BackStory

The following is a list of sources used or consulted in the making of the BackStory episode “Been There, Done That: Historical Reenactments,” broadcast in October 2012. You can listen to the entire episode here.

Mentioned on the Show:

•  Man of War: My Adventures in the World of Historical Reenactment by Charlie Schroeder

• Always in Season, filmmaker Jacqueline Olive’s documentary-in-progress.

• Gunfighter Nation by Richard Slotkin

Outside Links:

•  An article on baseball during the Civil War and some pictures of what it used to look like.

• The Buffalo Bill museum in Denver has photos of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West.

• This forum for reenactors can tell you about events in your area (plus where to find all the cool gear)

• The Atlanta History Center, where reenactor Marvin Greer works.

• Photos taken shortly after the Moores’s Ford Bridge lynching (these are not graphic):

• Here’s Hampton Plantation, the National Historic Site that planned to host the “Slave for a Day” event

Bibliography:

• Auslander, Mark. “Holding onto Those Who Can’t Be Held: Reenacting a Lynching at Moore’s Ford, Georgia.” Southern Spaces. Web. 8 November 2010.

• Kasson, Joy S. Buffalo Bill’s Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History. New York: Hill and Wang, 2000.

• Thompson, Jenny. War Games: Inside the World of 20th-Century War Reenactors. Washington: Smithsonian Books, 2004.

• Warren, Louis S. Buffalo Bill’s America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

• Wexler, Laura.Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America. New York: Scribner, 2003.