HIS 583 - INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HISTORY

College of Arts and Sciences

Credits: 3

Introduces public history as a mode of historical practice, its role in the American historical profession, and its relationship to historical scholarship, historical memory, and popular interest in the past. Readings and assignments survey the origins and development of the field, the intellectual and practical demands of public history, different varieties of public history, and how public history contributes to popular knowledge about the past.

Crosslisted with: HP 583