Introduction to Public History Research

About This Novel

This book mainly introduces the basic framework and research history of public history, aiming to provide introductory guidance for readers who are interested in engaging in or understanding public history research, and also provides theoretical and practical guidance for the establishment and development of public history in China. First, it outlines the basic theories and methods of public history; second, it outlines a concise history of this discipline. As a new branch of history, public history has different development paths and models in different countries, but the main research is still concentrated in English-speaking countries. This book will sort out and review the origin, development, and academic history of public history in major English-speaking countries (the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada); then, it will discuss important topics and key issues in this discipline. Public history is a historical school that emerged in the United States since the 1960s and 1970s. It has now developed into a new field of contemporary American historical research. It refers to historians using the training skills and research results of academic history, with the help of methods from other disciplines, to serve various fields of real society related to history, including government departments, companies, news media, historical sites, museums and other institutions. Public history is oriented to social needs, and the goal of its subject education is to cultivate historians who are adaptable to practical operations.

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