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  2. Public history - Wikipedia

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    Public history is a broad range of activities undertaken by people with some training in the discipline of history who are generally working outside of specialized academic settings. Public history practice is deeply rooted in the areas of historic preservation, archival science, oral history, museum curatorship, and other

  3. National Council on Public History - Wikipedia

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    The National Council on Public History (NCPH) is an American professional membership association established in 1979 to support a diverse group of people, institutions, agencies, businesses, and academic programs associated with the field of public history.

  4. Public humanities - Wikipedia

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    Public humanities is the work of engaging diverse publics in reflecting on heritage, traditions, and history, and the relevance of the humanities to the current conditions of civic and cultural life.

  5. Applied history - Wikipedia

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    Applied history is the effort to apply insights grounded in the study of the past to the challenges of the present, particularly in the area of policy-making. Applied history is closely associated with the field of public history, and the terms today are sometimes used interchangeably, though historically, public history has been a more encompassing term, engaging a broad range of audiences ...

  6. Outline of history - Wikipedia

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    Philosophy of history – philosophical study of history and its discipline. Political history – study of past political events, ideas, movements, and leaders; Public history – presentation of history to public audiences and other areas typically outside academia; Psychohistory – study of the psychological motivations of historical events

  7. Digital history - Wikipedia

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    Digital history is commonly known as digital public history, concerned primarily with engaging online audiences with historical content, or digital research methods, that further academic research. Digital history outputs include: digital archives , online presentations, data visualizations , interactive maps , timelines , audio files, and ...

  8. Public records - Wikipedia

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    Individual criminal histories are generally considered to be public records in the United States and are often accessed via criminal history background checks, but "access and use of FBI-maintained criminal history record information has been traditionally limited and controlled in large measure to protect the privacy of the individuals to whom ...

  9. Shared historical authority - Wikipedia

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    The Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York's Manhattan district is a good example of how an urban museum can share historical authority. Other examples of shared historical authority include StoryCorps, the City of Memory, and Philaplace, an internet-based neighborhood history project produced by the Historical Society of Philadelphia that combines scholarly essays with stories from ...