Review: Public in Public History, edited by Joanna Wojdon and Dorota Wiśniewska

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well with recent scholarship written by individuals directly involved in the museums and exhibitions under scrutiny.In short, this is a book of interest to the field of public history because museological activity itself falls within its scope: it is the work of professionals who may be called public historians that the author appreciates, offering comments that suggest possibilities for improving their relationship with a sensitive topic, such as slavery.But the book goes beyond this immediate use.When considering the relationship between specific decision-making processes (here, resulting in displays of objects and collections) and the meanings they acquire when recontextualized, the bookin its incessant establishment of links between the parts and the whole-invites public historians to reflect on the impacts and responsibilities of their own individual work in the formation and transformation of a broader historical consciousness.

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