The article contains some considerations on the concept of “public history”, the idea developed in the early Seventies of the last Century in the United States, in Canada and in the Anglo-Saxon world, that is the history ...

History museums have been influenced by developments in contemporary museology, opening up to new forms of interaction with their local communities. This is true also in the case of European national history museums, with ...

Public history is triggering debate and lively reactions in Italy. What is the reason for its success? In connection with what areas does public history lead historians to think, and to act? This text questions these points, ...

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 ...

Ragionamento sulle relazioni tra storia digitale e public history

Public History seeks to provide a method for researching and disseminating history, while at the same time engaging with different types of public. Public historians study documentary sources and languages in order to ...

This article explores the birth and development of public history and presents the different criteria of its internationalization from the 1970s to the more recent creation of the International Federation of Public History. ...