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In the Shadow of the Queen: On UNESCO’S Universal History, the Women of the Petit Trianon, and Tourist Meaning-Making

Paige-Lovingood, Mandy <North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA> (2021)

Upon the designation of Versailles as a World Heritage Site, UNESCO renamed the Petit Trianon the Domaine de Marie-Antoinette (Estate of Marie-Antoinette). Subsequent tourist materials, such as travel guides and website ...

Should They Stay or Should They Go? Contested Statues

Yeats, Christine (2021)

This contribution considers the current debates about the place of monuments, such as the statue of Captain Cook in Hyde Park, which reached a recent high point during the Black Lives Matter protests across Australia in ...

New Field, Old Practices: Promises and Challenges of Public History

Cauvin, Thomas <Université du Luxembourg> (2021)

Although public history is becoming increasingly international, the field remains difficult to define and subject to some criticism. Based on sometimes longestablished public practices, public history displays new approaches ...

I giorni neri di Dorando

Montella, Fabio (2023)

A differenza di altri grandi campioni dello sport, come Maradona, la memoria di Dorando Pietri continua ad essere appiattita su una sola dimensione. Nuovi documenti dimostrano la sua partecipazione a spedizioni squadriste, ...

Per una storia della Rete regionale archivi Udi Emilia-Romagna. Introduzione al Dossier

Betti, Eloisa (2022)

Il Dossier presenta una prima ricostruzione della storia della Rete archivi Udi Emilia-Romagna ripercorrendone la genesi, il consolidamento e lo sviluppo, a partire dalla sua nascita, nel 1989, come coordinamento degli ...

Intervista a Cristina Alga. L’ecomuseo Mare Memoria Viva di Palermo

Boccalatte, Paola E. (2022)

A Palermo un ecomuseo racconta le trasformazioni urbanistiche e sociali della città dal dopoguerra a oggi attraverso testimonianze, storie, immagini e memorie legate al mare di città; ma è anche un luogo capace di visione, ...

Experiences of Public History and ICT for the Representation of Cultural Heritage

Mantini, Silvia <Università degli Studi dell’Aquila> ((2019)

Public History is a field of the historical sciences where historians carry out activities related to the research and communication of history with and for different audiences. This article aims to analyze the role of ...

Digital public history, ricerca storica e didattica. L’Atlante delle stragi come emblematico caso di studio

Pizzirusso, Igor <Istituto nazionale Ferruccio Parri> (2021)

Iniziata dalla concretizzazione di ricerche locali in alcuni territori italiani a partire dal 1999, la mappatura delle stragi compiute da nazisti e fascisti nel nostro Paese ha avuto una lenta progressione almeno fino a ...

Spazio pubblico e memorie nelle pratiche della Public History

Noiret, Serge <European University Institute, Firenze> (2024)

The paper first discusses the hermeneutics of Public History (PH) as a discipline that responds to the needs of the present, describing its participatory methods and interaction with society and its various communities. ...

Dark Academia: Curating Affective History in a COVID-Era Internet Aesthetic

Adriaansen, Robbert-Jan <Center for Historical Culture, Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands> (2022)

Dark academia is an ‘internet aesthetic,’ an aesthetic style used in posts on platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, and Tumblr that resonates the atmosphere of life in boarding schools, prep schools, and (Ivy League) colleges ...