Past Field Reports

Below is a sample list of past Field Report projects completed by Public History Masters students.  Along with one’s ten-week internship, students must complete a Masters Field Report.  This report reflects the students’ ability to relate their professional experiences gained during their internship to the larger field of public history.  These reports, as well as a number of other reports, are available for viewing at UCR’s Special Collections and Archives (link here).

"Mockingbird Canyon: Management and Interpretation of a Native American Sacred Site," 1995

"Becoming a Museum Rancher: A Study of Museology and Arizona Cattle Ranching at the Mesa Southwest Museum," 2002

"Management and Preservation of Records in California: the Final Report of the California Historical Records Educational and Consultant Service," 1981

"Two Tales From the Vault: Cataloging the Joseph A. Baird Collection at the UCR/California Museum of Photography," 1998

"Exploring the Past Through Plays: Toys as a Reflection of Events and Attitudes in America, 1850-1930," undated

"El Mirador Hotel: Adaptive Re-Use Study," 1981

"The Great Social Experiment": The Incarceration of the Japanese American on the Colorado River Indian Reservation," 1999

"Residential Rehabilitation in an Historic Area: The Mile Square of Riverside, California," 1984

"Frank Miller and the International Expositions," 1987

"Repatriating Women, Waterways, and Opera Divas: Archives and Manuscripts Repositories as Sources of Historical Inquiry," 2002

"Seccombe Lake Park Burials: A Pioneer Cemetery in San Bernardino, California," 1990

"Pressing the Issue of Face: A Study of the Nineteenth Century News Coverages of African-American Participants in American Conflicts," 1998

"Fashions, Fallacies, and Fantasies: The History and Potential of Costume Interpretation as an Example of Museum Education," 1985

"Cataloging, Inventory, and Conservation: A Collection Management Plan for the Architectural and Archaeological Drawings Collection of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation," 1990

"Public Affairs and the Public History at the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians: Practical Application and Related PUblic History Projects," 2004

"Oral History and Donors: Using Interviews in Public History Institutions," 1997

"Mecca for Moderns: Boosterism, the Redlands Citrograph and the Marketing of Southern California, 1887-1908," 1988

"History of the Cranberry Isles and the Cranberry Isles Collection at Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine," 2001

"Coon Series Stereographs and the H.D. White Company: Stereotypes, Mass Media and Cultural Consciousness," 1995

"Revival and Commercialization of Northern New Mexican Pueblo Indian Pottery," 1983

"Sitting on Saints Photography and America's Philippine Colonial Adventure 1898-1912," 1988

"Quaker Family of Wisbech: A Study of Quaker Business and Benevolence," 1984

"Silent Stones, Forgotten Images: The Rock Art of Southwestern California," 1996

"Civil War Centennial: The Fort Sumter Re-enactment Segregation Scandal," undated

"Voices in History: The Use of Oral History in Research," 2006

"Down the Fortymile: An Interpretive Plan for Alaska's Fortymile River," 1978

"To See Them Suffering: Disease Among the Slaves and Crop Production on the Butler Plantations, 1820-1835," 1988

"USDA Forest Serveice and Public History," 2003

"We Tied Tamales 'Til Ten at Night': An Economic History of the Jensen-Alvarado Historic Park with Recommendations for Interpretation," 1982

"California Surf Museum and Early Surf Photography," 2005