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sexuality

Public History and Social Media

30 July 2025 –

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What shapes public history in 2025? The answer (for me) is social media. By utilizing the online persona of The Sex Work Historian as public history, I have uncovered social media as a medium and a method of history, allowing me to see it as a path forward for some historians’ work and as a solution and problem to issues facing historians in the digital era. Read More

Lifting our skirts: Sharing the sexual past with visitors

01 July 2014 – 1

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Editor’s Note: In “What I’ve Learned Along the Way: A Public Historian’s Intellectual Odyssey,” outgoing NCPH President Bob Weyeneth issued a call to action to public historians to include the public more fully in our work by “pulling back the curtain” on our interpretive process—how we choose the stories we tell. Read More