Review: Challenging History: Race, Equity, and the Practice of Public History, edited by Leah Worthington, Rachel Clare Donaldson, and John W. White

Book Review| May 01 2024 Review: Challenging History: Race, Equity, and the Practice of Public History, edited by Leah Worthington, Rachel Clare Donaldson, and John W. White Challenging History: Race, Equity, and the Practice of Public History edited by Leah Worthington, Rachel Clare Donaldson, and John W. White. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2021. 184 pp. ; illustrations, notes, bibliography, index; hardcover, 39. 99. Felicia Jamison Felicia Jamison University of Louisville Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2024) 46 (2): 167–169. https: //doi. org/10. 1525/tph. 2024. 46. 2. 167 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures Review: Challenging History: Race, Equity, and the Practice of Public History, edited by Leah Worthington, Rachel Clare Donaldson, and John W. White. The Public Historian 1 May 2024; 46 (2): 167–169. doi: https: //doi. org/10. 1525/tph. 2024. 46. 2. 167 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe Public Historian Search The field of public history has grown substantially since its founding in the 1970s. Today projects on digital media, oral history, and historic preservation are increasingly prevalent. Concurrently with the growth of the field, public historians have sought to highlight the stories of marginalized groups that have traditionally been excluded in museum exhibits, at historic sites, and in community-engaged scholarship. Challenging History: Race, Equity, and the Practice of Public History is a book that furthers this initiative of making the field more equitable and representative of the larger world. The edited volume is an outgrowth of a 2017 conference held in Charleston, South Carolina wherein scholars from Europe, the Caribbean, and the United States deliberated on ways to transform public history in Charleston and in the broader Atlantic World. Chapters geographically center on the US South, with an emphasis placed on the Lowcountry, a region in the southeastern part of. . . You do not currently have access to this content.