• Contributors


• Introduction


• Part I: The Changing Public History Landscape


• 1: Serge Noiret and Thomas Cauvin: Internationalizing Public History


• 2: Sharon M. Leon: Complexity and Collaboration: Doing Public History in Digital Environments


• Part II: Doing Public History


• 3: Barbara Franco: Decentralizing Culture: Public History and Communities


• 4: Jocelyn Dodd, Ceri Jones, and Richard Sandell: Trading Zones: Collaborative Ventures in Disability History


• 5: Kees Ribbens: Popular Understandings of the Past: Interpreting History through Graphic Novels


• 6: Brian W. Martin: The Business of History: Customers, Professionals, and Money


• Part III: Pushing the Boundaries of Public History


• 7: Liz Sevcenko: Public Histories for Human Rights: Sites of Conscience and the Guantánamo Public Memory Project


• 8: Trudy Huskamp Peterson: Archives for Justice, Archives of Justice


• 9: Kevin P. Murphy, Jennifer L. Pierce, and Alex Urquhart: Sexuality and the Cities: Interdisciplinarity and the Politics of Queer Public History


• 10: Jeffrey K. Stine: Public History and the Environment


• 11: T. Allan Comp: From Environmental Liability to Community Asset: Public History, Communities, and Environmental Reclamation


• 12: Cathy Stanton: Between Pastness and Presentism: Public History and Local Food Activism


• Part IV: Public History and the State


• 13: Lisa Singleton: Historians and Public History in the UN System


• 14: Arnita Jones: Good Enough for Government Work


• 15: Donald A. Ritchie: Shaping Institutional Memory: Public History on Capitol Hill


• 16: Jonathan Sweet and Fengqi Qian: History, Heritage, and the Representation of Ethnic Diversity: Cultural Tourism in China


• 17: Jannelle Warren-Findley: Public History, Cultural Institutions, and National Identity: Dialogues about Difference


• Part V: Narrative and Voice in Public History


• 18: Benjamin Filene: History Museums and Identity: Finding "Them," "Me," and "Us" in the Gallery


• 19: Cristina Lleras: National Museums, National Narratives, and Identity Politics


• 20: Paul Williams: The Personalization of Loss in Memorial Museums


• 21: Graham Smith and Anna Green: The Magna Carta: 800 Years of Public History


• 22: Hilda Kean: Public History as a Social Form of Knowledge


• 23: Steven High: Brownfield Public History: Arts and Heritage in the Aftermath of Deindustrialization


• Part VI: Difficult Public History


• 24: Udo Gösswald: Politics and Memory: How Germans Face their Past


• 25: Boris Wastiau: The Legacy of Collecting: Colonial Collecting in the Belgian Congo and the Duty of Unveiling Provenance


• 26: Bayo Holsey: Slavery Tourism: Representing a Difficult History in Ghana


• 27: Socheata Poeuv: How You Understand Your Story: The Survival Story within Cambodian American Genocide Communities


• 28: Paul Ashton, Kresno Brahmantyo and Jaya Keaney: In the Service of the State: Monuments and Memorials in Indonesia


• Index

James B. Gardner has held senior management positions at the National Archives (US), the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, the American Historical Association, and the American Association for State and Local History. He has served as president of the National Council on Public History, chair of the Nominating Board of the Organization of American Historians, on the AASLH Council, and on the editorial boards of The Public Historian and the AAM Press.
Paula Hamilton is adjunct Professor of History at the University of Technology, Sydney. She was involved in setting up the public history program there which ran between 1989-2005 and was co-director of the Australian Centre for Public History until 2013 and co-editor of Public History Review. Paula has collaborated in a range of historical projects, including one assessing the significance of an oral history collection at the NSW state library; but she also has worked with community groups, museums, heritage agencies and trade unions.

Public history is a large and complex field, with boundaries, methods, and subjects that are hotly debated, and The Oxford Handbook of Public History reflects these complexities. This book defines public history as a transnational field, and public history work as analytical and active: practical work informed by thoughtful reflection. The book locates public history as a professional practice within an intellectual framework that is increasingly democratic, technological, and transnational.