Living History
Bede's World
Bede's World is the reconstruction of the 8th century village, monastery, and farm, based on the life of the historian monk known as the Venerable Bede [AD 673-735] and located in Jarrow, England.
Bent's Old Fort
Bent's Old Fort is the early 19th century fur trading fort in Colorado, reconstructed to illustrate a major permanent white settlement on the Santa Fe Trail between Missouri and the Mexican settlements.
Chucalissa
From the University of Memphis, a Native American village in Tennesee occupied from 1050 through 1400 AD; living history village.
Colonial Williamsburg
Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, is a reconstruction of the "18th-century capital city of Britain’s largest, wealthiest, and most populous outpost of empire in the New World".
Fort Loudoun
Fort Loudoun is the reconstruction of an 18th century French fort used during the French and Indian War.
Fortress Louisbourg
Located in Nova Scotia, Canada, the Fortress Louisbourg is an 18th century fortified settlement on the Atlantic Coast of Canada.
Hechingen-Stein Roman Villa
Roman occupation in Hechingen, Germany dating to between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD.
Ironbridge Gorge
Ironbridge Gorge is a living history presentation and museum about a valley in Shropshire and its structures during the industrial age, where in the eighteenth century ironmasters began the mass production of iron.
Latta Plantation
Historic early 19th century cotton plantation, in North Carolina: exhibits on planters, yeoman farmers, and slaves.
Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon, Maryland, was the farm of the first American president, George Washington, and now open to visitors. The website has a very nice Flash Virtual Tour of the mansion.
Old Sturbridge Village
Massachusetts in the 1830s; a "living history" village you can visit in cyberspace, or in real life.
Plimoth Plantation
A walking tour of the reconstructed village of Plimouth, the first permanent European settlement in southern New England (AD 1620).
St. Mary's City
St. Mary's 17th century city was the fourth permanent settlement in British North America, located in Maryland. Living history exhibits include the reconstructed State House of 1676, Smith's Ordinary, a working colonial tobacco farm, a Woodland Indian Hamlet, and a replica square-rigged ship.
The Living History WebSite
Links and resources for "enthusiasts, historians, extroverts, fools and drinkers" of reenactment and living history.
The Reconstructed Past
The Reconstructed Past is a collection of stories from archaeologists about their experiences in physically reinventing the buildings, villages, and landscapes of the archaeological and historical past.
The Walden Woods Project
This project seeks to protect and rebuild the landscapes of Walden Woods, the place in Massachusetts where Henry David Thoreau wrote the classic of the simple life, Walden Pond.