Considering how much the field of public history has expanded over the years, with over two hundred undergraduate and graduate programs offered in universities across North America, it is remarkable how few textbooks have been published to meet this ever-growing area of study. This is why Jennifer Lisa Koslow’s Public History: An Introduction from Theory to Application, is a welcome contribution. Although the publishers may have overstated the case that it “is the first text of its kind to offer both historical background…and instruction on current practices of public history,” it joins very thin ranks (quotation from the back cover). Other than Thomas Cauvin’s Public History: A Textbook of Practice (2016; second edition 2022), those who teach public history have mostly had to rely on edited collections or create course packs of their own. The reasons for this dearth of pedagogical material may have to do with the fact...

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