The Italian Association of Public History (AIPH) turns ten in 2026
And then time also passed for the AIPH, and we wondered where we had arrived and what the state of health of Public History in Italy was on the tenth anniversary of its foundation.
Connecting Public History with Digital History (English, Italian & French)
La Comunità nelle pratiche e nei progetti di Public History
This essay explores the concept of “communities” as objects of study and as actors in Italian and international Public History practices. Before describing three cases of community-sourcing in communities located in Italy, the United States and Belgium, we discuss how the “community” has been studied in the recent history of Italian Public History and its “glocal” dimension based on the Book of Abstracts of the Italian Association of Public History annual conferences from 2017 to 2025.
Key Terms of Public History, a review
Key Terms of Public History is the second volume in the series Public History in European Perspectives, edited by Thomas Cauvin, Karin Priem, and Sandra Camarda at the Luxembourg Centre for Digital and Public History (C2DH), with the publisher De Gruyter Oldenbourg. This book is an English translation of a 2021 Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht book, “Schlüsselbegriffe der Public History.” The aim of the authors was to engage a German-speaking perspective on the discipline with international Public History practitioners.
Public History (of Education) and Applied History Manifestos’ 2011-2023
Public History and its sub-field of public History of education are applied disciplines in and for the present. However, good practices and ethical methods are sometimes summarized when producing disciplinary manifestos. This essay will engage with different history manifestos and their importance in describing the hermeneutic of Public and Applied History in the 21st century and how these manifestos are connected to the Public History of Education
L’Histoire Publique comme histoire du temps présent
La conception du temps historique a été profondément débattue et repensée depuis la fin du XXe siècle surtout en raison de la chute du communisme soviétique et de ce que Francis Fukuyama écrivit sur la fin de l’histoire avec le triomphe des démocraties libérales et du capitalisme et l’avènement d’un présent perpétuel d’un ordre économique libéral. Dans le cadre de notre intervention nous ne prétendons pas résumer ce débat pluridisciplinaire sur le présentisme ravivé en France par François Hartog il y a une vingtaine d’années mais seulement commenter en quoi la Public History se positionne par rapport aux différentes temporalités du passé et aux mémoires collectives.
Obituary Peter Hertner, Professor of Economic and Social History at the Martin-Luther-Universität in Halle-Wittenberg (1942-2023)
Peter Hertner was born in 1942, in Ulm in Southern Germany. He studied in Heidelberg, Besançon, Basel, Strasbourg, Paris, and Marburg where he was awarded his diploma in economics in 1968, and he also obtained his PhD in 1971, with a dissertation on the economic and social history of Strasbourg, 1650-1715. He was an assistant professor at the Department of Social and Economic History in Marburg, from 1970 until 1977.
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