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King Richard’s Faire in Carver, Mass., was inaugurated in 1982 and is the longest-running renaissance fair in New England. Joseph Prezioso/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

June 15, 2026

As renaissance fairs become big business, can they retain their counterculture roots?

Katrina Stack, University of Tennessee and Reagan Yessler, Pellissippi State Community College

To what extent has the line between playful community space and commercial spectacle been blurred?

The North Carolina memorial stands in Gettysburg National Military Park on Aug. 10, 2020. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

November 18, 2023

Gettysburg tells the story of more than a battle − the military park shows what national ‘reconciliation’ looked like for decades after the Civil War

Katrina Stack, University of Tennessee and Rebecca Sheehan, Oklahoma State University

How should opposing armies be commemorated on a battlefield? Gettysburg offers an especially interesting example of today’s debates over Confederate monuments.

Crosses in honor of fallen Marines stand atop a hill near Camp Pendleton, California. Katrina Finkelstein

May 23, 2022

How crosses and mementos help some Marines remember fallen comrades

Katrina Stack, University of Tennessee and Derek H. Alderman, University of Tennessee

For some military members, a hillside in California embodies the sacrifices of serving.

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