Authentic Campaigner Website & Forums FAQ

If you feel you need to contact all the AC Moderators, you can use Help.AuthenticCampaigner@gmail.com (please don't abuse that for sending porn or something)

The admin staff considers plagiarism to be detrimental to this hobby and to our website. Copying someone elses work and directly quoting it or paraphrasing it without attribution is considered plagiarism. We urge everyone to do their own research or give credit where credit is due. We have banned users for blatant plagiarism of research articles in the past and will continue to act on plagiarism allegations in the future.

We maintain a listing of the rules at the following link. There was a time when we only need a couple rules on the forum but it has become necessary to codify all the "unspoken rules" into a more lengthy rules set. To see a full listing of the AC's rules, please visit: http://www.authentic-campaigner.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1034

An open letter to all the AC Users and would-be Users: First, we're volunteers here and not paid, so we get to things when our jobs and real lives allow. If you're wanting to register or a friend is, be aware that we may pepper you with a few questions before you're welcomed in to our midst. We want to make sure you're a real person with a real desire to contribute. Be patient and responsive and you'll get in. If you fly off the handle though because we ask for a clarification, well thats a bad start for all of us.

The founder of this site grew up with his Dad telling him to be a man and sign his name to anything he wrote. His dad would get livid when anonymous letters published in the local newspaper. Fast-foward 15 years or so... it's 1998 or 1999 and he witnessed terrible and cowardly attacks on upstanding members of this hobby on other forums, by anonymous posters. I don't have a problem with confrontational posts, but do it with your God-given name or don't do it.

One of the original two rules (in addition to sign your full name with every post) was "No Farbism." At the time of the creation of the original AC forum, there was a plethora of forums and websites which appealed to mainstream reenacting. The hardcore/progressive movement was the counter-culture. We didn't want just another forum where mainstreamers argued with hardcores. We wanted a forum where hardcores could come and discuss issues of authenticity without having to dodge the jeers and invective of mainstream trouble-makers. Thus the rule - No Farbism. Admittedly it's nebulous rule but if we made rules to address every single aspect of farbism imaginable, we'd run out of space on the server. The No Farbism rule is concise and for eight years, it's worked pretty well. __________________ Matt Woodburn

Friends - If you don't create an account and login, you will not be able to get to all the folders. Further, you will not be able to access all of the folders until you become an active, posting member. My intent isn't to punish those of you who can't login from work or whatever. Long and short of it: If you're not logged in, you won't be able to see many of our folders.

Along the same lines as the beginners bibliography, here is a list of professional societies that membership in, or journals from, would provide assistance to the goals of authentic living historians both civilian and military? The following I have found indispensible on many occasions: The Company of Military Historians http://www.military-historians.org The Association of Living History, Farm, and Agricultural Museums http://www.alhfam.org The Daguerreian Society http://www.daguerre.org The Costume Society of America http://http://www.costumesocietyamerica.com/ The Society for Industrial Archaeology http://www.siahq.org The Society for Historical Archaeology http://www.sha.org/

If an image or a book is under copyright, we cannot scan said images or said pages from a book and post them online. By doing so we're setting ourselves up for a major fall. Mind the copyrights please.

We have now activated a vendor subscription service here on the Authentic Campaigner. In order for vendors, or anyone for that matter, to advertise commercially on the forums they will have to be subscribers and meet the authenticity requirements of the forum. This is done by making application to John Wickett. Do not send any money until you hear back from John that you are approved, and do not advertise your business unless you are an Approved Vendor. The fee will be $100 for a year's subscription and Approved Vendor Subscribers will be able to advertise on the forums, use their company logo as an Avatar, have access to a private folder for discussion as well as list their company name and contact information in their signature area. This is something that most of our Approved Vendors have been anxious to support and now we are activating it. Private sales will continue as normal (free) but if you're wanting to sell commercially you'll have to subscribe to the service. To subscribe to the service, you'll find a "Paid Subscriptions" link in your User CP. Don't subscribe to the service unless you know you're Approved for membership. It should be tied to a PayPal account so you can use MC/VS/AX, etc. If you wish to pay with a check or money order, please send me an email and I'll get you an address. If there are any problems getting signed up, please be patient and we'll work to get them resolved as quickly as possible. We'll use these dollars to pay for the website and therefore be much less reliant on donations. Best Regards, John Wickett

