Companion to Public History

David Dean, PhD, teaches and researches public history and British History at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, where he is a full Professor of History. He is also Co-Director of the Carleton Centre for Public History, a leading research center in the field of public history. He is a member of the steering committee of the International Federation for Public History and co-editor of the new journal, International Public History.

• List of Illustrations xiNotes on Contributors xvAcknowledgments xxvIntroduction 1David DeanPrologue: Orphan Cupboards Full of Histories 13Annemarie de WildtPart I Identifying Public History 171 Complicating Origin Stories: The Making of Public History into an Academic Field in the United States 19Rebecca Conard2 Where Is Public History? 33Hilda Kean3 Consuming Public History: Russian Ark 45Jerome de Groot4 Historians on the Inside: Thinking with History in Policy 59Alix R. GreenPart II Situating Public History 755 Nation, Difference, Experience: Negotiating Exhibitions at the National Museum of Australia 77Kirsten Wehner6 Archive Fever, Ghostly Histories 97Carolyn Steedman7 Digital Public History 111Serge Noiret8 Popularizing the Past through Graphic Novels: An Interview with Catherine Clinton, Author of Booth 125Elizabeth Paradis and Catherine Clinton9 Becoming a Center: Public History, Assembly, and State Formation in Canada’s Capital City, 1880–1939 135John C. WalshPart III Doing Public History 14710 Looking the Tiger in the Eye: Oral History, Heritage Sites, and Public Culture 149Indira Chowdhury11 Storytelling, Bertolt Brecht, and the Illusions of Disciplinary History 163Steven High12 Genealogy and Family History 175Tanya Evans13 The Power of Things: Agency and Potentiality in the Work of Historical Artifacts 187Sandra H. Dudley14 An Unfinished Story: Nation Building in Kyrgyzstan 201Gulnara IbraevaPart IV Using Public History 21515 Colonialism Revisited: Public History and New Zealand’s Waitangi Tribunal 217Michael Belgrave16 Repatriation: A Conversation 231George Abungu, Te Herekiekie Herewini, Richard Handler, and John Moses17 The Transformative Power of Memory: Notes on the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada in Light of the Colombian Experience 243Patrick Morales Thomas18 Sophiatown and the Politics of Commemoration 263Natasha Erlank19 Tourism and Heritage Sites of the Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery 277Ana Lucia AraujoPart V Preserving Public History 28920 Material Culture as History: Science and the International Ordering of Heritage Preservation 291Tim Winter21 Preservation and Heritage: The Case of Al‐Jazeera Al‐Hamra in the United Arab Emirates 301Hamad M. Bin Seray22 Centennial Dilemmas 311John H. Sprinkle, Jr.23 Preserving Public History: Historic House Museums 321Linda Young24 Placing the Photograph: Digital Composite Images and the Performance of Place 333James OppPart VI Performing Public History 34925 Reenacting and Reimagining the Past 351Amy M. Tyson26 Reenacting the Stone Age: Journeying Back in Time Through the Uckermark and Western Pomerania 365Vanessa Agnew27 Performing Continuity, Performing Belonging: Three Cabarets from the Terezín Ghetto 377Lisa Peschel28 Performing History: Jongos, Quilombos, and the Memory of Illegal Atlantic Slave Trade in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 391Hebe Mattos and Martha Abreu29 Video Games as Participatory Public History 405Jeremiah McCallPart VII Contesting Public History 41730 Public Historians and Conflicting Memories in Northern Ireland 419Thomas Cauvin31 Trauma and Memory 431Jenny Edkins32 Museums and National History in Conflict: Two Case Studies in Taiwan 441Chia‐Li Chen33 Between Public History and History Education 455Joanna Wojdon34 Labeling History: Localizing Olives and Negotiating the Greek Past in Turkey 465Helin BurkayEpilogue: To Put Your Signature: Tanzania’s Graffiti Movement 479Seth M. MarkleBibliography 483Index 533