Public History: Essays from the Field

The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography;  October 1, 1999 ;     682 words ......update) to Public History: An Introduction...view of what public historians do and where...techniques as public historians redefine what...emphasis in public history institutions...overview of public history, discussing the varieties of public ...

History for the people

University Affairs;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......field of 'public history' gains ground...known as public history. The field...Committee on Public History, which joins...session on public history held by.the...what the public historians had to say...honours BA in public history...scope of ...

Duncan Waterson: public historian.

Journal of Australian Studies;  September 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......me that this `public history thing' seemed...appointed lecturer in public history at the University...Sydney, where a public history program had been...contemporary practice of public history in New South...definition of public history. Graeme ...

Public History and the Environment

Environmental History;  July 1, 2006 ;     534 words ...Public History and the Environment...authors appear to be public historians rather than environmental...also appears to be public historians. That said, there...and approaches in public history, each with potentially...Environment, and Public History," Martin ...

Playing to strength: teaching public history at the turn of the...

American Studies International;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......place of public history in it. Over...teaching of public history, and the...where most public history education...Force on Public History (TFPH), charged...the role public history can and does...Council on Public History ...

Preserving Western History

Environmental History;  April 1, 2006 ;     639 words ......scholars and professionals addressing public history as it is practiced in the western United...together the fields of western history and public history. The authors approach the topic from...history, and historic preservation. Public history practitioners, often working on ...

PUBLIC HISTORY.(amateurs study the past)

History Today;  May 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......history involves the public; the boundaries...to call all this `public history' and to have its...History for a wide public brings issues about...relief. The term `public history' is more common...historians, working as public historians in this sense. I define ...

History breathes a new life

Post-Tribune (IN);  September 18, 2005 ;     326 words ......costumes. College students majoring in public history are discovering career options available...demonstrations, too," said Lindeman, 21, a public history major. "For someone who's never been...quite an experience." The goal of a public history program is to acquaint history majors...

Embracing public history: the increasing number of Black history museums...

Black Issues in Higher Education;  February 14, 2002 ;     700+ words ......university-based historian and working in a public history setting such as a museum, think abut...their great-uncle, you realize that public history really can touch ordinary people's...acknowledged. Lewis is director of the Public History Program at Howard University, which...

Public History's Project: Building Community.(Brief Article)

Nation's Cities Weekly;  November 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......As many officials are discovering, public history projects bring tangible benefits to...development. But more importantly, public history projects provide the essential information...preservation efforts, modest expenditures for public history projects can enhance community ...

(book review)

The Australian Journal of Politics and History;  September 1, 2002 ;     608 words ......timely to reflect upon public history, public memory and the Northern...many strategies by which public historians have interpreted and made...recommended for courses on public history and heritage. The Northern...dynamic nature of such public presentations. ...

Conard, Rebecca: Benjamin Shambaugh and the Intellectual Foundations of...

History: Review of New Books;  January 1, 2002 ;     497 words ......professor of history and codirector of the Public History Program at Middle Tennessee State University...and the Intellectual Foundations of Public History includes a number of passages from...final chapter traces the development of public history from Shambaugh's death in 1940 to ...

Our Monumental Mistakes.(Review)

The Nation;  November 8, 1999 ;     700+ words ......What account of the past does our public history convey? This is the question James...as Loewen demonstrates, much of our public history fails. Problems begin with the language...For Loewen, the great scandal of our public history is the treatment of slavery, the Civil...

Introduction: Environmental History as Public History

Environmental History;  October 1, 2004 ;     95 words ......Introduction: Environmental History as Public History." Public Historian 26 (Winter 2004...meeting of the National Council on Public History and the American Society for Environmental...history within the academy and in the public history arena, primarily in the United States...

Ingredients: History, preservatives

High Country News;  May 1, 2006 ;     259 words ......the first college reader to address public history in the American West." "Public history," explains the introduction, means history...outside classrooms. All of us consume public history, by visiting parks, watching TV shows...