AP/HIST 1040 6.0: Popular Uses of History: An Introduction to Public History

AP/HIST 1040 6.00

Popular Uses of History: An Introduction to Public History

Course Director: Prof. L. Pourtavaf – lpourtav@yorku.ca

This course introduces students to the practice of public history, the ways in which history is produced for and understood by public audiences. It examines the ways the past has been brought to bear upon the present through monuments, museum exhibitions, parks and historical sites, film, historical fiction, and other locations constituting access points to history for the general public.