Public History Resource Guide

General Sources
History, Historiography, and Historical Theory
Cultural Resources Management and Historic Preservation
Museums, Historic Sites, and Historical Agencies
Historical Memory
Oral History
History in the Public Interest
Popular History
Landscape
Heritage Tourism
Archives
History in the Federal Government
History in Business
Policy History
Government History
Historians as Legal Consultants
Historical Editing
Career Planning for Historians
Multimedia History
Historical Software on CD

 


General Sources

Achenbaum, Andrew W. "Public History’s Past, Present, and Prospects," American Historical Review, 92 (December 1987): 21-46.

Benson, Susan P., Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenweig (eds.) Presenting the Past: Essays on History and the Public. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986.

Fishel, Leslie H., Jr. "Public History and the Academy." In Barbara J. Howe, and Emory L. Kemp (eds.) Public History: An Introduction. Melbourne, Fl.: Krieger Publishing Co., 1986, 8-19.

Frisch, Michael. A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990).

George, Gerald. "The Perils of ‘Public’ History: An Imaginary Excursion into the Real World." In Barbara J. Howe, and Emory L. Kemp (eds.) Public History: An Introduction. Melbourne, Fl.: Krieger Publishing Co., 1986, 20-28.

Hayden, Delores. The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995.

Howe, Barbara J., and Emory L. Kemp (eds.) Public History: An Introduction. Melbourne, Fl.: Krieger Publishing Co., 1986.

Kammen, Michael.  In the Past Lane: Historical Perspectives on American Culture.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Karamanski, Theodore J. "Making History Whole: Public Service, Public History, and the Profession." The Public Historian 12 (Summer 1990): 91-101.

Leffler, Phyllis K. and Joseph Brent. Public and Academic History: A Philosophy and a Paradigm. Malabar, Fl.: Krieger Publishing Company, 1990.

Leffler, Phyllis K., and Joseph Brent. Public History Readings. Malabar, Fl.: Krieger Publishing Company, 1992.

Minow, Martha.  Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence.  Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.

Mooney-Melvin, Patricia. "Professional Historians and 'Destiny's Gate'." The Public Historian 17 (Summer 1995): 9-24.

O’Donnell, Terence. "Pitfalls along the Path of Public History." In Benson, Susan P., Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenweig (eds.) Presenting the Past: Essays on History and the Public. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986, 239-244.

Scarpino, Philip V. "Some Thoughts on Defining, Evaluating, and Rewarding Public Scholarship." The Public Historian 15 (Spring 1993): 55-61.

Storey, Brit Allan. "Hanging by Four Pine Needles (Or, Confessions of a Public Historian)." The Public Historian 14 (Summer 1992): 11-22.

Vaughn, Stephen. (ed.) The Vital Past: Writings on the Uses of History. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985.

Public History Web Sites

Links for Historians.  

History, Historiography, and Historical Theory

Appleby, Joyce, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob.  Telling the Truth about History.  New York, 1994.

Berkhofer, Robert F., Jr.  Beyond the Great Story: History as Text and Discourse.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.

Cronon, William. "A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative." Journal of American History (March 1992): 1347-1376.

Evans, Richard J.  In Praise of History.  New York: Norton, 1999.

Harlan, David.  The Degradation of American History.   Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Novick, Peter.  That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Cultural Resources Management and Historic Preservation

Bradley, Betsy H.  The Works: The Industrial Architecture of the Untied States.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Brashler, Janet G. "Managing the Past in a Natural Resources Management Agency." In Barbara J. Howe and Emory L. Kemp (eds.) Public History: An Introduction. Melbourne, Fl.: Krieger Publishing Co., 1986, 145-157.

Cohen, Nahoum.  Urban Conservation.   Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999.

Dubrow, Gail. "Claiming Public Space for Women’s History in Boston." Frontiers 13 (1992): 111-148.

Fitch, James M. Historic Preservation: Curatorial Management of the Built World. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1990 (first published in 1982).

Ford, Larry R. Cities and Buildings: Skyscrapers, Skidrows, and Suburbs. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

Francaviglia, Richard V.  Main Street Revisited: Time, Space, and Image Building in Small-Town America.  Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1996.

Gratz, Roberta B., and Norman Mintz.  Cities Back from the Edge: New Life for Downtown.  New York: John Wiley, 1998.

Howard, Hugh. The Preservationist’s Progress: Architectural Adventures in Conserving Yesterday’s Houses. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1991.

Grosvenor, Beth. "Federal Programs in Historic Preservation." In Barbara J. Howe and Emory L. Kemp (eds.) Public History: An Introduction. Melbourne, Fl.: Krieger Publishing Co., 1986, 130-144.

Hough, Michael. Out of Place: Restoring Identity to the Regional Landscape. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.

Howe, Barbara J. "Historic Preservation: An Interdisciplinary Field." In Barbara J. Howe and Emory L. Kemp (eds.) Public History: An Introduction. Melbourne, Fl.: Krieger Publishing Co., 1986, 158-173.

Howe, Barbara J. "The Historian in Historic Preservation: An Introduction." In Barbara J. Howe and Emory L. Kemp (eds.) Public History: An Introduction. Melbourne, Fl.: Krieger Publishing Co., 1986, 111-129.

