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Bibliography on Living History.

 

NOTE: See also the files: LivHist-msg, other-groups-msg.

 

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This file is a collection of various messages having a common theme that

I have collected from my reading of the various computer networks. Some

messages date back to 1989, some may be as recent as yesterday.

 

This file is part of a collection of files called Stefan's Florilegium.

These files are available on the Internet at: http://www.florilegium.org

 

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seperate topics  were sometimes split into different files and sometimes

extraneous information was removed. For instance, the  message IDs  were

removed to save space and remove clutter.

 

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    Mark S. Harris                 AKA:  Lord Stefan li Rous

   mark.s.harris at motorola.com            stefan at florilegium.org

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From: mwolfe at blues.epas.utoronto.ca (Menya Wolfe)

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca

Subject: Re: Time Machines (the book) LONG!!!

Date: 21 Sep 1994 18:49:20 GMT

Organization: University of Toronto -- EPAS

 

F.L. Watkins <folo at prairienet.org> wrote:

>Someone wrote and asked about the publisher and availability of

>Jay Anderson's THE MACHINES book. The message bounced; and since

>this information might be of interest to other people on the

>Rialto, I am taking the liberty of posting it:

>TIME MACHINES is available from the American Association for

>State and Local History, 530 Church Street, Suite 600, Nashville,

>TN 37219 (along with a bunch of other neat books). Write for

>a catalog.

>I can only reiterate that this is the first and still the best

>book devoted to the subject of living history.

 

While the book is good, I think this is a bit of an overstatement.

I'm working on a thesis on living history, and I've found many more

recent and more scholarly sources.  Anderson is knowledgeable and

enthusiastic, but not always very objective.  I've included a partial

bibliography here for anyone interested.  Sorry about the formatting...

 

Anderson, Jay.  TImmaterial Culture: The Implication of Experimental

Research for Folklife MuseumsU, in Keystone Folklore 21 (1976-77), pp. 1-15.

 

-----. TLiving History: Simulating Everyday Life in Living History

MuseumsU, in American Quarterly 34 (1982), pp. 290-306.

 

-----. Time Machines: The World of Living History.  Nashville:

American Association for State and Local History, 1984.

 

-----.  The Living History Sourcebook.  Nashville: American

Association for State and Local History, 1985.

 

Anderson, Jay, ed.  A Living History Reader, vol. 1.  Nashville:

American Association for State and Local History, 1991.

 

Benn, Carl. "Living History Lies and Social History", in Museum

Quarterly 16 (1987), pp. 3 and 28.

 

Brandt, Anthony. "A Short Natural History of Nostalgia", in Atlantic

Monthly * (1978), pp. *.

 

Burcaw, G. Ellis. 'Can history be too lively?', in Museums Journal 80

(1980), pp. 5-7.

 

-----. "First Person Interpretation: An InterpreterUs View", in

Interpretation Canada Journal 15 (1987), pp. 4-5.

 

Carson, Cary. "Living Museums of EverymanUs History", in Harvard

Magazine 83 (1981), pp. 25-26.

 

Clawson, Marion. "Living Historical Farms: A Proposal for Action", in

Agricultural History 39 (1965), pp. 110-11.

 

Craig, Tracey Linton. "Retreat into History", in History News *

(1983), pp. *.

 

-----. "The Changing Historic House Museum: Can it Live? ", in

Historic Preservation 23 (1971), pp. 50-54.

 

-----. In Small Things Forgotten.  California: University of

California Press, 1977.

 

-----. "A Sense of Another World: History Museums and Cultural

Change", in Museum News 58 (1980), pp. 40-45.

 

-----. "The Link from Objects to Person to Concept", in Museums,

Adults and the Humanities, Z.W. Collins, ed.  Washington: American

Association of Museums, 1981, pp. 24-34.

 

Fortier, J. "Thoughts on the Re-creation and Interpretation of

Historic Environments", in International Congress of Maritime Museums,

Third Conference Proceedings, Mystic Seaport, 1978, pp. 251-262.

 

Gerlach, L.R. "Making the Past Come Alive", in History News 30 (1975),

pp. 222-23.

 

Green, Timothy.  'Reliving the Iron Age in Britain', in Time, March

13, 1978: 68-69.

 

-----. "Living Like Iron Age Celts", in Smithsonian 9 (1978), pp. 80-88.

 

Gwaltney, W.W. "Journeys of the Mind, The Future of Living History",

in The Interpreter 17 (1986), pp. 14-18.

 

de Haas, Horreus.  Living a Stone Age Life: Report of a Creative Game.

Bilthoven: Werkplaatz-Kindergemeenschap, 1978.

 

Handler, Richard. 'Overpowered by realism: living history and the

simulation of the past', in Journal of American Folklore 100 (1987),

pp. 337-41.

 

Hartmann, L.A. 'Spontaneous Interpretation', in Journal of

Interpretation 9 (1984), pp. 33-38.

 

Hawes, Edward.  'The Living History Farm in North America: New

Directions in Research and Interpretation', in ALHFAM Annual 2 (1976): 41-60.

