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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