“My Darling Clementine” and the Reality of the Old West

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Royle, Alan. “My Darling Clementine’ (1946) – So Much for Historical Accuracy.” Historian Alan Royle, August 16, 2018. https://filmstarfacts.com/2018/08/16/darling-clementine-1946-much-historical-accuracy/.

Image Citations

Guss, David Lee. “Linda Darnell and Victor Mature as Doc Holliday My Darling Clementine Publicity Photo 1946-2015.” Pixels, October 13, 2015. https://pixels.com/featured/linda-darnell-and-victor-mature-as-doc-holliday-my-darling-clementine-publicity-photo-1946-2015-david-lee-guss.html.

kathy. “My Darling Clementine (1946) Picture.” Listal, November 7, 2019. https://www.listal.com/viewimage/19971323.

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Linder, Douglas O. “The Earp-Holliday Trial: An Account.” Famous Trials, 2005. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/earp/earpaccount.html.

Movies and the “Misinformation Effect”

References:

Butler, Andrew C., Franklin M. Zaromb, Keith B. Lyle, and Henry L. Roediger III. “Using Popular Films to Enhance Classroom Learning: The Good, the Bad, and the Interesting”. Psychological Science 20, no. 9 (2009): 1161–68. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02410.x.

Loftus, Elizabeth F. “Planting misinformation in the human mind: A 30-year investigation of the malleability of memory”. Learning and Memory 12 (2005): 361-366. https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.94705

The Historical Inaccuracy of Benjamin Martin

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Free and Slave Populations by State (1790).” Teaching American History, July 19, 2021. https://teachingamericanhistory.org/resource/the-constitutional-convention-free-and-slave-populations-by-state-1790/.

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Rees, Simon. “Frontiersman Daniel Morgan.” Warfare History Network, September 19, 2022. https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/frontiersman-daniel-morgan/.

Stoddard, Jeremy D., and Marcus, Alan S. “The Burden of Historical Representation: Race, Freedom, and “Educational” Hollywood Film.” Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies 36, no. 1 (2006): 26-35. https://doi.org/10.1353/flm.2006.0018

Waters, Andrew. “Sumter’s Rounds: The Ill-Fated Campaign of Thomas Sumter, February–March 1781.” Journal of the American Revolution, May 23, 2018. https://allthingsliberty.com/2018/05/sumters-rounds-the-ill-fated-campaign-of-thomas-sumter-february-march-1781/.

Historical Fiction and the Centering of Whiteness

References:

Hinz, Alexandra. “‘Forced Diversity’ in Movies Is Not a Thing – but Here’s Why Some People Are so Scared of It.” De Gruyter Conversations, July 31, 2024. https://blog.degruyter.com/forced-diversity-in-movies-is-not-a-thing-but-heres-why-some-people-are-so-scared-of-it/.

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