Public in Public History

Joanna Wojdon is an associate professor at the Institute of History, University of Wrocław, Poland.Dorota Wiśniewska is a research assistant at the University of Wrocław, Poland, and initiator of the International Public History Summer School in Wrocław.

• 1. Publics, Public Historians and Participatory Public History PART I: Publics in Public History Research 2. Digital Oral History and the Ethical Dilemmas of Dealing with Three Kinds of 'Public' in Public History 3. Public Between the State, and Academia: Cultural and Political Essentialism of Public History in Russia PART II: Publics in Commemorations 4. The Role of the Public in Shaping New Collective Memory(ies): The Irish Public and Their Representation of History during and after the Irish Civil War of 1922- 1923 5. Return to 1918: The Serbian American Public and World War I Memory at the Centenary 6. The Role of Distinct Publics in Framing and Re-Framing the Images of Historical Figures. A Study on the Publics Remembering Edith Stein 7. The Persistence of the Vanishing Indian in the Massachusetts Merrimack Valley: The Passaconaway Monument PART III: Museums and Their Publics 8. For the Public, by the Public, on the Public: The Triple Role of the Public in School Museums of History in Russia 9. Students as the Museums’ Public 10. On Fire, under Fire: Public Reactions to the Destruction of the Brazilian National Museum 11. Warsaw Rising Museum—on, with and for a Participatory Public PART IV: Digital Publics 12. Researching the Public(s) through Internet Readers’ Comments. Case Study of the Cursed Soldiers in North-Eastern Poland 13. Video-Gamers as Recipients and Creators of Public History: Let’s Play Videos as Public History 14. The Users of TripAdvisor as the Public(s) of Public History. Case Study of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum 15. The Public of a Public History Website—Notes from the Field 16. The public(s) in public history