Public History in Historical Perspective

The aim of this series is to explore, from different critical perspectives, how representations of the past in the United States and across the globe have been mobilized to serve a variety of political, cultural, and social ends.  Books in the series will offer analyses of interest not only to academic historians but also to the wide community of scholars engaged in efforts to understand the role of history and memory in public life.  

Manuscript Submissions

Please direct manuscript inquiries to the series editor or to:

Matt Becker, Executive Editor
University of Massachusetts Press
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Amherst, MA  01003
mbecker@umpress.umass.edu
413-545-4989

Series Editor

Marla R. Miller
Department of History
University of Massachusetts
609 Herter Hall
Amherst, MA  01003
mmiller@history.umass.edu

Editorial Advisory Board

David W. Blight
Yale University

Seth Bruggeman
Temple University

Gail DuBrow 
University of Minnesota

Benjamin Filene
University of North Carolina Greensboro

David Glassberg 
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Katherine C. Grier 
University of Delaware

Edward T. Linenthal
Editor, Journal of American History

Steven Lubar
Brown University

Tiya Miles
University of Michigan

Max Page
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Liz Sevcenko
​Humanities Action Lab at the New School for Social Research 

Mark Tebeau
Arizona State University

Patricia West
National Park Service

 

Books in the Series (arranged by year of publication)

Material Politics
Francis P. Garvan, American Antiques, and the Alchemy of Collecting in the Interwar United States 		Catherine L. Whalen 2017
The Stages of Memory
Reflections on Memorial Art, Loss, and the Spaces Between 		James E. Young 2016
History Is Bunk
Assembling the Past at Henry Ford's Greenfield Village 		Jessie Swigger 2014
The Spirit of 1976
"Commerce, Community, and the Politics of Commemoration" 		Tammy S. Gordon 2013
Memories of Buenos Aires
Signs of State Terrorism in Argentina 		Memoria Abierta 2013
From Storefront to Monument
Tracing the Public History of the Black Museum Movement 		Andrea A. Burns 2013
Remembering the Revolution
"Memory, History, and Nation Making from Independence to the Civil War" 		"edited by Michael A. McDonnell, Clare Corbould, Frances M. Clarke, and W. Fitzhugh Brundage" 2013
A Living Exhibition
The Smithsonian and the Transformation of the Universal Museum 		William S. Walker 2013
The Wages of History
Emotional Labor on Public History's Front Lines 		Amy Tyson 2013
[node-title] Alice Morse Earle and the Domestic History of Early America Susan Reynolds Williams 2013
Remembering the Forgotten War
The Enduring Legacies of the U.S.-Mexican War 		Michael Scott Van Wagenen 2012
"Museums, Monuments, and National Parks"
Toward a New Genealogy of Public History 		Denise D. Meringolo 2012
Born in the U.S.A.
"Birth, Commemoration, and American Public Memory" 		edited by Seth C. Bruggeman 2012
[node-title] Everybody's History
Indiana's Lincoln Inquiry and the Quest to Reclaim a President's Past 		Keith A. Erekson 2012
Out of the Attic
Inventing Antiques in Twentieth-Century New England 		Briann G. Greenfield 2009