Public History Comprehensive Exams Reading List (August 2015)
1. Adair, Filene, and Koloski, Letting Go? Sharing Authority in a User-Generated
World (2011)
2. David Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (2002)
3. Karen Coody Cooper, Spirited Encounters: American Indians Protest Museum
Policies and Practices (2008)
4. Robert J. Cook, Troubled Commemoration: The American Civil War Centennial,
1961-1965 (2011)
5. Thomas Denenberg, Wallace Nutting and the Invention of Old America (2003)
6. Jennifer Eichsted and Stephen Small, Representations of Slavery: Race and
Ideology in Southern Plantation Museums (2002)
7. Tilden Freeman, Interpreting our Heritage (1967, 1984)
8. Michael Frisch, A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral
and Public History (1990)
9. Richard Handler and Eric Gable, The New History in an Old Museum: Creating
the Past at Colonial Williamsburg (1997)
10. Dolores Hayden, The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History
(1995)
11. James Horton and Lois Horton, Slavery and Public History (2006)
12. Michael Kammen, Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in
American Culture (1991)
13. James Lindgren, Preserving Historic New England: Preservation, Progressivism,
and the Remaking of Memory (1995)
14. James W. Loewen, Lies Across America: What Our Historical Sites Get Wrong
(1999)
15. David Lowenthal, The Past is a Foreign Country (1985)
16. Ann Smart Martin and J. Ritchie Garrison, American Material Culture: The
Shape of the Field (1997)
17. William Murtagh, Keeping Time: The History and Theory of Preservation in
America (1988)
18. Max Page and Randall Mason, Giving Preservation a History (2004)
19. Kendall Phillips and G. Mitchell Reyes, Global Memoryscapes: Contesting
Remembrance in a Transnational Age (2011)
20. Jules David Prown and Kenneth Haltman, American Artifacts: Essays in Material
Culture (2000)
21. Tilden Rhea, Race Pride and the American Identity (1997)
22. Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen, The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of
History in American Life (1998)
23. Kirk Savage, Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in
Nineteenth-Century America (1997)
24. Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
(1997)
25. Mike Wallace, Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory
(1996)
26. Patricia West, Domesticating History: Political Origins of America’s House
Museums (1999)
27. Stephanie Yuhl, A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston
(2005)
28. Andrea Burns, From Storefront to Monument: Tracing the Public History of the
Black Museum Movement (2014)
29. Michael A. DiGiovine, The Heritage-scape: UNESCO, World Heritage, and
Tourism (2009)
30 . Denise Meringolo, Museums, Monuments, and National Parks: Toward a New
Genealogy of Public History (2012)