Public History


The Presence of the Past
The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History (Mit Press)
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
Museums, Monuments, and National Parks: Toward a New Genealogy of Public History (Public History in Historical Perspective)
Letting Go?: Sharing Historical Authority in a User-Generated World
Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory
Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory
Nearby History: Exploring the Past Around You
The Lowell Experiment: Public History in a Postindustrial City
Anarchist's Guide to Historic House Museums
Historians in Public: The Practice of American History, 1890-1970
History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
The Participatory Museum
Interpreting Our Heritage (Chapel Hill Books)
Wallace Stegner
In general the assumption of all of us, child or adult, was that this was a new country and that a new country had no history. History was something that applied to other places.
Wallace Stegner, Wolf Willow

The aim here is not to separate fact from fantasy but to show how each embodies a distinct class of knowledge and how one is deeply implicated in the other.
Constance Penley

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