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.