• 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 ...
    • Digital Personal Memories: The Archiving of the Self and Public History 

      Schafer, Valérie <University of Luxembourg> (V. Schafer, "Digital Personal Memories: The Archiving of the Self and Public History", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 377-384, 2022)
      By providing a facilitated access to data storage, digital technologies seemto make expression and preservation of the self more straightforward. They reconfi-gure the means and forms of access to data, thus also affecting ...
    • Intervista a Pietro Polito. Tra storia delle “nostre radici” e storia del presente: il Centro studi Piero Gobetti di Torino 

      Vicari, Marta (M. Vicari, "Intervista a Pietro Polito. Tra storia delle “nostre radici” e storia del presente: il Centro studi Piero Gobetti di Torino", «Clionet. Per un senso del tempo e dei luoghi», 2022, n.6, pp. 33-42, 2022)
      Il Centro studi Piero Gobetti è un istituto dedicato allo studio della storia e del pensiero politico del XX secolo, il cui fine è non solo tutelare e rendere accessibile l’opera di Piero Gobetti e delle tradizioni culturali ...
    • La memoria delle “anziane” maestre. Ricercare radici per costruire storie 

      Cagnolati, Antonella <Università di Foggia>; De Serio, Barbara <Università di Foggia> (A. Cagnolati, B. De Serio, La memoria delle “anziane” maestre. Ricercare radici per costruire storie, in G. Bandini, S. Oliviero (a cura di), "Public History of Education: riflessioni, testimonianze, esperienze", 2019, pp.197-210, 2019)
      This contribution focuses on the memory of older women, in the role of pupils and teachers. The starting point is the awareness of the role that the elderly person plays for younger generations, as an agent of transformation ...
    • Participation in heritage crowdsourcing 

      Bonacchi, Chiara; Bevan, Andrew; Keinan-Schoonbart, Adi; Pett, Daniel; Wexler, Jennifer (C. Bonacchi, A. Bevan, A. Keinan-Schoonbaert, D. Pett, J. Wexler, Participation, «Heritage Crowdsourcing. Museum Management and Curatorship», 34, 2019, n. 2, pp. 1-18, (2019)
      This paper draws upon the experience of several years of running a multi-application crowdsourcing platform, as well as a longitudinal evaluation of participant profiles, motivations and behaviour, to argue that heritage ...
    • Public History e Patrimoine: due casi di storia applicata 

      Torre, Angelo <Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale> (A. Torre, Public History e Patrimoine: due casi di storia applicata, «Quaderni storici», n. 3, 2015, pp. 629-660, 2015)
      The work seeks to reflect on the alleged crisis of history today by comparing the different ways in which historical disciplines have developed outside the academy during the 1970s and 1980s. For that it tries to reconstruct ...
    • Public History in Egypt: The Power of Public History in Protecting Cultural Heritage 

      Abd el Salam, Heba <American School of Oriental Research, Alexandria, Virginia, USA> (H. Abd el Salam, Public History in Egypt: The Power of Public History in Protecting Cultural Heritage, «International Public History», 3, 2020, n. 1, 2020)
      Public history is a significant field of education that teaches people about their past. However, it still does not exist in countries like Egypt, which is in great need of the field to link Egyptians with their history. ...
    • Lo que queda… Lo que se lega. Tradición y herencia en las obras postreras de Antonio Dal Masetto 

      Magnani, Ilaria (2018)
      The present research article analyzes, through a qualitative methodology, two of the latest works by the Italian-Argentine writer Antonio Dal Masetto, the novel Cita en el Lago Maggiore (2011) and the story «Alturas» (2015), ...
    • What Can Public History Do for Museums, What Can Museums Do for Public History? 

      Porciani, Ilaria <Università di Bologna> (I. Porciani, What Can Public History Do for Museums, What Can Museums Do for Public History?, «Memoria e Ricerca. Rivista di storia contemporanea», 2017, 1, pp. 21-40, 2017)
      In the early 19th century, at the dawn of the historical professions, historians did not dismiss working with objects and collaborating with museums. It was the increasing professionalization of the discipline of history ...