• Introduction: Understanding Diverse Uses of Painful Pasts. A Plea for Conscious Normativity 

      Dierks, Dennis <Department of History, University of Jena, Jena, Germany> (D. Dierks, Introduction: Understanding Diverse Uses of Painful Pasts. A Plea for Conscious Normativity, «International Public History», vol. 4, 2021, n. 2, 2021)
      The three case studies of this special section address an issue that is undoubtedly at the core of the ethics of Public History: the quest to democratize history. They approach a problem that has concerned Public History ...
    • Opportunities and Challenges in Memory Activism: The Case of the Mittenwald Protest Campaign (2002–2009) 

      Mikulová, Soňa <Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for the History of Emotions, Berlin, Germany> (S. Mikulová, Opportunities and Challenges in Memory Activism: The Case of the Mittenwald Protest Campaign (2002–2009), «International Public History», vol. 4, 2021, n. 2, pp. 99-116, 2021)
      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 ...
    • Public history and transmedia storytelling for conflicting narratives 

      Basaraba, Nicole <School of Media and Performing Arts, Coventry University, Coventry, UK>; Cauvin, Thomas <University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg> (N. Basaraba, T. Cauvin, "Public history and transmedia storytelling for conflicting narratives", «Rethinking History», 27, 2023, n. 2, pp. 221-247, 2023)
      Histories of events can be told from multiple perspectives, and there is rarely just one linear narrative or a single interpretation of the past. This paper takes an interdisciplinary approach to explain how the concept ...