Practicing Public History

Practicing Public History will be featured during the Newport Historical Society’s Annual Meeting.  Executive Director Ruth Taylor and Deputy Director Ingrid Peters will discuss specific aspects of this topic. Dr. Taylor Stoermer, public history instructor in several university settings and author of the forthcoming book Public History: A Field Guide (Rowman & Littlefield 2017), will speak about this topic. Additionally award-winning architectural historian and photographer John Tschirch will highlight his latest research, Mapping the Newport Experience, the beginnings of which will be shared through a series of public history programs in the coming months.