Kiersten Hudson

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Benefits Shared Authority!

This picture shows students sitting in a museum learning about history that was able to get out by shared authority.

What is shared authority?

The process of shared authority is often used throughout public history. The process of shared authority allows historians to collaborate and share their facts to make public history the best it can be. Shared authority not only allows historians to connect with one another but it also allows historians to connect just with the community. This helps both the historian and the citizen because it allows the historian to share history while also getting opinions from the community or maybe even more facts that can benefit the historian’s research.

Why is shared authority important?

Over the years historians have realized that not many institutions have the funds to do history projects fully. So historian Orsello has come to the realization that most museums and historical sites are all collaborative projects that have flourished into spreading communities on different topics of history. A lack of collaboration across sectors hampers every institution’s efforts at effecting social change (Orsello, 121). The shared authority also plays an important role in public history because it gives all historians the opportunity to help better one another. Instead of having someone who is head in charge, it can become a collaborative event that acknowledges everyone’s ideas.

How is the shared authority used?

In today’s world shared authority is used more commonly used than what we probably realize. One example is museums. Museums play a huge part in history but in order for them to get the correct information out to the public you’re going to have to collaborate with other people. As far as an African American museum in order for certain parts of history to be broken down you will have to speak to descendants of ancestors who actually lived through that particular time period. This is also beneficial because it allows people the opportunity to use their voice on topics that people usually brush over.

Men and women examining museum exhibits
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The Importance of Public History

Kiersten Hudson

People examining exhibits at an unidentified museum [Photographer Unknown, 2021?] Who is McCarthy?
People examining exhibits at an unidentified museum [Photographer Unknown, 2021?] Who is McCarthy?

What is Public History?

History is used in all parts of the world and it is essential in every aspect of life but as the world evolved historians began to share the history that they have learned as well. Lots of people tend to confuse academic history with public history. In academic history historians minister to humans generilized need to comprehend its past and to diffuse that comprehsion by means of formal schooling, within each generation. (Kelly,18). Public history refers to the employment of historians and historical methods outside of academia in government, private corporations, the media historical societies, and museums even in private practices. (Kelly, 16) Public history is publicized in places such as museums, historical sites, libraries, and social media platforms.

Why is public history Important?

Public history is important because it allows history to be accesible to people all around the world beyond an academic setting. This gives historians the opprtunity to share their history with people all over the world because public history is so accesible. By historians doing that it alllows communties to be engaged with one another. Since public history is all over it influence the world in a postive way because it gives so many opprtunites on how history can be reached. Such as a podcast that educates people on diversity or even a muesum that shows actual artifacts that were used during a particular period of time.

Public History Today!

Public History has come along way since it has first took off! With the help of the historian Robert Kelly he trained students to have a breakthrough with achieving their goal of public history. Imbuing them with the idea of a public rather than an academic career and sending them out oene by one to demonstarte their value by their work (Kelly, 19). Furthermore as he continued to work with his students his skills began to get passed down from generation to genration that has brought public history to where it is now. Such as being accesible in documentaries, podcast, articles, and historical sites.