 

Hayward, D. Geoffrey and John W. Larkin. 'Evaluating Visitor

Experiences and Exhibit Effectiveness at Old Sturbridge Village', in

Museum Studies Journal * (Fall 1983) , pp. 42-50.

 

Hurt, R. Douglas. "Agricultural Museums: A New Frontier for the

Social Sciences", in History Teacher * (1980), pp. *.

 

Kelsey, Darwin P. "Outdoor Museums and Historical Agriculture", in

Agricultural History 46 (1972), pp. 111-12.

 

-----. "Historical Farms as Models of the Past", in ALHFAM Annual *

(1975), pp. *.

 

-----. "Harvests of History", in Historic Preservation 28 (1976), pp. 20-25.

 

Knotts, D. "Living History: Can it be Relevant? ", in The Interpreter

14 (1983), p. 7.

 

Leone, Mark. "The Relationship Between Artifacts and the Public in

Outdoor History Museums", in Annals of the New York Academy of Science

* (1981), pp. *.

 

Levstick, Linda S. "Living History - Isn’t", in History News 37:5

(1982), pp. 28-29.

 

Loomis, Ormond.  Sources on Folk Museums and Living Historical Farms.

Folklore Forum Bibliographic and Special Series, no. 16 (1977).

 

Matelic, Candace Tangorra. "Through the Historical Looking Glass", in

Museum News 58 (1980), pp. 35-45.

 

McCluskey, C. "Presenting the Past As it Really Was", in Conservation

Canada 2 (1976), pp. 11-13.

 

McQuarie, Robert J. "Experience in History: A Museum Time Machine for

Teaching History", in Social Education * (1981), pp. *.

 

Moreau, Robert. Communication with the Museum Visitor: The use of

first and third person interpretation in outdoor history museums of

Ontario.  Unpublished MMSt thesis, Museum Studies Program, University

of Toronto.

 

Peate, Iorwerth. "Reconstructing the Past", in Folk Life 6 (1968),

pp. 113-14.

 

Ronsheim, Robert. "Is the Past Dead?", in Museum News 53 (1974), p. 62.

 

Ruyak, M.A. 'The Gift of the Interpreter: Personal Reflections on a

Living History Program', in The Museologist 157 (1981), pp. 14-17.

 

Schlebecker, John T.  The Past in Action: Living Historical Farms.

Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1967.

 

-----. Living Historical Farms: A Walk Into the Past.  Washington:

Smithsonian Institution Press, 1968.

 

-----. "Living Historical Farms Tell It Like It Was", in Contours of

Change.  Washington: Government Printing Office, 1970.

 

-----. Whereby We Thrive. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1975.

 

Schlebecker, John T. and Gale E. Peterson.  Living historical farms

handbook. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1972.

 

Schlereth, Thomas J. "Historic Houses as Learning Laboratories", in

History News 33 (1978), pp. 87-92, 97-102.

 

-----. "It Wasn’t that Simple", in Museum News 56 (1978), pp. 36-44.

 

-----. "The Historic Museum Village as a Cross-Disciplinary Learning

Laboratory", in Artifacts and the American Past.  Nashville: American

Association for State and Local History, 1980.

 

Schroeder, F.E.H. "Living History: Getting Beyond Nostalgia? ", in The

Journal of Museum Education 10 (1985), pp. 19-20.

 

Sherfy, Marcella. "Interpreting History", in Trends * (1977), pp. 36-37.

 

-----. "Honesty in Interpreting the Cultural Past", in Parks 3

(1979), pp. 13-14.

 

Sitford, Holly. "Stepping Into History", in Museum News * (1964), pp. *.

 

Turner, Rory. 'Bloodless battles: the Civil War reenacted', in TDR 34

(1990), pp. 123-36.

 

Uldall, Kai.  TOpen Air Museums', in Museums 10 (1957), pp. 68-69.

 

-----. Skansen: Buildings and Animals.  Stockholm: *, 1966.

 

-----. "Sowbelly and Seedbanks: The Living History Museum as a

Process Repository", in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the

Association for Living Historical Farms and Agricultural Museums,

1974.  Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1975.

 

Zaenger, P.L. "The Potential of Living History", in The Interpreter

17 (1986), pp. 8-9.

 

 

From: folo at prairienet.org (F.L. Watkins)

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca

Subject: Re: Time Machines (the book) LONG!!!

Date: 21 Sep 1994 22:30:00 GMT

Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

 

Menya Wolfe mwolfe at blues.epas.utoronto.ca posts a good bibliography

of articles and books on living history and notes that my endorsement

of Anderson's _Time Machines_ is an overstatement.

 

I have read many of the articles listed (and plan to seek out the

others) and will agree that they delve into the living-history

movement somewhat deeper than TM. However, for a single book on

the movement, I have not seen TM bettered...even by Anderson

himself. Perhaps I should qualify my statement by saying that TM

is the first and still the best overview of living history.

 

Yrs, Folo

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Damin de Folo - F.L.Watkins - folo at prairienet.org

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