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 ...

For memorials, museums, and research institutions as well as for scholars and historians, the Internet has become an indispensable tool for the dissemination of knowledge about the Holocaust. These representatives of a ...

This essay introduces the special section on Fallen Monuments. It explores the importance of monuments as one of the ways in which publics engage with the past and explains why they often become sites of debate and ...

In May 2017, the House of European History opened its doors in Brussels. Long awaited, this new museum represents a small revolution in the museum landscape. It stands out both because of the scale of the project - the ...

Democratic memory is an issue that continues to be very present in public debate in Spain. Even today, there are still sectors of society that legitimise the figure of Franco, while the main right-wing parties question the ...

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. ...

Dal nuovo film di Kornél Mundruczó provengono alcuni spunti per ripensare il nostro rapporto con la memoria della shoah e le modalità per comunicarle evitando le trappole della retorica.

Dai recenti volumi Matteotti 100 nelle scuole e Dante Cruicchi, l’artigiano della pace provengono alcuni spunti per riflettere attorno alle biografie di Giacomo Matteotti e di Dante Cruicchi, quali strumenti per trasmettere ...

A Borgo San Dalmazzo è presente da anni un memoriale che segna una pagina tragica della storia della città, ricordando come tra il 1943 e il 1944 la città avesse ospitato un campo di transito per ebrei italiani e stranieri. ...

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, ...