Introduction to Public History - Spring 2024

 Week Ten: Thomas Cauvin, Public History: A Textbook of Practice:  Historians as Consultants and Advisors Overview      Thomas Cauvin's  Public History: A Textbook of Practice serves as a basic guide to understanding methodology, practice, and conversations surrounding the practice. of historical preservation in the modern day. Published in 2016, Cauvin's work represents the changing nature of the professionalization of public history by understanding the active role public history plays in the creation, preservation, and enhancement of public and political identity of national groups. Understanding how historians act as consultants and advisors helps us understand the role in which "radical public history" has in the life of everyday history and community activism on a national stage.  Shared Inquiry in Representative History      Chapter 12 titled "Civic Engagement and Social Justice" helps readers understand the ongoing role in which ...

 Week Nine: The Inclusive Historian's Handbook      This week, I dove into the Inclusive Historian's Handbook to uncover different blog post style entries from various historians from across the field. Topics ranged and varied from speciality, but all had important contributions to the overall understanding of Public History by discussing methodology and ethics. To me, a student reader, this week was. particularly helpful in solidifying concepts we had covered since week one. Here, I reviewed three separate articles pertaining to Public History.  Collaborative Practice:  Bill Bryans,  September 16, 2019      Collaborative Practice is a crucial and foundational base to the methodology of Public History. Bill Bryans' take on the importance of collaboration illustrates the importance of history as a key role in civic culture; Collaboration is the direct challenging of narrative on the basis of public consensus, creating a unified identity t...

 Week Eight: Preserving & Interpreting Historic Cemeteries as Public Memorials & Educational Resources           Graveyards, contrary to perceptive thought, is a central location for public history and the preservation of history on a community basis. Headstones and memorial gardens are indicators of the significants of "lives left behind," with personalization and community memory advocating for the upkeep (and in some cases, overshadowing) of those in burial sites. Greenwood Cemetery: Orlando's Heritage and Memory           In 2014, the officials from the Greenwood Cemetery sent a grant proposal to the City of Orlando on the basis of the continuation and expansion of it's memory through public history. Officials wished to create a walking tour that accompanies visitors on the grounds, illustrating the history of not only graves and those buried there, but the history of the land and how it relates to Orlando in i...