| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.4

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Methods/Theory

Rebecca Conard. Benjamin Shambaugh and the Intellectual Foundations of Public History. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. 2002. Pp. xv, 247. $32.95.

U.S. public history has a complicated relationship to the historical profession. Public historians work both outside and inside academe, as scholars who do original research and as interpreters who prepare exhibits and studies for public audiences. Wherever they are employed, public historians design materials for audiences that range from the most sophisticated reader to the casual visitor or viewer. 1

In this book, Rebecca Conard examines the historical career of the longtime head of the State Historical Society of Iowa and professor of political science at the University of Iowa. Conard argues that Benjamin Shambaugh's biography provides a lens through which to view the development of the profession of history in the twentieth-century U.S. She places him among the New Historians of the Progressive period. He participated in the work of the American Historical Association's (AHA) Public Archives Commission and the Conference of State and Local Historical Societies, the precursor of the American Association of State and Local History. Conard deftly weaves the early history of the AHA, particularly as it relates to public history and local history, into the context for Shambaugh's life. Shambaugh was also a founding member of both the American Political Science Association (1903) and the Mississippi Valley Historical Association (1907), the predecessor group of the Organization of American Historians. He edited the journals of both the latter organizations and served each as president. . . .

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