Hufford, Mary, ed. Conserving Culture: A New Discourse on Heritage. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Huyck, Heather, and Dwight Pitcaithley. "National Park Service: Historians in Interpretation, Management, and Cultural Resources Management." In Barbara J. Howe and Emory L. Kemp (eds.) Public History: An Introduction. Melbourne, Fl.: Krieger Publishing Co., 1986, 358-374.

Jameson, John H., Jr. (ed.)  Archaeology and the National Park Idea.  The George Wright Forum (Volume 16, Number 4, December 1999)  Articles online.

Jameson, John H., Jr.  Presenting Archaeology to the Public: Digging for Truths.  Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, 1997.  Volume bibliography online.

Johnson, Ronald W. "History in the National Park Service: The Denver Service Center as a Case Study." In Barbara J. Howe and Emory L. Kemp (eds.) Public History: An Introduction. Melbourne, Fl.: Krieger Publishing Co., 1986, 375-399.

Kammen, Carol. On Doing Local History: Reflections on What Local Historians Do, Why, and What It Means. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1986.

Kemp, Emory L. "A Perspective on Our Industrial Past through Industrial Archeology." In Barbara J. Howe and Emory L. Kemp (eds.) Public History: An Introduction. Melbourne, Fl.: Krieger Publishing Co., 1986, 174-198.

King, Thomas F.  Cultural Resource Laws and Practice: An Introductory Guide.  Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, 1998.

King, Thomas F.  Federal Planning and Historical Places : The Section 106 Process.  Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, 2000.

Kunstler, James H.  Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.

Lamme, Ary L., III. America’s Historic Landscapes: Community Power and the Preservation of Four National Historic Sites. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989.

Littlejohn, David.  The Fate of the English Country House.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Lowenthal, David.  The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. (First published in 1996)

Lowenthal, David. The Past is a Foreign Country. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

McDavid, Carol, and David W. Babson, eds.  In the Realm of Politics: Prospects for Public Participation in African-American and Plantation Archaeology.   Historical Archaeology 31 (1997).

Maines, Rachel P., and James J. Glenn. "Numinous Objects." The Public Historian 15 (Winter 1993): 9-25.

Miller, Page Putnam. Reclaiming the Past: Landmarks of Women’s History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.

Miller, Page Putnam, "The Women’s History Landmark Project: Policy and Research," Public Historian, 15 (Fall 1993): 82-88.

Moe, Richard and Carter Wilkie.  Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl.  New York: Henry Holt, 1997.

Murtagh, William J. Keeping Time: The History and Theory of Preservation in America. Pittstown, N.J.: Main Street Press, revised edition, 1997.

Potter, Parker B., Jr.  Public Archaeology in Annapolis: A Critical Approach to History in Maryland's Ancient City.  Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.

Smith, George S., and John E. Ehrenhard (eds.)  Protecting the Past.  Online version of book on archaeological site protection  published in 1991 by CRS Press.  

Stipe, Robert E. and Antoinette J. Lee (eds). The American Mosaic: Preserving a Nation’s Heritage. Washington, D.C.: International Council on Monuments and Sites, 1987.

Wallace, Michael. "Reflections on the History of Historic Preservation." In Benson, Susan P., Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenweig (eds.) Presenting the Past: Essays on History and the Public. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986, 165-199.

Whitaker, Craig.  Architecture and the American Dream.  New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1996.

Web Sites

National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places Publications online

National Historic Landmark program

Preserve/Net.  A guide to preservation resources.  

Battlefield Preservation

Battlefield Archaeology

Industrial Archaeology

Architectural History

Underwater Archaeology

Prehistoric Archaeology

Native American historic preservation

Museums, Historic Sites, and Historical Agencies

"Disney and the Historians—Where Do We Go from Here?" The Public Historian 17 (Fall 1995): 41-89.

"History and the Public: What Can We Handle? A Round Table about History after the Enola Gay Controversy." Journal of American History 82 (December 1995): 1029-1144.

Ames, Kenneth L., Barbara Franco, and L. Thomas Frye, eds.  Ideas and Images: Developing Interpretive History Exhibits.  Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1992.

Anderson, William T., and Shirley P. Low.  Interpretation of Historic Sites.  2nd ed.  Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1985.

Ayres, Edward.  "Colonial Williamsburg's Choosing Revolution Storyline."  The Public Historian 20 (Summer 1998): 77-92.

Breen, T. H. Imagining the Past: East Hampton Histories. Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1989.

Breitbart, Eric. "The Painted Mirror: Historical Re-creation from the Panorama to the Docudrama." In Benson, Susan P., Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenweig (eds.) Presenting the Past: Essays on History and the Public. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986, 105-117.

Carson, Cary.  "Colonial Williamsburg and the Pracrtice of Interpretive Planning in American History Museums."  The Public Historian 20 (Summer 1998): 11-51.

Carson, Cary. "Lost in the Fun House: A Commentary on Anthropologists’ First Contact with History Museums." Journal of American History 81 (June 1994): 137-150.

Castañeda, Quetzil E.  In the Museum of Maya Culture: Touring Chichén Itzá.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

Davis, Thomas J. "‘They, Too, Were Here’: The Afro-American Experience and History Museums." American Quarterly 41 (1989):328-340.

Dolan, Douglas C. "The Historian in the Local Historical Museum." In Barbara J. Howe and Emory L. Kemp (eds.) Public History: An Introduction. Melbourne, Fl.: Krieger Publishing Co., 1986, 241-250.

