Since humans have been able to record history and ergo teach it to an audience, everyone whether they consciously realize or not has an interest in the realm of public history. It can answer so many question whether concerning a single individual to and entire nation. At the head of this is a public historian who is charged at times with knowing specialized history for its audience in accordance to where they are residing. Although it is important for a public historian to know their audience, it is just as important for the audience to be aware of their public historian as well.
The best way to define public history is to say that it is a type of history that can be applied to the natural world. However, there is no specific job that ‘public history’ fall into due to its diversity and range. At best, one can put it into three categories, archives, museums, and historic sites. Within these three categories there are diverse occupation ranging from administrative positions, researching,
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Now public historians can make use of archives to trace family trees and help with the preservation of their history via digitalization of the information contained on public records rather than having to retain hard copies into files of sorts where they are at risk of being destroyed or damaged.
When it comes to Public Historians and their audience, the Public Historian has to be aware of the information that they display and how they do it without having public backlash. At times this can be an obstacle, for a historian, history is the way it is and it cannot be changed simply because an individual does not like how history actually played out. Public Historians may have to become involved with the public in order to personalize the exhibit or the information that they are displaying so that it can appeal more with the intended