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Digital Public History in the United States
(T. Cauvin, "Digital Public History in the United States", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 235-242, 2022)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 ... -
Spaces: What’s at Stake in Their Digital Public Histories?
(K. Coulter, W. G. von Hardenberg, F. Arne Jørgensen, "Spaces: What’s at Stake in Their Digital Public Histories?", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 223-234, 2022)Public histories of spaces are often at the heart of territorial claims: theycan cultivate emotional identification, oreven build legitimizing facts on the ground.Digital technologies have increased public awareness of, ... -
Learning Public History by doing Public History
(M.Kelly, "Learning Public History by doing Public History”, in Handbook of Digital Public History,Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 211-222, 2022)How should we teach public history undergraduate students the digitalliteracy and skills they will need in their future careers as public historians? Thisessay examines the current state of teaching digital public history ... -
Publishing Public History in the Digital Age
(R. Rittgerodt, "Publishing Public History in the Digital Age", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 199-210, 2022)Publishers have to adapt their work, service and support through allkinds of changes being brought on by the digital age. Historians, especially publichistorians, have long been very active and innovative when publishing ... -
Digital Public History in Libraries
(M. Väljataga, "Digital Public History in Libraries", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 185-198, 2022)This chapter explores digital public history practices in libraries and pointsto the opportunities, imperatives, successes, and challenges therein. It discusses con-temporary library operations and the novel ways in which ... -
Interactive Museum & Exhibitions in Digital Public History Projects and Practices: An Overview and the Unusual Case of M9 Museum
(M. Di Giacomo, L. Karrer, "Interactive Museum & Exhibitions in Digital Public History Projects and Practices: An Overview and the Unusual Case of M9 Museum", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 175-184, 2022)How are museums evolving in their mission of being institutions not anymore dedicated only to collect and preserve heritage? What are some of the chal-lenges museums face today? How is the impact of new technologies affecting ... -
History Museums: Enhancing Audience Engagement through Digital Technologies
(W. S. Walker, "History Museums: Enhancing Audience Engagement through Digital Technologies", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 165-174, 2022)This essay argues that simply putting a museum’s collection online, or cre-ating a digital kiosk that includes a collections database, does not constitute audienceengagement. History museums utilize the tools and methods ... -
Archivists as Peers in Digital Public History
(T. Owens, J.A. Johnston, "Archivists as Peers in Digital Public History", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 149-164, 2022)In the last three decades the web has enabled new digital means for his-torians to reach broader publics and audiences. Over that same period of time, ar-chives and archivists have engaged in a parallel digital transformation. ... -
Digital Hermeneutics: The Reflexive Turn in Digital Public History?
(A. Fickers, "Digital Hermeneutics: The Reflexive Turn in Digital Public History?", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 139-148, 2022)The digital–be it in forms of data, infrastructures, or tools–interferes atall levels in the practice of doing public history. This chapter argues that digitalpublic historians have to reflect more deeply on the epistemological ... -
Past and Present in Digital Public History
(M. Ravveduto, Past and Present in Digital Public History, in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 131-138, 2022)The author examines the relationship between past and present to reflecton the perception of time in the era of the digital revolution. The time of digital pres-entism is not linear but circular. The arrival point coincides ... -
Open Access: an opportunity to redesign scholarly communication in history
(P. Mounier, "Open Access: an opportunity to redesign scholarly communication in history", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 121-130, 2022)While the adoption of open access to academic publications was slowerand more difficult in the humanities and in particular in history than in the scien-tific and technical disciplines, it is today more and more widely ... -
Combining Values of Museums and Digital Culture in Digital Public History
(E. Esten, "Combining Values of Museums and Digital Culture in Digital Public History", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 107-120, 2022)Museum professionals have increasingly introduced technology intohistorical spaces, and history into technological spaces, to augment or transformthe preservation of knowledge and artifacts; the sharing and creation of ... -
Digital Environmental Humanities
(J. MacFadyen, "Digital Environmental Humanities", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 97-106, 2022)Over the last half century, the environmental humanities has become a newinterdisciplinary and digitally engaged field with unique public impact and participa-tion. Its fields include older disciplines such as history, ... -
Identities – a historical look at online memory and identity issues
(S. Gebeil, "Identities – a historical look at online memory and identity issues", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 87-96, 2022)Since the 1990s, profound changes linked to the globalization of both eco-nomic activities and information, as well as increased individual mobility have givenrise to questions about national identities. This has occurred ... -
Digital Public Archaeology
(C. Bonacchi, "Digital Public Archaeology". Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 77-86, 2022)This essay introduces Digital Public Archaeology and its relation with neigh-boring fields of research and practice. This is achieved by reviewing, exemplifying andcritically reflecting upon a selection of relevant themes, ... -
Shifting the Balance of Power: Oral History and Public History in the Digital Era
(M. Larson, "Shifting the Balance of Power: Oral History and Public History in the Digital Era", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 61-76, 2022)Oral history and public history have been interconnected for many years, sharing multiple points of commonality, including a frequent interest in documenting under-documented communities. Both have brought different strengths ... -
Sharing Authority in Online Collaborative Public History Practices
(S. Noiret, "Sharing Authority in Online Collaborative Public History Practices", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 49-60, 2022)Forms of shared authority has become User-generated projects in the digi-tal realm public history practices and projects. New collaborative forms of historymaking through web technologies are ubiquitous worldwide. ... -
Crowdsourcing and User Generated Content: The Raison d’Être of Digital Public History
(S. Noiret, "Crowdsourcing and User Generated Content: The Raison d’Être of Digital Public History", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 35-48, 2022)Digital History is different from digital public history (DPH) and this essaydescribes the central role of crowdsourcing practices in defining the specificity ofDPH. At the end of the 1970s, public history (PH) divided its ... -
The Historiographical Foundations of Digital Public History
(A. Pons, "The Historiographical Foundations of Digital Public History" in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 17-34, 2022)Establishing the historiographical foundations in any field is a difficult orat least risky business. It entails granting a certain homogeneity and a good deal ofcoherence to practices, perspectives, and trends that do not ... -
Introduction
(S. Noiret, M. Tebeau, G. Zaagsma, "Introduction", in Handbook of Digital Public History, edited by Serge Noiret, Mark Tebeau and Gerben Zaagsma, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 1-16, 2022)This handbook provides a systematic overview of the present state of interna-tional research in digital public history (DPH). Detailed individual studies by interna-tionally renowned public historians, digital humanists ...