Dorst, John D. The Written Suburb: An American Site, An Ethnographic Dilemma. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989.

Durel, John W. "The past: A Thing to Study, A Place to Go." In Barbara J. Howe and Emory L. Kemp (eds.) Public History: An Introduction. Melbourne, Fl.: Krieger Publishing Co., 1986, 229-240.

Elsner, John and Roger Cardinal, eds. The Cultures of Collecting. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994.

Falk, John H., and Lynn D. Dierking.  Learning from Museums:  Visitor Experiences and the Making of Meaning.  Walnut Creek, CA.: AltaMira Press, 2000.

Fleming, John E. "African-American Museums, History, and the American Ideal." Journal of American History 81 (December 1994): 1020-1026.

Franco, Barbara. "The Communication Conundrum: What Is the Message? Who Is Listening?" Journal of American History 81 (June 1994): 151-163.

Gable, Eric and Richard Handler. "The Authority of Documents at Some American History Museums." Journal of American History 81 (June 1994): 119-136.

Gable, Eric, and Richard Handler. "Colonialist Anthropology at Colonial Williamsburg." Museum Anthropology 17 (October 1993): 26-31.

Gable, Eric, Richard Handler, and Anna Lawson. "On the Uses of Relativism: Fact, Conjecture, and Black and White Histories at Colonial Williamsburg. " American Ethnologist 19, 4 (1992): 791-805.

Handler, Richard and Eric Gable.  The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg.  Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.

Harwit, Martin.  An Exhibit Denied: Lobbying the History of Enola Gay.  New York: Copernicus, 1996.

Hein, George E.  Learning in the Museum.  London: Routledge, 1998.

Henderson, Amy, and Adrienne L. Kaeppler, eds.  Exhibiting Dilemmas: Issues of Representation at the Smithsonian.  Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.

Horton, James O., and Spencer R. Crew. "Afro-Americans and Museums: Towards a Policy of Inclusion." in Leon, Warren and Roy Rosenweig eds. History Museums in the United States: A Critical Assessment. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989: 215-236.

Kammen, Michael. Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in America. New York: Knopf, 1992.

Karp, Ivan, and Steven D. Lavine, eds. Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.

Karp, Ivan, Christine M. Kreamer, and Steven D. Lavine, eds. Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.

Kimball, Gregg D., and Marie Tyler-McGraw. "Integrating the Interpretation of the Southern City: An Exhibition Case Study." The Public Historian 12 (Spring 1990): 31-43.

Kirschenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara.  Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Krugler, John D. "Behind the Public Presentations: Research and Scholarship at Living History Museums of Early America." William and Mary Quarterly 98 (July 1991): 347-385.

Kulik, Gary. "Designing the Past: History Museum Exhibitions from Peale to the Present." in Leon, Warren and Roy Rosenweig (eds. History Museums in the United States: A Critical Assessment. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989, 2-37.

Kurin, Richard.  Reflections of a Culture Broker: A View from the Smithsonian.  Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.

Lapansky, Emma J. "Patriotism, Values, and Continuity: Museum Collecting and ‘Connectedness.’" Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography CXIV (January 1990): 67-82.

Leon, Warren and Roy Rosenweig (eds. History Museums in the United States: A Critical Assessment. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.

Leuchtenburg, William E. (ed.)  American Places: Encounters with History.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Little, Cynthia J. "Beyond Text Panels and Labels: Education and Public Programming in American Historical Societies." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography CXIV (January 1990): 83-95.

Little, Cynthia J. "Celebrating 300 Years in a City of Neighborhoods: Philadelphia Moving Past." In Barbara J. Howe and Emory L. Kemp (eds.) Public History: An Introduction. Melbourne, Fl.: Krieger Publishing Co., 1986, 265-276

Linenthal, Edward T. Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum. New York: Viking Press, 1995.

Lubar, Steven. "Public History in a Federal Museum: The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History." In Barbara J. Howe and Emory L. Kemp (eds.) Public History: An Introduction. Melbourne, Fl.: Krieger Publishing Co., 1986, 218-228.

Maleuvre, Dodoer.  Museum Memories: History, Technology, Art.  Stanford University Press, 1999.

Marling, Karal Ann. "Writing History with Artifacts: Columbus at the 1893 Chicago Fair." The Public Historian 14 (Fall 1992): 13-30.

McDaniel, George. "Folklife Festivals: History as Entertainment and Education." In Barbara J. Howe and Emory L. Kemp (eds.) Public History: An Introduction. Melbourne, Fl.: Krieger Publishing Co., 1986, 277-291.

Melosh, Barbara and Christina Simmons. "Exhibiting Women’s History." In Benson, Susan P., Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenweig (eds.) Presenting the Past: Essays on History and the Public. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986, 203-221.

Miller, Lige B., Jr. "History on the Drawing Board: The Historian as Developer of Interpretative Media." In Barbara J. Howe and Emory L. Kemp (eds.) Public History: An Introduction. Melbourne, Fl.: Krieger Publishing Co., 1986, 199-208.

Mooney-Melvin, Patricia. "Harnessing the Romance of the Past: Preservation, Tourism, and History." The Public Historian 13 (Spring 1991): 35-48.

Nash, Gary B. "Behind the Velvet Curtain: Academic History, Historical Societies, and the Presentation of the Past." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography CXIV (January 1990): 3-36.

