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Historical Reenactment

Author : Mario Carretero
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800735413
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Historical Reenactment written by Mario Carretero and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long dismissed as the domain of hobbyists and obsessives, historical reenactment—the dramatization of past events using costumed actors and historical props—has only in recent years attracted serious attention from scholars. Drawing on examples from around the world, Historical Reenactment offers a fascinating, interdisciplinary exploration of this cultural phenomenon. With particular attention to reenactment’s social and pedagogical dimensions, it develops a robust definition of what the practice constitutes, considers what methodological approaches are most appropriate, and places it alongside museums and memorial sites as an object of analysis.

Living History

Author : Hillary Rodham Clinton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743222259
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Living History written by Hillary Rodham Clinton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-04-19 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hillary Rodham Clinton tells her life story, describing her dedication to social causes, her relationship with her husband, and her accomplishments and difficult periods as First Lady.

Man of War

Author : Charlie Schroeder
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142196800
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Man of War written by Charlie Schroeder and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the middle of a heat wave, and Charlie Schroeder is dressed in heavy clothing and struggling to row a replica eighteenth-century bateau down the St. Lawrence River. Why? Months earlier, Schroeder realized he knew almost nothing about history. But he wanted to learn, so the actor spent a year reenacting it. This book is Schroeder's account of the time he spent chasing Celts in Arkansas, raiding a Viet Cong village in Virginia, and flirting with frostbite en route to "Stalingrad" in Colorado. Along the way, he illuminates just how much the past can teach us about the present.--From back cover.

Battle Reenactments

Author : Monique Vescia
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1499437307
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book Battle Reenactments written by Monique Vescia and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This captivating title offers a rare view into the world of battle reenactors, actors who bring history to life by playing the roles of those from the past. Readers learn about the past, present, and future of the craft. The book then teaches readers how to get started in battle reenactments, including which groups to join and where to find the appropriate costumes. Finally, the book guides readers on how to turn reenactment from hobby to a job and make money from performances. For anyone interested in theater or the performing arts, battle reenactment is a great way to go.

War Games

Author : Jenny Thompson
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588344312
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book War Games written by Jenny Thompson and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: D-Day with beach umbrellas in the distance? Troops ordering ice cream? American and German forces celebrating Christmas together in the barracks? This could only be the curious world of 20th-century war reenactors. A relatively recent and rapidly expanding phenomenon, reenactments in the United States of World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War now draw more than 8,000 participants a year. Mostly men, these reenactors celebrate, remember, and re-create the tiniest details of the Battle of the Bulge in the Maryland Woods, D-Day on a beach in Virginia, and WWI trench warfare in Pennsylvania. Jenny Thompson draws on seven years of fieldwork, personal interviews, and surveys to look into this growing subculture. She looks at how the reenactors' near obsession with owning “authentic” military clothing, guns, paraphernalia, and vehicles often explodes into heated debates. War Games sheds light on the ways people actually make use of history in their daily lives and looks intensely into the meaning of war itself and how wars have become the heart of American history. The author's photographs provide incredible evidence of how “real” these battles can become.

Reenactments

Author : Hai-Dang Phan
Publisher : Sarabande Books
ISBN 13 : 194644829X
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Reenactments written by Hai-Dang Phan and published by Sarabande Books. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reenactments, poet Hai-Dang Phan explores the history, memory, and legacy of the Vietnam War from his vantage point as a second-generation Vietnamese American. Woven throughout the poems is a narrative of his family’s exodus from Vietnam that beautifully elucidates the American record of immigration, dislocation, inheritance, and ultimately hope. The poems are persuasively varied in their approach. The past and present, the remembered and imagined, all intersect at shifting angles, providing bold new perspectives. And, in a fresh move, Phan widens the lens, interspersing translations of several other contemporary Vietnamese poems to the mix. This subtle and moving debut is an important addition to the literature of immigration.

Historical Reenactment

Author : Iain McCalman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230277098
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Historical Reenactment written by Iain McCalman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-01-20 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 1700s new forms of visual entertainment have tried to simulate the details of nature: reenactment has now become the most widely-consumed form of popular history. This book engages with the quest for definition and appropriate delimitation of reenactment as well as questions about the relationship between realism and affect.

The Life and Times of a Civil War Reenactor

Author : Clifford Pierce
Publisher : Backintyme
ISBN 13 : 0939479303
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Times of a Civil War Reenactor written by Clifford Pierce and published by Backintyme. This book was released on 2008 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After retiring from a career with the U.S. military, Pierce obtains a doctorate in theology and is ordained. He has found his calling in ministering to the spiritual needs of the Civil War reenacting community in his portrayal of Samuel Harrison, chaplain of the 54th Massachusetts volunteer infantry.

