Public History
at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Massachusetts boasts a rich network of museums, archives, historical societies, documentary filmmakers, and historic preservation agencies, as well as one of the top public research universities in the nation. The program develops innovative public projects that engage a broad range of audiences outside the University. Since 1986, the Public History Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has provided a vital link between the University and the Commonwealth's wide variety of institutions that preserve and communicate history to the public. |
Public History students on a guided riverboat cruise of the Connecticut River during a recent historic site field trip. |
Beyond the borders of Massachusetts, the public history program has been active at national and international levels, working with the National Park Service, the Center for History and New Media, the National Council on Public History, the Organization of American Historians, and the H-Net scholars’ network. Our students and faculty are currently engaged in projects as close to home as Hadley, Springfield, and Boston, Massachusetts, and as far afield as Germany, Ireland, and Lebanon.
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The public history program prepares graduate students for a variety of positions in a range of settings. Course offerings regularly include: Landscape and Memory, Material Culture, Digital History, Oral History, Preservation Theory, and Museum and Historic Site Interpretation.
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Places where alumni are currently employed include: the National Archives, the National Park Service, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City, the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society, the Macmillan Group, the Illinois State Museum, the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College, and the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina. Internship sites in recent years have included: the Massachusetts Trustees of Reservations, Colonial Williamsburg, Cliveden (a National Trust for Historic Preservation site), Monadnock Media, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, and the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission.
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For More Information Contact:
Director, Public History Program
Department of History, Herter Hall
University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003-3930
Tel. (413) 545-1330
E-mail: public@history.umass.edu
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Terror and Wonder: Architecture
in a Tumultuous Age
December 8 (see more)
The PH 2036 Conference celebrated 25 years of Public History,
September 2011 (see more)
UMass Historic Preservation Initiative presents walking tour and panel discussion on Holyoke's preservation efforts on April 29th... (see more)
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Preservationist Charles Birnbaum to lecture on the future of cultural landscapes April 7th... (see more)
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W.E.B. Du Bois exhibit curated by UMass public history students to open April 7th in Great Barrington... (see more)
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Professor Max Page to open exhibit documenting Argentina's "Dirty War" at the Herter Gallery... (see more)
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On March 3rd, the Public History program and WGBY will co-sponsor a screening of "Freedom Riders," an American Experience documentary... (see more)
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Public History student Morgan Hubbard won the 2011 National Council on Public History Student Project Award... (see more)
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Professor Marla Miller receives award from the 2010 Cundill Prize in History... (see more)
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Public History student Eliza Ahrens collaborated on the re-design of a permanent exhibit at the Higgins Armory Museum in Worcester... (see more)
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Recent Public History graduate Kayla Haveles curated an online exhibit for Historic New England on the history of Plum Island to commemorate... (see more)
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The Public History program is now on Facebook. Visit our page to learn about upcoming events, interesting news stories... (see more)
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Public History student Morgan Hubbard curates "Uncertain Futures" exhibit at Archives and University Special Collections… (see more)
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Public History Program Chair Marla Miller co-curated "Betsy Ross: The Life Behind the Legend", at the Winterthur Museum... (see more)
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Liz Ševčenko, founding Director of the International Coalition of Sites of Concience (a network of historic sites that foster public dialogue on pressing human rights and social issues), will give a talk on Friday, Sept 24 at 4pm in Herter Hall, Room 231... (see more)
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Announcing A New Series of Annual Travel Courses: International Perspecitves on Urbanism and the Politics of the Past... (see more)
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Public History Program alumna Kate Navarra Thibodeau's film, "Creating Holyoke: Voices of a Community" airing on
WGBY TV...(see more)
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