UNDERGRADUATE Introduction to Public History (50:512:382) This seminar-style course provides an opportunity explore the ways that history is studied and communicated in settings such as museums, historic sites, and archives, and in the digital realm. Readings and discussion will include controversies such as the display of the Enola Gay at the National Air and Space … Continue reading Courses for Fall 2017 (New Options for Public History)…
Courses and Other News
Spring 2017: Cities and Suburbs (with book list)
This course focuses attention on the evolution of urban and suburban communities beginning with seaports of the eighteenth century and continuing to the security-conscious cities of today. Why do we live where we do? How do people interact in urban and suburban communities? What opportunities and challenges do residents and leaders of cities and suburbs … Continue reading Spring 2017: Cities and Suburbs (with book list)…
Fall 2016: Issues in Public History (updated book list and assignment for first class)
This seminar will go behind the scenes of the production and communication of history in settings such as museums, historic sites, and archives, and in the digital realm. We will learn from controversies such as the display of the Enola Gay at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., and the creation of … Continue reading Fall 2016: Issues in Public History (updated book list and assignment for first class)…
NEH Teacher Institute: Cultures of Independence
Applications are now being accepted for this new teacher workshop funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Cultures of Independence: Perspectives on Independence Hall and the Meaning of Freedom will raise awareness of how Independence Hall has been involved in the ongoing process of creating a nation and civic life, not just in the … Continue reading NEH Teacher Institute: Cultures of Independence…
Spring 2015: World’s Fairs and Empire
World’s fairs, the enormously popular spectacles that began in the middle of the nineteenth century and continue in lesser forms today, provide a rich body of evidence for investigating the cultures and ideologies of their times. This course will reach beyond the popular veneer of world’s fairs – the Ferris wheel, the ice cream cone, … Continue reading Spring 2015: World’s Fairs and Empire…
Book List Added: Fall 2014, Issues in Public History (Graduate)
Course description: Historians play a vital role in creating an engaged and informed citizenry. This seminar provides an in-depth examination of the issues and controversies that arise for historians and the public in settings such as historic sites and museums. The seminar also serves as an introduction to research in public history, a field of … Continue reading Book List Added: Fall 2014, Issues in Public History (Graduate)…