商品簡介
An Introduction to Public History is the major textbook for students interested in public history.
It is divided into three major sections: “Popular History, Academic History, and Public Historians,” “Three Questions at the Core of Public History: What to Collect? How to Display? How to Engage Audiences?, and “Moving Forward.”
作者簡介
Cherstin Lyon is an associate professor of history and the past coordinator for the public and oral history program at California State University in San Bernardino where she directed that program for six years. She currently is coordinator of the interdisciplinary M.A. program in Social Sciences that offers a track in public history and cultural resource management.
Elizabeth Nix is an Assistant Professor of Legal, Ethical and Historical Studies and the Director of the Helen P. Denit Honors Program at the University of Baltimore. An American Studies graduate of the undergraduate program at Yale and the Ph.D. program at Boston University, Nix was part of the steering committee for Baltimore '68, the winner of the NCPH Outstanding Project award in 2009 and an award of Merit and the WOW Award from the American Association of State and Local History in that same year.
Rebecca K. Shrum is an Assistant Professor of History and Assistant Director of the Public History Program at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) where she works with both graduate and undergraduate students studying public history. Along with local partners, she also directs the IUPUI Public History Program’s Curatescape project, Discover Indiana, available at discoverIN.org. Her research interests include early American history, material culture and identity, and historic site interpretation.
