{ "title": "Introduction to First-Person History Interpretation", "blogUrl": "https://fpintro.blogspot.com", "chapters": [ { "id": "1", "text": "Chatper 1. Why First Person, and Why It's Hard", "label": "1", "url": "introduction.html", "sections": [ { "id": "l1-1", "text": "What First Person Actually Is" }, { "id": "l1-2", "text": "A Short History of the Method" }, { "id": "l1-3", "text": "The Case For It" }, { "id": "l1-4", "text": "The Case Against It" }, { "id": "l1-5", "text": "A Note on the Sources" }, { "id": "l1-6", "text": "A Note on Scope: Why Eighteenth-Century America" }, { "id": "l1-7", "text": "My Guiding Principle" }, { "id": "l1-8", "text": "What's Ahead" }, { "id": "l1-9", "text": "About Me" } ] }, { "id": "2", "text": "Chapter 2. Building a Persona from the Ground Up", "label": "2", "url": "persona.html", "sections": [ { "id": "l1-1", "text": "Start Simple, Then Specify" }, { "id": "l1-2", "text": "Two Layers: Outer Person and Inner Person" }, { "id": "l1-3", "text": "Primary Sources That Make a Persona Specific" }, { "id": "l1-4", "text": "A Worked Example" }, { "id": "l1-5", "text": "A Working Method" }, { "id": "l1-6", "text": "Living With Gaps in the Record" } ] }, { "id": "3", "text": "Chapter 3. Finding and Evaluating Your Sources", "label": "3", "url": "sources.html", "sections": [ { "id": "l1-1", "text": "Primary and Secondary Sources, and Why Both Matter" }, { "id": "l1-2", "text": "Evaluating What You Find" }, { "id": "l1-3", "text": "Do's and Don'ts for Using Source Material" }, { "id": "l1-4", "text": "Building a Research Toolkit" }, { "id": "l1-5", "text": "Bringing Sources Into Your Interpretation" }, { "id": "l1-6", "text": "A Practice Exercise: Countering a Myth" } ] }, { "id": "4", "text": "Chapter 4. Finding Your Character's Voice", "label": "4", "url": "voice.html", "sections": [ { "id": "l1-1", "text": "Voice Is a Persona Decision, Not a Costume Accessory" }, { "id": "l1-2", "text": "A Worked Example: One Sentence, Three Voices" }, { "id": "l1-3", "text": "Building a Voice Profile From Your Biography" }, { "id": "l1-4", "text": "Regional Voice, Briefly" }, { "id": "l1-5", "text": "Voice for Non-Native and Second-Language Speakers" }, { "id": "l1-6", "text": "When Voice and Research Disagree" }, { "id": "l1-7", "text": "Rehearsing a Voice Out Loud" }, { "id": "l1-8", "text": "Where Voice Meets the Rest of the Persona" } ] }, { "id": "5", "text": "Chapter 5. Material Culture", "label": "5", "url": "material-culture.html", "sections": [ { "id": "l1-1", "text": "Research the Person, Then Dress the Person" }, { "id": "l1-2", "text": "Returning to Ann: Dressing a Specific Persona" }, { "id": "l1-3", "text": "Sources for Getting It Right" }, { "id": "l1-4", "text": "Case Study: Walking Through the Layers with a Colonial Williamsburg Clothier" }, { "id": "l1-5", "text": "Suggested Vendors and Further Reading for Eighteenth-Century Dress" }, { "id": "l1-6", "text": "Building an Acquisition Plan" }, { "id": "l1-7", "text": "Reproduction Quality and Working With Makers" }, { "id": "l1-8", "text": "Possessions as Conversation, Not Decoration" }, { "id": "l1-9", "text": "Costume as Deportment" }, { "id": "l1-10", "text": "Fitting the Whole Picture Together" } ] }, { "id": "6", "text": "Chapter 6. The