We are pleased to bring you our current issue, "Public Archaeology in the Twenty-first Century," a collection of interdisciplinary, broad-ranging, and innovative articles that analyze the potential for archaeology to collaborate with public history. The idea for a special issue on public archaeology came from conversations between our guest editor and editorial board member, Jeremy Moss of the National Park Service, and previous TPH editor and current contributing senior editor, James F. Brooks. Their shared interest in historical archaeology and its relevance to public history shaped the vision for the current special issue.
Historical archaeology has been discussed in the pages of TPH before, including in our special issue “Conversations in Critical Cultural Heritage,” guest edited by Amy Lonetree and Jon Daehnke (volume 41, issue 1, February 2019), but this is our first sustained focus on the field. The current issue furthers the earlier issue’s discussion of shared authority, heritage...
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