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Introduction / Scott Magelssen -- Present enacting past : the functions of battle reenacting in historical representation / Leigh Clemons -- "This is the place" : performance and the production of space in Mormon cultural memory / Lindsay Adamson Livingston -- Men with their muskets and me in my bare feet : performing history and policing gender at historic Fort Snelling Living History Museum / Amy M. Tyson -- History, archive, memory, and performance : the Lewis and Clark bicentennial play as cultural commemoration / Richard L. Poole -- Defining museum theater at Conner Prairie / Aili McGill -- Performing history as memorialization : thinking with -- And Jesus moonwalks the Mississippi and Brown University's Slavery and Justice Committee / Patricia Ybarra -- Is that real? an exploration of what is real in a performance based on history / Catherine Hughes -- Dinner: impossible -- "medieval mayhem" at the Maryland Renaissance Festival / Kimberly Tony Korol-Evans -- Tourist performance in the twenty-first century / Scott Magelssen -- Ping Chong & Company's Undesirable elements/secret histories in Oxford, Mississippi / Rhona Justice-Malloy.

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