Public historian

The most widely understood definition of a public historian is a practitioner of public history. This definition holds that public historians are generally regarded as those people who create history for public consumption; history as digested outside of the academy. Their work can take place in various locations and formats, including museums, historic sites, archives, films, and books. A second definition of public historians has to do with those historians who, within the academy, study the public consumption of history. In addition, professional historians giving objective expert evidence before courts and tribunals may also be considered as "public historians".

External links

• There is a publication dedicated to this theme, Public Historian—a review of the index at <http://www.ncph.org/Portals/13/Publications/TPH%20Index%20March2008.pdf> is an interesting field trip into the many facets of "public history".
• There is also a "public historian website" at <http://www.publichistory.org/reviews/index.asp>.
• The Canadian Historical Society also has an informative article on the field of public history at <http://www.cha-shc.ca/becoming%20a%20historian/chaptereleven.shtml>.