Spirit of Colonial Williamsburg
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Ada Louise Huxtable
African American folklore
African American ghost narratives
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American ghost stories
American memory studies
Anders Greenspan
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Black Williamsburgers
Cary Carson
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Catherine M. Cameron
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Cristy Coleman
critical heritage studies
cultural memory in historic sites
cultural role of ghost legends
dark tourism
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Department of African American Interpretation
Elizabeth Bird
Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture
emotional experience
emotional history through ghost stories
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Eric Gable
experiencing history through spirits
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historic Virginia hauntings
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Hudson Valley
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James Oliver Horton
John B. Gatewood
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
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Lucy Ludwell at the Ludwell-Paradise House
memory work and the supernatural
Michael Mayerfeld Bell
Michael S. Bowman
Mike Wallace
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Native Americans
New York State
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public history and hauntings
Renee Bergland
Restoring the Ghosts of the Past
Reverend W. A. R. Goodwin
Revolutionary War hauntings
Revolutionary War history
Revolutionary War soldiers and nurses at the governor's mansion
Revolutionary War spirits
Richard Handler
rise of ghost tourism in the U.S.
Robert Harper
Sharron McDonald
Slavery in American History: An Uncomfortable Dialogue
Sociologist Avery Gordon
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Southeast US folklore
Southern ghost legends
Southern historical sites
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The Age of Ghosts in Virginia
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Product details
- ISBN 9781625346940
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 149 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2022
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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On any given night, hundreds of guests walk the darkened streets of Colonial Williamsburg looking for ghosts. Since the early 2000s, both the museum and private companies have facilitated these hunts, offering year-round ghost tours. Critics have called these excursions a cash grab, but in truth, ghosts and hauntings have long been at the center of the Colonial Williamsburg project.
The Spirit of Colonial Williamsburg examines how the past comes alive at this living-history museum. In the early twentieth century, local stories about the ghosts of former residents—among them Revolutionary War soldiers and nurses, tavern owners and prominent attorneys, and enslaved African Americans—helped to turn Williamsburg into a desirable site for historical restoration. But, for much of the twentieth century, the museum tried diligently to avoid any discussion of ghosts, considering them frivolous and lowbrow. Alena Pirok explores why historic sites have begun to embrace their spectral residents in recent decades, arguing that through them, patrons experience an emotional connection to place and a palpable understanding of the past through its people.
