Borrowing the notion of “shared authority” coined by public and oral historian Michael Frisch (University at Buffalo), we will consider how historians trained in a university setting can work toward balancing the need to control history with completely turning over the reins (so to speak) to an untrained public. In preparation, read Patricia Melvin-Mooney’s “Professional [...]
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September 18: The Historian’s Side of Public History
Read Glassberg, Sense of History, Chapter 1, in which the professional historian ponders his experience as a Johns Hopkins University trained professor who discovered a very different side to history. In class we will discuss the path that most professional historians took to public history, including the reasons for their involvement, the assumptions they often [...]
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