... to adopt game development. I developed a video game, Ab Uno Sanguine, based on my PhD research to assess the practicality of game design as a venue for public history practice. This article reflects on my experiences in historical game development along the ADDIE (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement...

... proximity; they had common questions and concerns. As The Public Historian marks its forty-fifth year, comparing discussions about public historians to those about public intellectuals casts new light on a question posed at the outset and present since: what is public history? This comparison highlights...

...Clayton McCarl; Lyn Hemmingway This paper presents an approach to designing editing workshops related to digital public history projects based on archival materials at institutions of higher learning. These events engage campus communities in the practice of public history and create opportunities...

... been recognized locally, nationally, and internationally. © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California and the National Council on Public History 2022 STEAM South Texas CHAPS Program public history archaeology The decades following the 1994 passage of the North American...

...Terry P. Brock; Katherine Crawford-Lackey; Matthew B. Reeves; Mary Furlong Minkoff Archaeology’s importance to understanding and exploring difficult histories should be considered an essential tool in the public history toolbox. This paper will explore how the Department of Archaeology...

...Evan Faulkenbury Howard Zinn and his popular book A People’s History of the United States have been left out of conversations regarding the development of public history. Although Zinn did not identify as a public history scholar, his methods and goals offer lessons for public historians today...

..., 2021. The frame of action research positions historians as public-facing actors and advocates. The frame of restorative justice clarifies the stakes of, and stakeholders within, historical harm. We apply these frameworks to two contested sites for public history in Florence, Alabama, that revolve...

... RESET (Race, Ethnicity and Social Equity in Tourism). © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California and the National Council on Public History 2022 commemoration enslaved Kansas City plantation tourism public history slavery On a cold December day in 2018, I toured the John...

...Andromache Gazi The role played by national museums within the broad field of public history has not been fully addressed. Traditionally national museums have been a privileged stage for shaping and boosting national identity through the exhibition of significant objects and for disseminating...

... multiple perspectives. Girls’ organizations became public history spaces and girls in them saw the understanding of and dissemination of history as an important part of female citizenship. Bicentennial Camp Fire Girls girlhood Girl Scouts public history women’s history Finding Hidden Heroines...

..., and corporate records to examine the process of making these wildly popular models of public history. It also hypothesizes how a Schoolhouse Rock! for the 2020s could bridge scholarly and public discussions about the relationship between civics and history, while simultaneously creating diverse and critical...

...Ross J. Wilson This article examines the potential use of dinosaur parks to reassess the relationship between humans and the environment. These sites have been developed across Europe and the United States over the course of the last century and have been neglected as sites of public history...

...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...

... in a cultural ritual of transforming historical fact into the national narrative. © 2020 by The Regents of the University of California and the National Council on Public History 2020 Disney national narrative collective memory public history theme parks Mirror, Mirror for Us All Disney Theme...

... stay or move, Cortland reimagined the monument’s significance to its past, present, and future. © 2019 by The Regents of the University of California and the National Council on Public History 2019 monuments Union memory American Civil War public history A Problem of Visibility...

... for expanding our definition of public history to account for the business practices and social structures that queer black women in Newark are erecting as a part of their survival. These serve to pave the way for the preservation of their culture, enable them to collaborate with community in shared authority...

... of California and the National Council on Public History 2018 Margaret Walker Black studies Jackson State Mississippi public history For My People The Margaret Walker Center Robert E. Luckett Jr. ABSTRACT:When Margaret Walker founded the Institute for the Study of the History, Life, and Culture...

... of California and the National Council on Public History 2018 public history cross-cultural awareness memorials Pinochet dictatorship collaborative authorship When Cultures Divide Writing Public History in Latin America Marivic Wyndham and Peter Read ABSTRACT: We two Australian public historians...

... by The Regents of the University of California and the National Council on Public History 2016 interpretation collaboration community engagement public history multiple narratives National Park Service Resuscitating the Promise Reflections on Implementing Innovative and Collaborative History from...

...Andrew Hurley Digital technology has unquestionably become central to the enterprise of public history and cultural heritage. Yet the extent to which digital technologies have helped public historians animate higher levels of civic engagement and activism is unclear and becomes particularly...