• Cooking the Books: Contested Colonial Commemorations in Australia 

      Ireland, Tracy <University of Canberra, Australia> (T. Ireland, Cooking the Books: Contested Colonial Commemorations in Australia, «International Public History», 1, 2018, n. 2, pp. 1-4, 2018)
      Controversy around the celebration of Captain Cook as a founding father of the Australian nation is not new, but dates back to the nineteenth century when his first statues were raised. The latest plans made by Australia’s ...
    • History as a Treasure Chest: Four Principles of Nationalist Historical Narration 

      Håkansson, Julia <Department of Cultural Sciences, Lund University, LUX, Box 192, 221 00 Lund, Sweden> (J. Håkansson, History as a Treasure Chest: Four Principles of Nationalist Historical Narration, «International Public History», 2 (2025), pp. 129-133, 2025)
      This essay introduces four principles of nationalist historical narration by using the narrative strategies of the political parties the Sweden Democrats and the Danish People’s Party as examples. These narrative strategies ...
    • It is Young People that Give Me Hope 

      Feyen, Christoph <German Development Cooperation (GIZ), Colombo, Sri Lanka> (F. Christoph. It is Young People that Give Me Hope, «International Public History», vol. 3, 2020, n. 2, 2020, 2020)
      Seventy-seven years after gaining independence and 11 years after the end of a long civil war, Sri Lankan public discourse is still searching for a broadly accepted concept of national identity and struggling to find ...
    • La mia esperienza nel paese del Sol Levante 

      Zangheri, Renato Maria (R. M. Zangheri, "La mia esperienza nel paese del Sol Levante", «Clionet. Per un senso del tempo e dei luoghi», 2022, n.6, pp. 261-265, 2022)
      L’articolo che presento racconta delle esperienze personali ambientate in Giappone dal punto di vista di un “forestiero” occidentale, un outsider, o gaijin in giapponese. Tramite una serie di episodi di vita vissuta, ho ...