Contents: List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Preface -- 1. What does it take to do a good historical performance? -- 2. Overcoming fear of research with historians' powerful tools -- 3. Designing your performance -- 4. Performance: it's all about the audience when there's no fourth wall -- 5. Sharing the mantle of authority: young people interpret history -- 6. Using historical performance skills to enhance other traditions of costumed interpretation -- 7. Dreams and plans -- Appendix A: Historical performance camp preparation timetable -- Appendix B: Daily responisibilities of local arrangements chair during historical performance camp -- Appendix C: Sample flyer -- Appendix D: Sample application and registration form: historical performance camp -- Appendix E: Sample schedule: historical performance camp -- Appendix F: Sample schedule: night at your museum camp! -- Appendix G: Sample historic figures list -- Appendix H: Special invitation -- Appendix I: Office tools and supplies for historical performance camp -- Appendix J: Hat scenario exercise -- Appendix K: Sample historical performance camp: final day activities -- Appendix L: Night at the museum evaluation -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the authors