Heritage and Hoop Skirts

Winner of the 2023 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize Winner of the 2023 UMW Center for Historic Preservation Book Prize Winner of the 2023 Fred B. Kniffen Award from the International Society for Landscape, Place, & Material Culture Winner of the 2023 Michael V. R. Thomason Book Award from the Gulf South Historical Association For over eighty years, tourists have flocked to Natchez, Mississippi, seeking the “Old South,” but what they encounter is invention: a pageant and rewrite of histor