The Journal of Southern History articles from August 2000

The Journal of Southern History archives from August 2000

The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture.
August 1, 2000... The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. Edited by Carroll Van West, Connie L. Lester, Margaret Duncan Binnicker, Anne-Leslie Owens, and Susan L. Gordon. (Nashville, Tenn.: Rutledge Hill Press for the Tennessee Historical Society, c....

The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions Reconsidered: "An Appeal to the Real Laws of Our Country".
August 1, 2000... IN 1798, AFTER A DECADE OF POLITICAL DEFEATS, VIRGINIA REPUBLICANS faced the gravest scenario contemplated in their ideology: the federal government, no longer headed by a Virginian Cincinnatus who had proven himself willing to relinquish...

Ben Tillman and Hendrix McLane, Agrarian Rebels: White Manhood, "The Farmers," and the Limits of Southern Populism.
August 1, 2000... IN OCTOBER 1892 J. HENDRIX MCLANE, SOUTH CAROLINA'S MOST SUCcessful proponent of interracial agrarian radicalism, left a People's Party rally exhilarated by "great speeches" and a "righteous movement." But McLane did not spend the rest of the...

"Drill into us ... the Rebel tradition": The Contest over Southern Identity in Black and White Women's Clubs, South Carolina, 1898-1930.
August 1, 2000... IN HER MEMOIRS, MAMIE GARVIN FIELDS, AN AFRICAN AMERICAN CLUB-WOMAN from Charleston, South Carolina, relates a story about the statue of South Carolina statesman John C. Calhoun that still stands in Francis Marion Square, in the center of...

Winning the Peace: Georgia Veterans and the Struggle to Define the Political Legacy of World War II.
August 1, 2000... IN TRAVELING AROUND THE NATION AND THROUGHOUT THE EUROPEAN AND Pacific theaters during World War II, soldiers from the South encountered cultures, economies, and political ideas beyond the realm of southern tradition. After the war, armed with...

American Exceptionalism.
August 1, 2000... American Exceptionalism. By Deborah L. Madsen. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 1998. Pp. viii, 186. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 1-57806-108-3.) It is a curiosity that American exceptionalism has lacked a systematic scholar. It has...

New World Economies: The Growth of the Thirteen Colonies and Early Canada.
August 1, 2000... New World Economies: The Growth of the Thirteen Colonies and Early Canada. By Marc Egnal. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xx, 236. $49.95, ISBN 0-19-511482-5.) In Divergent Paths (New York, 1996) Marc Egnal argued...

Santa Maria de Galve: A Story of Survival.
August 1, 2000... Santa Maria de Galve: A Story of Survival. Edited by Virginia Parks. (Pensacola, Fla.: Pensacola Historical Society, c. 1998. Pp. x, 174. Paper, $14.95 plus shipping and handling, ISBN 0-939566-10-9. Order from the society at 117 East...

Beyond the Household: Women's Place in the Early South, 1700-1835.
August 1, 2000... Beyond the Household: Women's Place in the Early South, 1700-1835. By Cynthia A. Kierner. (Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, c. 1998. Pp. xiv, 295. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8014-8462-6; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8014-3453-X.) ...

The Bill of Rights: Government Proscribed.
August 1, 2000... The Bill of Rights: Government Proscribed. Edited by Ronald Hoffman and Peter J. Albert. Perspectives on the American Revolution. (Charlottesville and London: Printed by the University Press of Virginia for the United States Capitol Historical...

A Place Called St. John's: The Story of John's, Edisto, Wadmalaw, Kiawah, and Seabrook Islands of South Carolina.
August 1, 2000... A Place Called St. John's: The Story of John's, Edisto, Wadmalaw, Kiawah, and Seabrook Islands of South Carolina. By Laylon Wayne Jordan and Elizabeth H. Stringfellow. (Spartanburg, S.C.: The Reprint Company, Publishers, 1998. Pp. xx, 497....

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson.
August 1, 2000... American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson. By Joseph J. Ellis. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Pp. xiv, 365, ISBN 0-679-44490-4.) Some would say that another biography of Jefferson is like another biography of Lincoln, just old...

