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Kitty Wilson-Evans was an American historical interpreter and storyteller. She was noted for her educational performances about the lives of African Americans who were enslaved at Historic Brattonsville. For that work she researched and created a character who appeared in several books, plays, and in performances at various historical sites.
Gladys Rebecca Quander Tancil (January 31, 1921 – November 5, 2002) [3] was an American tour guide who was the first African-American to work as a historical interpreter at George Washington's Mount Vernon. [4] She worked to improve the interpretation surrounding the slaves that Washington owned. [5]
McKnight works as a historical interpreter at locations such as Colonial Williamsburg, [4] Genesee Country Village and Museum, [5] Historic Richmond Town, [2] and Museum of the American Revolution [6] to teach people about the lives of African Americans in American history, particularly during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Heritage interpretation refers to all the ways in which information is communicated to visitors to an educational, natural or recreational site, such as a museum, park or science centre. More specifically it is the communication of information about, or the explanation of, the nature, origin, and purpose of historical, natural, or cultural ...
Actor-historian Leslie Goddard will visit Athens to perform her one-woman Jackie Kennedy play for free at the Classic Center Pavilion on April 21.
Living history is an activity that incorporates historical tools, activities and dress into an interactive presentation that seeks to give observers and participants a sense of stepping back in time. Although it does not necessarily seek to reenact a specific event in history, living history is similar to, and sometimes incorporates, historical ...
Morgan Llywelyn (born December 3, 1937) is an American-Irish historical interpretation author of historical and mythological fiction and historical non-fiction.Her interpretation of mythology and history has received several awards and has sold more than 40 million copies, and she herself is recipient of the 1999 Exceptional Celtic Woman of the Year Award from Celtic Women International.
The Work of History: Constructivism and a Politics of the Past (with a Foreword by Hayden White), New York: Routledge, 2017. ISBN 978-1-138-69746-1; Pihlainen, Kalle. "The Work of Hayden White II: Defamiliarizing Narrative." The SAGE Handbook of Historical Theory, ed. Nancy Partner and Sarah Foot (London: Sage Publications, 2013): 119–135.
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