Document Type

Article

Abstract

Is there a crisis in public history education and employment today? Many experienced public historians believe there is. This article examines issues related to public history training and recent efforts by the National Council on Public History to improve the quality of graduate programs in the field through targeted advice to students and educators. It focuses on the thinking behind development of the new best practices document, “Establishing and Developing a Public History Program,” which appears in full at the end of the article.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2016.38.3.25

APA Citation

Weyeneth, R. R., & Vivian, D. J. (2016). Public History Pedagogy: Charting the Course: Challenges in Public History Education, Guidance for Developing Strong Public History Programs. The Public Historian, 38(3), 25–49. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2016.38.3.25

Rights

© 2016, The Regents of the University of California and the National Council on Public History.

UC Press

Included in

History Commons

Share

COinS