Field project and additional graduate work. Includes editing papers and helping to produce a scholarly journal. Individual projects in history. Research project required. Introduction to the disciplineof public history, including its methodology and literature.
Field work is required.
Reading seminar focusing on history and memory in the postwar period. Also it explores the culture wars that have erupted over how history is taught, exhibited, and remembered. Research seminar on oral history. Emphasis on collecting, cataloging, care, and exhibition, as well as ethics, public responsibility, and grantsmanship. Special problems in collections management, exhibition, education, and other related museological topics.