In Ronald J. Grele’s “Whose Public? Whose History? What is the Goal of Public History?” Grele makes various arguments as to how and why the history profession in the sense of academia to public history has evolved over time. The field of history has changed from a person studying historical events and people to oneself or to a group of students only to sharing that historical knowledge to a variety of people and in different ways. Grele makes a clear succinct definition of public history towards the end of the article by stating, “[t]hus the task of the public historian, broadly defined, should be to help members of the public…

I am currently in my second semester at George Mason University in the Masters in History program. I’ve had some experience conducting digital humanities work, by taking the HIST 680 Intro to Digital Humanities course offered in this certificate and my work as a student aide in my undergraduate career at the University of Mary Washington in the Digital Archiving Lab. My interest in digital public history is that with my background in both history and computer science, I want to learn more about combining the two fields to the public’s benefit. I’m still learning what digital public history is so in the next few weeks I can’t wait to…