• Public brickstory: laboratori partecipativi e memoria pubblica 

      Bartolini, Stefano; Cappellini, Luca; Cutolo, Francesco (S. Bartolini, L. Cappellini, F. Cutolo, "Public brickstory: laboratori partecipativi e memoria pubblica", «Clionet. Per un senso del tempo e dei luoghi», 2023, n.7, 2023)
      Sulla scorta della diffusione dei lego a tema storico e del loro uso per la public history, il progetto Italian Brickhistory ha dato vita a un’attività sui social e a laboratori partecipativi per studenti e adulti. ...
    • Public Debates, Public History, and School History Curricula: The Greek Case 

      Gatsotis, Panayotis <Education Advisor, Directorate of Secondary Education A’ Athens, Athens, Greece; Scientific Associate of the University of Western Macedonia, Greece> (P. Gatsotis, Public Debates, Public History, and School History Curricula: The Greek Case, «International Public History», 1 (2023), pp. 3-14, 2023)
      Public debates about school history curricula meet the interests of public historians and educators in many different ways because they raise questions such as: “What history or whose history do we teach in schools?” “How ...
    • Public Histories in South Africa: Between Contest and Reconciliation 

      Hughes, Heather <Lincoln University> (H. Hughes, Public Histories in South Africa: Between Contest and Reconciliation, Public History Review, 30 (2023), pp. 31–42, 2023)
      Public history has long been practiced in South Africa, yet its content and purpose have always been deeply contested. In a deliberate, state-driven process, it has undergone extensive change since 1994, helping to redefine ...
    • Public History and Audience Engagement: Urban Space as Community Heritage 

      Guerra, Mariachiara (M. Guerra, Public History e Audience Engagement: lo spazio costruito come patrimonio di comunità, «ArcHistoR EXTRA» n. 7, 2020, pp. 1388-1409, 2020)
      The paper presents the topics of Public History and Audience Engagement, narrowing the focus from the theoretical and methodological issues, to several case-studies, developed within the urban scope of Turin (Italy): the ...
    • Public history and contested heritage: memories of the bombing of Italy in the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive 

      Fedele, Greta <Lapsus Laboratorio di analisi storica del mondo contemporaneo (Lapsus), Milan>; Gaiaschi, Zeno <Lapsus Laboratorio di analisi storica del mondo contemporaneo (Lapsus), Milan>; Hughes, Heather <IBCC Digital Archive, University of Lincoln>; Pesaro, Alessandro <IBCC Digital Archive, University of Lincoln> (G. Fedele, Z. Gaiaschi, H. Hughes, A. Pesaro, Public History and Contested Heritage: Archival Memories of the Bombing of Italy, «Public History Review», 2020, 27, pp. 1-18., 2020)
      In recent years public historians have made concerted attempts to internationalise their practice.1 The editors of a recent collection note that public history remains rooted in ‘the local’, although it may acquire regional ...
    • Public History and Emancipatory Politics in Transition: From the Anti-Apartheid Struggle to Democracy in South Africa Noor Nieftagodien EMAIL logo 

      Nieftagodien, Noor <University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg), Johannesburg, South Africa> (N. Nieftagodien, Public History and Emancipatory Politics in Transition: From the Anti-Apartheid Struggle to Democracy in South Africa, «Public History Review», 1 (2024), pp. 5-15, 2024)
      The expansion of public history in the context of the ‘decolonial turn’ has generated conversations about the potential productive and mutually constitutive relations between the two. While recognizing that there is no ...
    • 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 ...
    • Public History and Wellbeing: A Comparative Analysis of the Impact of Digital and In-Person Engagement on Visitors’ Subjective Wellbeing at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House, UK 

      Luck, Amy <University of Birmingham, UK>; Sayer, Faye <University of Birmingham, UK> (A. Luck, F. Sayer, Public History and Wellbeing: A Comparative Analysis of the Impact of Digital and In-Person Engagement on Visitors’ Subjective Wellbeing at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House, UK, «International Public History», 2 (2023), pp. 103-115, 2023)
      Over the last two decades, there has been an emergence of research pertaining to the impact of in-person engagement with historical sites on visitor wellbeing. Yet, despite this increasingly prolific research into the ...
    • Public History as Graphic History 

      Gundermann, Christine <Department of History, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany>; Wright, Amie <Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada> (C. Gundermann, A. Wright, Public History as Graphic History, «Public History Review», 2 (2024), pp. 67-78, 2024)
      Graphic History – the telling, teaching and understanding of history through comics – has been growing in classrooms and university spaces for more than two decades. However, in the discipline of history the engagement ...
    • La Public History dalle origini alla costituzione dell’Associazione Italiana di Public History: movimento o disciplina? 

