Cosplaying the Past

ANNETTE TELLS TALES What Have Historic Houses and "Living History" Museums Like Colonial Williamsburg Put In Our Heads About History? And Why?

Are You Playing NBH Summer Museum Bingo? It’s Not Too Late!

How Long Is This Post? 7,500 words, or 35 minutes.

Ooh, the authenticity! Tourists stroll the neatly-paved and clean streets of Colonial Williamsburg, past the bins cunningly disguised as barrels. Image: CC BY 2.0 Humberto Moreno, 2008. Wikipedia

Museums Are Political. All of Them. Said It.

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