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Review of “Public History in Japan. Theory and Practice”, edited by Masafumi Yokemoto, Miho Hayashi, Michihiro Okamoto, Andrew Gordon; Springer Singapore, 2025

The volume reviewed here forms part of this broader reflection on the field’s development in Japan and beyond. It examines how public history seeks legitimacy in the Japanese context: on what grounds, through which topics, practices, and methods, and against the background of a traditional academic historiography that has long regarded participatory, media-based, and civic approaches to the study of the past with caution.

Community

Contemporary History / Digital Public History / History Profession / Public Historian / Public History

La Comunità nelle pratiche e nei progetti di Public History

This essay explores the concept of “communities” as objects of study and as actors in Italian and international Public History practices. Before describing three cases of community-sourcing in communities located in Italy, the United States and Belgium, we discuss how the “community” has been studied in the recent history of Italian Public History and its “glocal” dimension based on the Book of Abstracts of the Italian Association of Public History annual conferences from 2017 to 2025.

Contemporary History / Historiography / Public Historian / Public History / Public History of Education

Key Terms of Public History, a review

Key Terms of Public History is the second volume in the series Public History in European Perspectives, edited by Thomas Cauvin, Karin Priem, and Sandra Camarda at the Luxembourg Centre for Digital and Public History (C2DH), with the publisher De Gruyter Oldenbourg. This book is an English translation of a 2021 Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht book, “Schlüsselbegriffe der Public History.” The aim of the authors was to engage a German-speaking perspective on the discipline with international Public History practitioners.

Digital Public History / Historiography / History Profession / Public Historian / Public History / Public History of Education

Public History (of Education) and Applied History Manifestos’ 2011-2023

Public History and its sub-field of public History of education are applied disciplines in and for the present. However, good practices and ethical methods are sometimes summarized when producing disciplinary manifestos. This essay will engage with different history manifestos and their importance in describing the hermeneutic of Public and Applied History in the 21st century and how these manifestos are connected to the Public History of Education

Historiography / Public History

A Review of Public in Public History, edited by Joanna Wojdon & Dorota Wiśnievska, London, Routledge, 2022

This very welcome collection of essays collected by Joanna Wojdon, an associate professor at the Institute of History of the University of Wrocław, and a research assistant, Dorota Wiśniewska, has been published in the Routledge Global studies on Public History series. They deal with the concept of “public” which characterizes Public History (from now on PH) as a sub-discipline inside history.

Public History

A public history of the Waterloo’s Battle Bicentenary, June 18-21, 2015

This post comes from a personal experience during the Bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo, 18th-21st of June 2015. It aims to illustrate the different meanings behind an international commemoration. It looks at how a battlefield landscape became a historical heritage park between public history practices and the commercial necessities of tourism of the past.