The Journal of Southern History articles from August 2001

The Journal of Southern History archives from August 2001

Remembering Mary, Shaping Revolt: Reconsidering the Stono Rebellion.
August 1, 2001... ON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1739, SIXTY-ODD SOUTH CAROLINA SLAVES took up arms and revolted, killing, as one terrified contemporary styled it, "twenty-three Whites after the most cruel and barbarous Manner."(1) While there is no direct testimony...

The Social and Cultural Dynamics of Soldiering in Hood's Texas Brigade.
August 1, 2001... JUST BEFORE THE START OF THE BLOODY PENINSULA CAMPAIGN OF JUNE 1862, the soldiers of the Fourth Texas Infantry Regiment purchased a horse for General John Bell Hood, commander of what came to be known as Hood's Texas Brigade. Later, as the...

The New South Creed and the Limits of Radicalism: Augusta, Georgia, before the 1890s.
August 1, 2001... IDEA OF A "NEW SOUTH" WAS PERHAPS THE PREEMINENT INTELLECTUAL innovation of the post-Civil War era. The eastern states of the former Confederacy, and particularly Georgia, were home to numerous apostles of this vision, none more vociferous and...

The Contested Image of Nathan Bedford Forrest.
August 1, 2001... OVER ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH, CONFEDERATE general Nathan Bedford Forrest continues to haunt America. The general's exploits in the Civil War and his attitude towards African Americans throughout his life have combined to...

The La Salle Expedition to Texas: The Journal of Henri Joutel, 1684-1687.
August 1, 2001... The La Salle Expedition to Texas: The Journal of Henri Joutel, 1684-1687. Edited and with an Introduction by William C. Foster. Translated by Johanna S. Warren. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, c. 1998. Pp. x, 350. $39.95, ISBN...

Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal.
August 1, 2001... Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal. By James Taylor Carson. Indians of the Southeast. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 1999. Pp. xvi, 183. $40.00, ISBN 0-8032-1503-7.) ...

A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida.
August 1, 2001... A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida. By Bernard Romans. Edited and with an introduction by Kathryn E. Holland Braund. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 1999. Pp. xiv, 442. $44.95, ISBN 0-8173-0876-8.) ...

Spaniards, Planters, and Slaves: The Spanish Regulation of Slavery in Louisiana, 1763-1803.
August 1, 2001... Spaniards, Planters, and Slaves: The Spanish Regulation of Slavery in Louisiana, 1763-1803. By Gilbert C. Din. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, c. 1999. Pp. xiv, 356. $49.95, ISBN 0-89096-904-3.) Historians in recent years...

Native Americans and the Early Republic.
August 1, 2001... Native Americans and the Early Republic. Edited by Frederick E. Hoxie, Ronald Hoffman, and Peter J. Albert. Perspectives on the American Revolution. (Charlottesville and London: Published by the University Press of Virginia for the United...

Neptune's Militia: The Frigate South Carolina During the American Revolution.
August 1, 2001... Neptune's Militia: The Frigate South Carolina During the American Revolution. By James A. Lewis. (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, c. 1999. Pp. x, 235. $39.00, ISBN 0-87338-632-9.) For years, readers of naval histories...

William Bartram and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier.
August 1, 2001... William Bartram and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier. By Edward J. Cashin. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2000. Pp. xvi, 319. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-325-0.) Edward J. Cashin has written a fascinating...

Founding Friendship: George Washington, James Madison, and the Creation of the American Republic.
August 1, 2001... Founding Friendship: George Washington, James Madison, and the Creation of the American Republic. By Stuart Leibiger. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, c. 1999. Pp. xii, 284. $35.00, ISBN 0-81391882-0.) Long ago...

Power versus Liberty: Madison, Hamilton, Wilson, and Jefferson.
August 1, 2001... Power versus Liberty: Madison, Hamilton, Wilson, and Jefferson. By James H. Read. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, c. 2000. Pp. xiv, 201. Paper, $16.50, ISBN 0-8139-1912-6; cloth, $47.50, ISBN 0-8139-1911-8.) ...

Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture.
August 1, 2001... Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture. Edited by Jan Ellen Lewis and Peter S. Onuf. Jeffersonian America. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, c. 1999. Pp. xii, 280. Paper, $17.95, ISBN...

The Gullah People and Their African Heritage.
August 1, 2001... The Gullah People and Their African Heritage. By William S. Pollitzer. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 1999. Pp. xxiv, 298, $40.00, ISBN 0-8203-2054-4.) In this book William Pollitzer presents a landmark study of...

"I, Too, Am America": Archaeological Studies of African-American Life.
August 1, 2001... "I, Too, Am America": Archaeological Studies of African-American Life. Edited by Theresa A. Singleton. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, c. 1999. Pp. xiv, 368. Paper, $19.50, ISBN 0-8139-1843-X; cloth, $59.50, ISBN...

Africa and the Blues.
August 1, 2001... Africa and the Blues. By Gerhard Kubik. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 1999. Pp. xx, 240. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 1-57806-146-6; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 1-57806-145-8.) Conceding that the blues as a musical form is an...

Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820.
August 1, 2001... Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820. By Kay K. Moss. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 1999. Pp. xviii, 259. $29.95, ISBN 1-57003-289-0) Kay K. Moss has provided an interesting compendium of remedies and cures used in the...

He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey.
August 1, 2001... He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey. By Douglas R. Egerton. American Profiles. (Madison, Wis.: Madison House, 1999. Pp. xxiv, 248. $34.95, ISBN 0-945612-67-2.) A generation ago there was a fair amount of historical interest in...

Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market.
August 1, 2001... Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. By Walter Johnson. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. [xii], 283. $26.00, ISBN 0-674-82148-3.) An 1854 Louisiana business census listed nineteen New...

Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789-1860.
August 1, 2001... Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789-1860. By Michele Gillespie. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2000. Pp. xxiv, 236. $40.00, ISBN 0-8203-1968-6.) In the most popular...

Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780-1860.
August 1, 2001... Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780-1860. By Joanne Pope Melish. (Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, c. 1998. Pp. xx, 296. $35.00, ISBN 0-8014-3413-0.) In this ambitious and often...

Antislavery Violence: Sectional, Racial, and Cultural Conflict in Antebellum America.
August 1, 2001... Antislavery Violence: Sectional, Racial, and Cultural Conflict in Antebellum America. Edited by John R. McKivigan and Stanley Harrold. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c. 1999. Pp. [x], 322. $30.00, ISBN 1-57233-059-7.) The...

Forgotten Texas Leader: Hugh McLeod and the Texan Santa Fe Expedition.
August 1, 2001... Forgotten Texas Leader: Hugh McLeod and the Texan Santa Fe Expedition. By Paul N. Spellman. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, c. 1999. Pp. xii, 235. $24.95, ISBN 0-89096-869-9.) Paul N. Spellman wishes to rescue Hugh McLeod from...

Frontier Swashbuckler: The Life and Legend of John Smith T.
August 1, 2001... Frontier Swashbuckler: The Life and Legend of John Smith T. By Dick Steward. Missouri Biography Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2000. Pp. xii, 264. $34.95, ISBN 0-8262-1248-4.) Frontier Swashbuckler serves...

First Books: The Printed Word and Cultural Formation in Early Alabama.
August 1, 2001... First Books: The Printed Word and Cultural Formation in Early Alabama. By Philip D. Beidler. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 1999. Pp. xii, 185. $34.95, ISBN 0-8173-0985-3.) Philip D. Beidler's First Books is a case...

Edgar Allan Poe and the Masses: The Political Economy of Literature in Antebellum America.
August 1, 2001... Edgar Allan Poe and the Masses: The Political Economy of Literature in Antebellum America. By Terence Whalen. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c. 1999. Pp. xii, 328. $55.00, ISBN 0-691-00199-5.) Terence Whalen's impressive...

The Papers of John Marshall. Volume X: Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions, January 1824-March 1827.
August 1, 2001... The Papers of John Marshall. Volume X: Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions, January 1824-March 1827. Edited by Charles F. Hobson, Susan Holbrook Perdue, and Robert W. Smith. (Chapel Hill: Printed by the University of North...

