Recap: Public History Workshop in Hamburg
Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg (Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg) is home to one of the largest ports of not only Europe, but also the world. Located on...
Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg (Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg) is home to one of the largest ports of not only Europe, but also the world. Located on...
Our committee is complete! Please allow me to introduce three unique (and quite frankly) brilliant individuals that Hope and I are delighted to welcome to the student and new professional...
Promoted by Catherine Brice, contemporary history professor interested in cultural studies and material culture -Brice is well known for her work on 19th century Italy-, a first French Master in...
It’s been a little over three (almost four!) weeks since the public history workshop in Florence at the European University Institute came to an end, and yet I...
IFPH founder and Arizona State University public history professor Jann Warren-Findley died February 4 in Phoenix, Arizona, after a brief illness. In April of this year at the upcoming National Council on Public History she was slated to receive the NCPH’s prestigious Robert Kelley Award.
In recent decades, public enthusiasm for history and popular engagement with the past has grown dramatically. The popularity of history is manifested most visibly in the proliferation of television documentaries and historical dramas but it is also discernible in the rebirth of the historical novel, the organization of large-scale commemorations of historical anniversaries, the development of new historical museums and exhibitions, re-enactments and living history activities and the emergence of public history as a separate field of academic study. Digitization has also brought history and historical research to the broader public in hitherto unconceivable ways. Yet, for the most part, and with some notable exceptions, academic historians have remained extraneous to these developments, and their relationship to the public is different from that of public historians.
Between the 30rd of August and the 1st of September, the IFPH-FIHP (International Federation for Public History) will sponsor a Public History Conference in Greece. This Greek Public history symposium could...