History 206 (PH) R Bergstrom

Spring 2007 4216 HSSB

x2644, 685-2904

HISTORY & THEORY: PUBLIC HISTORY

… is a reading and discussion course on as many of the late-breaking developments in Public History (and neighboring scholarly realms) as we have time to cover. The two primary aims are: 1) to ask how the particular interests, demands & concerns of Public History have constituted its endeavors uniquely – its subjects, modes of inquiry, forms of presentation, criticism, and more – and affected the rest of history and surrounding disciplines, and 2) how the intellectual developments in the rest of history are, or ought to be, informing Public History. Your tasks, in addition to reading and collecting your thoughts for discussion each week, will be to assume lead responsibility for organizing a portion of the discussion of one week’s readings, and to write a 20 page paper on recent developments in one field of Public History (or on the importance of particular developments in history, generally, on your chosen field). In addition to the required books, other required readings will be made available either electronically (posted on-line or via emailed attachments) or in a course reader.

Required books (ordered through the University Book Store)

John Bodnar, REMAKING AMERICA: PUBLIC MEMORY, COMMEMORATION &

PATRIOTISM IN THE 20TH CENTURY (1992)

David Glassberg, SENSE OF HISTORY: THE PLACE OF THE PAST IN

AMERICAN LIFE (2001)

Delores Hayden, THE POWER OF PLACE: URBAN LANDSCAPES AS PUBLIC

HISTORY (1995)

James Horton and Lois Horton, eds., SLAVERY AND PUBLIC HISTORY: THE

TOUGH STUFF OF AMERICAN MEMORY (2006)

Edward Linenthal, PRESERVING MEMORY (1995)

David Thelen and Roy Rosenzweig, PRESENCE OF THE PAST (1998)

Daniel Walkowitz and Lisa Knauer, eds., MEMORY AND THE IMPACT OF

POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION IN PUBLIC SPACE (2003)

History 206 READER (pending: Associated Students, UCen)

Schedule and Readings:

Week 1. INTRODUCTION: The Distinctiveness of Public History.

READ: (e-files) Robert Kelley, “Public History: Its Origins, Nature, and Prospects,“ TPH 1 (1978)

Douglas Greenberg, “History is a Luxury”: Mrs. Thatcher, Mr. Disney, and (Public)

History,” in Louis Masur, ed., CHALLENGE OF AMERICAN HISTORY (1998).

Week 2. AUDIENCE & PUBLIC HISTORY: Revisiting Distinctiveness

READ: David Thelen and Roy Rosenzweig, PRESENCE OF THE PAST (1998)

Roundtable: Responses to PRESENCE OF THE PAST, TPH 22:1 (Winter 2000)

David Glassberg, Chap 1 “Sense of History,” in SENSE OF HISTORY (2001)

For Further Reading on Definitions & Audience:

Alice Kessler Harris, “History is Public or Nothing,” RETHINKING HISTORY 5 (2001)

W. Andrew Achenbaum, “Public History’s Past, Present,and Prospects,” AHR 92 (1987):

1162-74

David Thelen, “Memory and American History,” JAH 75 (Mar 1989) [Special Issue “Memory &

American History”]

Michael Frisch, “American History and the Structures of Collective Memory,” JAH (ibid.)

Michael Frisch, A SHARED AUTHORITY: ESSAYS ON THE CRAFT AND MEANING

OF ORAL AND PUBLIC HISTORY (1990)

David Lowenthal, THE PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY (1985)

--------------------, “The Timeless Past,” JAH 75 (Mar 1989)

George Lipsitz, TIME PASSAGES: COLLECTIVE MEMORY &

AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE (1990)

Michael Kammen, MYSTIC CHORDS OF MEMORY (1991)

Denise D. Meringolo, “Capturing the Public Imagination: The Social and Professional Place of

Public History,” AMERICAN STUDIES INTERNATIONAL, (June-October 2004.) 42:2,3

Peter Novick, THAT NOBLE DREAM (1987), pp. 1-17, 510-521.

