Introduction to Public History
Interpreting the Past, Engaging Audiences
- Textbook
Introduction to Public History
Interpreting the Past, Engaging Audiences
- Textbook
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Introduction to Public History: Interpreting the Past, Engaging Audiences is a foundational textbook for public history. It is organized around the questions and ethical dilemmas that drive public history in a variety of settings, from local community-based projects to international case studies. This book is designed for use in undergraduate and graduate classrooms with future public historians, teachers, public history practitioners, and consumers of history in mind.
The authors are practicing public historians who teach history and public history to a mix of undergraduate and graduate students at universities across the United States and in international contexts. This book is based on original research and the authors' first-hand experiences, offering a fresh perspective on the dynamic field of public history based ona decade of consultation with public history educators about what they needed in an introductory textbook. Each chapter introduces a concept or common practice to students, highlighting key terms for student review and for instructor assessment of student learning. The body of each chapter introduces theories, and basic conceptual building blocks intermixed with case studies to illustrate these points. Footnotes credit sources but also serve as breadcrumbs for instructors who might like to assign more in-depth reading for more advanced students or for the purposes of lecture development. Each chapter ends with suggestions for activities that the authors have tried with their own students and suggested readings, books, and websites that can deepen student exposure to the topic.
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Table of Contents
2. Collecting and Preserving History
3. Interpreting History
4. Exhibiting History
5. Engaging Audiences
6. The Baltimore 68 Project
Product details
| Published | Jan 15 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 2nd |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9781538171066 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 42 b/w photos; 5 tables |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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