Event Description
We are pleased to announce that the 8th issue of the journal USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics, “The Role of Public History Within and Outside the United States: Critical Reflections”, can be downloaded for free at the following address: https://usabroad.unibo.it/issue/view/1372
This issue of USAbroad – edited by Federico Chiaricati, Lorenzo Costaguta, Marta Gara, Chiara Migliori, Serena Mocci, Emanuele Nide and Matteo Rossi – investigates the “state of the art” of Public History as a discipline within and outside the United States, paying particular attention to how Public History about the United States was conducted by scholars outside the country. The response to the call took us in unexpected directions, which allowed us to broaden our geographical focus to the Western hemisphere and to suggest reflections on what Public History is and how it has been interpreted across time.
We hope you will enjoy the issue and we look forward to receiving your comments and feedback.
Best regards,
The USAbroad Editorial Team
Contents of the 8th Issue:
Introduction
The Role of Public History Within and Outside the United States: Critical Reflections
Essays
Daniel Scroop, William E. Leuchtenburg: The Professional as Public Historian
Darius Wainwright, Showcasing U.S. History in Iran and American Public Diplomacy’s Limitations, 1950–1965
Andreas Etges, “Honorable men”: Robert E. Lee, Erwin Rommel, and the Memory and Forgetting of Defeat and Guilt
María Elena Bedoya Hidalgo, Jimena Perry, Sebastián Vargas Álvarez, What Makes Latin American Public Histories Different? Dialogues, Debates, Perspectives
Deivison Amaral, Labor as Public and Digital History in Brazil
Bringing the History Back In
Alessandra Lorini, My Life as Historian of Public Memories: Performative Power of Pageants, Exhibits, and Monuments in the Public Space
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