Roth, Stacy F.  Past into Present: Effective Techniques for First-Person Historical Interpretation.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Scardaville, Michael C., "Quincentennial Scholarship and the Public: Who Controls the Columbian Legacy?" The Public Historian 14 (Fall 1992): 102-114.

Schlereth, Thomas J. "Editor’s Report: Reviewing Reviewing." Journal of American History 81 (June 1994): 183-187.

Schlereth, Thomas J. "History Museums and Material Culture." in Leon, Warren and Roy Rosenweig eds. History Museums in the United States: A Critical Assessment. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989: 294-320.

Sherman, Daniel J., and Irit Rogoff, eds. Museum Culture: Histories, Discourses, Spectacles. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.

Smith, Barbara C. "The Authority of History: The Changing Public Face of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography CXIV (January 1990): 37-66.

Tyler-McGraw, Marie.  Becoming Americans Again: Re-envisioning and Revising Thematic Interpretation at Colonial Williamsburg."  The Public Historian 20 (Summer 1998): 53-76.

Wallace, Michael. "Visiting the Past: History Museums in the United States." In Benson, Susan P., Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenweig (eds.) Presenting the Past: Essays on History and the Public. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986, 137-161.

Williams, John A., "Sailing Over the Edge with Columbus: A Memoir," The Public Historian 14 (Fall 1992): 31-56.

Zinsser, William. American Places: A Writer’s Pilgrimage to 15 of This Country’s Most Visited and Cherished Sites. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
 

Museum Sources
 

Directories of Museum Web sites

Associations

Curation

Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation (NAGPRA)

National NAGPRA Database

Museum Web sites

Online Exhibits

Historical Memory

Bal, Mieke.  Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present.  Dartmouth, 1999..

Baruma, Ian. The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan. New York: Ferrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1994.

Blight, David W.  Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Bodnar, John. "Power and Memory in Oral History: Workers and Managers at Studebaker." Journal of American History 75 (March 1989): 1201-1221.

Bodnar, John. Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.

Boller, Paul F.  Not so!: Popular Myths about America's Past from Columbus to Clinton.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Boyer, M. Christine. The City of Collective Memory: Its Historical Imagery and Architectural Entertainments. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994.

Brown, Donald E. Hierarchy, History, and Human Nature: The Social Origins of Historical Consciousness. Phoenix: University of Arizona Press, 1988.

Brundage, W. Fitzhugh.  Where These Memories Grow: History, Memory, and Southern Identity.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000,

Cohen, David W. The Combing of History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Confino, Alon.  The Nation as a Local Metaphor: Württemberg, Imperial Germany, and National Memory.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Diner, Hasia R.  Lower East Side Memories.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Diner, Hasia R., Jeffrey Shandler, and Beth S. Wenger (eds).  Remembering the Lower East Side : American Jewish Reflections.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.

Fabre, Geneviève and Robert O'Meally, eds. History and Memory in African-American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Farmer, Sarah.  Martyred Village: Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Foote, Kenneth E.  Shadowed Ground: America's Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy.  Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.

Foster, Gaines M. Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, The Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South. New York, 1987.

Foster, Stephen W. The Past is another Country: Representation, Historical Consciousness, and Resistance in the Blue Valley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Gallagher, Gary W. and and Alan T. Nolan, eds.  The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.

Gillis, John R., ed. Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.

Golsan, Richard J.  Vichy's Afterlife: History and Counterhistory in Postwar France.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.

Hass, Kristin Ann.  Carried to the Wall: American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Hobsbawm, Eric and Terence Ranger, eds. The Invention of Tradition. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Hutton, Patrick.  History as an Art of Memory.  University of Vermont Press, 1993.

Jacobitti, Edmund F., ed.  Composing Useful Pasts: History as Contemporary Politics.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000.

Jeffrey, Jaclyn and Glenacre Edwall, eds. Memory and History. University Press of America, 1993.

Kammen, Michael. Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in America. New York: Knopf, 1992.

Kasson, Joy.  Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History.  New York: Hill and Wang, 2000.

Koshar, Rudy.  Germany's Transient Pasts: Preservation and National Memory in the Twentieth Century.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Levinson, Sanford.  Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies.  Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.

Linenthal, Edward T. "Committing History in Public." Journal of American History 81 (December 1994): 986-991.

Linenthal, Edward T., and Tom Engelhardt. History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past. Metropolitan Books, August 1996.

Loewen, James W.  Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong.  New York: New Press, 1999.

Loewen, James W.  Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong.  New York: New Press, 1995.

Lowenthal, David. "The Timeless Past: Some Anglo-American Historical Preconceptions." Journal of American History 75 (March 1989): 1263-1280.

Lowenthal, David. "Past Time, Present Place: Landscape and Memory." Geographical Review 65 (January 1975): 1-36.

Lowenthal, David.  Possessed by the Past: The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History.  New York: Free Press, 1996

Lowenthal, David. The Past is a Foreign Country. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Maechler, Stefan.  The Wilkomirski Affair : A Study in Biographical Truth Including the Complete Text of Fragments.  Schocken Books, 2001.

Memory and American History: A Special Issue. Journal of American History 75 (March 1989).

Mendel-Reyes, Meta. Reclaiming Democracy: The Sixties in Politics and Memory. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Middleton, David and Derek Edwards, eds. Collective Remembering. Newbury Park, CA., Sage, 1990.

