Public History at Loyola
The graduate programs in Public History offered by the Department of History rest upon a combination of solid historical training and skill development in applied history research.
Public history uses the past to serve a variety of contemporary needs. It entails the application of the skills and methods of history to the study, management, preservation and interpretation of historical records and artifacts. A public historian is a professional who can put his or her knowledge and skills to use in our society in such diverse activities as museum, historical society or archival work; neighborhood or community history projects; historic preservation and cultural resource management programs; and local, state or federal research projects.
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Professional Organizations
- American Association for State and Local History (AASLH)AASLH provides leadership and support for its members who preserve and interpret state and local history in order to make the past more meaningful to all Americans.
- American Historical Association (AHA): Resources for Public HistoriansThe AHA has long been an advocate of public history and has regularly expressed a strong commitment to its practice. In 2001 it created the Task Force on Public History to help the AHA to address the interests and concerns of public historians within the
- National Council on Public History (NCPH)The NCPH promotes professionalism among history practitioners and encourages their engagement with the public; provides professional development opportunities; fosters networking among public history practitioners; and supports history education.
Call for Papers
- Conference on Illinois HistoryProposals for individual papers or panels on any aspect of Illinois' history, culture, politics, geography, literature, and archaeology are requested for the Conference on Illinois History. The Conference welcomes submissions from professional and avocational historians, graduate students, and those engaged in the study of Illinois history at libraries, historic sites, museums, and historical societies.
About This Guide
This guide is intended primarily to assist graduate students in Public History courses identify and locate valuable print and online resources available through the Loyola University Libraries as well as freely available web resources. Graduate and undergraduate students in History and in other programs may also find it useful.
The guide is arranged by subject, with each page (see tabs) providing an introduction to core resources. The Public History Overview page includes resources of value across the many professional fields that comprise Public History as well as general reference sources.
Visitors to this page may also find it beneficial to view the History Subject Guide, which provides broader resources for historical research, lists digital collections of primary source materials, and explains how to identify and locate primary sources.
The original author of this guide is Susan Hanf, a 2002 graduate of Loyola University of Chicago's Public History M.A. program. She completed the guide in fall 2008 as part of a fieldwork/practicum while working towards a M.L.I.S. (Master of Library and Information Science) degree at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Selected Journals & Periodicals
Loyola Libraries retain a print copy of only the most recent issue in the recent periodicals area of Cudahy. A complete index of back issues, plus links to PDFs versions of issues from recent years, is freely available on the NCPH web site.
Citations and/or abstracts are available in Historical Abstracts and America: History & Life.
Recommended Books - History/Public History
Scholary works that address American popular culture and memory and their relation to the theory and practice of Public History.
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