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STUDENT BLOGS

Whose History?
Wynds and Ways
Going Public
Give the People What They Want
Owls All the Way

INTERNS

Timothy Horning
(Historical Society of PA)
Amanda Niesen
(Fairmount Park Historic Preservation Trust)

ALUMNI

Susan Anderson
Lee Arnold
Dana Dorman
Richard Fink
Sarah Hunter
Cindy Little
Melissa M. Mandell
Adam Najarian
Courtney Smerz
Sarah Winski
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NEWS AND EVENTS

Anne Parsons and Kelley George discuss their exhibit concerning haunted history at the Temple Gallery on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011 at 6 PM.

Prof. Dale's Winling's digital history students explore Temple's place in North Philadelphia in new collaborative online project.

Center for Public History co-hosts first annual Philadelphia Public History Community Forum on April 29, 2011. Read all about it in the Public History News.

THATCamp Philly coming to Chemical Heritage Foundation 9/23-9/24/2011.

Center for Public History supports preservation of USS Olympia by documenting summit convened to identify new steward.

Public History graduate students collaborate with First Person Museum.

Want to work for the National Park Service? Find out how to become a ranger with Temple's new ProRanger Program.

Public History Coordinator
Dr. Seth C. Bruggeman
(215) 204-9744
scbrug@temple.edu
web | blog

History Department Chair
Dr. Jonathan Wells
jdwells@temple.edu

Director of Graduate Studies
Dr. Richard Immerman
(215) 204-6146
rimmerma@temple.edu

AFFILIATED FACULTY

Dr. James Hilty
20th-Century U.S., Political History, Planning

Dr. Martin L. Levitt
American Philosophical Society, Archives, History of Science

COURSES

Managing History: Introduction to Public History

Public History and Digital Media

Studies in American Material Culture

Museums and American Culture

FRIENDS / RESOURCES

CENTER FOR PUBLIC HISTORY

The Temple University Center for Public History is housed within the History Department and serves as a nexus for all public history programming at Temple including graduate study, speaking events and workshops, and community and regional project development and coordination.

Media Archive

Dr. Steven Lubar, John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage, "Record, Preserve, Document, Shape: Talking About the Public Humanities" (18 November 2010) [watch | download | listen]

Graduate Students in History 8151: Studies in American Material Culture discuss their contributions to the First Person Museum (8 November 2010) [watch]

Dr. Lincoln Bramwell, Cheif Historian, U.S. Forest Service, "Public History in the Federal Government" (30 March 2010) [watch | listen]

Dr. Bill Turkel, "Public History and the Infinite Archive" (22 April 2009) [watch | listen]

For more, visit Temple Public History on YouTube.