Morris, Richard.  Sinners, Lovers, and Heroes: An Essay on Memorializing in Three American Cultures.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.

Mosse, George L. Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Nora, Pierre. "Between Memory and History." Representations 26 (Spring 1989): 7-25.

Peterson, Merrill D. Lincoln in American Memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Powell, Lawrence N.  Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

Roberts, Randy and James S. Olson.  A Line in the Sand: The Alamo in Blood and Memory.  New York: Free Press, 2001.

Rosenzweig, Roy and David Thelen.  The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.      A web site supplements the book with additional tables, the full text of the survey questionnaires, and afterthoughts by the authors.

Ross, Dorothy. "Historical Consciousness in Nineteenth-Century America." American Historical Review 89 (October 1984): 909-928.

Schudson, Michael. Watergate in American Memory: How We Remember, Forget, and Reconstruct the Past. New York: Basic Books, 1992.

Schwartz, Barry.  Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Seelye, John D.  Memory's Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Shindo, Charles J.  Dust Bowl Migrants in the American Imagination.  Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997.

Spitzer, Leo.  Hotel Bolivia: The Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism.  New York: Hill and Wang, 1998.

Strath, Bo.  Myth and Memory in the Construction of Community: Historical Patterns in Europe and Beyond.  Peter Lang Publishing, 2000.

Summerhill, Stephen J., and John A. Williams.  Sinking Columbus : Contested History, Cultural Politics, and Mythmaking During the Quincentenary.  Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000.

Thelen, David. "Memory and American History." Journal of American History 75 (March 1989): 1117-1129.

Thelen, David. "History Making in America." The Historian 53 (Summer 1991): 631-648.

Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995.

Wallace, Mike. Mickey Mouse History: The Politics of Public Memory. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996.

Watson, Rubie S., ed. Memory, History, and Opposition Under State Socialism. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 1994.

Wood, Nancy. "Memories Remains: Les Lieux de Mémoire." History and Memory 6 (Spring/Summer 1994): 123-149.

Young, Alfred F.  The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution.  Boston: Beacon Press, 1999.

Young, James E. The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.

 

The Enola Gay controversy: How do we remember a war that we won>

Reparations

  • Barkan, Elazar.  The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices.  New York: Norton, 2000.
  • Brooks, Roy L., ed.  When Sorry Isn't Enough : The Controversy over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice.  New York University Press, 1999.
  • Minow, Martha.  Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence.  Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.
  • Robinson, Randall L.  The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks.  E. P. Dutton, 2000.
  • Rotberg, Robert I. and Dennis Thompson, eds.  Truth v. Justice.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
  • Africa Reparations Movement
  • National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America

Truth and reconciliation Commissions

Oral History

Berlin, Ira, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller, eds.  Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation.  New York: The Free Press, 1998.  Book and two 60-minute audiotapes.

Portelli, Alessandro.  The Battle of Valle Guilia: Oral History and the Art of Dialogue.  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.

Robinson, Plater.  Gathering the Forgotten Voices: An Approach to Oral History.   Southern Institute for Education and Research

Shopes, Linda. "Oral History and Community Involvement: The Baltimore Neighborhood Heritage Project." In Benson, Susan P., Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenweig (eds.) Presenting the Past: Essays on History and the Public. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986, 249-263.

Louisiana Holocaust Survivors.  Oral History project.   Southern Institute for Education and Research.

History in the Public Interest

Southern Institute for Education and Research. Race and ethnic relations center at Tulane University.

Facing History.  National organization that uses the study of the Holocaust and genocide in a racism, antisemitism, and prejudice educational program in high schools.  

Museum of Tolerance.  Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles.

Popular History

Brown, Rodger L.  Ghost Dancing on the Cracker Circuit: The Culture of Festivals in the American South.  Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997.

Carnes, Mark C.  Novel History: American History According to the Novelists.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001.

Carnes, Mark C.  ed.  Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies.  New York: Henry Holt, 1995.

Glassberg, David. American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.

Horwitz, Tony.  Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War.  New York: Pantheon, 1998

Landy, Marcia.  The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media.  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2000.

Rosenstone, Robert A., ed. Revisioning History: Film and the Construction of a New Past. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.

Rosenstone, Robert A. Visions of the Past: The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.

Thelen, David. "The Movie Maker as Historian: Conversations with Ken Burns." Journal of American History 81 (December 1994): 1031-1054.

Toplin, Robert B. Ken Burns's The Civil War: Historians Respond. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Historical Documentaries

PBS on Line.  

A number of documentaries are available on videotape from PBS with an associated book, web site, and, in some cases, music CD.  Recent examples include:

Documentaries are also available from:

Popular Histories

Landscape

Conzen, Michael P. ed.  The Making of the American Landscape.  Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990.

Francaviglia, Richard V.  Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts.  Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1991.

Jackson, J.B.  A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time.   New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.

McClelland, Linda F.  Building the National Parks: Historic Landscape Design and Construction.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Potteiger, Matthew, and Jamie Purinton.  Landscape Narratives: Design Practices for Telling Stories.  New York: Wiley, 1998.

Spirn, Anne W.  The Language of Landscape.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

Thompson, George F.  ed.  Landscape in America.   Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.

 

Web Sites

Heritage Tourism

Brown, Dona.  Inventing New England: Regional Tourism in the Nineteenth Century.  Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.