Otis Graham, et al., “Roundtable: ‘The Ideal of Objectivity’ and the Profession of History,”

TPH 13:2 (1991), 9 -23

Roundtable on Memory, TPH 19 (Spring 1997)

Carl Ryant “Public History as a Popular Movement: How Public? How Popular?” JOUR OF

POPULAR CULTURE, 20:1 (Summer 1986)

IanTyrrell, HISTORIANS IN PUBLIC (2005)

Week 3: ON PLACE IN PUBLIC HISTORY: Historic Preservation &

Site Representation

READ: Delores Hayden, THE POWER OF PLACE: URBAN LANDSCAPES AS PUBLIC

HISTORY (1995)

David Glassberg, Chaps 5-7 “Place and Placelessness,” “Rethinking New England,” and

“Making Places in California” in SENSE OF HISTORY (2001)

Further Reading:

E. Ayers, C. Carson, M. Tyler McGraw, Special Issue on Colonial Williamsburg, TPH (Sum 1998)

Richard Handler and Eric Gable, NEW HISTORY IN AN OLD MUSEUM: CREATING THE

PAST AT COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG (1998)

Anders Greenspan, Creating Colonial Williamsburg (2002)

Richard Flores, “The Alamo: Myth, Public History, and the Politics of Inclusion,” RADICAL

HISTORY REVIEW 77 (2000)

Diane Barthel, HISTORIC PRESERVATION: COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND HISTORICAL

IDENTITY (1996)

Keith Basso & Steven Field, eds., SENSES OF PLACE (1996)

Keith Basso, WISDOM SITS IN PLACES (1997)

Charles Hosmer, PRESENCE OF THE PAST (1965)

, PRESERVATION COMES OF AGE (1981)

Howe, Grosvenor in Barbara Howe & Emory Kemp, PUBLIC HISTORY: AN

INTRODUCTION (1986)

C. LaRoche et al., “Seizing Intellectual Power: The Dialogue at the New York African

Burial Ground,” HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY 31:3 (1997)

James M. Lindgren, PRESERVING THE OLD DOMINION (1993)

, PRESERVING HISTORIC NEW ENGLAND (1995)

David Lowenthal, THE PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY (1985)

W.J. Murtagh, KEEPING TIME:THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF PRESERVATION

IN AMERICA (1988)

Max Page & Randall Mason , eds., GIVING PRESERVATION A HISTORY: HISTORIES OF

HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE U.S. (2004 )

Janice Rieff, et al., “Pullman and its Public: Image and Aim in Making and Interpreting

History,” TPH 11 (Fall 1989)

Cathy Stanton,THE LOWELL EXPERIMENT: PUBLIC HISTORY IN A POSTINDUS. CITY (2006)

Robert E. Stipe, ed., A RICHER HERITAGE: HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE TWENTY

FIRST CENTURY (2003)

M. Wallace in Susan Porter Benson, et al., PRESENTING THE PAST (1986)

Week 4: COMMEMORATION, PUBLIC MEMORY, & PUBLIC HISTORY

READ: John Bodnar, REMAKING AMERICA: PUBLIC MEMORY, COMMEMORATION &

PATRIOTISM IN THE 20TH CENTURY (1992)

Glassberg, Chap 2 & 3, “Remembering a War,” “Celebrating a City,” in SENSE OF

HISTORY (2001)

Further Reading:

David Glassberg, AMERICAN HISTORICAL PAGEANTRY

David Glassberg, “History and the Public: Legacies of the Progressive Era,”

JAH (Mar 1987)

John Gillis, ed., COMMEMORATIONS: THE POLITICS OF NATIONAL IDENTITY

David Lowenthal, POSSESSED BY THE PAST: THE HERITAGE CRUSADE AND THE

SPOILS OF HISTORY (1996)

Kirk Savage, STANDING SOLDIERS, KNEELING SLAVES: RACE , WAR,

and MONUMENT IN 19^TH CENTURY AMERICA (1997)

