Abstract
This essay introduces the special section on undergraduate public history teaching. It explores its various opportunities, its challenges and some options for instructors to design their courses. In addition to presenting the six contributions of this special section, the author proposes some broader reflections on how undergraduate public history teaching can potentially change the ways history is taught but also researched and practiced in universities.
Published Online: 2019-08-01
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Articles in the same Issue
- Teaching Project session
- Undergraduate Public History Teaching: How and Why It Can Change University History Training
- Leading the Way: Teaching Public History for the First Time
- From Theory to Practice to Problem: Teaching Public History with a Real Client
- Learning by Doing: Introducing Students to Public History through Digital Projects
- Reacting to the (Public) Past™: Innovations in Public History Pedagogy
- From Uncle Tom’s Cabin to “Countering Colston”: Slavery and Memory in a Transatlantic Undergraduate Research Project
- The Circle of Life: Reinvigorating the Humanities with Undergraduate Public History Curriculum
- Conversation
- Negotiating Public Participation through Dance and Drama Techniques: A Roundtable Discussion on the Challenges of Public History Work by the Isikhumbuzo Applied History Unit in South Africa
- PH in
- An Overview of Public History in Italy: No Longer A Field Without a Name
- Reviews
- David Dean, ed., A Companion to Public History
- Alix R. Green: History, Policy and Public Purpose: Historians and Historical Thinking in Government
Keywords for this article
teaching;
undergraduate;
university;
students;
problem-solving;
project
Articles in the same Issue
- Teaching Project session
- Undergraduate Public History Teaching: How and Why It Can Change University History Training
- Leading the Way: Teaching Public History for the First Time
- From Theory to Practice to Problem: Teaching Public History with a Real Client
- Learning by Doing: Introducing Students to Public History through Digital Projects
- Reacting to the (Public) Past™: Innovations in Public History Pedagogy
- From Uncle Tom’s Cabin to “Countering Colston”: Slavery and Memory in a Transatlantic Undergraduate Research Project
- The Circle of Life: Reinvigorating the Humanities with Undergraduate Public History Curriculum
- Conversation
- Negotiating Public Participation through Dance and Drama Techniques: A Roundtable Discussion on the Challenges of Public History Work by the Isikhumbuzo Applied History Unit in South Africa
- PH in
- An Overview of Public History in Italy: No Longer A Field Without a Name
- Reviews
- David Dean, ed., A Companion to Public History
- Alix R. Green: History, Policy and Public Purpose: Historians and Historical Thinking in Government