''Public History Weekly. The Open Peer Review Journal'' is an open peer-reviewed

academic journal An academic journal (or scholarly journal or scientific journal) is a periodical publication in which Scholarly method, scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. They serve as permanent and transparent forums for the ...

on all aspects of

public history Public history is a broad range of activities undertaken by people with some training in the discipline of history who are generally working outside of specialized academic settings. Public history practice is deeply rooted in the areas of historic ...

addressing a wider audience to popularize academic research and debates.Interview by Mareike Koenig (DHI Paris) with Marko Demantowsky
/ref>Zerwas M. (2014), ''Public History in der Schule. Unterricht in der Allgegenwart von Geschichte.'', in Geschichte lernen 2014, 159/160, pp. 92-93.

Overview

The journal was established in 2013Announcement of the Publisher
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Walter de Gruyter Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter (), is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature. History The roots of the company go back to 1749 when Frederick the Great granted the Königliche Realschule in Be ...

on behalf of four universities from Austria (

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (, ) is a public university, public research university in Vienna, Austria. Founded by Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria, Duke Rudolph IV in 1365, it is the oldest university in the German-speaking world and among the largest ...

), Poland (

University of Wrocław The University of Wrocław (, UWr; ) is a public research university in Wrocław, Poland. It is the largest institution of higher learning in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, with over 100,000 graduates since 1945, including some 1,900 researcher ...

), and Switzerland (Universities of Education in Basel/Brugg and in Lucerne) as well as of the International Federation for Public History.Homepage of IFPH-FIPH
/ref>Homepage of PHW
/ref> The journal publishes in English and in German and additionally in the mother tongue of each author. The journal has the explicit aim to link the discussions of

Public historians In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the ''Öffentlichkei ...

and history educationalists.THENHIER (Canada) on Public History Weekly
/ref> That aim of bridging an academic gap has been criticized some time age.Zuendorf, I. (2016) on Public History Weekly
/ref> The outreach of the journal is indicated with 27,600 visits and 400,000 page views per month.

References

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External links

Official website of Public History Weekly

Publisher's website

Review 2018 by Thomas Cauvin
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