Texts and Resources
Table of Contents
Articles & Books #
Andereck, Kathleen L., et al. “Heritage on the High Plains: Motive-Based Market Segmentation for a US National Historic Site.”" Sustainability, vol. 16, no. 24, 2024, p. 10854, https://doi.org/10.3390/su162410854.
Amundsen-Meyer L, Holyoke KR, Munro M. Contemporary Cultural Resource Management in Canada: Labor Market Dynamics and Challenges. Advances in Archaeological Practice. Published online 2025:1-18. https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2025.10105
Austin, Nathan K. “Managing Heritage Attractions: Marketing Challenges at Sensitive Historical Sites.”" The International Journal of Tourism Research, vol. 4, no. 6, 2002, pp. 447–57, https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.403.
Batat, Wided. “How Can Art Museums Develop New Business Opportunities? Exploring Young Visitors’ Experience.”" Young Consumers, vol. 21, no. 1, 2020, pp. 109–31, https://doi.org/10.1108/YC-09-2019-1049.
Cauvin, Thomas. 2016. “Historians as Consultants and Advisors: Clients, Courtroom, and Public Policy.” Public History, 1st ed., Routledge. pp. 250–72, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315718255-18. Our library only seems to have online access to the first edition, but the second updated edition is available at the course reserves desk, shelfmark: ‘D16.163 .C38 2022’. See the “Business, Policy, Justice” chapter especially its updated bibliography.
Chhabra, Deepak. Sustainable Marketing of Cultural and Heritage Tourism. Routledge, 2010. (Available online through our library catalogue.)
Cole, Bruce. “HISTORIAN FOR HIRE.” Humanities (Washington), vol. 30, no. 1, 2009, p. 6. (Available online through our library catalogue.)
Conrad, Margaret, et al. “Canadians and Their Pasts: An Exploration in Historical Consciousness.” The Public Historian, vol. 31, no. 1, 2009, pp. 15–34. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2009.31.1.15.
Cwynar, Christopher. “Self-Service Media: Public Radio Personalities, Reality Podcasting, and Entrepreneurial Culture.” Popular Communication, vol. 17, no. 4, 2019, pp. 317–32, https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2019.1634811.
Graham, Shawn. 2025. Practical Necromancy for Beginners. The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota. https://thedigitalpress.org/practical-necromancy-for-beginners/
Graham, Shawn. 2024. “How I Came to Own A Cider Mill”. Electric Archaeology, 5 Feb. 2024, https://electricarchaeology.ca/2024/02/04/how-i-came-to-own-a-cider-mill/
Güner, Atiye, and İsmail Erim Gülaçt. “Business Models Transformed by Digitalization in Contemporary Art Museums and Galleries”. Journal of Graphic Engineering and Design, vol. 13, no. 1, Mar. 2022, pp. 13–20. jged.uns.ac.rs, https://doi.org/10.24867/JGED-2022-1-013.
Holtorf, Cornelius. “Learning from Las Vegas: Archaeology in the Experience Economy.”" The SAA Archaeological Record, vol. 7, no. 3, 2007, p. 6. online here
Hughes, M., & Carlsen, J. 2010. “The business of cultural heritage tourism: critical success factors”. Journal of Heritage Tourism, 5(1), 17–32. https://doi-org.proxy.library.carleton.ca/10.1080/17438730903469805
Liarokapis, Fotis, et al. Interactive Media for Cultural Heritage. 1st ed. 2025., Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61018-9.
Long, Colin, and Sophia Labadi. 2010. “The Business of Heritage and the Private Sector.” Heritage and Globalisation, Routledge. pp. 161–84, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203850855-18.
Martin, Brian. 2017. ‘The Business of History: Customers, Professionals, and Money’, in Paula Hamilton, and James B. Gardner (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Public History, Oxford Handbooks. https://doi-org.proxy.library.carleton.ca/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199766024.013.6.
McGregor, Helen. 2022. “Podcast Studies”. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Retrieved 22 Oct. 2025, from https://oxfordre.com/literature/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.001.0001/acrefore-9780190201098-e-1338.
Miller, Heather Lee. “The Business of History: Working as a Historical Consultant.” Journal of Women’s History, vol. 25, no. 4, 2013, pp. 342–49, https://doi.org/10.1353/jowh.2013.0063.
