What is the Public of Public History? Between the Public Sphere and Public Agency
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2021Autore
Apostolopoulos, Petros <North Carolina State University, USA>
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Public history constitutes a historical field, it includes several related journals, membership organisations, research centres, undergraduate and graduate programs all over the world. Most importantly, Public History has been marked by growing
historiography and an increasing public interest in history. However, there is a lack of
research on the most important constituent element of Public History, the ‘public’. The
aim of this paper is to shed light on how Public History has approached the public in
the last four decades. By focusing on the two different forms the public has taken, the
public sphere and the public agency, the paper examines the notion of the public as it
appeared in the historiography and how it determined the epistemology and methodology of Public History.
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