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Introduction to Public History: Interpreting the Past, Engaging Audiences (American Association for State and Local History)

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Introduction to Public History: Interpreting the Past, Engaging Audiences is a brief foundational textbook for public history. It’s organized around the questions and ethical dilemmas that drive public history in various settings, from local community-based projects to international case studies. This book is designed to be used in undergraduate and graduate classrooms with future public historians, teachers, and consumers of history in mind.

The authors are practicing public historians who teach history and public history to a mixture of undergraduate and graduate students at universities across america and in international contexts. This book is in response to original research and the authors’ first-hand experiences, offering a fresh viewpoint at the dynamic field of public history in response to a decade of consultation with public history educators about what they needed in an introductory textbook. Every chapter introduces a concept or common practice to students, highlighting key terms for student review and for instructor assessment of student learning. The body of Every chapter introduces theories, and basic conceptual building blocks intermixed with case studies to illustrate these points. Footnotes credit sources but also serve as breadcrumbs for instructors who might like to assign more in-depth reading for more advanced students or for the purposes of lecture development. Every chapter ends with suggestions for activities that the authors have tried with their own students and suggested readings, books, and internet sites that can deepen student exposure to the topic.

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