Performing Public History

Case Studies in Historical Storytelling

David Dean

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Routledge
08 April 2025

Performance art; Theatre Studies; Historiography; General & world history; History of the Americas

Series: Global Perspectives on Public History

Performing Public History explores history-telling as a performance across a wide range of media, including theatre and film, historical re-enactments and living history performances, operas, and video games.

Taking historians as storytellers, this book illustrates how the choices they make shape historical meaning. While historians may strive to be objective when they research and write the past, they inevitably draw on their imagination, emotions, and creativity, aligning them with others who make history in public. The book explores issues such as the nature of archives, realism, fact and fiction, accuracy and authenticity, and actants and audiences. It draws on case studies from all parts of the world, offering global perspectives that invite a rethinking about what history is, and how and why we do it. Sharing work by graduate students, the author also offers an appendix of classroom exercises that instructors will find valuable.

Written accessibly for students, this volume offers a succinct account of the discipline of history, the field of public history, and how performance is a useful concept for thinking about history work.

By: David Dean
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 530g
ISBN: 9781032012889
ISBN 10: 1032012889
Series: Global Perspectives on Public History
Pages: 188
Publication Date: 08 April 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. History, Public History, Performance 2. Archival Truths 3. Performing the Real 4. Feeling the Past 5. Authentic Performances 6. “The Cat Ate My Bannock” and Other Stories Epilogue: Performing Public History Appendix: Classroom Exercises

David Dean is Distinguished Research Professor and Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Carleton University, Canada. He has published widely in the field of public history, including A Companion to Public History (2018). He is the co-editor of International Public History, the journal of the International Federation for Public History.