Are you interested in museums, archives, or digital history? If so, take a look at the UR history department’s new 300-level seminar, “The Historian’s Workshop.”  History 395 takes you into the “historian’s workshop,” the spaces and forums where each day history is being preserved, crafted, discussed, exhibited, and debated.

The seminar interweaves discussion of key readings with opportunities for field observation and hands-on practice. In this way, we’ll investigate the origins, evolution, and politics of the some of the workshop’s many physical and virtual corners, from archives and museums to digital history.

We’ll also meet some of the workshops many inhabitants.  Beyond students and professors, the future of the past rests in the hands of a wide range of experts, institutions, politicians, amateur historians, and ordinary people concerned with the preservation and accounting of the past.  Observing, analyzing, and working in the workshop ourselves, we’ll study the field of history from these multiple points of view.