- Title:
- Viewing Public History Through the Historian's Macroscope
- Creator:
- Hawco, Victoria
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Degree Awarded:
- Master of Arts - Public History with Digital Humanities Specialization
- Subjects:
- Public History Text Analysis Historiography Public History
- Geographical Focus:
- Canada US
- Supporting Materials:
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210303162601/https://victoriahawco.gitbook.io/carleton-mrp/
- Description:
- This essay and contextual website (https://victoriahawco.gitbook.io/carleton-mrp/) will present a historiographical data-driven analysis of “public history”, as understood through a distant read of the entire The Public Historian corpus, the major journal for the field. This journal is instrumental for defining the field and showing how its goals may have changed over time. By using large-scale computational text analysis, I can trace how public history has evolved. In particular, I have identified that the journal’s early publications discussed training historians for the workplace. Secondarily, public history sought to reconcile the differences between community historians and the history of the academy. By analyzing the entire corpus of the journal The Public Historian with large-scale computational text analysis I can demonstrate that there are two periods in the field’s history which reflect those separate goals, with the earlier three decades reflecting the employment directive, and the latter two reflecting a change in focus.
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- Hawco, Victoria. 2021. "Viewing Public History Through the Historian's Macroscope", Department of History, Carleton University
- Link to this page:
- https://cuhistory.github.io/grads/items/hist_319.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright the author, all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.