      Savelli, Aurora <Università di Firenze> (A. Savelli, La Public History dalle origini alla costituzione dell’Associazione Italiana di Public History: movimento o disciplina?, «Sapere pedagogico e Pratiche educative», n. 3, 2019, pp. 9-22, (2019)
      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, ...
    • Public History e Didattica della storia, un dialogo ancora da costruire 

      Martinelli, Chiara (C. Martinelli, Public History e Didattica della storia, un dialogo ancora da costruire, «Clionet», 2020, n. 4, pp. 216-220, 2020)
    • Public History e diffusione sociale della storia: la fotografia come fonte privilegiata 

      Scanagatta, Manfredi (M. Scanagatta, Public History e diffusione sociale della storia: la fotografia come fonte privilegiata, «Rivista di studi di fotografia», 3, 2017, n. 5, pp. 30-51, (2017)
      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 ...
    • Public History e fotografia: una sfida complessa 

      Fiorentino, Giovanni <Università degli Studi della Tuscia> (G. Fiorentino, Public History e fotografia: una sfida complessa, «Rivista di studi di fotografia», 3, 2017, n. 5, pp. 64-81, 2017)
      Public History is generated by interactions with the public, while photography implies a relationship with the gaze of the other. This similarity raises important methodological questions for the public historian, regarding ...
    • Public History e istituzioni culturali: mettiamo la storia al lavoro 

      Crasta, Madel (M. Crasta, Public History e istituzioni culturali: mettiamo la storia al lavoro, «Accademie & Biblioteche d'Italia», 13, 2019, n. 1/2, pp. 22-26, 2018)
    • 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 ...
    • La public history fra voci e luoghi. Note metodologiche sulla biografia di Matteo Bisaccia 

      Menzani, Tito (T. Menzani, La public history fra voci e luoghi. Note metodologiche sulla biografia di Matteo Bisaccia. «Clionet. Per un senso del tempo e dei luoghi», 8 (2024). https://doi.org/10.30682/clionet2408q, 2024)
      Nel 2023 è uscita la biografia di Matteo Bisaccia, importante manager lucano scomparso dieci anni prima. Il volume è stato da me scritto dopo circa un anno di ricerca sul campo. Si tratta di un prodotto di public history, ...
    • Public History in Australia 

      Evans, Tanya <Macquarie University> (T. Evans, Public History in Australia, «Public History Review», 30, 2023, pp. 15-21, 2023)
      This article charts the peaks and troughs of public history inside and outside academia in Australia and the promise of the establishment of a new network of public historians in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. It ...
    • Public History in Digital Spaces: Public Interpretations of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Its Implications for History Teaching 

      Sosu, Edmund S. <Excelsia College, Australia>; Boadu, Gideon <RMIT University, Australia>; Boateng, Emmanuel B. <University of Wollongong, Australia>; Appiah-Thompson, Christopher <University of Newcastle, Australia> (E. S. Sosu, G. Boadu, E. B. Boateng, C. Appiah-Thompson, Public History in Digital Spaces: Public Interpretations of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Its Implications for History Teaching, «International Public History», 2 (2023), pp. 117-127, 2023)
      The Transatlantic Slave Trade was one of the cruelest events in human history, with its effects spanning several centuries. Slave monuments are visible representations of the memory of the slave trade and avenues for public ...
    • 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. ...
    • Public History in Japan 

      Okamoto, Michihiro <Toyo University> (M. Okamoto, Public History in Japan, «International Public History», 1, 2018, n. 1, pp. 1-6, 2018)
      This article introduces the history of historiography, specifically public history in Japan in recent times. Although the use of the word public history has not a long history and there have been only a few books and projects ...