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    • History Museums: Enhancing Audience Engagement through Digital Technologies 

      Walker, William S. <State University of New York, USA> (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 

      Owens, Trevor <U.S. Library of Congress, Washington>; Johnston, Jesse A. <Library of Congress, Washington, USA> (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? 

      Fickers, Andreas <University of RWTH Aachen, Germany> (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 

      Ravveduto, Marcello <Università di Salerno> (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 

      Mounier, Pierre <director of OpenEdition, France> (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 

      Esten, Emily <University of Pennsylvania Libraries> (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 

      MacFadyen, Joshua <University of Prince Edward Island in Canada> (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 

      Gebeil, Sophie <Aix Marseille University, France> (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 

      Bonacchi, Chiara <University of Stirling, UK> (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 

      Larson, Mary <Oklahoma State University Library, USA> (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 

      Noiret, Serge <Istituto Universitario Europeo, Firenze> (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 

      Noiret, Serge <Istituto Universitario Europeo, Firenze> (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 

      Pons, Anaclet (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 

      Noiret, Serge <Istituto Universitario Europeo, Firenze>; Tebeau, Mark <Arizona State University, USA>; Zaagsma, Gerben <University of Luxembourg> (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 ...

    • Bilingualer Geschichtsunterricht. Ein Puzzle, das nicht passt? 

      Schlutow, Martin (M. Schlutow, Bilingualer Geschichtsunterricht. Ein Puzzle, das nicht passt?, «Public history weekly», 2, 2014, n. 1, 2014)
      Bilingualer Geschichtsunterricht liegt im Trend. Eltern und ihre Kinder erhoffen sich eine gute Vorbereitung auf die zunehmend internationalisierte Berufswelt, während viele Schulen mit ihm um die Gunst leistungsstarker ...

    • Sprachlos im Geschichtsunterricht? 

      Handro, Saskia (S. Handro, Sprachlos im Geschichtsunterricht?, «Public history weekly», 2, 2014, n. 1, 2014)
      „Das Beherrschen der deutschen Sprache ist der Königsweg zur Bildung.“ Schlagzeilen wie diese begleiten die Diskussion der hoffnungsvoll stimmenden aktuellen PISA-Ergebnisse. Durchgängige Sprachförderung und sprachsensibler ...

    • “Die Schweizer”. Welches Geschichtsbild braucht die Willensnation? 

      Furrer, Markus (M. Furrer, “Die Schweizer”. Welches Geschichtsbild braucht die Willensnation?, «Public history weekly», 2, 2014, n. 2, 2014)
      Der „Wille zur Geschichte“ ist gleichsam Elixier der Willensnation. Das war sicher auch ein Grund für das Schweizer Fernsehen, dem Publikum im November 2013 eine vierteilige Geschichtslektion zu besten Sendezeiten zu ...

    • Trachten heute – mehr als ein modischer Spleen? 

      Hellmuth, Thomas (T. Hellmuth, Trachten heute – mehr als ein modischer Spleen?, «Public history weekly», 2, 2014, n. 2, 2014)
      Zunehmend bin ich verwirrt. Das hängt vielleicht mit meinem Alter zusammen, in erster Linie aber mit Erscheinungen, die mir manchmal geradezu die Orientierung nehmen: junge Menschen in Lederhosen und Dirndlkleidern, Burschen ...

    • Methodik, Schmuddelkind der Geschichtsdidaktik? Eine österreichische Perspektive 

      Kühberger, Christoph (C. Kühberger, Methodik, Schmuddelkind der Geschichtsdidaktik? Eine österreichische Perspektive, «Public history weekly», 2, 2014, n. 3, 2014)
      Die Geschichtsdidaktik kämpft in Österreich nach wie vor um den durchgängig anerkannten Status einer Teildisziplin der Geschichtswissenschaft, wenn nicht sogar um den einer eigenen wissenschaftlichen Disziplin. Es gibt ...

    • Antiziganismus. Was können wir tun? 

      Sauerländer, Dominik (D. Sauerländer, Antiziganismus. Was können wir tun?, «Public history weekly», 2, 2014, n. 3, 2014)
      Umfangreiche und detaillierte Curricula, eine unübersehbare Auswahl an Lernmaterialien und gleichzeitig eine schwindende Zahl an Geschichtslektionen sind alltägliche Herausforderungen für Geschichtslehrkräfte der Sekundarstufe ...