Inglis, Fred.  The Delicious History of the Holiday.  Routledge, 2000.

MacCannell, Dean.  Empty Meeting Grounds: The Tourist Papers.  Routledge, 1992.

Morrow, Lynn and Linda Myers-Phinney.  Shepherd of the Hills Country: Tourism Transforms the Ozarks, 1880s-1930s.  Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1999.

Newman, Harvey K.  Southern Hospitality: Tourism and the Growth of Atlanta.  Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999.

Rothman, Hal.  Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West.  Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.

Sears, John F.  Sacred Places: American Tourist Attractions in the Nineteenth Century.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.

Wrobel, David M. and Patrick T. Long, eds.  Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West.  Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001.

Archives

Bradsher, James G. (ed) Managing Archives and Archival Institutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Dearstyne, Bruce W. (ed). Archives and Public History: Issues, Problems, and Prospects. Special issue of The Public Historian, Summer 1986.

Hackman, Larry J. "A Perspective on American Archives." In Bruce W. Dearstyne (ed). Archives and Public History: Issues, Problems, and Prospects. Special issue of The Public Historian (Summer 1986: 10-28.

Hackman, Larry J. "Toward the Year 2000." In Bruce W. Dearstyne (ed). Archives and Public History: Issues, Problems, and Prospects. Special issue of The Public Historian (Summer 1986): 92-98.

Hedlin, Edie. "Chinatown Revisited: The Status and Prospects of Government Records in America." In Bruce W. Dearstyne (ed). Archives and Public History: Issues, Problems, and Prospects. Special issue of The Public Historian (Summer 1986): 46-59.

Miller, Fredric. "Archives and Historical Manuscripts." In Barbara J. Howe, and Emory L. Kemp (eds.) Public History: An Introduction. Melbourne, Fl.: Krieger Publishing Co., 1986, 36-56.

Miller, Page Putnam. "Archival Issues and Problems: The Central Role of Advocacy." In Bruce W. Dearstyne (ed). Archives and Public History: Issues, Problems, and Prospects. Special issue of The Public Historian (Summer 1986): 60-73.

Web Sites

History in the Federal Government

"Contractors, Clients, and Gray Literature." The Public Historian 17 (Fall 1995): 8-40.

Cooling, Benjamin F. "History Programs in the Department of Defense." The Public Historian 12 (Fall 1990): 43-63.

Jones, Arnita A., and Wayne D. Rasmussen, "Wayne Rasmussen and the Development of Policy History at the United States Department of Agriculture." The Public Historian 14 (Winter 1992): 11-29.

May, Ernest R. "A Case for ‘Court Historians.’" Perspectives in American History III (1969): 413-434.

May, Ernest R. "Lessons" of the Past: The Use and Misuse of History in American Foreign Policy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973.

Mock, David B. History and Public Policy. Malabar, Fl.: Krieger Publishing Company, 1991

Ofcansky, Thomas P. "The History of the United States Air Force History Program." In Barbara J. Howe, and Emory L. Kemp (eds.) Public History: An Introduction. Melbourne, Fl.: Krieger Publishing Co., 1986, 310-323.

Page, Don. "History and Foreign Policy: The Roles and Constraints of a Public Historian in the Public Service." The Public Historian 6, No. 2 (Spring 1984): 21-36.

Reuss, Martin. "Federal Historians: Ethics and Responsibility in the Bureaucracy." The Public Historian 8, No. 1 (Winter 1986): 13-20.

Roland, Alex. A Guide to Research in NASA History. Washington: History Office (LBH), NASA Headquarters, 1983, seventh edition.

Roth, Dennis. "History in the U.S. Forest Service." The Public Historian 11, No. 1 (Winter 1989): 49-56.

Rumbarger, John J. "The War Production Board and Historical Research: Some Observations on Writing Public History." The Public Historian 6, No. 2 (Spring 1984): 5-20.

Smock, Raymond W. "Public History in the U.S. House of Representatives." The Public Historian 17 (Spring 1995): 49-57.

Spector, Ronald. "An Improbable Success Story: Official Military Histories in the Twentieth Century." The Public Historian 12 (Winter 1990): 25-30.

Steen, Harold K. The U.S. Forest Service: A History. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991.

Stensvaag, James T. "Searching for Congruence: Historians and Policymakers in the U.S. Army." The Public Historian 14 (Winter 1992): 55-70.

The Army Historian

The Federalist: Newsletter of the Society for History in the Federal Government.

Web sites

History in Business

Anderson, Harold E. "The Corporate History Department: The Wells Fargo Model." The Public Historian 3 (Summer 1981): 25-29.

Cortada, James W.  "The Case for Applied History in the World of Business: A Call for Action to Historians."  The Historian, 62 (Summer 2000), 835.

DeGraaf, Lawrence B. "Business Careers and the Undergraduate History Curriculum." The Public Historian 3, No. 3 (Summer 1981): 121-128.

Dellheim, Charles, "Business in Time: The Historian and Corporate Culture." The Public Historian 8 (Spring 1986): 9-22.

Douglass, Enid H. "Corporate History--Why?" The Public Historian 3, No. 3 (Summer 1981): 75-80.

Educating Historians for Business: A Guide for Departments of History.   Bloomington: Organization of American Historians, 1983.

