MST 642

This course will explore the field of public history and its particular ramifications in the museum setting. A term that describes the diverse ways history is put to work in the world and outside traditional modes of scholarship, public history represents an interactive process between the historian, the public, and the historical object or subject. Students will explore the presentation and curation of history and historical memory in exhibitions, film, interactive displays, websites, and public programs, and learn more specifically about its adaptation in the New-York Historical Society’s Center for Women’s History, the first of its kind within the walls of a major U. S. museum.