Public History

by Thomas Cauvin

The second edition of Public A Textbook of Practice offers an updated guide to the many opportunities and challenges that public history practitioners can encounter in the field. Historians can play a dynamic and essential role in contributing to public understanding of the past, and those who work in historic preservation, in museums and archives, in government agencies, as consultants, as oral historians, or who manage crowdsourcing projects need very specific skills. This book links theory and practice and provides students and practitioners with the tools to do public history in a wide range of settings. This new edition reflects how much the field of public history has changed in the past few years, with public history now being more established and international. New chapters have therefore been added on the definition, history, and international scope of public history, as well as on specific practices and theories such as historical fictions, digital public history, and shared authority. Split into four sections, this textbook provides approaches, methodologies, and tools for historians and other public history practitioners to play a bigger role in public debates and public productions of historical Whether in public history methods courses or as a resource for practicing public historians, this book lays the groundwork for making meaningful connections between historical sources and popular audiences.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Grad School

302 pages, Paperback

Published May 19, 2022

Reviews

[Hillary Borders · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read for Public History Seminar

[Lena · Rating 4 out of 5]

I feel like there were some grammatical issues throughout which made some of it hard to read, but overall it was very informative.

[Romy Voeten · Rating 3 out of 5]

Redelijk boek. Goed overzicht van publieksgeschiedenis en alle vormen daarvan. Wel soms wat langdradig.

[Litfahan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don't believe an editor ever came within 10 feet of this book.

[Erika · Rating 1 out of 5]

i choose freedom