Enacting History

Author : Scott Magelssen
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817356541
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Enacting History written by Scott Magelssen and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2011-03-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enacting History is a collection of new essays exploring the world of historical performances. The volume focuses on performances outside the traditional sphere of theatre, among them living history museums, battle reenactments, pageants, renaissance festivals, and adventure-tourism destinations. This volume argues that the recent surge in such performances have raised significant questions about the need for, interest in, and value of such nontraditional theater. Many of these performances claim a greater or lesser degree of historical "accuracy" or "authenticity," and the authors tease out the representational and historiographic issues related to these arguments. How, for instance, are issues of race, ethnicity, and gender dealt with at museums that purport to be accurate windows into the past? How are politics and labor issues handled in local- or state-funded institutions that rely on volunteer performers? How do tourists' expectations shape the choices made by would-be purveyors of the past? Where do matters of taste or censorship enter in when reconciling the archival evidence with a family-friendly mission? Essays in the collection address, among other subjects, reenactments of period cookery and cuisine at a Maryland renaissance festival; the roles of women as represented at Minnesota's premiere living history museum, Historic Fort Snelling; and the Lewis and Clark bicentennial play as cultural commemoration. The editors argue that historical performances like these-regardless of their truth-telling claims-are an important means to communicate, document, and even shape history, and allow for a level of participation and accessibility that is unique to performance. Enacting History is an entertaining and informative account of the public's fascination with acting out and watching history and of the diverse methods of fulfilling this need.

Confederates in the Attic

Author : Tony Horwitz
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307763013
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Confederates in the Attic written by Tony Horwitz and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-08-18 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent takes us on an explosive adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where Civil War reenactors, battlefield visitors, and fans of history resurrect the ghosts of the Lost Cause through ritual and remembrance. "The freshest book about divisiveness in America that I have read in some time. This splendid commemoration of the war and its legacy ... is an eyes–open, humorously no–nonsense survey of complicated Americans." —The New York Times Book Review For all who remain intrigued by the legacy of the Civil War—reenactors, battlefield visitors, Confederate descendants and other Southerners, history fans, students of current racial conflicts, and more—this ten-state adventure is part travelogue, part social commentary and always good-humored. When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to his own heart. Propelled by his boyhood passion for the Civil War, Horwitz embarks on a search for places and people still held in thrall by America's greatest conflict. In Virginia, Horwitz joins a band of 'hardcore' reenactors who crash-diet to achieve the hollow-eyed look of starved Confederates; in Kentucky, he witnesses Klan rallies and calls for race war sparked by the killing of a white man who brandishes a rebel flag; at Andersonville, he finds that the prison's commander, executed as a war criminal, is now exalted as a martyr and hero; and in the book's climax, Horwitz takes a marathon trek from Antietam to Gettysburg to Appomattox in the company of Robert Lee Hodge, an eccentric pilgrim who dubs their odyssey the 'Civil Wargasm.' Written with Horwitz's signature blend of humor, history, and hard-nosed journalism, Confederates in the Attic brings alive old battlefields and the new 'classrooms, courts, country bars' where the past and the present collide, often in explosive ways.

History and Imagination

Author : Ronald Vaughan Morris
Publisher : R&L Education
ISBN 13 : 1610482999
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book History and Imagination written by Ronald Vaughan Morris and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2012-03-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In History and Imagination, elementary school social studies teachers will learn how to help their students break down the walls of their schools, more personally engage with history, and define democratic citizenship. By collaborating together in meaningful investigations into the past and reenacting history, students will become experts who interpret their findings, teach their peers, and relate their experiences to those of older students, neighbors, parents, and grandparents. The byproduct of this collaborative, intergenerational learning is that schools become community learning centers, just like museums and libraries, where families can go together in order to find out more about the topics that interest them. There is an incredible value in the shared and lived experiences of reenacting the past, of meeting people from different places and times: an authority and reality that textbooks cannot rival. By engaging elementary social studies students in living history, whether in the classroom, after school, or in partnership with local historical institutions, teachers are guaranteed to impress upon the students a special, desired understanding of place and time.

