Global Perspectives on Public History
About the Book Series
This series explores the work of public historians and the contested histories they engage with around the world. Authored by both scholars and practitioners, volumes focus on cases where complex histories and diverse audiences meet and examine public representations of history. The series aims to link professional discussions of different historical methodologies with broader dialogues around commemoration, preservation, heritage, and interpretation in diverse geographical, cultural, social, and economic contexts. The co-existence of both global and regionally specific volumes in the series highlight the wide range of innovative new projects and approaches on offer. These books will provide students, researchers, and practitioners with new case studies and helpful analytical tools to confront the (mis)representations of history they encounter in their work and as members of twenty first century communities.
Public History, Gender, and Power in Latin American Museums: Women Curators and Cultural Leaders
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By María Elena Bedoya, Jimena Perry
April 29, 2026
Public History, Gender, and Power in Latin American Museums brings together pioneering voices of women curators, museum professionals, and community leaders who are transforming the cultural landscape of Latin America. Through first-hand testimonies and critical essays, this book examines how ...
Public History in Ireland: Difficult Histories
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By Leonie Hannan, Olwen Purdue
December 25, 2025
Through a collection of essays that reflect the complexity of the island’s historical past as it operates today, Public History in Ireland delivers a scholarly yet accessible introduction to contemporary topics and debates in Irish public history. Despite the reputation that Ireland, both north and...
Public History in Mexico: Memories, Displacements, and Intimacies
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By María Moreno Carranco, Akuavi Adonon Viveros, Mario Barbosa Cruz, Maite Zubiaurre
December 01, 2025
This collection of chapters explores how history is created, shared, and contested in urban and marginalized spaces by examining memory, displacement, resilience, and community-driven historical interventions across Mexico. Bridging academic research with lived experiences, the book shows how ...
Teaching Public History Creatively in Alabama: About (Public) Face
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By Sharony Green
October 26, 2025
This book chronicles a University of Alabama historian’s efforts to engage public history over the course of a decade, highlighting personal and educational experiences inside and outside of the classroom. Each chapter reveals how Sharony Green, her students, and collaborators used various public ...
Performing Public History: Case Studies in Historical Storytelling
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By David Dean
April 08, 2025
Performing Public History explores history-telling as a performance across a wide range of media, including theatre and film, historical re-enactments and living history performances, operas, and video games. Taking historians as storytellers, this book illustrates how the choices they make shape ...
History in Public Space
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By Joanna Wojdon, Dorota Wiśniewska
August 05, 2024
This book focuses on various manifestations of history in public spaces: in the physical ones of various historical times and geographical places, as well as in the virtual world. It discusses how the spaces have been shaped and re-shaped, by whom and for what (not always laudable) purposes, and ...
Museums, Exhibitions, and Memories of Violence in Colombia: Trying to Remember
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By Jimena Perry
June 16, 2023
This book explores how recent Colombian historical memories are informed by cultural diversity and how some of the country’s citizens remember the brutalities committed by the Army, guerrillas, and paramilitaries during the internal war (1980-2016). Its chapters delve into four case studies. The ...
Public History in Poland
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By Joanna Wojdon
May 31, 2023
This volume presents various aspects of public history practices in Poland, alongside their historical development and theoretical reflections on public history. Despite a long tradition and variety of forms of public history, the very term "public history", or literally speaking "history in the ...
Public History for a Post-Truth Era: Fighting Denial through Memory Movements
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By Liz Sevcenko
July 25, 2022
Public History for a Post-Truth Era explores how to combat historical denial when faith in facts is at an all-time low. Moving beyond memorial museums or documentaries, the book shares on-the-ground stories of participatory public memory movements that brought people together to grapple with the ...
Public in Public History
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By Joanna Wojdon, Dorota Wiśniewska
July 30, 2021
Public in Public History presents international research on the role of the public in public history: the ways people perceive, respond to and influence history-related institutions, events, services and products that deal with the past. The book addresses theoretical reflections on the public, or...
Contested Commemoration in U.S. History: Diverging Public Interpretations
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By Klara Stephanie Szlezák, Melissa M. Bender
October 08, 2019
Against the backdrop of two recent socio-political developments—the shift from the Obama to the Trump administration and the surge in nationalist and populist sentiment that ushered in the current administration—Contested Commemoration in U.S. History presents eleven essays focused on ...