Alex Kelly Nov. 6 Public History

Today’s reading was focused on public history. It was interesting to me how there are two sides to many stories that comprise mankind’s history. I think that the Internet and technology can help public historians communicate their ideas more thoroughly and effectively. The websites like the 9/11 memorial are and excellent example of how technology can help advance the historical understanding of such an event. There does need to be someone maintaining these websites because people can put ridiculous content if they are not prevented from doing so. On the whole, technology is great from a public historians perspective. I agree with the article that historians have a moral obligation to present historical events as they actually happened. A historian has to be critical and be aware of the context of the events they are speaking on, but they still need to attempt to be unbiased and do their duty to explain the history in a matter of fact way.