''Public History Weekly. The Open Peer Review Journal'' is an open peer-reviewed

academic journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and d ...

on all aspects of

public history Public history is a broad range of activities undertaken by people with some training in the discipline of history who are generally working outside of specialized academic settings. Public history practice is deeply rooted in the areas of historic ...

addressing a wider audience to popularize academic research and debates.Interview by Mareike Koenig (DHI Paris) with Marko Demantowsky
/ref>Zerwas M. (2014), ''Public History in der Schule. Unterricht in der Allgegenwart von Geschichte.'', in Geschichte lernen 2014, 159/160, pp. 92-93.Public History Weekly - A Review by Thomas Cauvin
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Overview

The journal was established in 2013Announcement of the Publisher
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Walter de Gruyter Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter (), is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature. History The roots of the company go back to 1749 when Frederick the Great granted the Königliche Realschule in Be ...

on behalf of four universities from Austria (

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...

), Poland (

University of Wrocław , ''Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau'' (before 1945) , free_label = Specialty programs , free = , colors = Blue , website uni.wroc.pl The University of Wrocław ( pl, Uniwersytet Wrocławski, U ...

), and Switzerland (Universities of Education in Basel/Brugg and in Lucerne) as well as of the International Federation for Public History.Homepage of IFPH-FIPH
/ref>Homepage of PHW
/ref> The journal publishes in English and in German and additionally in the mother tongue of each author. The journal has the explicit aim to link the discussions of

Public historians In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the ''Öffentlichkei ...

and history educationalists.THENHIER (Canada) on Public History Weekly
/ref> That aim of bridging an academic gap has been criticized some time age.Zuendorf, I. (2016) on Public History Weekly
/ref> The outreach of the journal is indicated with 27,600 visits and 400,000 page-views per month.Public History Weekly - A Review by Thomas Cauvin
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References

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External links

Official website of Public History Weekly

Publisher's website

Review 2018 by Thomas Cauvin
Weekly journals History journals English-language journals Publications established in 2013 De Gruyter academic journals