Citizens of Zion: The Social Origins of Camp Meeting Revivalism.
August 1, 2000... Citizens of Zion: The Social Origins of Camp Meeting Revivalism. By Ellen Eslinger. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c. 1999. Pp. xxii, 306. $38.00, ISBN 1-57233-033-3.) Emotional conversions, fiery sermons, overnight stays: the...

Cattle in the Cotton Fields: A History of Cattle Raising in Alabama.
August 1, 2000... Cattle in the Cotton Fields: A History of Cattle Raising in Alabama. By Brooks Blevins. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 1998. Pp. xvi, 219. $34.95, ISBN 0-8173-0940-3.) Brooks Blevins's thoroughly researched history...

Free to Work: Labor Law, Emancipation, and Reconstruction, 1815-1880.
August 1, 2000... Free to Work: Labor Law, Emancipation, and Reconstruction, 1815-1880. By James D. Schmidt. Studies in the Legal History of the South. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 1998. Pp. xiv, 331. $53.00, ISBN 0-8203-2034-X.) ...

The Brainerd Journal: A Mission to the Cherokees, 1817-1823.
August 1, 2000... The Brainerd Journal: A Mission to the Cherokees, 1817-1823. Edited and introduced by Joyce B. Phillips and Paul Gary Phillips. Indians of the Southeast. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 1998. Pp. xx, 584. $55.00, ISBN...

Roots of Disorder: Race and Criminal Justice in the American South, 1817-80.
August 1, 2000... Roots of Disorder: Race and Criminal Justice in the American South, 1817-80. By Christopher Waldrep. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 1998 Pp. xvi, 267. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-252-06732-0; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-252-02425-7.)...

Louisiana in the Age of Jackson: A Clash of Cultures and Personalities.
August 1, 2000... Louisiana in the Age of Jackson: A Clash of Cultures and Personalities. By Joseph G. Tregle Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 369. $37.50, ISBN 0-8071-2292-0.) Louisiana in the Age of Jackson is a revised...

Nat Turner Before the Bar of Judgment: Fictional Treatments of the Southampton Slave Insurrection.
August 1, 2000... Nat Turner Before the Bar of Judgment: Fictional Treatments of the Southampton Slave Insurrection. By Mary Kemp Davis. Southern Literary Studies. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 298. $30.00, ISBN 0-8071-2249-1.)...

Slave Missions and the Black Church in the Antebellum South.
August 1, 2000... Slave Missions and the Black Church in the Antebellum South. By Janet Duitsman Cornelius. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 1999. Pp. xii, 305. $34.95, ISBN 1-57003-247-5.) At first glance Janet Duitsman Cornelius appears to...

The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement.
August 1, 2000... The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement. By Julie Roy Jeffrey. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 1998. Pp. xiv, 311. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4741-0; cloth, $45.00, ISBN...

Leonard Bacon: New England Reformer and Antislavery Moderate.
August 1, 2000... Leonard Bacon: New England Reformer and Antislavery Moderate. By Hugh Davis. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 293. $60.00, ISBN 0-8071-2287-4.) Hugh Davis has written an engaging study of Leonard Bacon...

Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan.
August 1, 2000... Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan. By John W. Quist. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 562. $57.50, ISBN 0-8071-2133-9.) This comparative study of Tuscaloosa...

Amidst a Storm of Bullets: The Diary of Lt. Henry Prince in Florida, 1836-1842.
August 1, 2000... Amidst a Storm of Bullets: The Diary of Lt. Henry Prince in Florida, 1836-1842. Edited by Frank Laumer. Foreword by John K. Mahon. Seminole Wars Historic Foundation Inc., Contribution no. 1. (Tampa, Fla.: University of Tampa Press, 1998. Pp....

Fire in His Heart: Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner and the A.M.E. Church.
August 1, 2000... Fire in His Heart: Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner and the A.M.E. Church. By William Seraile. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 242. $32.50, ISBN 1-57233-027-9.) William Seraile of Lehman College, City University of...

