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2003

BAGNALL, G., 2003, ‘Performance and performativity at heritage sites’, museum and society, 1(2): 87-103

MISZTAL, B. A., 2003, Theories of Social Remembering, Open University Press, Maidenhead and Philadelphia.

2004

Exploring how young people think about and respond to the past, this paper draws on developments in history pedagogy which focus on “how ordinary people beyond the history profession understand the past” (Seixas 2004, 8).1

SEIXAS, P., 2004, ‘Introduction’ in Seixas, P. (ed), Theorizing Historical Consciousness, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Buffalo and London, pp3-20.

2005

In 2005, black Civil War historians formed the United States Colored Troops Living History Association, reasserting the African American experience into the artificially white landscape of Civil War history reenactment.

WINEBURG, S. S., 2005, ‘The Psychological Study of Historical Consciousness’ in Straub, J. (ed) Narration, Identity, and Historical Consciousness, Berghahn Books, New York and Oxford, pp187-210.

2006

In his first year of business (2006), he sold 10,000 pairs of shoes and then sewed value through each sale by giving away the same number to disadvantaged children in Argentina – a business model that continues to this day.

2009

SHEMILT, D., 2009, Drinking an Ocean and Pissing a Cupful: How Adolescents Make Sense of History, in Symcox, L. and Wilschut, A. (eds) National History Standards: The Problem of Canon and the Future of History Teaching, Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, pp141-209.

2011

In 2011, only four building foundations remained from the once bustling work center of the 5,000-acre plantation.

JACKSON, A. and KIDD, J., 2011, ‘Introduction’ in Jackson, A. and Kidd, J. (eds), Performing Heritage: Research Practice and Innovation in Museum Theatre and Live Interpretation, Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York, pp1-8.

2019

Dungey, Azie Mira. “Ask a Slave.” Accessed January 5, 2019. http://www.askaslave.com/.

Plimoth Plantation in Massachusetts is a notable exception, with the Wampanoag Homesite which opened with costumed third-person Native interpreters in March 2019.

In 2019, most sites incorporate intangible artifacts into their presentations, whether it’s recordings of oral histories or music or interactives that bring digital elements to life, freeing these sites from only telling stories for which they have physical artifactual support.

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