Digital history goes, by definition, beyond national frontiers, but can one de-cipher national specificities in its practices and projects? This chapter explores thebirth, development, and institutionalization of digital ...

This essay introduces the special section on undergraduate public history teaching. It explores its various opportunities, its challenges and some options for instructors to design their courses. In addition to presenting ...

Public History: A Textbook of Practice is a guide to the many challenges historians face while teaching, learning, and practicing public history. Historians can play a dynamic and essential role in contributing to public ...

The purpose of this article is to examine how exhibitions can help historians to study interpretations and constructions of the past. The article focuses on historical exhibitions dealing with the 1798 Rebellion and held ...

This article explores the collaborations between historians and the National Museum in the Republic of Ireland. The author contends that the new collaborations between the museum and professional historians in the 1990s ...

The 1798 Rebellion pitched rebels, led by the United Irishmen, against the Irish/British authorities. Although, the Rebellion failed and was followed by the 1801 Act of Union, its remembrance became highly politicized. ...

Aunque la historia pública se está haciendo cada vez más internacional, el campo sigue siendo difícil de definir y permanece sujeto a un cierto grado de crítica. Sobre la base de prácticas públicas-en algunas ocasiones ...

Este artigo explora o nascimento e o desenvolvimento da História Pública e apresenta os diferentes critérios que levaram à sua internacionalização dos anos 70 à recente criação da Federação Internacional de História Pública. ...

As with any other scholarship, public history has its academic journals. The two main journals are The Public Historian (USA, 1978-) and The Public History Review (Australia, 1992-). As a new-comer in the field, International ...

Since the nineteen-seventies public history has emerged as an increasingly coherent discipline in North America, Australia, New Zealand, the U.K. and, latterly, in a wider European context. In all of these places it has ...