A companion to public history / edited by David Dean.

Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prologue: Orphan Cupboards Full of Histories; Part I Identifying Public History; Chapter 1 Complicating Origin Stories: The Making of Public History into an Academic Field in the United States; What's in a name?; The early landscape of professional training; The seminar in historical administration; The AASLH education program, 1967 -- circa 1985; Merging practice and scholarship; Forging public history into an academic field; Summing up; Notes

Chapter 2 Where Is Public History?Introduction; Questions from a worker who reads ...; Traces in the landscape; Musée des Beaux Arts and Bruegel's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"; Artists remembering slavery in the Lancaster and London landscape; Stumbling across the past in Germany; Political pasts and artistic representation in contemporary life; Social knowledge on the internet; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 3 Consuming Public History: Russian Ark; The film; Reviews and responses; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 4 Historians on the Inside: Thinking with History in Policy; A history gap?

The affinity of history and policyThe "history office" and other models; Historians in the mix; Part II Situating Public History; Chapter 5 Nation, Difference, Experience: Negotiating Exhibitions at the National Museum of Australia; Constructing the museum; Critique and response; Reconceptualizing the past; Objects and visitors; Localizing history; Representing experience; Performing difference; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 6 Archive Fever, Ghostly Histories; Making history, after the archive; On turns and turnings; Chapter 7 Digital Public History

Digital history, or history in the digital era?More "digital history" than "digital humanities"; Web 2.0 and crowdsourcing; Mediating between individual and collective memories; International digital public history: Local, global, glocal; Notes; Chapter 8 Popularizing the Past through Graphic Novels: An Interview with Catherine Clinton, Author of Booth; Perceptions of public history: Process and experiences; Graphic novels: presenting the past and "doing" history; Booth; Looking forward

Chapter 9 Becoming a Center: Public History, Assembly, and State Formation in Canada's Capital City, 1880-1939Assembly and bureaucracy in the nineteenth century; Continuity and transitions in the early twentieth century; Conclusion; Notes; Part III Doing Public History; Chapter 10 Looking the Tiger in the Eye: Oral History, Heritage Sites, and Public Culture; Context and background; Project design and public history pedagogy; History, oral history, and storytelling; The challenges of practicing public history; Notes