Dreaming of Dixie

“Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through graduate students general readers.” — CHOICE

“The book is beautifully illustrated from archival documents and from the author’s large personal collection of sheet music covers and advertisements. . . . well researched and documented.” — Cercles

“Dreaming of Dixie therefore updates, however implicitly, what was once labeled consensus history.” — Southern Jewish History

“Well illustrated and topically expansive.” — Journal of American History

“A fascinating book.” — Against the Grain

“Cox’s engaging and wonderfully illustrated book serves as a much-needed challenge to historians to pursue further interdisciplinary study of the American South in popular culture and would also be of interest to scholars interested in consumerism, tourism, and the intersections between regionalism and national identity.””-The Southern Register

“A valuable work that helps explain why we as a nation have long viewed the South the way we have.” — Public Historian

“Cox provides an engaging introduction to the field, along with many rich new insights drawn from a vast array of archival materials.” — North Carolina Historical Review

“A very well done and thoroughly researched historical study that students and scholars of the south or of the processes of representation and place-making will appreciate.” — Journal of Historical Geography

“Everyone interested in the larger story of Southern tourism will want to read Dreaming of Dixie, as will anyone who wants to understand the role that images of the South and Southerners have played in American culture.” — Florida Historical Quarterly