Southern history and culture are the focus of a lecture and art exhibition Saturday at The Fire House Gallery in Louisville, Ga.
At 7 p.m., historian Karen L. Cox will discuss her new book, Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture. Cox is an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
In conjunction with the talk, the gallery will also host an exhibit called “Dixie Icons: Re-Visioning the Dixie Myth,” which features the work of Southern printmakers who have reinterpreted images featured in Dreaming of Dixie. The book’s images demonstrate how popular notions of the American South formed following the Civil War. The exhibit is open through Oct. 9.
Both events are free and will be held at The Fire House Gallery, 605 Mulberry St., Louisville.
Call (478) 625-0387 or go to www.galleryafire.com for more information.
I know nothing of Cox or her work, but I cannot help but feel a revisionist movement afoot. Once the history has been recorded for decades, what do new historians have to do but issue a revised version?
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