Author Archive
02 August 2022 – Sarah H. Case
advocacy, interpretation, The Public Historian, slavery, historic preservation, commemoration, historic house museums
Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the August 2022 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and to others with subscription access. Read More
18 May 2022 – Sarah H. Case
Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the May 2022 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and to others with subscription access.
As Timothy Snyder, historian of Ukraine, reminds us, the myths, memories, and stories about a nation’s past shape its understanding of the present and the future. Read More
08 February 2022 – Sarah H. Case
Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the February 2022 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and to others with subscription access.
Our four featured articles in this issue, all Reports from the Field, examine public historians working with performing artists, corporate donors, undergraduate students, and suspicious artifacts. Read More
03 November 2021 – Sarah H. Case
museums, commemoration, material culture, Indigenous People, anniversaries, TPH, American Revolution Semiquincentennial
Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the November 2021 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and to others with subscription access.
This issue introduces a new ongoing feature, Commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution, a collaboration between the National Council on Public History (NCPH) and the National Park Service (NPS). Read More
03 August 2021 – Sarah H. Case
Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the August 2021 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and to others with subscription access.
In this issue, we bring you three articles that deeply engage with one of the key subjects grappled with by public historians—the consideration of the role of the public not only as audience but also as interpreters of history. Read More
12 May 2021 – Sarah H. Case
Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the May 2021 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and to others with subscription access.
Several contributions to this issue in some way reflect the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on public history scholarship and labor. Read More
10 March 2021 – James F. Brooks and Sarah H. Case
Editors’ Note: We publish The Public Historian editors’ introduction to the February 2021 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and to others with subscription access.
In December, 2016, Sarah H. Read More