https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/HISU5302?type=COREThis course aims to explore, from a comparative and transnational perspective, the process of creating, presenting, and disseminating historical knowledge to the general public, commonly referred to as "public history." The course focuses on the main fields, methods, and public history practices. It addresses the following questions: How is history created and recreated for the public? Who are the main societal actors involved in these processes? What are the main forms of interaction and dissemination? What is the relationship between "academic history" and "public" or "applied history"? What is the state of development and prospects of the future of public history? The course takes a multi-faceted approach to public history, including the following fields: professional history outside academia, popular history (as forms of 'non-academic' history), applied history (connected with real social issues), and the uses and abuses of history by political actors, as reflected in memory politics, museums, and monuments. To cover all these facets, the course will critically review a great variety of fields of manifestation of public history, from diverse countries, continents, and historical periods, with a focus on forms of collective memory, projects on the preservation of historic heritage; public archives; digital history and centers for the documentation, collection and recording of historical data or oral testimonies, etc.