The Oxford Handbook of Public History

ISBN-13: 9780197607220 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 568 str.

Paula Hamilton; James B. Gardner

Recenzje

The editors did masterful work in the selection of a wide array of contributors who share thought-provoking case studies from all over the globe...written by practitioners inside and outside academia. They succeed at evidencing the complexities and promise of public history.

O autorze

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.