Introduction to Public History - Interpreting the Past, Engaging Audiences

Introduction to Public History: Interpreting the Past, Engaging Audiences is a brief foundational public history textbook for use in undergraduate and graduate classrooms. It is organized around the questions and ethical dilemmas that drive public history in a variety of settings, from local community-based projects to international case studies.

List of contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Chapter 1: Introducing Public History

Chapter 2: Thinking Historically

Chapter 3: Interpreting the Past Case Study: The Baltimore '68 Project

Chapter 4: Collecting

Chapter 5: Interpreting and Exhibiting History

Chapter 6: Engaging Audiences

Chapter 7: Engaging Audiences: Case Studies from the Field

Chapter 8: Putting Public History to Work in Your World

About the author

Cherstin M. Lyon is the director of the honors college and a professor of history at Southern Oregon University. Previously, she coordinated the public and oral history program at California State University, San Bernardino, and served as the university's faculty associate for the Office of Community Engagement. She is author of Prisons and Patriots: Japanese American Wartime Citizenship, Civil Disobedience, and Historical Memory, published by Temple University Press in 2012, and co-editor of Place and Citizenship: Case Studies on the Borders of Citizenship published by Rowman Littlefield International in 2018.

Summary

Introduction to Public History: Interpreting the Past, Engaging Audiences is a brief foundational public history textbook for use in undergraduate and graduate classrooms. It is organized around the questions and ethical dilemmas that drive public history in a variety of settings, from local community-based projects to international case studies.

Product details

• Authors: Cherstin M. Lyon, Cherstin M. Nix Lyon, Elizabeth M. Nix, Rebecca K. Shrum, Shrum Rebecca K.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.03.2017
• EAN: 9781442272217
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-7221-7
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: American Association for State & Local History; American Association for State; American Association for State and Local History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; History: theory & methods, ART / Museum Studies, HISTORY / Study & Teaching, Local History, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, History: theory and methods