Key Terms of Public History

Christine Gundermann, Juliane Brauer, Filippo Carlà-Uhink, Judith Keilbach, Georg Koch, Thorsten Logge, Daniel Morat, Arnika Peselmann, Stefanie Samida, Astrid Schwabe and Miriam Sénécheau

Funded by: University of Luxembourg

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2025

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This volume introduces key terms of public history and makes them accessible via the most important subject areas and central research perspectives. It is aimed at students, teachers and practitioners who deal with history in the public sphere and offers approaches to the theoretical foundation of public history as part of historical cultural studies.

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Table of contents

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

1 Introduction

2 Authenticity

3 Emotions

4 Experience: Erlebnis and Erfahrung

5 Heritage

6 Historical culture

7 Historical imagination

8 Historical thinking

9 Memory

10 Performativity

11 Reception

Bibliography

Authors

Index of persons

Index of subjects

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Open Access

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111460727/html

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