The Papers of John C. Calhoun. Volume XXV: 1847-1848.
August 1, 2001... The Papers of John C. Calhoun. Volume XXV: 1847-1848. Edited by Clyde N. Wilson and Shirley Bright Cook. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xx, 715. $59.95, ISBN 1-57003-306-4.) John C. Calhoun became increasingly...

Tampa Before the Civil War.
August 1, 2001... Tampa Before the Civil War. By Canter Brown Jr. Tampa Bay History Center Reference Library Series, No. 8. (Tampa, Fla: University of Tampa Press, 1999. Pp. [x], 197. $25.00, ISBN 1-879852-64-0.) Canter Brown Jr., currently based at the...

Fort Macon: A History.
August 1, 2001... Fort Macon: A History. By Paul Branch. (Charleston, S.C.: Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America, c. 1999. Pp. xvi, 292. $29.95, ISBN 1-877853-45-3.) Tucked in among the sand dunes and sea oats on one of North Carolina's barrier...

"To Live and Die in Dixie": How the South Formed a Nation.
August 1, 2001... "To Live and Die in Dixie": How the South Formed a Nation. Edited by Archie P. McDonald. Journal of Confederate History Book Series, Vol. XX. (Murfreesboro, Tenn.: Southern Heritage Press, c. 1999. Pp. [xiv], 173. Paper, $16.95, ISBN...

Voices in the Storm: Confederate Rhetoric, 1861-1865.
August 1, 2001... Voices in the Storm: Confederate Rhetoric, 1861-1865. By Karen E. Fritz. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, c. 1999. Pp. xvi, 173. $26.95, ISBN 1-57441-077-6.) This book poses large and important questions about the ways in which...

Civil War Macon: The History of a Confederate City.
August 1, 2001... Civil War Macon: The History of a Confederate City. By Richard W. Iobst. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, c. 1999. Pp. xiv, 462. $35.00, ISBN 0-86554-634-7.) The state of Georgia provided its share of troops for the Confederate war...

The Class of 1861: Custer, Ames, and Their Classmates After West Point.
August 1, 2001... The Class of 1861: Custer, Ames, and Their Classmates After West Point. By Ralph Kirshner. With a foreword by George A. Plimpton. (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, c. 1999. Pp. xx, 224. $34.95, ISBN...

Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All.
August 1, 2001... Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All. By Stephen D. Engle. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 1999. Pp. xx, 476. $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2512-3.) Stephen D. Engle's Don Carlos Buell: Most...

Forgotten Valor: The Memoirs, Journals, and Civil War Letters of Orlando B. Willcox.
August 1, 2001... Forgotten Valor: The Memoirs, Journals, and Civil War Letters of Orlando B. Willcox. Edited by Robert Garth Scott. (Kent, Ohio, and London. Kent State University Press, c. 1999. Pp. xxxii, 720. $49.00, ISBN 0-87338-628-0.) Forgotten Valor...

Under the Southern Cross: Soldier Life with Gordon Bradwell and the Army of Northern Virginia.
August 1, 2001... Under the Southern Cross: Soldier Life with Gordon Bradwell and the Army of Northern Virginia. Compiled and edited by Pharris Deloach Johnson. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, c. 1999. Pp. [xliv], 271. $32.95, ISBN 0-86554-667-3.) ...

Mountain Partisans: Guerrilla Warfare in the Southern Appalachians, 1861-1865.
August 1, 2001... Mountain Partisans: Guerrilla Warfare in the Southern Appalachians, 1861-1865. By Sean Michael O'Brien. (Westport, Conn., and London: Praeger, c. 1999. Pp. xxiv, 221. $35.00, ISBN 0-275-96430-2.) Irregular warfare in the southern mountains...

Horse Sweat and Powder Smoke: The First Texas Cavalry in the Civil War.
August 1, 2001... Horse Sweat and Powder Smoke: The First Texas Cavalry in the Civil War. By Stanley S. McGowen. Military History Series, No. 66. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, c. 1999. Pp. xvi, 229. $29.95, ISBN 0-89096-903-5.) Unit...

