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public history

public history noun: the broad range of activities undertaken by people with some training in the discipline of history who generally work outside of specialized academic settings.

Noun

public history (uncountable)

  1. The broad range of activities undertaken by people with some training in the discipline of history who generally work outside of specialized academic settings.

Questions about public history

What does public history mean?
Public history means the broad range of activities undertaken by people with some training in the discipline of history who generally work outside of specialized academic settings.
What part of speech is public history?
Public history is a noun.

Words near public history in the dictionary

  1. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps
  2. public hearing
  3. public hearings
  4. public historian
  5. public historians
  6. public history
  7. public holiday
  8. public holidays
  9. public hotel
  10. public hotels
  11. public house

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Adapted from Wiktionary: public history (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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