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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Living history"”.
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Bringing the schoolhouse to life: Methodologies of living history education demonstrated in a living history program for San Timoteo Schoolhouse, Riverside County, California
This project begins by examining living history, defining its scope, uses, and relationship to other fields. It further defines and articulates a second-person methodology for construction of living history educational projects, grounding it in historical, educational, and dramatic theory.
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Bringing the schoolhouse to life: Methodologies of living history education demonstrated in a living history program for San Timoteo Schoolhouse, Riverside County, California
This project begins by examining living history, defining its scope, uses, and relationship to other fields. It further defines and articulates a second-person methodology for construction of living history educational projects, grounding it in historical, educational, and dramatic theory.
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Comparison of comprehension of historical information in first- and third-person museum interpretation.
Living history museums are realistic representations of the past where visitors encounter interpreters using artifacts and create a meaningful context for understanding history. However, little research has been done to determine how successful these museums are as a pedagogy for learning. This …
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Everyday Farm Life in the Moxee Valley 1915-1950: Historical Ethnography
… of farm life and its evolution for people living in this foremost hop-growing region of the United States. The larger goal is to characterize the community and social processes for use as primary source documentation to create historically accurate programs at the Gendron Hop Ranch-Living …
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Cracked Cans, Bent Wire: Dating Historical Metal at Biry/Ahr House, Castroville, Texas
… of Biry/Ahr House from a historical home to the Living History Center it is today.</p>
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45 King: A Story of the Southern Home
… It is a story of the home. A story told through history, through a vision exhibited in architectural drawings, and through the social heritage closest to my heart. 45 King is a story for the South; the story of its grandeur, its climate, its natural beauty, its hospitality, its comfort, and its …
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Archaeological and Historical Research to Establish the Jasper County, Missouri Civil War Museum and Park
… of Confederate guerillas led by Major Thomas Livingston attacked Union troops at William Rader’s farm in western Jasper County Missouri. The guerillas killed eighteen Union troops, who were unarmed at the time, and mutilated their bodies. Most of them were from the first African American …
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"And that's what I think being an American girl is all about!" : girls' reflections on American Girl and contemporary American girlhood
… of girlhood in America” through its displays, living history events, and of primary significance for this dissertation, an essay contest seeking answers to the exhibit's titular question from modern-day girls and women. Although girls between the ages of 7 and 12 years old are the target …
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Rethinking the Role of the Landscape in Historic Interpretation: A Constructivist Design Approach to Interpreting Slavery in Appalachian Virginia
… for communicating important understandings about history. To accomplish this, a constructivist approach to design—one that emphasizes the direct interaction between the individual visitor and the physical site as the origin of meaning—is presented. The Constructivist Design Approach (CDA) …
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Reviving Heritage in a Historic Gem City: Examining the Management of History at the Colonial Quarter in St. Augustine, Florida
<p>The Colonial Quarter is a living history venue of Spanish and British colonial heritage in St. Augustine, Florida. Since 1966, the site has housed interpretive structures and programming related to St. Augustine’s colonial history. Over time, management of the site has fallen under the purview …
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Battlefield tourism: strategies and tactics for the development and tourism planning of the battlefields of the war of Independence/peninsular war in Spain and Portugal
… that those stakeholders value re-enactments and ‘living history’ as part of the creative experience, promoting interactive, diverse, and more enriching contact with local cultures. Creative tourism appears as a key driver in the success of tourism in these destinations, enhancing the participation …
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Performing Race, Performing History: Oral Histories of Sundown Towns in Southern Illinois
Sundown towns are communities with a history of excluding African Americans and that are predominantly White on purpose. Although sundown towns have inevitably changed over time, a number of them continue to be alarmingly White, and their reputations continue to persist. Sundown towns are …
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The Digital Turn in Indian Film Sound: Ontologies and Aesthetics
… is an ethnographic investigation of ‘living history’, it is largely informed by film sound theory, and seeks to achieve a balance between empirically grounded historical research and film theory.
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Navajo Baskets and the American Indian Voice: Searching for the Contemporary Native American in the Trading Post, the Natural History Museum, and the Fine Art Museum
… in three venues: the trading post, the natural history museum, and the fine art museum. The study concludes that the fine art museum has the most potential to foster a dialogue about the contemporary Navajo, whose identity is a product of continuity and change. Chapter one discusses the basket's …
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Everyday and unworn dress as museum pieces: a study of the Hodson Shop Collection, Walsall Museum, 1983-2016
… to small-scale, local government operated social history museums, with the bulk of research being conducted into elite national and metropolitan museums or the spectacle of living history museums. This thesis addresses these omissions through a biographical investigation into a single collection …
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Hands-On-History: An Alternative Approach to Teaching Social Studies In High School
… student-involved approach called Hands-on-History which the investigator developed to replace conventional instructional methods which remain relatively unchanged in recent American public education. The case study explored the utilization of community resources such as artisans, museums, …
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… to leak into and overwhelm spaces of colonial history. The site, Colonial Williamsburg®, is a 301 acre open air “living-history” museum in Virginia. It is a destination for heritage tourism, located within a two-hour driving radius of Washington, D.C., Richmond and Charlottesville — all central …