Destination Dixie : Tourism and Southern History / edited by Karen L. Cox.

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People & Places. Persistence of Fiction : One Hundred Years of Tom Sawyer at the Mark Twain Boyhood Home ; From "Lawrence County Negro" to National Hero : The Commemoration of Jesse Owens in Alabama ; Saving "The Dump" : Race and the Restoration of the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta ; "A Tradition-Conscious Cotton City" : (East) Tupelo, Mississippi, Birthplace of Elvis Presley -- Race & Slavery. "History as Tourist Bait" : Inventing Somerset Place State Historic Site, 1939-1969 ; "Is It Okay to Talk about Slaves?" : Segregating the Past in Historic Charleston ; Selling the Civil Rights Movement through Black Political Empowerment in Selma, Alabama -- War & Remembrance. "Challenging the Interest and Reverence of all Patriotic Americans" : Preservation and the Yorktown National Battlefield ; Calhoun County, Alabama : Confederate Iron Furnaces and the Remaking of History ; A Monument to Many Souths : Tourists Experience Southern Distinctiveness at Stone Mountain -- Landscape & Memory. Dead but Delightful : Tourism and Memory in New Orleans Cemeteries ; Tourism, Landscape, and History in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park ; Authenticity for Sale : The Everglades, Seminole Indians, and the Construction of a Pay-Per-View Culture.

Once upon a time, it was impossible to drive through the South without coming across signs to "See Rock City" or similar tourist attractions. From battlegrounds to birthplaces, and sites in between, heritage tourism has always been part of how the South attracts visitors - and defines itself - yet such sites are often understudied in the scholarly literature. As the contributors to this volume make clear, the narrative of southern history told at these sites is often complicated by race, influenced by local politics, and shaped by competing memories.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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