Colonial Williamsburg on SNL

Saturday Night Live had a funny sketch this weekend exposing the anachronisms inherent in living history museums and exploring how family- and employee-friendly public history venues like Colonial Williamsburg struggle with historical realities (e.g. slavery) that aren't so family-friendly.  As of this posting the video is still available from NBC, but I can't promise it will be there for long.  I'll try to keep an eye on YouTube and if it turns up there I'll post an update.

Late Update (10/31/06): It looks like NBC removed the Williamsburg video from its site, and I can't seem to find it on YouTube or Google Video.  For now, we'll have to live with SNL's summary.

Tom Scheinfeldt

Tom Scheinfeldt

Tom is Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Connecticut. He writes about history, technology, digital humanities, design, higher education, and (sometimes) politics.
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