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Historical villages
\"Re-creating life in past times to educate the public and the historical villages where role-playing takes place can provide teens with the opportunity to learn skills from bygone times, such as blacksmithing or cabinetmaking, and earn a living. Historical villages give people the chance to bring another time to life, using historical tools and wearing period clothing. Costume design, set building, and makeup artistry, among other jobs, are explored, as well as how the experience gained at a historical village can be applied to careers within the tourism and museum industries and in carpentry and acting.\"--Amazon.com.
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Exhibiting Patriotism
American nationalism, patriotism and citizenship are proudly on display at historical sites across America-but they are also contested and reshaped by visitors and their engagement with those places. In Exhibiting Patriotism, Bergman analyzes exhibits, interpretive materials, and orientation films at major US sites, from Mt. Rushmore and to the USS Arizona Memorial, where controversy has erupted over the stories they tell about the past. She shows how historic narratives are the result of dynamic relationships between institutions and the public, and how these relationships are changing in an era when museums are becoming more visitor-centered, seeing visitors as partners in historical interpretation. Drawing on film theory, memory studies, visual communication, and visitor studies, Bergman offers an important analysis for scholars and professionals in American studies, museum studies, public history, and communication and media studies.
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Interpreting religion at museums and historic sites
\"Interpreting Religion at Museums and Historic Sites encourages readers to consider the history of religion as integral to American culture and provides a practical guide for any museum to include interpretation of religious traditions in its programs and exhibits\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Interpreting naval history at museums and historic sites
Interpreting Naval History at Museums and Historic Sites demonstrates the broad appeal of naval themed commemoration, centering on military aspects from both times of war and peace.
Transcending place and time, naval history is shaped into public forums for modern day consumption. These occurrences are not limited to just recent history, as can be seen in the celebration of man's long history of transforming bodies of water from barriers into opportunities. In addition, with the modern day nation-state naval history is not just limited to areas near large bodies of water, as seen with landlocked states in the United States sharing in a proud naval tradition. Examples of this included in the book are USS Arizona, BB-39, and USS Missouri, BB-63.) Naval history is just one avenue, with sites marking the history of immigration, engineering technology, and architecture.. Naval history also extends into lighthouses and port facility construction which are the background of a host of U.S. Generals in the U.S. Army with the Army Corps of Engineers, which includes the Robert E. Lee.
Using an international approach, the book illustrates the intersection of the historical understanding of one's place and naval traditions. Locating the boundaries, one finds both the depth and breath of the topics linking (and dividing) water and man.
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Interpreting the environment at museums and historic sites
\"Interpreting the Environment at Museums and Historic Sites is for anyone who wants to become a better steward of the environment and share lessons learned with others. The books provides a primer on \"major problems\" in researching about the environment and re-focuses thinking about the environment to thinking from the perspective of place and time\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Wages of History
Anyone who has encountered costumed workers at a living history museum may well have wondered what their jobs are like, churning butter or firing muskets while dressed in period clothing. In The Wages of History, Amy Tyson enters the world of the public history interpreters at Minnesota’s Historic Fort Snelling to investigate how they understand their roles and experience their daily work. Drawing on archival research, personal interviews, and participant observation, she reframes the current discourse on history museums by analyzing interpreters as laborers within the larger service and knowledge economies. Although many who are drawn to such work initially see it as a privilege—an opportunity to connect with the public in meaningful ways through the medium of history—the realities of the job almost inevitably alter that view. Not only do interpreters make considerable sacrifices, both emotional and financial, in order to pursue their work, but their sense of special status can lead them to avoid confronting troubling conditions on the job, at times fueling tensions in the workplace. This case study also offers insights—many drawn from the author’s seven years of working as an interpreter at Fort Snelling—into the way gendered roles and behaviors from the past play out among the workers, the importance of creative autonomy to historical interpreters, and the ways those on public history’s front lines both resist and embrace the site’s more difficult and painful histories relating to slavery and American Indian genocide.
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The Constructed Past
The Constructed Past presents group of powerful images of the past, termed in the book construction sites. At these sites, full scale, three-dimensional images of the past have been created for a variety of reasons including archaeological experimentation, tourism and education. Using various case studies, the contributors frankly discuss the aims, problems and mistakes experienced with reconstruction. They encourage the need for on-going experimentation and examine the various uses of the sites; political, economical and educational.
Introduction P. G. Stone and P. Planel ; 1. Archaeological reconstructions and the community in the UK M. Blockley 2. Reconstruction versus preservation in place in the United States National Park Service J. H. Jameson Jr. and W. J. Hunt 3. Reconstruction sites and education in Japan: a case study from the Kansai Region K. Okamura and R. Condon 4. The origin and role of the Irish National Heritage Park E. Culleton 5. Resurrection and deification at Colonial Williamsburg, USA I. N. Hume 6. Shakespeare's Globe: 'As faithful a copy as scholarship ... could get ..' .. '.. A bit of a bastard ..' T. Schadla-Hall 7. Butser Ancient Farm, UK P. Reynolds 8. The Historical Archaeological Experimentation Centre at Lejre, Denmark: 30 years of experimenting with the past M. Rasmussen and B. Grønnow 9. Reconstruction as ideology: the Open Air Museum at Oerlinghausen, Germany M. Schmidt 10. Slavonic Archaeology: GroB Raden an Open Air Museum in a unified Germany U. Sommer 11. The reconstruction of sites in the archaeological themepark Archeon in the Netherlands G. Ijzereef 12. Pembrokeshire's pasts. Natives, invaders and Welsh archaeology: the Castell Henllys experience H. Mytum 13. The Parc Pyrénéen de l'Art Préhistorique, France: beyond replica and re-enactment in interpreting the ancient past J. Clottes and C. Chippindale 14. Experimental archaeology and education: ancient technology at the service of modern education at SAMARA, France G. Dieudonné 15. Lake dwellings: archaeological interpretation and social perception, a case study from France P. Pétrequin 16. The Ancient Technology Centre, Cranbourne, UK - a reconstruction site built for education J. Keen 17. Bede's World, UK: the monk who made history P. Fowler 18. Archaeological reconstruction and education at the Jorvik Viking Centre and Archaeological Resource Centre, York, UK A. Jones ONdini, The Zulu royal capital of King Cetshwayo Ka Mpande (1873-1879) Len O. van Schalkwyk 20. Akaim archaeological park: a cultural-ecological reserve in Russia G.B. Zdanovich
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Speaking for the Enslaved
Focusing on the agency of enslaved Africans and their descendants in the South, this work argues for the systematic unveiling and recovery of subjugated knowledge, histories, and cultural practices of those traditionally silenced and overlooked by national heritage projects and national public memories. Jackson uses both ethnographic and ethnohistorical data to show the various ways African Americans actively created and maintained their own heritage and cultural formations. Viewed through the lens of four distinctive plantation sites-including the one on which that the ancestors of First Lady Michelle Obama lived-everyday acts of living, learning, and surviving profoundly challenge the way American heritage has been constructed and represented. A fascinating, critical view of the ways culture, history, social policy, and identity influence heritage sites and the business of heritage research management in public spaces.
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