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Historical Re-Enactments on Twitter: What Lincoln Would Have Tweeted
It’s always interesting to see the unique ways that researchers and educators find to use new social media tools. Jeff Young at Wired Campus reports on the TwHistory group who are retelling historical events in real-time on Twitter based on journals and histories in What Lincoln Would Have Tweeted.
“A graduate student at Utah State University is a new kind of Civil War re-enactor. Instead of dressing up in period clothes, the student, Tom Caswell, uses Twitter to send short messages in the voice of Abraham Lincoln and other historical figures.
Mr. Caswell is one of the organizers of TwHistory, a Web site devoted to historical re-enactments via Twitter. For their first event, they staged the battle of Gettysburg in the voices of a handful of key characters, including Lincoln (whose famous speech there is, appropriately, famous for its brevity).”
