Destination Dixie: Tourism and Southern History

Contents

CONTENTS List of Figures vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 PART ONE
PEOPLE & PLACES 1 Persistence of Fiction: One Hundred Years of Tom Sawyer at the Mark Twain Boyhood Home 17 Hilary Iris Lowe 2 From “Lawrence County Negro” to National Hero: The Commemoration of Jesse Owens in Alabama 49 Barclay Key 3 Saving “The Dump”: Race and the Restoration of the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta 69 Kathleen Clark 4 “A Tradition-Conscious Cotton City”: (East) Tupelo, Mississippi, Birthplace of Elvis Presley 87 Michael T. Bertrand PART TWO
RACE & SLAVERY 5 “History as Tourist Bait”: Inventing Somerset Place State Historic Site, 1939–1969 113 Alisa Y. Harrison vi Contents 6 “Is It Okay to Talk about Slaves?” Segregating the Past in Historic Charleston 137 Ethan J. Kytle and Blain Roberts 7 Selling the Civil Rights Movement through Black Political Empowerment in Selma, Alabama 160 Glenn T. Eskew PART THREE
WAR & REMEMBRANCE 8 “Challenging the Interest and Reverence of all Patriotic Americans”: Preservation and the Yorktown National Battlefield 185 Sarah M. Goldberger 9 Calhoun County, Alabama: Confederate Iron Furnaces and the Remaking of History 204 John Walker Davis and Jennifer Lynn Gross 10 A Monument to Many Souths: Tourists Experience Southern Distinctiveness at Stone Mountain 223 J. Vincent Lowery PART FOUR
LANDSCAPE & MEMORY 11 Dead but Delightful: Tourism and Memory in New Orleans Cemeteries 247 Anthony J. Stanonis 12 Tourism, Landscape, and History in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park 267 Richard D. Starnes 13 Authenticity for Sale: The Everglades, Seminole Indians, and the Construction of a Pay-Per-View Culture 285 Andrew K. Frank Contributors 301 Index 303 ...