Keep Your Head to the Sky: Interpreting African American Home Ground.
August 1, 2000... Keep Your Head to the Sky: Interpreting African American Home Ground. Edited by Grey Gundaker with the assistance of Tynes Cowan. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1998. Pp. viii, 344. Paper, $19.50, ISBN 0-8139-1824-3;...

Stylin': African American Expressive Culture from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit.
August 1, 2000... Stylin': African American Expressive Culture from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit. By Shane White and Graham White. (Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 301. $30.00, ISBN 0-8014-3179-4.) Shane White and...

She Glanceth from Earth to Heaven: The Phenomenon of Love Mysticism Among Women in Antebellum Virginia and Maryland.
August 1, 2000... She Glanceth from Earth to Heaven: The Phenomenon of Love Mysticism Among Women in Antebellum Virginia and Maryland. By Laura Hobgood-Oster. (New Orleans: University Press of the South, Inc., 1998. Pp. [viii], 199. Paper, $49.95, ISBN...

Pretense of Glory: The Life of General Nathaniel P. Banks.
August 1, 2000... Pretense of Glory: The Life of General Nathaniel P. Banks. By James G. Hollandsworth Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 292. $34.95, ISBN 0-8071-2293-9.) Nathaniel P. Banks fits the classic mold of the...

African-American Odyssey: The Stewarts, 1853-1963.
August 1, 2000... African-American Odyssey: The Stewarts, 1853-1963. By Albert S. Broussard. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 1998. Pp. x, 244. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0916-4.) This book is a useful, interesting survey of one African American family...

Ironclads at War: The Origin and Development of the Armored Warship, 1854-1891.
August 1, 2000... Ironclads at War: The Origin and Development of the Armored Warship, 1854-1891. By Jack Greene and Alessandro Massignani. (Conshohocken, Pa.: Combined Publishing, c. 1998. Pp. 423. $34.95, ISBN 0-938289-58-6.) A comprehensive summary of...

Thomas Lanier Clingman: Fire Eater from the Carolina Mountains.
August 1, 2000... Thomas Lanier Clingman: Fire Eater from the Carolina Mountains. By Thomas E. Jeffrey. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 1998. Pp. xiv, 450. $50.00, ISBN 0-8203-2023-4.) Biographers of nineteenth-century southern...

The Shattering of Texas Unionism: Politics in the Lone Star State During the Civil War Era.
August 1, 2000... The Shattering of Texas Unionism: Politics in the Lone Star State During the Civil War Era. By Dale Baum. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. Pp. xx, 283. $37.50, ISBN 0-8071-2245-9.) The variables that shaped Texas...

Daily Life in Civil War America.
August 1, 2000... Daily Life in Civil War America. By Dorothy Denneen Volo and James M. Volo. Daily Life Through History. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 321. $45.00, ISBN 0-313-30516-1.) The goals of Daily Life in Civil War America are...

The Art of Command in the Civil War.
August 1, 2000... The Art of Command in the Civil War. Edited by Steven E. Woodworth. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 1998. Pp. xiv, 193. $39.95, ISBN 0-8032-4785-0.) Steven E. Woodworth introduces this collection of essays by...

Academy on the James: The Confederate Naval School.
August 1, 2000... Academy on the James: The Confederate Naval School. By R. Thomas Campbell. (Shippensburg, Pa.: Burd Street Press, c. 1998. Pp. xii, 283. $39.95, ISBN 1-57249-130-2.) In March 1861 the new Confederate States of America authorized the...

Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Texas in the Civil War.
August 1, 2000... Portraits of Conflict: A photographic History of Texas in the Civil War. By Carl Moneyhon and Bobby Roberts. Portraits of Conflict Series. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 380. ISBN 1-55728-533-0.) This most...

A Brotherhood of Valor: The Common Soldiers of the Stonewall Brigade, C.S.A., and the Iron Brigade, U.S.A.
August 1, 2000... A Brotherhood of Valor: The Common Soldiers of the Stonewall Brigade, C.S.A., and the Iron Brigade, U.S.A. By Jeffry D. Wert. (New York: Simon & Schuster, c. 1999. Pp. 413. $25.00, ISBN 0-684-82435-3.) Unit histories have long been a...

