Welcome to Public History in a Virtual Age! This year, we are exploring public history together. On each episode we meet a couple of awesome practitioners—or people involved in the making of public history. We hear about their super cool projects, their audience, the information they want to share, and why they love their medium.
This month we are exploring what I call “in-house” historians. Historians don’t just work at museums and universities, but in government institutions and historical societies. Today we are speaking with two such historians to learn about the stories they share, their daily responsibilities, their audiences, and frankly how different these jobs can be from each other and the variety of history work available.
Our guests this month are Dr. Sara Georgini, a series editor of The Papers of John Adams, a documentary editing project at the Massachusetts Historical Society, and Terrance Rucker, a Ph.D. candidate at the George Washington University and a Historical Publications specialist in the Office of the Historian at the U.S. House of Representatives.
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