Research/Craft #7: Historians and the Public

Contents:
1:43 Defining Public History Internationally
4:56 Arriving at Public History
11:16 Public History Projects
19:48 The Princeton & Slavery Project
24:07 Public History and Expertise
27:01 Low-Stakes Ways to be a Public Historian
28:54 Public vs. Traditional Historical Work 1
30:30 Storytelling
33:00 Public vs. Traditional Historical Work 2
37:32 Teaching Public History
52:21 Recommended Texts and Projects
56:47 Presentism and the Ethics of History
1:00:11 Public History Outside Academia

Episode Bibliography:

Karl, Robert A. Forgotten Peace: Reform, Violence, and the Making of Contemporary Colombia. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017.

———. La paz olvidada: Letrados, políticos, campesinos y el surgimiento de las FARC en la formación de la Colombia contemporánea. Translated by Carolina Sanín. Bogotá: Librería Lerner, 2018.

Linethal, Edward T., and Tom Engelhardt, eds. History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1996.

Marks, John Garrison. Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery Race, Status, and Identity in the Urban Americas. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2020.

Muñoz-Rojas, Catalina. A Fervent Crusade for the National Soul: Cultural Politics in Colombia, 1930–1946. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2022.

Samuel, Raphael. Theatres of Memory: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture. London & New York: Verso Books, 2012.

———. Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line. New York: Penguin, 2009.

Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. 20th anniversary ed. Boston: Beacon Press, 2015.