B. Schwartz et al., “Commemoration and the Politics of Recognition: The

Korean War Veterans Memorial, " AMERICAN BEHAV SCIENTIST

42 (Mar 1999)

Michael Kammen, “Public History & National Identity in the U.S.” AMERIKASTUDIEN 44:4 (1999)

Week 5: POLITICS OF PUBLIC SPACE & HISTORY

READ: Daniel Walkowitz and Lisa Knauer, eds., MEMORY AND THE IMPACT OF

POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION IN PUBLIC SPACE (2003)

Paul Reckner, “Remembering Gotham:Urban Legends, Public History, and Repres. of

Poverty, Crime, & Race in New York City,” INTL JOUR of HISTOR ARCHAE 6:2 (2002)

Sanford Levinson, WRITTEN IN STONE (1998), chapter

Week 6: MAKING A PLACE FOR REMEMBERING: the Museum

READ: Randolph Starn “A Historian’s Brief Guide to New Museum Studies,” AHR 110 (2005)

Edward Linenthal, PRESERVING MEMORY (1995)

Further Reading:

Kenneth Ames, Barbara Franco, and L. Thomas Frye, eds. IDEAS AND IMAGES: DEVELOPING

INTERPRETIVE HISTORY EXHIBITS (1992)

John Falk & Lynn Dierking, LEARNING FROM MUSEUMS: VISITOR EXPERIENCES AND

THE MAKING OF MEANING (2000)

Lisa Roberts, FROM KNOWLEDGE TO NARRATIVES: EDUCATORS & THE CHANGING

MUSEUM (1997)

Spencer Crew, “History in Museums,” PERSPECTIVES 34:7 (Oct 1996)

Christina Kreps, LIBERATING CULTURE: CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON

MUSEUMS, CURATION, AND HERITAGE PRESERVATION (2003.)

Warren Leon & Roy Rosenzweig, eds., HISTORY MUSEUMS IN THE UNITED STATES (1989)

Catherine M Lewis, THE CHANGING FACE OF PUBLIC HISTORY: THE CHICAGO

HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AN AMERICAN MUSEUM (2005)

Linenthal, Hood, Tchen, Glassie in JOUR OF AMER HIST ( Dec 1994)

Lubar, Dolan in Howe & Kemp, PUBLIC HISTORY

Melosh in Benson et al., PRESENTING THE PAST

Crew & Sims in Ivan Karp & Steven Lavine, EXHIBITING CULTURES

David Thelen, et al., “History and the Public: What Can We Handle? A Round Table...,”

JAH (Dec 1995), 1029-1144

Michael Wallace, “Industrial Museums and the History of Deindustrialization,” TPH (Win 1987)

Thomas Woods, “Getting Beyond the Criticism of History Museums,” TPH (Sum 1990)

Stephen Weil, A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES: INQUIRIES INTO MUSEUMS AND THEIR

PROSPECTS (1995)

Patricia West, DOMESTICATING HISTORY: THE POLITICAL ORIGINS OF AMERICA’S

HOUSE MUSEUMS (1999)

Ian Quimby, ed., MATERIAL CULTURE & THE STUDY OF AMERICAN LIFE

Week 7: RECKONING WITH THE PAST: Investigations, Restorative

Justice, and Unmaking History

READ:

Robert Weyeneth, “The Power of Apology and the Process of Historical Reconciliation,” TPH

23:3 (2001)

Greg Grandin, “ The Instruction of Great Catastrophe: Truth Commissions, National History, and State Formation in Argentina, Chile, and Guatemala,” AHR 110:1 (2005)

Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921., Tulsa race riot : a Report [2001]

“Complaint,” John M Alexander, et al., v. The State of Oklahoma, the City of Tulsa, et al. [2003] Alfred Brophy, CONSTRUCTING THE DREAMLAND: the TULSA RIOT OF 1921, RACE,

REPARATIONS, AND RECONCILIATION (2002), chapters

Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission, http://www.gtcrp.org

Greensboro Justice Fund, http://www.gjf.org/index.php?page=histbro

Further Reading:

