I'd like to go back and re-visit the battlefields. In Jr. High I went on the Spring Break trip back east and well, lets just say my 13 year old brain probably didn't absorb that much of their significance.
That sounds great!
No clue when or where the term LARP came from. I don't recall ever hearing it before the early 00's... but to be fair, that wasn't really my scene.
My dad actually used to do Civil War re-enactments. It was a trip as a kid to watch him go into battle, get shot, fall down dead, and then later get resurrected so he could take us to McDonalds for a Happy Meal... just like in 1863!
The driving force behind The Color of Friendship was to help combat racism.
The driving force behind Princess and the Frog was not.
It was a reinterpretation of a German fairy tale that introduced Disney's first African American Princess.