I am trying to design a variation of the Society of Creative Anachronism. Imagine it is 2000 years in the future, and people of that time start up something like the SCA, only it would involve people of our time(perhaps from 1800 to 2010). The trouble is due to a world war or two there are limited records of our time, so how our time is reenacted might be a bit inaccurate. This game would need an official list of sources that would survive the wars that the participants would draw from, and feel free to throw in some fiction-maybe a movie or two, or even comics.
I would like to limit the number of sources to maybe twenty, but additional sources could be “unburied” in the future to make the game interesting. Also, the game needs a name. I am currently using the name Area Age, which is mistranslation of “Space Age” that the future gamers make, but I am willing to change it.
What do you think of my idea, and what sources would make this LARP interesting?
Also, no dictionaries or encyclopedias, and all internet sources were wiped out by the Armageddon 2-Electric Boogaloo virus of 2165.
I would hope that a copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover might survive, to encourage the believe that the main social classes were baronets, ladies and gamekeepers. Of course, no one would want to play the role of the baronet.
I would like nothing earlier in fiction or fact than the early to mid 1800’s, and nothing later than our current time period.
LCL was written and published in the 1920s, so doesn’t it fit your time period?
True Grit because all Americans were cowboys. Sands of Iwo Jima because sometimes cowboys joined the Marines. The Green Berets because sometimes cowboy-marines joined the army to make a political statement.
But it is about an earlier time period. I am looking for fact/fiction about the time covered by the game, not written during the time period of the game.
Too much similarity, and I would like more clashing of cultures, so to speak. All are excellent choices-pick one.
Sir Clifford Chatterley was injured in World War 1: the book is clearly set in the 1920s.
Hmmm…I was sorta riffing on the sameness as a mis-remembered history element, but if I had to pick only one, I’d go with True Grit.
What the hell was I thinking? I blame a poor education.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover is in.
True Grit is in.
Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe is a pretty good top-to-bottom overview of American urban society in the Eighties.
How about something from our times that might give a wrong impression of how we live?
Edited to add-Something trashy and/or poorly written would be nice, because sometimes trash survives.
Bonfire of the Vanities would accurately portray the period, but a copy of Doc Savage magazine would be more fun to reenact, wouldn’t it? 
You could be very meta and include a copy of Diana: Warrior Princess.
If you want some culture clash, maybe throw in something like Hair or Rocky Horror Picture Show.
For wrong impressions of how we live, how about Married with Children?
Married With Children is in.
Do any bound volumes of the Weekly World News exist?
Y’know, throwing in a musical might not be a bad idea.