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 367 Freedom Trail 101: Historical Education at Boston’s Historic Sites

HST 368 Introduction to Historical Interpretation

HST 386 Antebellum Boston: A  Town No More

HST 383 Boston: Heritage of a City

HST 468 Research Seminar: Busing in Boston - The Moakley Archives

HST 486 The Vietnam War in History, Literature, and Film

HST 500 Directed Studies in History (topic to be arranged with instructor)