History 659: Intro to Public History
Bartlett Hall room 131 – Tuesdays 2:30 – 5:00 pm

Books:

  

Please purchase the following books (available at the University Bookstore Textbook Annex)

 

We will be reading the following books, which are available for purchase at the University Bookstore, Textbook Annex. Alternatively, I have placed all of these texts on reserve at the DuBois Library.

  • Gary Nash, History on Trial

  • Cathy Stanton, The Lowell Experiment: Public History in a Postindustrial City

  • Richard E. Neustadt and Ernest R. May, Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision Makers

  • Patricia West, Domesticating History

  • Richard White, Remembering Ahanagran: Storytelling in a Family's Past.

  • Sam Wineburg, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Changing the Future of Teaching the Past

 
Articles:  

I have placed a scanned copy of most of the additional readings listed in the syllabus on SPARK. Each week has a separate folder, where you will find the readings for that week. All other readings not found on SPARK are available online and the URL is listed instead. Please print out copies of the additional readings and bring a copy with your to class.