OUR MISSION:

The goal of the UCSB Public History website is to define the current pedagogy and practice; disseminate research, opportunities, and program information; to develop resources to facilitate research; and to encourage discourse about the field.

This website is an ongoing team project of UCSB Public History Program's students and faculty.

A Chronicle of Public History
This section provides information about the history of the profession, including a timeline and oral histories of those who helped define and build the modern field of public hisorical studies. A detailed history of UCSB's PH Program - the oldest in the United States - is also provided, and links to other sources of history on this topic are included.

Contact Information
UCSB Public History Program contact information.

Courses
UCSB Public History Courses.

Current Students

Faculty
Provides information about UCSB Public History Program faculty.

For Prospective Students
This section provides information for prospective students, including graduate admissions, a map of study, a discussion of the joint PH program with the California State University at Sacramento, and information about PH faculty and courses.

Links
This section of the website provides links to a variety of sites of interest to public historians, including educational institutions, professional associations, and governmental agencies.

Public History Alumni
These pages feature information about UCSB's Public History Program alumni, including biographical thumbnails, project and publication pages, and contact information.

Public History Program Projects
Contains information about Public History Program projects.

Surveys
Contains a variety of student, alumni, and user surveys.

The PHS Network Newsletter
Contains the most current issues of the Public Historical Studies Network newsletter, published by UCSB's Public History Department. Past issues are archived in the Documents portion of this website.

The Public Historian
The Public Historian is published for the National Council on Public History by the University of California, Santa Barbara via the University of California Press. The Journal is THE voice of the public history movement, providing the results of research and case studies, and addressing the broad substantive and theoretical issues in the field.

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