Reenactment Case Studies

Author : Vanessa Agnew
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429819374
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Reenactment Case Studies written by Vanessa Agnew and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-16 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reenactment Case Studies: Global Perspectives on Experiential History examines reenactment's challenge to traditional modes of understanding the past, asking how experience-based historical knowledge-making relates to memory-making and politics. Reenactment is a global phenomenon that ncompasses living history, historical reality television, performance art, theater, historically-informed music performance, experimental archeology, pilgrimage, battle reenactment, live-action role play, and other forms. These share a concern with simulating the past via authenticity, embodiment, affect, the performative and subjective. As such, reenactment constitutes a global form of popular historical knowledge-making, representation, and commemoration. Yet, in terms of its historical subject matter, styles, and subcultures, reenactment is often nationally or locally inflected. he book thus asks how domestic reenactment practices relate to global ones, as well as to the spread of new populisms, and postcolonial and decolonizing movements. he book is the first to address these questions through reenactment case studies drawn from various world regions. Forming a companion volume to the Reenactment Studies Handbook: Key Terms in the Field (2020), Reenactment Case Studies s aimed at a wide academic readership, especially in the fields of istory, film studies, memory studies, performance studies, museum and heritage studies, cultural and literary studies, and anthropology.

Spying on the South

Author : Tony Horwitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1101980281
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Spying on the South written by Tony Horwitz and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's journey across the American South in the 1850s, on the eve of the Civil War. Olmsted roamed eleven states and six thousand miles, and the New York Times published his dispatches about slavery and its defenders. More than 150 years later, Tony Horwitz followed Olmsted's route, and whenever possible his mode of transport--rail, riverboats, in the saddle--through Appalachia, down the Ohio and Mississippi, through Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, and across Texas to the Rio Grande, discovering and reporting on vestiges of what Olmsted called the Cotton Kingdom"--

Basic Guide for World War II Reenacting

Author : David R. Hustler
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434912426
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Basic Guide for World War II Reenacting written by David R. Hustler and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

German World War II Reenacting

Author : Scott Lee Thompson
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
ISBN 13 : 9780764348891
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book German World War II Reenacting written by Scott Lee Thompson and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book takes the reader through a full color look at reenactment of the German military of WWII. Dedicated reenactors have gone to amazing lengths to recreate the Wehrmacht in action. Original tanks and half tracks take to the field once more, alongside uniformed German soldiers. Everything from tanks to machine guns to can-openers and cooking utensils are put to use to recreate not only authentic battles, but the more mundane aspects of wartime life, such as vehicle and weapons maintenance, sleeping, cooking, and trying to survive. The author has selected photos from WWII reenactments around the world, where dedicated reenectors have spent enormous amounts of time and money making sure this momentous event is never forgotten. Panzers thunder through the fields once more, planes of the Luftwaffe strike from the sky, and the German fighting men and women once more are thrown into an amazing array of scenarios."--- From back cover.

Civil War and Living History Reenacting about "people of Color"

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Author : Mary L. Jackson Fears
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780788425134
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Civil War and Living History Reenacting about "people of Color" written by Mary L. Jackson Fears and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love history? Why not live it? Reenacting history is more than just an exciting pastime; it is a powerful educational medium that breathes life into our heritage. This guide will inspire African-Americans to attend Civil War battle reenactments and join in the living history experience as reenactors representing either military roles or civilians in non-combat roles. Discussions include the basic requirements of this hobby and the rationale for participating, but reenacting as a means of celebrating the heroic deeds of black people during the Civil War is the primary focus of the text. Brief biographical sketches of such notable figures as Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, a description of plantation life with quotes from slave narratives and Civil War documents, occupations of slaves and "free people of color," interviews with reenactors, numerous illustrations of appropriate wearing apparel, and much more will delight "living historians," who must be knowledgeable about the life experience of slaves and free persons. An extensive annotated bibliography of reference sources is a bonus for both for Civil War reenactors and for school library collections.

Call My Name, Clemson

Author : Rhondda Robinson Thomas
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609387414
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Call My Name, Clemson written by Rhondda Robinson Thomas and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1890 and 1915, a predominately African American state convict crew built Clemson University on John C. Calhoun’s Fort Hill Plantation in upstate South Carolina. Calhoun’s plantation house still sits in the middle of campus. From the establishment of the plantation in 1825 through the integration of Clemson in 1963, African Americans have played a pivotal role in sustaining the land and the university. Yet their stories and contributions are largely omitted from Clemson’s public history. This book traces “Call My Name: African Americans in Early Clemson University History,” a Clemson English professor’s public history project that helped convince the university to reexamine and reconceptualize the institution’s complete and complex story from the origins of its land as Cherokee territory to its transformation into an increasingly diverse higher-education institution in the twenty-first century. Threading together scenes of communal history and conversation, student protests, white supremacist terrorism, and personal and institutional reckoning with Clemson’s past, this story helps us better understand the inextricable link between the history and legacies of slavery and the development of higher education institutions in America.