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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mbecker@umpress.umass.edu
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Series Editor

Marla R. Miller
Department of History
University of Massachusetts
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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
North Carolina Museum of History

David Glassberg 
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Katherine C. Grier 
University of Delaware

Edward T. Linenthal
Indiana University

Steven Lubar
Brown University

Tiya Miles
Harvard University

Max Page
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Tom Scheinfeldt
University of Connecticut

Liz Sevcenko
​Humanities Action Lab at Rutgers University-Newark 

Mark Tebeau
Arizona State University

Patricia West
National Park Service

Titles (arranged by year of publication)

book title surrounding an early American painting depicting a ship at sea Collecting the Globe
The Salem East India Marine Society Museum 		George H. Schwartz 2020
The Genealogical Sublime Julia Creet 2020
color photo of a historic ship with an American flag flying overhead Preserving Maritime America
A Cultural History of the Nation's Great Maritime Museums 		James M. Lindgren 2019
historic black and white image of the Campbell House Museum Taking Possession
The Politics of Memory in a St. Louis Town House 		Heidi Aronson Kolk 2019
Cross-Border Commemorations
Celebrating Swedish Settlement in America 		Adam Hjorthén 2018
Exhibiting Scotland
Objects, Identity, and the National Museum 		Alima Bucciantini 2018
Clio's Foot Soldiers
Twentieth-Century U.S. Social Movements and Collective Memory 		Lara Leigh Kelland 2018
The Stages of Memory
Reflections on Memorial Art, Loss, and the Spaces Between 		James E. Young 2018
Remember Little Rock Erin Krutko Devlin 2017
Bending the Future
Fifty Ideas for the Next Fifty Years of Historic Preservation in the United States 		edited by Max Page and Marla R. Miller 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