Language of the Eighteenth-Century Economy", "label": "6", "url": "language.html", "sections": [ { "id": "l1-1", "text": "The Global Economy: How Things Actually Got Here" }, { "id": "l1-2", "text": "Pounds, Shillings, and the Coin That Didn't Exist" }, { "id": "l1-3", "text": "The Coin Colonists Actually Carried: Spanish Dollars and Pieces of Eight" }, { "id": "l1-4", "text": "The Pine Tree Shilling: Coining Money Without the King's Permission" }, { "id": "l1-5", "text": "A Credit Society: Why Almost Nobody Paid Cash" }, { "id": "l1-6", "text": "Talking About Value Without Distorting It" }, { "id": "l1-7", "text": "Putting This to Work" } ] }, { "id": "7", "text": "Chapter 7. Daily Rhythms and Domestic Tradecraft", "label": "7", "url": "tradecraft.html", "sections": [ { "id": "l1-1", "text": "Work as the Spine of a Day" }, { "id": "l1-2", "text": "A Month-by-Month Calendar, Worked Through Ann" }, { "id": "l1-3", "text": "Beyond the Farm: Task Calendars for Other Personas" }, { "id": "l1-4", "text": "Open-Hearth Cooking as a Model" }, { "id": "l1-5", "text": "Task and the Senses" }, { "id": "l1-6", "text": "Task Invites Interaction" }, { "id": "l1-7", "text": "Building Your Own Task Calendar" } ] }, { "id": "8", "text": "Chapter 8. Portraying Across Station, Race, and Bondage", "label": "8", "url": "station.html", "sections": [ { "id": "l1-1", "text": "Why Station Governed Speech and Behavior, Not Just Clothing" }, { "id": "l1-2", "text": "Indentured Servitude Is Not Slavery — and Portraying It Requires Its Own Care" }, { "id": "l1-3", "text": "The Specific Risks of Portraying Bondage in First Person" }, { "id": "l1-4", "text": "How Experienced Sites Manage This" }, { "id": "l1-5", "text": "Interpreting Across Racial Lines" }, { "id": "l1-6", "text": "For Every Other Persona: Don't Interpret Bondage Out of Existence" }, { "id": "l1-7", "text": "What This Chapter Asks of You" } ] }, { "id": "9", "text": "Chapter 9. The Art of Hospitality", "label": "9", "url": "hospitality.html", "sections": [ { "id": "l1-1", "text": "Hospitality as Social Currency" }, { "id": "l1-2", "text": "Etiquette's Three Categories" }, { "id": "l1-3", "text": "Hospitality by Station" }, { "id": "l1-4", "text": "The Choreography of an Encounter" }, { "id": "l1-5", "text": "Conversation as Reciprocal Exchange, Not Interrogation" }, { "id": "l1-6", "text": "Tavern and Salon: Hospitality as Political Influence" }, { "id": "l1-7", "text": "Applying This in the Field" } ] }, { "id": "10", "text": "Chapter 10. In the Field", "label": "10", "url": "improvisation.html", "sections": [ { "id": "l1-1", "text": "Don't Wait for the Guest to Know the Rules" }, { "id": "l1-2", "text": "On-the-Spot Audience Casting" }, { "id": "l1-3", "text": "Reading the Guest" }, { "id": "l1-4", "text": "Consent Matters" }, { "id": "l1-5", "text": "Handling the Anachronistic Question" }, { "id": "l1-6", "text": "Your Persona's Ignorance vs. Your Own" }, { "id": "l1-7", "text": "The \"In-Between\" Approach" }, { "id": "l1-8", "text": "Practicing This Under Pressure" } ] }, { "id": "11", "text": "Chapter 11: Breaking Frame Responsibly", "label": "11", "url": "breaking-frame.html", "sections": [ { "id": "l1-1", "text": "The Categories That Require a Break" }, { "id": "l1-2", "text": "Judgment