Eulenberg, Julia N. "The Corporate Archives: Management Tool and Historical Resource." The Public Historian 6, No. 1 (Winter 1984): 21-37.

Forman, Richard. "History Inside Business." The Public Historian 3, No. 3 (Summer 1981): 41-61.

Garner, Les. "History for the Corporate Executive: Cultivating the Historical Imagination in MBA Students." History Teacher 18, No. 2 (February 1985): 199-226.

Johnston, Joseph S., Jr. et. al. Educating Managers: Executive Effectiveness through Liberal Learning. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1986.

Kantrow, Alan M. The Constraints of Corporate Tradition: Doing the Correct Thing, Not Just What the Past Dictates. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.

Kantrow, Alan M. (ed.) "Why History Matters to Managers. Harvard Business Review (January-February 1986): 81-88.

Kerr, Kathel A. and Amos J. Loveday.  Local Businesses: Exploring Their History.  Altamira Press, 2000.

Kobrin, Stephen J. "Political Assessment in International Firms: The Role of Nontraditional Specialists in Business Organizations." The Public Historian 3, No. 3 (Summer 1981): 87-94.

Lewis, W. David, and Wesley P. Newton. "The Writing of Corporate History (Delta Air Lines." The Public Historian 3, No. 3 (Summer 1981): 63-74.

Martin, Albro. "The Office of Corporate Historian: Organization and Functions," The Public Historian 3, No. 3 (Summer 1981): 11-23.

Mooney, Philip F. "The Practice of History in Corporate America: Business Archives in the United States." In Barbara J. Howe, and Emory L. Kemp (eds.) Public History: An Introduction. Melbourne, Fl.: Krieger Publishing Co., 1986, 427-439.

Pinsdorf, Marion K. "Hedgehogs and Foxes: Historians in Management."  The Public Historian 3, No. 3 (Summer 1981): 145-132.

Roscow, James P. "Collecting and Writing ARCO’s History." The Public Historian 3, No. 3 (Summer 1981): 81-84.

Ryant, Karl. "The Public Historian and Business History: A Question of Ethics." The Public Historian 8, No. 1 (Winter 1986): 31-38.

Smith, George D. and Laurence E. Steadman, "Present Value of Corporate History." Harvard Business Review (November- December 1981): 164-173.

Walkowitz, Daniel J. "Corporate History, or Giving History the Business." In Benson, Susan P., Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenweig (eds.) Presenting the Past: Essays on History and the Public. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986., 225-236.

Learning History

Policy History

Achenbaum, W. Andrew. "Politics, Power, and Problems: Perspectives on Writing Policy History." Journal of Policy History 1, No. 2 (1989): 202-231.

Achenbaum, W. Andrew. "The Making of an Applied Historian: Stage Two." The Public Historian 5, No. 2 (Spring 1983): 21-46.

Berkowitz, Edward D. "Public History, Academic History, and Policy Analysis: A Case Study with Commentary." The Public Historian 10, No. 4 (Fall 1988): 43-63.

Berkowitz, Edward. "History and Public Policy." In Barbara J. Howe, and Emory L. Kemp (eds.) Public History: An Introduction. Melbourne, Fl.: Krieger Publishing Co., 1986, 414-425.

Berkowitz, Edward. "History, Public Policy, and Reality." Journal of Social History 18 (Fall 1984): 79-89.

Bodnar, John. "Symbols and Servants: Immigrant America and the Limits of Public History." Journal of American History 73, No. 1 (June 1986): 137-151.

Critchlow, Donald T., and Ellis W. Hawley (eds). Federal Social Policy: The Historical Dimension. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988.

Graham, Hugh Davis. "The Stunted Career of Policy History: A Critique and an Agenda, The Public Historian 15 (Spring 1993): 15-37. "Roundtable: Responses to Hugh Davis Graham’s ‘The Stunted Career of Policy History: A Critique and Agenda," Public Historian 15 (Fall 1993): 51-81; Donald T. Critchlow, "A Prognosis of Policy History: Stunted--or Deceivingly Vital? A Brief Reply to Hugh Davis Graham," 51-61; Peter N. Stearns and Joel A. Tarr, "Straightening the Policy History Tree," 63-67; Martin Reuss, "Historians and Policymaking: A View from Inside the Beltway," 69-75; Jane Sherron De Hart, "Women’s History, Gender History, and Political History," 77-78; Hugh Davis Graham, "Response," 79-81.

Graham, Otis L., Jr. "The Uses and Misuses of History: Roles in Policymaking." The Public Historian 5, No. 2 (Spring, 1983): 5-20.

Graham, Otis L. Losing Time: The Industrial Policy Debate (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992).

Mock, David B. "History in the Public Arena." In Barbara J. Howe, and Emory L. Kemp (eds.) Public History: An Introduction. Melbourne, Fl.: Krieger Publishing Co., 1986, 401-413.

Neustadt, Richard E., and Ernest R. May. Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision Makers. New York: Free Press, 1986.

Page, Don. "Drawing Lessons from a Policy Planning/Analysis Exercise." The Public Historian 10, No. 2 (Spring 1988): 49-69.

Ritchie, Donald A. "The Oral History/Public History Connection," In Barbara J. Howe and Emory L. Kemp (eds.) Public History: An Introduction. Melbourne, Fl.: Krieger Publishing Co., 1986, 57-69.

