Usable Pasts: Comparing Approaches to Popular and Public History

Abstract

The publication of Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen’s The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life in 1998 signalled a landmark in the empirical study of popular and public history. 1 It outlined a way of conceptualising the character of popular and public forms of history, and was the first major attempt to generate sociological insight into the ways in which ordinary people understand and use history in their everyday lives.

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