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Remembering Dixie: The Battle to Control Historical Memory in Natchez, Mississippi, 1865 1941
Nearly seventy years after the Civil War, Natchez, Mississippi, sold itself to Depression-era tourists as a place Where the Old South Still Lives. Tourists flocked to view the towns decaying antebellum mansions, hoopskirted hostesses, and a pageant saturated in sentimental Lost Cause imagery. In Remembering Dixie: The Battle to Control Historical Memory in Natchez, Mississippi, 1865 Read more