What is Public History? (and why you should care)

Whether historians like it or not, our identities and histories are often tied up in intense contests of competing narratives—which greatly affect the way we talk about history in public, such as at museums and historic sites, and in our entertainment and media. The A Nazi on Wall Street Podcast is public history, too--but what does that really mean?  Dr. Jay Weixelbaum and EJ Russo talk with John Heckman aka “The Tattooed Historian” to get a better understanding of public history and why it’s so important.