RIME – RIVISTA DELL’ISTITUTO DI STORIA DELL’EUROPA MEDITERRANEA
Abstract
At the root of both the success of public history and the difficulties of history as a school subject is the same phenomenon of transformation of history, of its function and meaning in the society. School history no longer fulfills the task of forming collective identities, which are increasingly uncertain and supernational. Hence, at the same time, the impossibility to teach history according to traditional methods and canons, and the strong demand for history from non‐specialized public to which public history tries to give an answer.