Giants in Their Tall Black Hats: Essays on the Iron Brigade.
August 1, 2000... Giants in Their Tall Black Hats: Essays on the Iron Brigade. Edited by Alan T. Nolan and Sharon Eggleston Vipond. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 238. $27.95, ISBN 0-253-33457-8.) Veteran Iron...

Joseph E. Johnston and the Defense of Richmond.
August 1, 2000... Joseph E. Johnston and the Defense of Richmond. By Steven H. Newton. Modern War Studies. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 1998, Pp. xiv, 278. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0921-0.) Few of his contemporaries ever questioned Confederate...

George B. McClellan and Civil War History: In the Shadow of Grant and Sherman.
August 1, 2000... George B. McClellan and Civil War History: In the Shadow of Grant and Sherman. By Thomas J. Rowland. (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, c. 1998. Pp. xiv, 248. $28.00, ISBN 0-87338-603-5.) George B. McClellan, the most...

Letters to the Home Circle: The North Carolina Service of Pvt. Henry A. Clapp, Company F, Forty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, 1862-1863.
August 1, 2000... Letters to the Home Circle: The North Carolina Service of Pvt. Henry A. Clapp, Company F, Forty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, 1862-1863. Edited by John R. Barden. (Raleigh: Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Department...

Gangrene and Glory: Medical Care During the American Civil War.
August 1, 2000... Gangrene and Glory: Medical Care During the American Civil War. By Frank R. Freemon. (Madison and Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses, c. 1998. Pp. 254. $52.50, ISBN 0-8386-3753-1.) For...

Lessons of War: The Civil War in Children's Magazines.
August 1, 2000... Lessons of War: The Civil War in Children's Magazines. Edited by James Marten. (Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, A Scholarly Resources Inc. Imprint, 1999. Pp. xviii, 259. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8420-2656-8; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8420-2654-1.) ...

In Armageddon's Shadow: The Civil War and Canada's Maritime Provinces.
August 1, 2000... In Armageddon's Shadow: The Civil War and Canada's Maritime Provinces. By Greg Marquis. (Montreal and other cities: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. Pp. xx, 389. $34.95. ISBN 0-7735-1792-8.) With the recent reprinting of Robin W....

The Salmon P. Chase Papers. Volume 5: Correspondence, 1865-1873.
August 1, 2000... The Salmon P. Chase Papers. Volume 5: Correspondence, 1865-1873. Edited by John Niven and others. (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, c. 1998. Pp. xxvi, 401. $45.00, ISBN 0-87338-567-5.) This is the last volume of selected...

Love and Power in the Nineteenth Century: The Marriage of Violet Blair.
August 1, 2000... Love and Power in the Nineteenth Century: The Marriage of Violet Blair. By Virginia Jeans Laas. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 169. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 1-55728-505-5; cloth, $32.00, ISBN 1-55728-506-3.) In the...

Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865-1965.
August 1, 2000... Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865-1965. By Lee J. Alston and Joseph P. Ferrie. Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions. (New York, Cambridge, Eng., and...

Florida's Black Public Officials, 1867-1924.
August 1, 2000... Florida's Black Public Officials, 1867-1924. By Canter Brown Jr. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c.1998. Pp. xvi, 252. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8173-0916-0; cloth, $44.95, ISBN 0-8173-0915-2.) Historians have paid little...

A Creed for My Profession: Walter Williams, Journalist to the World.
August 1, 2000... A Creed for My Profession: Walter Williams, Journalist to the World. By Ronald T. Fan'ar. Missouri Biography Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 1998. Pp. xiv, 246. $29.95, ISBN 0-8262-1188-7.) Neither the...

Harnessing the Power of Motherhood: The National Florence Crittenton Mission, 1883-1925.
August 1, 2000... Harnessing the Power of Motherhood: The National Florence Crittenton Mission, 1883-1925. By Katherine G. Aiken. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998. Pp. xxiv, 266. $38.00, ISBN 1-57233-017-1.) Recently, women's historians have...

Women, Culture, and Community: Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920.
August 1, 2000... Women, Culture, and Community: Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920. By Elizabeth Hayes Turner. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 371. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-19-511938-X; cloth $49.95, ISBN 0-19-508688-0.) ...

Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940.
August 1, 2000... Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940. By Rebecca Sharpless. Studies in Rural Culture. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 1999. Pp. xxvi, 319. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4760-7;...

For the City as a Whole: Planning, Politics, and the Public Interest in Dallas, Texas, 1900-1965.
August 1, 2000... For the City as a Whole: Planning, Politics, and the Public Interest in Dallas, Texas, 1900-1965. By Robert B. Fairbanks. Urban Life and Urban Landscape Series. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c. 1998. Pp. xiv, 318. $47.95, ISBN...

The Bottom Rung: African American Family Life on Southern Farms.
August 1, 2000... The Bottom Rung: African American Family Life on Southern Farms. By Stewart E. Tolnay. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 1999. Pp. xiv, 232. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-252-06745-2; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-252-02435-4.) ...

African Americans and Jews in the Twentieth Century: Studies in Convergence and Conflict.
August 1, 2000... African Americans and Jews in the Twentieth Century: Studies in Convergence and Conflict. Edited by V. P. Franklin, Nancy L. Grant, Harold M. Kletnick, and Genna Rae McNeil. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 1998. Pp. x,...

Fifty Years of Segregation: Black Higher Education in Kentucky, 1904-1954.
August 1, 2000... Fifty Years of Segregation: Black Higher Education in Kentucky, 1904-1954. By John A. Hardin. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 1997. Pp. [viii], 182. $29.95, ISBN 0-8131-2024-1.) John A. Hardin presents the history of black...

The Cry Was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936.
August 1, 2000... The Cry Was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936. By Mark Solomon. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 1998. Pp. xxviii, 403. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 1-57806-095-8; cloth, $50.00, ISBN 1-57806-094-X.) Mark Solomon's The...

Inventing Southern Literature.
August 1, 2000... Inventing Southern Literature. By Michael Kreyling. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 1998. Pp. xviii, 200. Paper, $17.00, ISBN 1-57806-045-1; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 1-57806-044-3.) "The South," whether we admit it or not, is a...

The Enduring Seminoles: From Alligator Wrestling to Ecotourism.
August 1, 2000... The Enduring Seminoles: From Alligator Wrestling to Ecotourism. By Patsy West. Florida History and Culture Series. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 1998. Pp. xviii, 150. $24.95, ISBN 0-8130-1633-9.) In The...

When All the Gods Trembled: Darwinism, Scopes, and American Intellectuals.
August 1, 2000... When All the Gods Trembled: Darwinism, Scopes, and American Intellectuals. By Paul K. Conkin. American Intellectual Culture. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 1998. Pp. xii, 185. $24.95, ISBN...

King Cotton's Advocate: Oscar G. Johnston and the New Deal.
August 1, 2000... King Cotton's Advocate: Oscar G. Johnston and the New Deal. By Lawrence J. Nelson. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 330. $38.00, ISBN 1-57233-025-2.) Oscar Goodbar Johnston claimed that he "never liked the term...

Texas Merchant: Marvin Leonard and Fort Worth.
August 1, 2000... Texas Merchant: Marvin Leonard and Fort Worth. By Victoria Buenger and Walter L. Buenger. Kenneth E. Montague Series in Oil and Business History, No. 11 (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 245. $36.95, ISBN...

Builders: Herman and George R. Brown.
August 1, 2000... Builders: Herman and George R. Brown. By Joseph A. Pratt and Christopher J. Castaneda (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. Pp. xxii, 326. $36.95, ISBN 0-89096-.840-3.) In 1914 Herman Brown took over a small road construction...

Ralph McGill: A Biography.
August 1, 2000... Ralph McGill: A Biography. By Barbara Barksdale Clowse. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, c. 1998. Pp. [viii], 315. $29.95, ISBN 0-8655-4612-6.) Ralph McGill's was a complicated life--often sad, if not tragic, on the personal level,...

Militant Mediator: Whitney M. Young Jr.
August 1, 2000... Militant Mediator: Whitney M. Young Jr. By Dennis C. Dickerson (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 1998. Pp. x, 384. $30.00, ISBN 0-8131-2058-6.) There are more than a few students of the civil rights movement who will raise an...

Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution.
August 1, 2000... Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution. By Barry Cushman. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 320. Paper, $124.95, ISBN 0-19-512033-7; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-19-511532-5.) This...

Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968.
August 1, 2000... Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968. By Steven F. Lawson and Charles Payne. Introduction by James T. Patterson. Debating Twentieth-Century America. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 1998. Pp....

Brushing Back Jim Crow: The Integration of Minor-League Baseball in the American South.
August 1, 2000... Brushing Back Jim Crow: The Integration of Minor-League Baseball in the American South. By Bruce Adelson. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1999. Pp. [xii], 275. $27.95, ISBN 0-8139-1884-7.) The racial integration...

Restructured Resistance: The Sibley Commission and the Politics of Desegregation in Georgia.
August 1, 2000... Restructured Resistance: The Sibley Commission and the Politics of Desegregation in Georgia. By Jeff Roche. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 1998. Pp. xviii, 253. $40.00, ISBN 0-8203-1979-1.) Examining the...

A Defender of Southern Conservatism: M. E. Bradford and His Achievements.
August 1, 2000... A Defender of Southern Conservatism: M. E. Bradford and His Achievements. Edited by Clyde N. Wilson. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 1999. Pp. x, 193. $29.95, ISBN 0-8262-1208-5.) This is a handsome volume whose...

Make Haste Slowly: Moderates, Conservatives, and School Desegregation in Houston.
August 1, 2000... Make Haste Slowly: Moderates, Conservatives, and School Desegregation in Houston. By William Henry Kellar. The Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University, no. 80. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press,...

Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction.
August 1, 2000... Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction. By J. Morgan Kousser. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 1999. Pp. xii, 590. Paper $29.95, ISBN 0-8078-4738-0; cloth,...

The Making of a Chicano Militant: Lessons from Crystal.
August 1, 2000... The Making of a Chicano Militant: Lessons from Crystal. By Jose Angel Gutierrez. Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c. 1998. Pp. xiv, 334. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-229-15984-1; cloth, $50.00, ISBN...

Dixie's Dirty Secret: The True Story of How the Government, the Media, and the Mob Conspired to Combat Integration and the Vietnam Antiwar Movement.
August 1, 2000... Dixie's Dirty Secret: The True Story of How the Government, the Media, and the Mob Conspired to Combat Integration and the Vietnam Antiwar Movement. By James Dickerson. (Armonk, N.Y., and London: M. E. Sharpe, c. 1998. Pp., x, 249. $24.95, ISBN...

Circling Windrock Mountain: Two Hundred Years in Appalachia.
August 1, 2000... Circling Windrock Mountain: Two Hundred Years in Appalachia. By Augusta Grove Bell. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998. Pp. xxii, 312. Paper, $17.50, ISBN 1-57233-038-4; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 1-57233-041-4.) Augusta Grove Bell...

THE ASSOCIATION.
August 1, 2000... The sixty-sixth annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association will be held Wednesday through Saturday, November 8-11, 2000, in Louisville, Kentucky, with the Galt House East Hotel serving as the headquarters hotel. The general session...

PERSONNEL.
August 1, 2000... University of Alabama at Birmingham: John Van Sant appointed assistant professor, and Colin Davis on leave. University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa: Howard Jones on leave spring 2001. Appalachian State University: Anatoly V. Isaenko and...

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND ACTIVITIES.
August 1, 2000... The University of Virginia has established the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize which is awarded biennially to the author of a scholarly, book-length manuscript in eighteenth-century studies in history, literature, philosophy, or the arts. The...

LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES.
August 1, 2000... The Southern Historical Collection in the Manuscripts Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently made available the following manuscript groups: papers,, 1770-1830, of Martin Browne (fl. 1770-1830), a Frederick...

CORRECTION.
August 1, 2000... In the Book Review section of the May 2000 issue the institutional affiliation of Susan Cahn was incorrectly listed as Stanford University. It should have been the State University of New York at Buffalo. We regret the error.