historical reenactments

Two Viennese university students in 1967 decide to reenact the World War II liberation of the Vienna Zoo--an action that has both comic and gruesome consequences.

Sixteen-year-old Chelsea knows what to expect when she returns for a summer of historical reenactment at Colonial Essex Village until she learns that her ex-boyfriend is working there, too, and then meets the very attractive Dan who works at a rival historical village.

The tiny town of Three Chimneys, Virginia becomes the focus of media attention when dog trainer Manda Frank gives birth to eleven babies, and the resulting visit by presidential candidate Adams Brooke inspires struggling cheesemaker Margaret Prickett, an avid Brooke supporter, to re-create for him the 1,235-pound of Chelshire made by Thomas Jefferson's fans and transported to Washington in 1801.

Examines the experiences of nine Civil War women including abolitionist Lucy Stone and freed slave Susie King Taylor and offers nine projects for period quilts and creative activities related to each woman's story.

Clare, working with her mother at Cossit Island Village, a living history museum reproduction of an early nineteenth-century town in New England, finds the opportunity to help two young runaways, and learns about a mystery from the past.

Presents a chronology of the Civil War and travler's guide by region and state for battlefields and other sites, and lists sources of publications, reenactment groups, and collectibles.

While touring with group of Confederate Civil War re-enactors for a summer internship, Libby and Dev attempt to design and sell Southern Confederate costumes for a ball, investigate haunted battle grounds, and seek handsome Southern soldier boys.

The night before a battle in the Civil War, drummer boy Stephen thinks of home and the next day's fight. The next day he bravely marches into battle with his regiment.

Text and photographs of Civil War reenactors help describe what life was like for the soldiers fighting in the Civil War.

Sixteen-year-old Chelsea knows what to expect when she returns for a summer of historical reenactment at Colonial Essex Village until she learns that her ex-boyfriend is working there, too, and then meets the very attractive Dan who works at a rival historical village.