Concentration Track 6. Public History

Historians in cyberspace, on TV, and in the classroom.... Public historians make films, design websites, produce radio programs, stage plays, teach, and much more. Wherever they work - for media outlets, museums, archives, local historical societies, consulting firms, government and non-profit agencies, schools, or historic sites, to name just a few - they present history to the public.

 Note: Public History concentrators will take three courses from the Public History Concentration, and three from outside the concentration, but will also take:

HST 310 Public History
HST 522 History Internship

History courses outside the Public History concentration may count toward the concentration, with the permission of the instructor and the History Department chair.

Public History Concentration:

HST 308 Writing the Historical Novel
HST 309 Finding History: Using Historical Archives
HST 330 History and Culture of Senegal
HST 363 Naval History: U.S.S. Constitution
HST 364 Oral History
HST 365 Presenting History: Media and Methods of Public History
HST 366 Preserving History: Museums, Archives, and Historic Sites
HST 383 Boston: Heritage of a City
HST 486 The Vietnam War in History, Literature, and Film
HST 500 Directed Studies in History (topic to be arranged with instructor)