> The Washington Post of 3/9/94 reports that Disney "is > moving away from organizing its proposed park around > nine history-themed "territories," such as the Civil > War and slavery, prompted in part by historians' > concern that the familiar Disney theme park concept > could oversimplify the past. ... (T)he park could instead > stress a handful of American values or cultural themes, > which might include diversity, how conflicts have united > the country or how Americans have responded to technological > change." This is a fairly long article that basically > says Disney is still struggling as to how to "fit" all > of this into a theme park that will also be entertaining > (and make money) without oversimplifying or stereotyping > the past or "treat(ing) important historic events as > unrelated to one another." Sounds like a tall order to me. > I agree, it IS a tall order. Somehow placing "Disney" and "historic events" in the same sentence is more than a little unnerving to me anyway. Susan Hamson M.A. candidate in Public History Rutgers University [log in to unmask]