The Journal of Southern History articles

Recent articles from The Journal of Southern History

Independence Day dilemmas in the American South, 1848-1865.
May 1, 2009... ALONG WITH THE FOURTH OF JULY IN 1861 CAME A DILEMMA FOR THE members of the '76 Association in Charleston, South Carolina. Formed almost thirty years earlier with the purpose of organizing Independence Day celebrations, the association had faithfully marked every anniversary since then with...

University men, social science, and white supremacy in North Carolina.(Viewpoint essay)
May 1, 2009... IN NOVEMBER 1898, AS NORTH CAROLINA'S DEMOCRATS COMPLETED their violent campaign against African American Republicans and white Populists, a young Carolinian mischievously asked if white supremacy leaders were happier that the "Democrats won in the election" or that "Chapel Hill beat...

The 1966 election in Georgia and the ambiguity of the white backlash.(Viewpoint essay)
May 1, 2009... It's the damnedest mess down there I have ever seen. Senator Richard B. Russell Jr. (D-Ga.), June 2, 1966 WHEN KEN MEHLMAN, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE REPUBLICAN National Committee, told the NAACP in 2005 that his party's use of the "southern strategy" to polarize voters along racial lines had...

Southern history in periodicals, 2008: a selected bibliography.(Bibliography)
May 1, 2009... THIS CLASSIFIED BIBLIOGRAPHY INCLUDES MOST SCHOLARLY ARTICLES in the field of southern history published in periodicals in 2008 except for descriptive or genealogical writings of primary interest to a restricted group of readers. If an article was published in a year other than 2008, the...

Annual report of the secretary-treasurer.(Report)
May 1, 2009... IT WAS VERY GOOD TO BRING OUR MEETING BACK TO NEW ORLEANS at long last, given the many challenges we've faced in doing so after Hurricane Katrina. We seem to have beaten another storm--this one economic--by holding our meeting in mid-October. I think that if we had met a month later, with the...