While it is clear that technology is changing many aspects of our daily lives, as historians and educators, it is important to explore some of…
Category: Response
Film, Images, and History
As historians and history educators, part of our job is to make history accessible and interesting to public audiences and to our students. Presenting history…
The History of History Teaching
In the recent past and into today, many history educators have struggled against outside expectations and constrains that have hampered their ability to teach and…
Thinking About Historical Thinking
Someday, I hope to teach in a museum setting and/or in a college classroom. Reading Wineburg, Lévesque, and Calder was highly informative, but also raised…
Introductory Blog Post (HIST 689)
Hello! My name is Greta. I just finished the first year of the M.A. program at George Mason University. I am most interested in Early…
Reflecting on Digital Public History Work
Note: For my HIST 691 Museum Studies class, I read several books and articles that influenced my thinking about Public History and my project. These…
Landscape and Mobile Response
One of the most intriguing new ideas in digital public history, location-based history, has been enabled by recent technological advances in mapping and GPS-like technology.…
Oral History
In this digital age, oral history is quickly becoming one of the most interesting and engaging aspects of public history. While oral history itself is…
Local Sites and Community History
While many people tend to see local history and affinity-group community history simply as part of a larger effort in Public History, these two types…
Narrative Interpretation Response
Much of the reading from the past two weeks has continued to challenge me, as I think about planning and executing my project. First of…