NATIONAL

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation - www.achp.gov

The American Battlefield Protection Program (NPS) –
http://www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/index.htm

The Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums -
www.alhfam.org/
Civil War Preservation Trust – www.civilwar.org

Historic American Buildings Survey -
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/hhhtml

National Center for PreservationTechnology & Training -
www.ncptt.nps.gov

National Trust for Historic Preservation – www.nationaltrust.org

Preservation Action – www.preservationaction.org

Preservation Directory.com - www.preservationdirectory.com

Smart Growth America - www.smartgrowthamerica.org

Society for American Archaeology - www.saa.org

KENTUCKY

Mill Springs Battlefield Association – www.millsprings.net

Perryville Battlefield Preservation Association, Inc. – www.perryville.net

Rolling Fork Historic Preservation Association - www.rfhpa.org

LOUISIANA

Friends of Mansfield Battlefield - www.mansfieldbattlefield.org

MARYLAND

Friends of South Mountain – www.fsmsb.org

Save Historic Antietam Foundation – www.shafonline.org

MICHIGAN

Save Fort Wayne – www.savefortwayne.org

MISSISSIPPI

Friends of Raymond Battlefield – www.battleofraymond.org

MISSOURI

Friends of Lone Jack - http://www.geocities.com/lone_jack_mo/

NORTH CAROLINA

Morrisville Station Battlefield Preservation –
www.mindspring.com/~nixnox/

PENNSYLVANIA

Friends of the National Parks at Gettysburg –
www.friendsofgettysburg.org
Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association - www.gbpa.org
“Readshaw’s Raiders” (Gettysburg Monument Project) –
www.fourscore.org

SOUTH CAROLINA

Save Morris Island - www.morrisisland.org

South Carolina Battlefield Preservation Trust - www.scbattlegrounds.org/

TENNESSEE

The Battle of Nashville Preservation Society and Civil War Roundtable -
www.bonps.org/

Save the Franklin Battlefield, Inc. – www.franklin-stfb.org

VIRGINIA

Belle Grove Foundation – www.bellegrove.org

Brandy Station Foundation – www.brandystation.org

Cedar Creek Battlefield Foundation – www.cedarcreekbattlefield.org

Central Virginia Battlefields Trust – www.cvbt.org

Coalition to Save Chancellorsville Battlefield – www.chancellorsville.org

Friends of the Fredericksburg Area Battlefields –
www.parksonline.org/fofab
Friends of the Wilderness Battlefield – www.fowb.org

Highland County Historical Society – www.highlandhistoricalsociety.org

Kernstown Battlefield Association – www.kernstownbattle.org

Model Purchase of Development Rights (PDR) Program for Virginia -
www.vdacs.state.va.us
Preservation Alliance of Virginia – www.vapreservation.org

Richmond Battlefields Association – www.saverichmondbattlefields.org
Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation -
www.shenandoahatwar.com/sites.html

Spotsylvania Preservation Foundation – users.erols.com/jlefebre/spfi

Spotsylvania Battlefield Education Association -
http://spotsylvaniabea.tripod.com/
MUSEUMS

Confederate Memorial Hall in New Orleans -
www.confederatemuseum.com/
Manassas Museum (VA) – www.manassasmuseum.org

Museum of the Confederacy (VA) – www.moc.org

National Civil War Museum (PA) - www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/

National Museum of Civil War Medicine – (MD) www.civilwarmed.org

South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Museum -
www.state.sc.us/crr/

Stonewall Jackson House (VA) – www.stonewalljackson.org
MISCELLANEOUS

Hollywood Cemetery (VA) –
www.hollywoodcemetery.org
Southern Soldiers’ Remembrance Fund –
www.southernsoldiers.com
WideAwake Films –
www.wideawake.org

Contact John Wickett. Realistically, I don't have the time to know all the ins-and-outs of every event and to be able to look at the sum total of all the propaganda and counter-propaganda about a given event and always arrive at the most correct, most politically astute conclusion. I'd rather look at events objectively and say: 1) Does the volume of discussion warrant its own folder? 2) Is there a legitimate / certifiably authentic progressive/campaigner element to the event. If one and two are true, then I can objectively give it a folder. That's the KISS principal in action and honestly, with all sincerity that's about all I have time for at this particular junction. Too many folders make the site difficult to navigate and counter-productive to event promotion. If your event isn't until the following year, postings should go in the general "Future Events" folder.