Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Volume 1 Issue 1 -

June 2018

Issue of International Public History

Contents
Journal Overview

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A Bright Future for International Public History

Thomas Cauvin

Article number: 20180003

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What Is (International) Public History?

David Dean, Andreas Etges

Article number: 20180007

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What is Public History? And why do we need a new journal? Co-editors of IPH David Dean and Andreas Etges introduce this new international journal and discuss their thoughts in why it is a timely intervention in the field. They explain the many unique features of IPH and review the contributions to this, the first issue.

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Organizing Public History

Arnita A. Jones

Article number: 20180005

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Changing the Game: Public History and the Space of Fiction

Jerome de Groot

Article number: 20180009

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In this article I argue that we need a more plural, diverse and theorised historiography for public history. In the developing methodology associated with this approach we will need to be keenly aware of international. domestic, and glocal audiences.

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Public History in Movement – Present Pasts: the Memory of Slavery in Brazil

Juniele Rabêlo de Almeida, Larissa Moreira Viana

Article number: 20180008

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Present Pasts: The Memory of Slavery in Brazil is a sound testament to the Brazilian public history movemen.This problematization of the “present pasts of slavery” finds fertile ground in Brazilian public history because of the urgent need to record and analyze representations of this traumatic past, going beyond professional and academic contexts to the public sphere. Public history offers reinvigorating possibilities for mediation between, and intervention in, the past and its publics.The Present Pasts Research Network provides a thought-provoking example of public history’s ability to be sensitive to broad public debate and how the needs, interests, and representations of communities can be addressed through historical representation, interpretation, and active history-making.

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History and Politics and the Politics of History: Poland and Its Museums of Contemporary History

Andreas Etges, Irmgard Zündorf, Paweł Machcewicz

Article number: 20180006

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The Polish museum landscape has turned into a battleground between politicians and historians. Much of that has focused on the highly praised Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk which opened in March 2017. Its founding director Pawel Machcewicz was dismissed when the conservative-nationalist party “Law and Justice” came to power. The article and the interview with Machcewicz discuss that story, the founding and exhibition design of other Polish history museums as well as the politics of history in Poland and beyond.

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Public History in Japan

Michihiro Okamoto

Article number: 20180004

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This article introduces the history of historiography, specifically public history in Japan in recent times. Although the use of the word public history has not a long history and there have been only a few books and projects with public history as their titles, it does not mean that public history has not attracted wide concerns in Japan. On the contrary, there have been plenty of histories for the public through museums, theaters, television and printing matters because of the high standard of education and literacy rate of the people since the modernization of Japan. In this sense, we can discuss optimistically the future of public history in Japan. However, we should notice the problems of history among the public in that it is often too entertaining and sometimes tends to be abused for arbitrary purposes.

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The Geo-Politics of Public History: A Review Essay

Catalina Muñoz

Article number: 20180001

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Public History Weekly - A Review

Thomas Cauvin

Article number: 20180002

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As with any other scholarship, public history has its academic journals. The two main journals are The Public Historian (USA, 1978-) and The Public History Review (Australia, 1992-). As a new-comer in the field, International Public History – the journal of the International Federation for Public History (IFPH) – symbolizes the wish to move away from a predominantly Anglo-Saxon and English-speaking public history. The creation of Public History Weekly (PHW) in 2013 was another early and significant step in this process of internationalization. PHW has published (by March 2018) 260 articles from 74 authors and 479 comments – in 13 languages. All articles – published every Thursday morning – and comments are open access. Open peer-reviewed (OPR), PHW belongs to a new format of publishing in the digital age. In September 2017, Seth Denbo was wondering “Can history accommodate modes of review and publication that would provide greater flexibility and enable nontraditional research outputs to flourish?” With 27,600 visits and 400,000 page-views per month, PHW provides some preliminary answers on what digital and international public history publishing can be.

About this journal

International Public History is a major international stimulus to the field of public history, which has been growing all over the world, both as an academic discipline and as a self-identity for its practitioners. The peer-reviewed online publication IPH is a timely development, providing a much-needed publishing venue for anyone engaged in public history. Submissions to International Public History are assessed in double-blind peer review.

Published twice a year, IPH provides a mix of theoretical, research and "practice-oriented" scholarly articles on a wide range of topics. The multimodal journal offers readers a rich experience through the enhancement of articles using photos, film and audio clips.

IPH is the official organ of the International Federation for Public History.

About the society

The International Federation for Public History was founded in 2010 to create a network of public history programs, scholars, and practitioners for facilitating the international exchange of information on teaching and research in and the practice of public history. The Federation’s aim is to share recommended professional and academic best practices, including standards for evaluating public history scholarship. Fostering participation of public historians and their organizations in international congresses and other meetings of scholars in the field is one of its core issues.

IFPH’s main purpose is to build an international public history community to encourage, promote, and coordinate contacts, teaching, and research in public history.

Learn more about the International Federation for Public History here: http://ifph.hypotheses.org/