1st Edition
Performing Public History Case Studies in Historical Storytelling
By David Dean
Copyright 2025
200 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
200 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
200 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Performing Public History explores history-telling as a performance across a wide range of media, including theatre and film, historical re-enactments and living history performances, operas, and video games.
Taking historians as storytellers, this book illustrates how the choices they make shape historical meaning. While historians may strive to be objective when they research and write the... Read more
1. History, Public History, Performance 2. The Truth About Archives 3. Performing the Real 4. Feeling the Past 5. Authentic Performances 6. “The Cat Ate My Bannock” and Other Stories Epilogue: Performing Public History Appendix: Classroom Activities
Biography
David Dean is Distinguished Research Professor and Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Carleton University, Canada. He has published widely in the field of public history, including A Companion to Public History (2018). He is the co-editor of International Public History, the journal of the International Federation for Public History.
