Non-Boring History

Non-Boring History

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?

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Annette Laing
Aug 13, 2022
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Tourists walking down paved street lined with reproduced 18th century buildings
Ooh, the authenticity! Tourists stroll the neatly-paved and clean streets of Colonial Wil…

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