Mountain Rebels: East Tennessee Confederates and the Civil War, 1860-1870.
August 1, 2001... Mountain Rebels: East Tennessee Confederates and the Civil War, 1860-1870. By W. Todd Groce. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c. 1999. Pp. xviii, 218. $28.00, ISBN 1-57233-057-0.) Most scholarly attention to East Tennessee during...

The Memoirs of Brigadier General William Passmore Carlin.
August 1, 2001... The Memoirs of Brigadier General William Passmore Carlin, U.S.A. Edited by Robert I. Girardi and Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 1999. Pp. xiv, 321. $50.00, ISBN 0-8032-1494-4.) William...

Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism.
August 1, 2001... Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism. By Mark E. Neely Jr. A Nation Divided: New Studies in Civil War History. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, c. 1999. Pp. viii, 212....

Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President.
August 1, 2001... Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President. By Allen C. Guelzo. (Grand Rapids, Mich., and Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, c. 1999. Pp. xii, 516. $29.00, ISBN 0-8028-3872-3.) Is there really a place for yet another work on...

Lincoln: A Foreigner's Quest.
August 1, 2001... Lincoln: A Foreigner's Quest. By Jan Morris. (New York and other cities: Simon and Schuster, c. 2000. Pp. 205. $23.00, ISBN 0-684-855515-1.) Jan Morris is the latest in a long line of British commentators on Lincoln's achievements and...

One War at a Time: The International Dimensions of the American Civil War.
August 1, 2001... One War at a Time: The International Dimensions of the American Civil War. By Dean B. Mahin. (Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, c. 1999. Pp. x, 343. $27.95, ISBN 1-57488-209-0.) Dean B. Mahin, who has an undergraduate major in history, a...

A Wheel Within a Wheel: Southern Methodism and the Georgia Holiness Association.
August 1, 2001... A Wheel Within a Wheel: Southern Methodism and the Georgia Holiness Association. By Briane K. Turley. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, c. 1999. Pp. viii, 226. $35.00, ISBN 0-86554-633-9.) Although Briane K. Turley's subject matter...

The Churches of Christ in the Twentieth Century: Homer Hailey's Personal Journey of Faith.
August 1, 2001... The Churches of Christ in the Twentieth Century: Homer Halley's Personal Journey of Faith. By David Edwin Harrell Jr. Religion and American Culture. (Tuscaloosa and London. University of Alabama Press, c. 2000. Pp. xx, 472. $34.95, ISBN...

A Genealogy of Dissent: Southern Baptist Protest in the Twentieth Century.
August 1, 2001... A Genealogy of Dissent: Southern Baptist Protest in the Twentieth Century. By David Stricklin. Religion in the South. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 1999. Pp. xviii, 229. $36.00, ISBN 0-8131-2093-4.) This book appears at an...

The Narrative Forms of Southern Community.
August 1, 2001... The Narrative Forms of Southern Community. By Scott Romine. Southern Literary Studies. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 1999. Pp. [xiv], 226. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8071-2527-X; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-2401-X.) ...

Charlotte Hawkins Brown and Palmer Memorial Institute: What One Young African American Woman Could Do.
August 1, 2001... Charlotte Hawkins Brown and Palmer Memorial Institute: What One Young African American Woman Could Do. By Charles W. Wadelington and Richard F. Knapp. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 1999. Pp. xvi, 303. Paper,...

Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917.
August 1, 2001... Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917. By Elizabeth Sanders. American Politics and Political Economy. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, c. 1999. Pp. x, 532. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 0-226-73477-3;...

Bridging Two Eras: The Autobiography of Emily Newell Blair 1877-1951.
August 1, 2001... Bridging Two Eras: The Autobiography of Emily Newell Blair, 1877-1951. Edited by Virginia Jeans Laas. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 1999. Pp. xxiv, 382. $29.95, ISBN 0-8262-1254-9.) Emily Newell Blair, introduced...

Knight Without Armor: Carlos Eduardo Castaneda, 1896-1958.
August 1, 2001... Knight Without Armor: Carlos Eduardo Castaneda, 1896-1958. By Felix D. Almaraz Jr. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, c. 1999. Pp. xxii, 430. $39.95, ISBN 0-89096-890-X.) Felix Almaraz's erudite biography of Carlos Eduardo...

