... to place names, honorifics, and interpretation in our nearly one-hundred-year-old State Park system. To address the complexity of this historic legacy, California State Parks is engaging with California Tribal Nation culture-bearers, public historians, and other experts across interdisciplinary fields...

...Na Li Museums have grown exponentially in China in the span of approximately 110 years. How does one design an exhibit for a better-informed public? What kind of interpretive space is needed to engage the public? How do museums function as sites of public history? This article traces the genealogy...

...Hilary Iris Lowe One of the great challenges for public historians in LGBTQ history is finding and developing interpretation of the history of sexuality for public audiences at current historic sites. This article answers this challenge by repositioning historic house museums as sites of some...

... education and interpretation staff on the ground to invite scholars, teachers, school districts, community educators, park neighbors, and others to participate in developing more engaged, complex, multivocal, and democratic histories and a broader vision for the new century in the NPS. © 2016...

...Hilary Iris Lowe Challenges to historic house museums are often mired in the rhetoric of crisis. Toward countering that rhetoric, this essay attempts to draw attention to it and to the complicated history of narrative (and storytelling) in interpretation and the academy. It argues that literary...

... of economic, institutional, and environmental sustainability. Key words: civic engagement, food history, food movement, interpretation, sustainability Introduction A well-heeled urban professional cashes everything in to reinvent himself as a rural artisanal cheesemaker. A new farmers market opens...

... interpretation Pioneers of Public History Ivor Noël Hume: Historical Archaeologist Ivor Noël Hume and Henry M. Miller Abstract: Ivor Noël Hume is one of the founders of historical archaeology in North America and has long championed the integration of documentary and archaeological evidence for understanding...

... historic preservation architecture history interpretation Where is the History in Historic Districts? Introduction Alison K. Hoagland Abstract: Once designated, historic districts are often more noted for their architecture, due to legal requirements and aesthetic concerns, than their history, which...

... of public history, particularly as it is found in museums and historic sites. © 2009 The Regents of the University of California and the National Council on Public History 2009 New western history public history Patricia Nelson Limerick interpretation The Public Historian, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp...

...Alison K. Hoagland Preservation and Interpretation Architecture and Interpretation at Forts Laramie and Bridger ALISON K. HOAGLAND PRESENTING A HISTORIC SITE TO THE PUBLIC involves a number of decisions about which aspects of the site s past will be interpreted, and how. Over time, the initial...

...Carolyn Strange; Tina Loo © National Council for Public History preservation interpretation Holding the Rock: The Indianization of Alcatraz Island, 1969 1999 CAROLYN STRANGE and TINA LOO IN THE 1960S, an era of political turbulence and social upheaval, popular rock and folk musicians...