James Hirsch, RIOT & REMEMBRANCE: THE TULSA RACE WAR & ITS LEGACY (2002)

RT Dye, “ The Rosewood Massacre: History and the making of Public Policy,” TPH 19 (1997)

Edward Linenthal, UNFINISHED BOMBING: Oklahoma City in American Memory (2000)

Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt, HISTORY WARS: ‘ENOLA GAY’ AND OTHER

BATTLES FOR THE AMERICAN PAST (1996)

David Thelen, et al., “History and the Public: What Can We Handle? A Round Table...,”

JAH (Dec 1995), 1029-1144

Week 8: RECKONING WITH THE TOUGHEST PAST: Public History

and Slavery

READ:

James Horton and Lois Horton, SLAVERY AND PUBLIC HISTORY (2006)

“Report of the Committee on Slavery and Justice,” Brown University (on-line)

James Campbell, “Interview: Committee on Slavery and Justice,” TPH 2007

Further Reading:

Jennifer Eichstedt and Stephen Small, REPRESENTATIONS OF SLAVERY: RACE AND

IDEOLOGY IN SOUTHERN PLANTATION MUSEUMS (2002)

James Oliver Horton, “Presenting Slavery: The Perils of Telling America’s Racial Story,”

TPH 21:4 (1999)

Patricia Samford, “The Archaeology of African-American Slavery and Material Culture,”

WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY(1996), pp. 87-114.

WEEK 9: ALTERNATIVE MEDIA FOR PUBLIC HISTORIANS:

Historic Representation in Film and Websites

READ: Robert Rosenstone, REVISIONING HISTORY (1992) and VISIONS OF THE PAST,

excerpts

Natalie Zemon Davis, “Any Resemblance to Persons Living or Dead:’ Film and the

Challenge of Authenticity,” YALE REVIEW (Summer 1987)

J. Nair, “The Historian as Film Maker: Slow Pan to the Present,” HISTORY

WORKSHOP JOURNAL 53, no. 1 (2002): 217-231

Graham Carr, “Rules of Engagement: Public History and the drama of Legitimation,”

Canadian historical review 86:2 (2005)

“Ways of Seeing," History of Education special issue (2001)

John O’Connor, “Introduction,” O’Connor, ed. IMAGE AS ARTIFACT (1990)

Barbara Allen, “Digitizing Women’s History: New Approaches to Evidence and

Interpretation in Museum Exhibits,” RADICAL HISTORY REV 68 (Spring 1997)

Further Reading:

Marcia Landy, ed. The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media (2000)

---, Cinematic Uses of the Past (1996)

Peter Burke. Eyewitnessing: The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence. (2001)

Tony Barta, ed., Screening the Past: Film and the Representation of History (1998)

Natalie Zemon Davis, Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision (2000).

T. Custen, Bio/Pics: How Hollywood Constructed Public History (1992)

Robert Rosenstone et al.., “Forum”, AMER HIST REVIEW (Dec 1988)

Pierre Sorlin, THE FILM IN HISTORY (1980)

Daniel Walkowitz, “Visual History: The Craft of the Historian-Filmmaker,”

TPH (Winter 1985)

Breitbart, Frisch in Benson, et al., PRESENTING THE PAST

WEEK 10: New Histories & Public Histories, Reports on Your Fields, and

Conclusions

Read: IanTyrrell, HISTORIANS IN PUBLIC (2005), chapters

Robert Berkhofer, BEYOND THE GREAT STORY (1995), chapters.

James Goodman, “For the Love of Stories,” in Masur, ed., CHALLENGE OF AMERICAN

HISTORY (1998)

Further Reading

Nezar Alsayyad, CONSUMING TRADITION, MANUFACTURING HERITAGE: GLOBAL

NORMS AND URBAN FORMS (2001)

Joyce Appleby, et al., TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT HISTORY (1994)

Thomas Bender, ed., RETHINKING AMERICAN HISTORY IN A GLOBAL AGE (2002)

Eric Hobsbawm, THE INVENTION OF TRADITION (1992)