{"id":510,"date":"2018-06-14T13:43:37","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T20:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/history-department\/?page_id=510"},"modified":"2025-02-12T17:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T00:56:13","slug":"emphasis-public-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-history\/graduate-degrees\/emphasis-public-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Emphasis Public History"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Public History at NAU<\/h1>\n<p>Public History is offered in our M.A. program as a primary emphasis. The field of public history is much broader than museum studies. It includes historical consulting, interpretation, curating, historic preservation, and the creation of digital histories.\u00a0 Careers include government historians, oral historians, cultural resource managers, film and media producers, historic preservationists, policy advisers, and community activists. Regardless of the position, all public historians share an interest and commitment to making history relevant and useful in the public sphere.<\/p>\n<p>Following the National Council on Public History\u2019s (NCPH) \u201cBest Practices Guidelines,\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/ncph.org\/\">https:\/\/ncph.org\/<\/a>) our public history program first trains students to be excellent historians. \u00a0Public history students take the same theoretical and methodological courses as their peers in other emphases. Then, following the NCPH\u2019s guidelines, public history students follow a prescribed course of study that introduces them to skills-oriented training.\u00a0 These include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>HIS 502: a graduate seminar in public history<\/li>\n<li>a public history elective (such as Museum Studies 599 or Anthropology 534 Foundations of Cultural Resource Management)<\/li>\n<li>HIS 686, an approved internship with a museum, archives, or similar institution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, depending on whether they are taking extended coursework or are writing a thesis, public history students will be assessed through the presentation and defense of a portfolio, a thesis, or a public history project.<\/p>\n<h2>Internships<\/h2>\n<p>Over the last four years, NAU public history students have completed internships with the National Park Service, Riordan Mansion State Park, Cline Library Special Collections and Archives, Lowell Observatory, and the Utah Historical Society.<\/p>\n<h2>Program Highlights<\/h2>\n<p>Under the direction of Professor Michael Amundson, Public History classes have completed the <a href=\"http:\/\/library.nau.edu\/speccoll\/exhibits\/louies_legacy\/\">Louie&#8217;s Legacy Project<\/a>\u00a0and contributed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intermountainhistories.org\/\">BYU&#8217;s Intermountain Histories<\/a> project.<\/p>\n<h2>Public History Partnerships<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ncph.org\/\">National Council on Public History<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonahistoricalsociety.org\/museum\/pioneer-museum\/\">Arizona Historical Society Pioneer Museum<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.library.nau.edu\/\">Cline Library Special Collections and Archives\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- shortcode-right-column -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-right-column\" >\n    <div class=\"shortcode-right-column__container\">\n<h4>For more information about our emphasis in Public History, please contact <a href=\"mailto:thomas.finger@nau.edu\">Dr. Thomas Finger<\/a>.<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><a class=\"shortcode-button\" href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/graduate-college\/\">Apply to NAU<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public History at NAU Public History is offered in our M.A. program as a primary emphasis. 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