Stakenas, Robert G., and David B. Mock. "Context Evaluation: The Use of History in Policy Analysis." The Public Historian, Vol. 7, No. 3 (Summer 1985): 43-56.

Stearns, Peter N. "Applied History and Social Science." Social Science History 6 (Spring 1982): 219-225.

Stearns, Peter N. "Forecasting the Future: Historical Analogies and Technological Determinism," The Public Historian 5, No. 3 (Summer 1983): 31-54.

Stearns, Peter N. "History and Policy Analysis: Toward Maturity." The Public Historian 4 No. 3 (Summer 1982): 5-29.

Stearns, Peter N. "History and Public Policy." Social Science and Public Policy: The Roles of Academic Disciplines in Policy Analysis. George J. McCall and George H. Weber (eds.). Port Washington, NY.: Associated Faculty Press, 1984, 91-128.

Stearns, Peter N., and Joel A. Tarr. "Applied History: A New-Old Departure." The History Teacher 14, No. 4 (August 1981): 517-531.

Walker, Samuel. "Broken Windows and Fractured History: The Use and Misuse of History in Recent Police Policy Analysis." Justice Quarterly I (March 1984): 75-90.

Historians as Legal Consultants

Becker, Carl M. "Professor for the Plaintiff: Classroom to Courtroom." The Public Historian 4, No. 3 (Summer 1982): 69-77.

Bolton, S. Charles. "The Historian as Expert Witness: Creationism in Arkansas." The Public Historian 4, No. 3 (Summer 1982): 59-67.

Kousser, J. Morgan. "Are Expert Witnesses Whores: Reflections on Objectivity in Scholarship and Expert Witnessing." The Public Historian 6, No. 1 (Winter 1984): 5-19.

Kousser, J. Morgan. "Ignoble Intentions and Noble Dreams: On Relativism and History with a Purpose." The Public Historian 15 (Summer 1993): 15-28.

Kousser, J. Morgan. "Expert Witnesses, Rational Choice, and the Search for Intent." Constitutional Commentary 5 (1988): 349-373.

Kousser, J. Morgan. "How to Determine Intent: Lessons from L.A." The Journal of Law and Politics 7 (1991): 591-732.

Kousser, J. Morgan. "The Voting Rights Act and the Two Reconstructions." In Controversies in Minority Voting: A Twenty-Five Year Perspective on the Voting Rights Act of 1965, edited by Chandler Davidson and Bernard Grofman. Washington: Brookings Institution, 1992: 135-176.

Kousser, J. Morgan.  Colorblind Justice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.  Based on the author's experience as an expert witness.

Johnson, Leland. "Public Historian for the Defendant." The Public Historian 5, No. 3 (Summer 1983): 65-76.

Rothman, Hal V. "Historian v. Historian: Interpreting the Past in the Courtroom." The Public Historian 15 (Spring 1993): 55-61.

Soifer, Paul. "The Litigation Historian: Objectivity, Responsibility, and Sources." The Public Historian 5, No. 2 (Spring 1983): 47-62.

Historical Editing

Burke, Frank G. "The Historian as Editor: Progress and Problems." The Public Historian 4, No. 2 (Spring 1982): 5-20.

Cox, Richard J.  "Messrs. Washington, Jefferson, and Gates: Quarrelling about the Preservation of the Documentary Heritage of the United States."

Historical Editing: A Guide for Departments of History. Bloomington: Organization of American Historians, 1984.

Hoy, Suellen. "Historical Editing." In Trask, David F., and Robert W. Pomeroy III (eds.) The Craft of Public History: An Annotated Select Bibliography. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1983, 171-227.

Oberg, Barbara. "Historical Editing: Correspondence." In Barbara J. Howe, and Emory L. Kemp (eds.) Public History: An Introduction. Melbourne, Fl.: Krieger Publishing Co., 1986, 84-94.

"Roundtable: The Challenge of Editing Local History." The Public Historian 3 (Spring 1981): 53-70.

Tarter, Brent. "Editing Public Records." In Barbara J. Howe, and Emory L. Kemp (eds.) Public History: An Introduction. Melbourne, Fl.: Krieger Publishing Co., 1986, 70-83.

Career Planning for Historians

General Career Planning

Bolles, Richard N. What Color is Your Parachute? 2001: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2000.

Bridges, William.  Creating You&Co.: Learn to Think Like the CEO of Your Own Career.  Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1997.

Everett, Melissa.  Making a Living While Making a Difference: The Expanded Guide to Creating Careers with a Conscience.  Gabriola Island, B.C: New Society Publishers, 1999.

Lloyd, Carol.  Creating a Life Worth Living: A Practical Course in Career Design for Artists, Innovators, and Others Aspiring to a Creative Life.  New York: Harper Perennial, 1997.

Lore, Nicholas.  The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998.

Jobs

USAJobs.  Official U.S. Government site for jobs and employment information.

Careers for Historians

  • Careers for Students of History: --A Miniguide from the American Historical Association.  http://www.theaha.org/  Next select publications, next select online publications.
  • DeGalan, Julie and Stephen Lambert. Great Jobs for History Majors. Lincolnwood, Ill.: VGA Career Horizons, 1995.
  • .Overbeck, Ruth Ann. "History as a Business." In Barbara J. Howe, and Emory L. Kemp (eds.) Public History: An Introduction. Melbour