NPS History 101: Toward Training a New Generation of Advocates

Seth C. Bruggeman is associate professor of history at Temple University. He is former director of the Center for Public History and currently serves as National Park Service Special Projects Coordinator for Temple’s University College. A graduate of the College of William & Mary’s PhD program in American studies, Bruggeman studies the role of memory in public life, and particularly how Americans have used objects—in museums, historic sites, and other commemorative spaces—to exert control over how we understand the past. His books include an edited volume, Born in the USA:Birth and Commemoration in American Public Memory (2012), and Here, George Washington Was Born: Memory, Material Culture, and the Public History of a National Monument (2008).