This volume has an unusual structure that traces my experience as a lecturer and researcher chronologically: my first encounters with public history, mainly made up of North American literature, the first paper on these ...

Making PH means not only teaching or disseminating a certain type of concrete history applied in society to the problems dealing with the past and debated in the public arena, with the aspiration to reach and engage with ...

This article examines how memory activism can contribute to the democratizing of history through the example of a specific protest campaign in which activist historians among other groups and civil society actors attacked ...

In recent years Italian Public History has gone through a process that has transformed it from a series of practices to a more institutionalised discipline. The university teaching and research activities in Public History ...

L’obiettivo dell’elaborato è quello di tracciare un quadro complessivo della Public History come materia accademica che si propone di portare la storia e il metodo storico fuori dalle aule universitarie. Si parte dalla ...

The paper highlitghts the role played by comics in stimulating formative and cultural literacy processes held in contemporary world. After having devoted time to the Italian situation, it highlights the potential and the ...

The introduction of civic education in the scholastic curriculum has offered to schools new opportunities for coping with the study of Resistance movement and other events occurred in contemporary history. Through some ...

The paper shows Public History projects carried on in some school in Foiano della Chiana (Arezzo) in the last years. These projects were focused on the so-called "Fatti di Renzino", i.e. the army revolts organised in 1921 ...

This overview article explores the nature of public history on the island of Ireland, discussing current trends in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Family history and digital history are highly popular ways ...

Indire conducted a distance learning project in 2022-2023 involving six high schools, focusing on the analysis of the representation of the ‘Stranger’ in late 19th and early 20th century literature and iconography. The ...