Category: Public DH

• The Limits of Digital Public History?

  Since the mid-2000s, “Web 2.0” has become the dominant model of using and interacting with the internet. Rather than static pages simply delivering content (the Web 1.0 model), Web 2.0 enables users to add and modify internet content, whether on social media like Facebook and Twitter or on collaborative content platforms like Wikipedia. Public historians…

• Mobile Public History App Review: Clio

  I’ve been exploring history and museum apps recently to see how place-based technologies are being used to deliver content and connect with audiences in new ways. I was particularly excited to try out Clio, which promised to be a wide-ranging platform enabling the cataloging and sharing of historical sites, museums, and tours. My experience, however,…

• Whose public? Audience and Public History

  In 1981, Ronald J. Grele published an article arguing that public historians needed to better define themselves and their “public” if they wanted to make it clear how they differed from academic historians (p. 41). Grele argued that the label of “public history” was part of an attempt to co-opt the state and local history…

• Physical/Digital Museum Review: The National Museum of Funeral History

  To learn more about how public history sites and their digital presences, I visited the National Museum of Funeral History (NMFH) on February 5, 2023, and its website and VR tour on February 7. I chose NMFH because it was new to me, and I had heard positive reviews from friends. It also had more…