trust
- What can historians bring to the table?
- Because sharing is not losing
- Different types of participation
- Different types of expected expertise
- Combined and open expertise
- “With or without you”: whom to work with and decision-making
- When collaboration is controlled or refused
- Can historians work with everyone?
- Decision-making
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 5 Digital public history
- The rise of digital history
- Digital history + the Web = digital public history?
- New public opportunities
- Digital public history
- From communication to user-centered history
- Digital public access and communication
- The users at the center of the process
- User-generated participatory history through crowdsourcing
- From micro-tasks to participatory projects: citizen science and history
- Learning through participation: the contested benefit of citizen science
- Tasks in citizen history
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Part II: Public history and sources
- 6 Museums and collections
- Public history museums
- The birth of public museums
- Defining the role of museums
- Creating museums: a public history enterprise
- Decolonizing museums
- Doing public history in museums
- Material culture
- Participatory collections
- Managing public history collections
- Appraisal and accessioning
- Preserving and digitizing collections
- Researching the collections
- Deaccessioning objects
- Note
- Bibliography
- 7 Archiving
- What is an archive?
- Managing archives
- Selection and value
- Description and metadata
- Arrangement
- Power, silences, and representativity
- Digital archives
- Digitization and public engagement
- Born-digital archives
- Digital participation and crowdsourcing
- Digital archiving in questions
- Archiving … or not
- Ownership and anonymity
- Inclusion, representativity, and digital structure
- Archiving as public history
- Note
- Bibliography
- 8 Historic preservation
- Variety of approaches
- Debates
- International trends
- Historic preservation in the United States
- Main agencies
- Laws and regulations
- Some specific sites and activities
- Public archaeology
- UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites
- Historic houses
- Landscapes
- Battlefields
- Competing uses
- Sites of violence and death
- Reuse and revitalization
- Environment and sustainability
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 9 Oral history
- Oral history and public history: a love-story
- Oral history as a public process
- Participation and shared authority
- Doing oral history
- Starting a project
- Interviews: a set of practices
- Subjectivity from narrators
- Preservation and uses
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Part III: Making public history
- 10 Public history writing
- Communicating public history through texts
- Some types of public history writing
- Between academic and popular writing styles
- History magazines and newspapers
- Children literature
- Graphic novels and interdisciplinary work
- Writing history in the digital age
- Hypertext writing
- Blogging
- Social media
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 11 Historical fictions
- Fictions and historical (in)accuracy
- Research and fiction
- Truth and plausibility
- First-person narratives and anachronisms
- Fictions and public debates
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 12 Radio and audio-visual production
- Radio broadcasting
- History on screen
- Mise-en-scène
- The publics in audio-visual production
- New digital format: podcasting
- A public history format
- Training for podcast production
- Video production
- Democratization
- Historical video production training
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 13 Exhibiting history
- Types of exhibitions
- Publics and exhibition
- Building exhibitions
- Conception and interpretive planning
- Objects and materials
- Interpretive design: object, space, and light
- Writing texts
- From visitor engagement to co-curation: user-generated contents in exhibitions
- Visitor engagement
- Visitors as co-curators
- Exhibitions in the digital age
- Note
- Bibliography
- 14 Immersion and performance
- Immersive environments
- Between past and present
- Emotions and experiences
- Living history
- Living history sites
- Reenactments
- Tours and interpretations
- Guided tours
- Costumed interpreters
- History on stage
- Dances and musicals
- Gamification
- Digital video games
- Digital reality
- Virtual and augmented reality
- The Holocaust, digital reality, and historical witnesses
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Part IV: Collaboration, uses, and applications of public history
- 15 Public history teaching
- International overview
- Why do we need public history teaching?
- Courses and skills
- Studying public representations of the past
- Career oriented skills: grant-writing and copyrights
- Theory, practice, and self-reflectivity
- Internships
- International perspectives on public history teaching
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 16 Working with under-represented groups and communities
- Family histories
- Women’s history
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer history
- Decolonized public history: Native narratives
- Migrants and refugees’ history
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 17 Public history, conflicts, and competing narratives
- Conflicting public narratives
- Commemorations and celebration of the past
- Reconciliation, transitional justice, and competing narratives
- Post-conflicting public history
- Remembering victims
- Agonism and space for competing narratives
- Public history under pressure
- Political agendas
- Authoritarian politics
- Monuments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 18 Business, policy, justice: consulting and service
- Entrepreneurship and corporate historians
- “The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil”: entrepreneurial public history and its criticisms
- Relations between historians and their clients
- Skills and practices
- Historians in governments and public policy
- Official histories
- Public policy
- Historians and the courtroom
- Variety of issues
- Historians as expert witnesses
- Practices
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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