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Public history refers to the broad practice of people trained in history who venture outside of academia where professionals congregate in university laboratories and classrooms, to apply their knowledge, skills, and ideas of history within society. This involves a broad and diverse range of activities, from preserving and exhibiting history in museums and archives and at historical sites, historical parks and the like, to writing history textbooks for schools, scripts for historical dramas in film and television companies, creating historical simulation games, providing materials to support indigenous people in their legal battles for rights, investigating community and family histories, publicizing digital history databases, tracing family ancestries, to treasure hunting and more.
 
Formerly the act of thinking about and describing history, referred to as historical practice, was thought to be something only professional historians did, and which they did in the closed academic world of the university. In other words, history was monopolized by historians. By the end of the 20th century, however, a movement arose, primarily within Europe and the United States, to take the study of history outside of the ivory tower into the real world, and this is what is referred to today as public history. This movement has now spread throughout the world to become a major trend in historical studies. This book is the first to introduce the concept of public his