Calls: When Staying In Is the Right Answer" }, { "id": "l1-3", "text": "De-escalating Without Breaking" }, { "id": "l1-4", "text": "A Clean Method for Breaking and Re-Entering" }, { "id": "l1-5", "text": "Debriefing With Yourself and Your Site" } ] }, { "id": "12", "text": "Chapter 12. Working a Crowd", "label": "12", "url": "crowd.html", "sections": [ { "id": "l1-1", "text": "Groups Are Not One Big Individual Guest" }, { "id": "l1-2", "text": "Reading the Room, and Knowing When to Change Course" }, { "id": "l1-3", "text": "Children Across Ages" }, { "id": "l1-4", "text": "Guests With Specialized Knowledge" }, { "id": "l1-5", "text": "Competing for Attention With an Obscure Persona" }, { "id": "l1-6", "text": "The Guest Who Arrives With Claws Out" }, { "id": "l1-7", "text": "The Questions You Will Be Asked Repeatedly" } ] }, { "id": "13", "text": "Chapter 13. Rehearsal, Feedback, and Building Your Impression", "label": "13", "url": "rehearsal.html", "sections": [ { "id": "l1-1", "text": "Build an Impression Sheet" }, { "id": "l1-2", "text": "The Segments Method" }, { "id": "l1-3", "text": "Drills" }, { "id": "l1-4", "text": "Practicing Alone" }, { "id": "l1-5", "text": "Getting Useful Feedback" }, { "id": "l1-6", "text": "On Professionalism" }, { "id": "l1-7", "text": "Practice as an Ongoing Habit, Not a One-Time Preparation" } ] }, { "id": "14", "text": "Chapter 14. Finding Your Community and Going Further", "label": "14", "url": "community.html", "sections": [ { "id": "l1-1", "text": "Blogs and Sites Referenced Throughout This Book" }, { "id": "l1-2", "text": "Finding Other Interpreters" }, { "id": "l1-3", "text": "Breaking In: From Hobby to Vocation" }, { "id": "l1-4", "text": "Training, Certification, and Conferences" }, { "id": "l1-5", "text": "Foundational Reading Beyond This Book" } ] }, { "id": "15", "text": "Chapter 15. The Business of Living History", "label": "15", "url": "business.html", "sections": [ { "id": "l1-1", "text": "Start With Why" }, { "id": "l1-2", "text": "Where the Gigs Actually Come From: Three Tiers of Venues" }, { "id": "l1-3", "text": "Building Notoriety" }, { "id": "l1-4", "text": "Marketing Yourself" }, { "id": "l1-5", "text": "Setting and Holding Your Price" }, { "id": "l1-6", "text": "Choosing a Business Structure" }, { "id": "l1-7", "text": "Fundraising Ideas for Existing Groups" }, { "id": "l1-8", "text": "A Closing Note on Scale" } ] }, { "id": "16", "text": "Chapter 16. Quick Reference", "label": "16", "url": "reference.html", "sections": [ { "id": "l1-1", "text": "Persona Biography Template" }, { "id": "l1-2", "text": "Impression Sheet Template" }, { "id": "l1-3", "text": "Reading the Guest, At a Glance" }, { "id": "l1-4", "text": "The Five-Step Opening" }, { "id": "l1-5", "text": "Anachronism Response Menu" }, { "id": "l1-6", "text": "Indentured Servitude vs. Chattel Slavery, At a Glance" }, { "id": "l1-7", "text": "Hospitality Quick Lines" }, { "id": "l1-8", "text": "When to Break Character" }, { "id": "l1-9", "text": "Clean Break-and-Return Method" }, { "id": "l1-10", "text": "Recurring Hard Questions Checklist" }, { "id": "l1-11", "text": "Rehearsal Drills" }, { "id": "l1-12", "text": "Business Basics, At a Glance" }, { "id": "l1-13", "text": "Further Reading, At a Glance" } ] } ] }