Stone Bridge, in Manassas Battlefield Park, is near the site that Disney originally selected for its history theme park. Photo courtesy National Register of Historic Places.
Disney has cancelled its plans to build a history theme park in northern Virginia. Historians, however, continue to debate some of the important issues that Disney’s proposed project brought to light. In the following Viewpoints Forum, five historians write about what they think projects like Disney’s America mean for historians and history. The forum includes articles by Ronald G. Walters (Johns Hopkins Univ.), Cindy S. Aron (Univ. of Virginia), Linda Shopes (Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Comm.), Alon Confino (Univ. of Virginia), and Susan Ariel Aaronson (Brookings Inst.).
