Breadth versus depth, content versus skills, inquiry versus memorization, textbooks versus primary sources; history educators in the U.S. hear dichotomies like these all the time. But framing these as dichotomies, as ...

Over the last few decades transformation within the field of historic pres-ervation has involved the nearly parallel tracks of expanding the histories beingpreserved and a constantly shifting technological landscape. This ...

In the educational training pathway, the history of education is usually present. From the moment of recruitment onwards, however, the interest in a historical approach disappears completely, and teachers tend to focus on ...

The historical tale has always been more effective and engaging with theuse of sounds and images than with the fixity of the written word. In a certain way,the audio/visual dimension allowed by the digital turn brings the ...

This essay has been published ten years after Ricerche Storiche’s special issue on Media and History coordinated by Francesco Mineccia and Luigi Tomassini (2009) which engaged, for the first time in Italy, with Public History ...

The remembrance of the death of Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba of the Republic of the Congo in Belgium is indicative of a fundamental transformation in the latter country’s public memory of its former role as a colonizing ...