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Public history

Meaning in history, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In history, public history means: Historical work created with or for audiences beyond specialist academic settings.

In Turkish: kamusal tarih

How it is used

Includes museums, community projects and other public settings; accessibility does not remove evidential standards.

Example sentences

  1. The museum's public history project invited residents to interpret factory photographs.

    Members of the public participate in producing historical meaning.

  2. The podcast combines public history with careful discussion of uncertain evidence.

    A broad audience can be addressed without concealing uncertainty.

Common collocations

  • a public history project
  • public history practice
  • historyThe study of past events, especially those of human societies, and the written account that historians produce from the evidence they find.
  • oral historyThe collection and study of people's spoken memories of the past, usually through recorded interviews, and the recordings that result.

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