Public History Class at Baker Center
Distinguished Lecturer Pat Rutenberg’s HIUS 484 class produced an exhibit for the official opening of the Baker School for Public Policy and Public Affairs titled “Senator Howard H. Baker Jr., The Great Conciliator.”
Undergraduate students in our upper-level course on public history recently curated an exhibition for the dedication ceremony at the new Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs. Rutenberg’s public history course addresses recent scholarly and public conversations about memory and monuments, provides supervised internships for each student at local historical sites and organizations, and engages students in group capstone projects.
For the Baker School exhibition, students conducted research in the Howard Baker Archives and UT Special Collections, identified photographs and documents depicting significant moments in the public life of Senator Baker, and wrote detailed exhibition labels. At the dedication ceremony, the students were pleased to have their picture taken with former Governor Bill Haslam.