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 town's decaying antebellum mansions, hoop-skirted hostesses and a pageant saturated in sentimental Lost Cau...

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