Review: Handbook of Digital Public History, edited by Serge Noiret, Mark Tebeau, and Gerben Zaagsma

This collection of essays by over fifty authors addresses the early twenty-first century digital turn in the field of public history. Forty-six chapters, grouped in four parts, cover various aspects of both public history and the digital world, providing readers with multiple approaches and perspectives that originate from a variety of personal experiences, ethnic, racial, national or transnational viewpoints, academic or non-academic backgrounds, institutional or non-institutional contexts. As a result, the picture of digital public history (DPH) is multifaceted and heterogeneous, as the debates on and uncertainties of the definition of public history have been multiplied by the debates on and uncertainties of the definition of digital. To be sure, most authors perceive digital as something more than just produced with the use of a computer or the internet (see especially the chapter by Andreas Fickers in this regard). They do refer to technological achievements that led to the development...