MILLER, J. S. “Mapping the Boosterist Imaginary: Colonial Williamsburg, Historical Tourism, and the Construction of Managerial Memory.”" The Public Historian, vol. 28, no. 4, 2006, pp. 51–74, https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2006.28.4.51.
Ott, Daniel P. Harvesting History: McCormick’s Reaper, Heritage Branding, and Historical Forgery. University of Nebraska Press, https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496206985/harvesting-history/. (We don’t have this yet in our library; but maybe one to keep an eye out for.)
Pasts Collective. Canadians and Their Pasts. University of Toronto Press, 2013. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442667648. Permalink to online version via MacOdrum.
Rosenzweig, Roy, and David P. Thelen. 1998. The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life. Columbia University Press, 1998.
Saryusz-Wolska, M., Hochmuth, H., & Stach, S. 2024. “Entrepreneurs of memory: Selling history in the GDR Museum shop in Berlin”. Memory Studies, 17(6), 1259-1276. https://doi-org.proxy.library.carleton.ca/10.1177/17506980231224697
Salvati, Andrew J. “Podcasting the Past: Hardcore History, Fandom, and DIY Histories.” Journal of Radio & Audio Media, vol. 22, no. 2, 2015, pp. 231–39, https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2015.1083375.
Scheinfeldt, Tom. ‘Meet AcadiMeet; or, Adventures in Vibe Coding’. Found History, 19 Oct. 2025 https://foundhistory.org/2025/10/meet-acadimeet-or-adventures-in-vibe-coding/
Scott, David Meerman. The New Rules of Sales and Service: How to Use Agile Selling, Real-Time Customer Engagement, Big Data, Content, and Storytelling to Grow Your Business. 1st edition, Wiley, 2014. Available through our library.
Staiff, Russell. 2016 Re-Imagining Heritage Interpretation: Enchanting the Past-Future. 1st ed., Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315604558.
Statistics #
Canada Council for the Arts. “Provincial and Territorial Cultural Indicators”. https://canadacouncil.ca/research/research-library/2025/06/provincial-and-territorial-cultural-indicators-2023
Statistics Canada. “Culture Statistics Portal”. https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/subjects-start/business_and_consumer_services_and_culture/culture
Statistics Canada. “Heritage Institutions”. https://ised-isde.canada.ca/app/ixb/cis/summary-sommaire/7121
Guides #
[Business Benefits Finder] | Government of Canada
Business Planning — a Community-Created List from OPLBusinessServices | Ottawa Public Library, https://ottawa-parent.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/display/69391174/72413751.
Guide to Starting a Small Business in Ontario | Ottawa Public Library. https://forms.biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/guide-starting-small-business-ontario.
Local Business Support Organizations. 26 Jun. 2025 | City of Ottawa https://ottawa.ca/en/local-business-support-organizations.
Small Business Navigator. 21 Oct. 2025 | City of Ottawa https://ottawa.ca/en/business/get-help-starting-or-growing-your-business/starting-or-growing-your-business/small-business-navigator.
Social Enterprises in Canada | Government of Canada
Organizations #
Capital Heritage Connexion - https://capitalheritage.ca/ - Sign up for their mailing list/newsletter especially.
Model Contracts #
Professional Historians Australia - Model Contracts - Guidelines for Business Agreements and Contracts https://www.historians.org.au/model-contracts/
Funding #
These were cribbed from Capital Heritage Connexion
City of Ottawa Heritage Funding
City of Ottawa Equity and Inclusion in the Arts Fund
Digital Museums Canada – Small, Medium & Large Investment funding
Local Festivals – Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage (Canadian Heritage)
Funding Opportunity – Federal Anti-Racism Secretariat: Department of Canadian Heritage
Documentary Heritage Communities Program (Library and Archives Canada)
Community Grant Programs (Ottawa Community Foundation)
Canada-Ontario Job Grant (Ministry of Colleges and Universities)
Skills Development Fund Training Stream (Employment Ontario)
Grow Grant (Ontario Trillium Foundation)
Collections Management – Museums Assistance Program (Canadian Heritage)
Access to Heritage – Museums Assistance Program (Canadian Heritage)