Journal article
Historiography and Public History in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania history, v 75(3), pp 422-427
01 Jul 2008
Abstract
When I first began to think about the extent to which the practice of public history has been affected by historiographical shifts since the time of the Pennsylvania Historical Association’s founding, I made what I soon realized was an erroneous assumption. We have long known that there is often a state of suspended animation that exists between major historiographical trends and the way history is taught in the schools and presented in textbooks. My assumption was that in looking at historical sites, museums and exhibits throughout the Commonwealth, I would find an analogous lag during which public historians and curators would struggle to keep up with current scholarship, or despite keeping up with it, would lack resources or direction to keep their exhibits, sites and museums historiographically up-to-date. [1st paragraph]
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- Title
- Historiography and Public History in Pennsylvania
- Creators
- Rosalind Remer - Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Publication Details
- Pennsylvania history, v 75(3), pp 422-427
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania Historical Association and the Pennsylvania State University Press
- Number of pages
- 6
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- History; Lenfest Center for Cultural Partnerships
- Other Identifier
- 991022018195004721