Digital public history : bringing the public back in

Abstract

Digital History has reshaped the documentation methods of historians, especially their means of accessing and storing history. However, this seismic shift has occurred without any thorough critical discussion of these digital tools and practices. Digital history aims to create new forms of scholarship and new digital objects for the web. But we need to ask in which ways—if any—Digital Public History (DPH) is distinct from an innovative digital history?