Norman Burns reporting in early 2020 for the American Alliances of Museum website on how Americans prefer to connect with the past. Survey participants most often mentioned museums, second only to their families, as the way they prefer to connect to history. Americans placed museums and historic sites first, ahead of grandparents, eyewitnesses, college professors, history books, movies, television programs, and high school history teachers as their trusted historical sources. Read more about the role of public history in Burns’s post “Curiosity About History is Growing Across Generations: A New Survey Finds”.