Public History

Massachusetts boasts a rich network of museums, archives, historical societies, documentary filmmakers, and historic preservation agencies, as well as one of the top public research universities in the nation. Since 1986, the Public History Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has provided a vital link between the University and the Commonwealth's wide variety of institutions that preserve and communicate history to the public.

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Suggestive rather than comprehensive,these brief bibliographies are meant to be points of departure for students working on these subjects, or practicing public historians looking to begin reading in an area of interest.