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Dickey's history of Georgia's memorialization, commemoration, and memory-making will fascinate tourists, students, and scholars alike. The travel guide format, focusing on the state's sixteen official historic sites, is clever and appealing.--Drew A. Swanson ""author of Remaking Wormsloe Plantation: The Environmental History of a Lowcountry Landscape""

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JENNIFER W. DICKEY is a professor of history and the coordinator of museums and the public history programs at Kennesaw State University. Dickey previously served as the director and curator for Oak Hill and the Martha Berry Museum at Berry College. She was the campus preservationist at Berry College, and she continues to serve as a preservation consultant. She has worked for the National Park Service and the Historic Preservation Division of Georgia. She is the author of A Tough Little Patch of History: ""Gone with the Wind"" and the Politics of Memory and coauthor of Museums in a Global Context and the award-winning Memories of the Mansion: The History of Georgia’s Governor’s Mansion (Georgia). She lives in Atlanta.

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