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Public History Field School
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PSU graduate student Duane Barringer presents an interpretive talk to the public at the annual Brigade Encampment special event.

The Public History Field School is a partnership program between Portland State University (PSU) and the National Park Service (NPS) through the park’s Northwest Cultural Resource Institute (NCRI).

The upper-division course, available to graduate students in the PSU public history program, is designed to build on the context of their introductory coursework by providing a focused, hands-on immersion into how history is promulgated by one of the leading stewards of the nation’s history – the National Park Service (NPS).

 
 
Students and instructors from the 2009 PHFS pose in fromt of the stockade wall.

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Participants in the site's 2009 Public History Field School

For eleven weeks, these students actively apply knowledge gained through group discussion, directed readings, research, practical exercises, peer review, and class instruction to crafting programs and interpretive media for the public.

 

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2011 Public History Field School

2009 Public History Field School

2008 Public History Field School

2006 Public History Field School

See some of the field school students in action at the annual Brigade Encampment special event by clicking on the Photo Gallery below!

 
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Did You Know?
Did you know that the McLoughlin House, a unit of Fort Vancouver National Historic Site located in Oregon City, Oregon, in 1941 became one of the first national historic sites designated in the western United States?
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