No Spark of Malice: The Murder of Martin Begnaud.
August 1, 2001... No Spark of Malice: The Murder of Martin Begnaud. By William Arceneaux. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 1999. Pp. xiv, 349. $34.95, ISBN 0-8071-2447-8.) In 1896 Martin Begnaud, the congenial owner of a general store in...

Leading the Race: The Transformation of the Black Elite in the Nation's Capital, 1880-1920.
August 1, 2001... Leading the Race: The Transformation of the Black Elite in the Nation's Capital, 1880-1920. By Jacqueline M. Moore. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, c. 1999. Pp. x, 257. $37.50, ISBN 0-8139-1903-7.) During and...

A Sense of Place: Birmingham's Black Middle-Class Community, 1890-1930.
August 1, 2001... A Sense of Place: Birmingham's Black Middle- Class Community, 1890-1930. By Lynne B. Feldman. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 1999. Pp. xvi, 326. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8173-0969-1; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8173-0967-5.) ...

Politics, Society, and the Klan in Alabama, 1915-1949.
August 1, 2001... Politics, Society, and the Klan in Alabama, 1915-1949. By Glenn Feldman. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 1999. Pp. xiv, 457. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8173-0984-5; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-81730983-7.) Over the last two...

Hitler's Soldiers in the Sunshine State: German POWs in Florida.
August 1, 2001... Hitler's Soldiers in the Sunshine State: German POWs in Florida. By Robert D. Billinger Jr. The Florida History and Culture Series. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2000. Pp. xx, 262. $24.95, ISBN 0-8130-1740-8.)...

Communists on Campus: Race, Politics, and the Public University in Sixties North Carolina.
August 1, 2001... Communists on Campus: Race, Politics, and the Public University in Sixties North Carolina. By William J. Billingsley. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 1999. Pp. xviii, 308. $29.95, ISBN 0-82032109-5.) In the waning...

Idella Parker: From Reddick to Cross Creek.
August 1, 2001... Idella Parker: From Reddick to Cross Creek. By Idella Parker with Bud and Liz Crussell. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 1999. Pp. xvi, 213. $19.95, ISBN 0-8130-1706-8.) Idella Parker's account of her early...

Creeker: A Woman's Journey.
August 1, 2001... Creeker: A Woman's Journey. By Linda Scott DeRosier. Women in Southern Culture. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 1999. Pp. xviii, 228. $27.50, ISBN 0-8131-2123-X.) Linda Sue (Lee) Preston Scott DeRosier's honest, penetrating,...

Delta Sugar: Louisiana's Vanishing Plantation Landscape.
August 1, 2001... Delta Sugar: Louisiana's Vanishing Plantation Landscape. By John B. Rehder. Creating the North American Landscape. (Baltimore, Md., and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 1999. Pp. xvi, 355. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-6131-4.) South...

Natural History Investigations in South Carolina from Colonial Times to Present.
August 1, 2001... Natural History Investigations in South Carolina from Colonial Times to Present. By Albert E. Sanders and William D. Anderson Jr. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 1999. Pp. xl, 333. $45.00, ISBN 1-57003-278-5.) The authors...

THE ASSOCIATION.
August 1, 2001... The sixty-seventh meeting of the Southern Historical Association will be held on Friday through Monday, November 16-19, 2001, in New Orleans, Louisiana, with the Fairmont Hotel serving as the headquarters hotel. The Program and Local...

PERSONNEL.
August 1, 2001... University of Alabama: Lawrence A. Clayton, professor, named chairman of the department of history; Scott P. O'Bryan and Paul M. Hagenloh appointed assistant professor; Maarten Ultee, David T. Beito, Michael J. Mendle, and Gregory M. Dorr will...

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND ACTIVITIES.
August 1, 2001... The Appalachian Studies Association will hold its twenty-fifth annual conference on March 15-17, 2002, at Unicoi State Park in the mountains of north Georgia. The theme of the conference will be "Voices from the Margins--Living on the Fringe,"...