The Journal of Southern History articles from August 2002

The Journal of Southern History archives from August 2002

The pleasures of resistance: enslaved women and body politics in the plantation South, 1830-1861.
August 1, 2002... AS A YOUNG WOMAN, NANCY WILLIAMS JOINED OTHER ENSLAVED PEOPLE and "cou'tin' couples" who would "slip 'way" to an "ole cabin" a few miles from the Virginia plantation where she lived. Deep in the woods, away from slaveholding eyes, they held...

Religion, gender, and the lost cause in South Carolina's 1876 governor's race: "Hampton or Hell!".
August 1, 2002... GENERAL WADE HAMPTON, THE CONFEDERATE CAVALRY HERO, RODE again on October 7, 1876. Flanked by the paramilitary arm of the South Carolina Democratic Party--which was made up of local groups known as "rifle clubs"--Hampton entered the midlands...

The historical ideology of Mildred Lewis Rutherford: a confederate historian's New South creed.
August 1, 2002... "PATRIOTIC MEN AND WOMEN OF THE NORTH AS WELL AS OF THE SOUTH," Mildred Lewis Rutherford wrote in 1915, "are demanding true history, and our sectional differences will disappear when we succeed in getting down to the truth of history."...

Before NASCAR: the corporate and civic promotion of automobile racing in the American South, 1903-1927.(National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing )
August 1, 2002... IN RECENT DECADES, HISTORIANS STUDYING THE SOUTH HAVE ANALYZED sport and leisure activities to illuminate an array of broader topics. For example, they have mined accounts of ball games and horse races for insights into such vital aspects of...

To Make Our World Anew: a History of African Americans.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Edited by Robin D. G. Kelley and Earl Lewis. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, c. 2000. Pp. xviii, 670. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-513945-3.) Robin D. G. Kelley and Earl Lewis have provided us with what amounts to the first new...

One Drop of Blood: the American Misadventure of Race.
August 1, 2002... By Scott L. Malcomson. (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, c. 2000. Pp. viii, 584. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-374-52794-6; cloth, $30.00, ISBN 0-374-24079-5.) Fresh, fascinating, comprehensive, insightful, self-indulgent, and exhausting, Scott...

Creolization in the Americas.
August 1, 2002... Edited by David Buisseret and Steven G. Reinhardt. Introduction by David Buisseret. The Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, No. 32. (College Station: Published by Texas A&M University Press for the University of Texas at Arlington, 2000....

Black Civil Rights in America.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... By Kevern Verney. Introductions to History. (London and New York: Routledge, 2000. Pp. vi, 135. $16.95, ISBN 0-415-23888-9.) Kevern Verney's slender volume is part of Routledge's series "Introductions to History," the purpose of which is to...

Damned Souls in a Tobacco Colony: Religion in Seventeenth-Century Virginia.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... By Edward L. Bond. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2000. Pp. [xii], 330. $35.00, ISBN 0-86554-708-4.) In recent years colonial Virginia has been examined from almost every conceivable angle: slavery, tobacco culture, social structure,...

Flowing Through Time: a History of the Lower Chattahoochee River.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... By Lynn Willoughby. (Tuscaloosa and London: Published by the University of Alabama Press in cooperation with the Historic Chattahoochee Commission and the Columbus Museum, c. 1999. Pp. [xiv], 234. $29.95, ISBN 0-8173-0934-9.) Lynn...

From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers.
August 1, 2002... By Allan Kulikoff. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xvi], 484. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8078-4882-4; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2569-7.) This "master narrative" (p. 6) of colonial American social...

Pious Traders in Medicine: A German Pharmaceutical Network in Eighteenth-Century North America.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... By Renate Wilson. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, c. 2000. Pp. xiv, 258. $37.50, ISBN 0-271-02052-0.) The medical marketplace of early America was one of bewildering diversity. From the seventeenth century through at...

New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816.
August 1, 2002... By Claudio Saunt. Cambridge Studies in North American Indian History. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 298. Paper, $19.00, ISBN 0-521-66943-X; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-521-66043-2.) Claudio Saunt's A New...

Lines in the Sand: Race and Class in Lowcountry Georgia, 1750-1860.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... By Timothy James Lockley. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2001. Pp. xx, 280. $45.00, ISBN 0-8203-2228-8.) Unlike most works that analyze race relations under slavery in the South, this book does not collapse class...

Land and Allegiance in Revolutionary Georgia.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... By Leslie Hall. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2001. Pp. xvi, 231. $45.00, ISBN 0-8203-2262-8.) Before Leslie Hall's new book, the last comprehensive scholarly look at the American Revolution in Georgia came out...

Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida.
August 1, 2002... Edited by Jane G. Landers. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2000. Pp. [xii], 220. $49.95, ISBN 0-8130-1772-6.) Colonial Florida is not usually considered plantation country, despite its geographic, political,...

Christopher Gadsden and Henry Laurens: The Parallel Lives of Two American Patriots.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... By Daniel J. McDonough. (Sellinsgrove, Pa.: Susquehanna University Press, c. 2000. Pp. 354. $49.50, ISBN 1-57591-039-X.) Among South Carolina's Revolutionary-era leaders, only Henry Laurens left a substantial collection of personal papers....

The Slave Power: the Free North and Southern Domination, 1780-1860.
August 1, 2002... By Leonard L. Richards. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Pp. [xii], 228 Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8071-2600-4; cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2537-7.) Leonard L. Richards acknowledges that several "well-known historians......

Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... By John Sugden. American Indian Lives. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xviii], 350. $29.95, ISBN 0-8032-4288-3.) Blue Jacket, the Shawnee war chief who defeated two U.S. armies in the early 1790s, has...

Forging the Tortilla Curtain: Cultural Drift and Change along the United States-Mexico Border from the Spanish Era to the Present.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... By Thomas Torrans. (Fort Worth, Tex.: TCU Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xiv], 424. $29.95, ISBN 0-87565-231-X.) This tour of United States-Mexico border relations from Spanish colonialism to California's Proposition 187 is an ambitious undertaking....

Free Speech, "The People's Darling Privilege": Struggles for Freedom of Expression in American History.
August 1, 2002... By Michael Kent Curtis. Constitutional Conflicts. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 520. $32.95, ISBN 0-8223-2529-2.) Professor Curtis reports in detail three national struggles for freedom of speech. They arose over the...

Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government.
August 1, 2002... By Catherine Allgor. Jeffersonian America. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2000. Pp. x, 299. $29.95, ISBN 0-8139-1998-3.) Without Dolley Madison, the government of the new nation might have fallen apart. Her...

The Old South Frontier: Cotton Plantations and the Formation of Arkansas Society, 1819-1861.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... By Donald P. McNeilly. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000. Pp. [xii], 268. $34.95, ISBN 1-55728-619-1.) In this thoughtfully and meticulously researched piece of work, Donald P. McNeilly traces the development of Arkansas...

Jackson's Way: Andrew Jackson and the People of the Western Waters.
August 1, 2002... By John Buchanan. (New York and other cities: John Wiley and Sons, c. 2001. Pp. [xiv], 434. $30.00, ISBN 0-471-28253-7.) Even though it held the key to American transcontinental expansion and set the tone of the nation's Indian policy,...

A Southern Practice: The Diary and Autobiography of Charles A. Hentz, M.D.
August 1, 2002... Edited by Steven M. Stowe. The Publications of the Southern Texts Society. (Charlottesville and London: Published by the University Press of Virginia for the Southern Texts Society, 2000. Pp. [xii], 646. $64.50, ISBN 0-8139-1881-2.) ...

Pavie in the Borderlands: the Journey of Theodore Pavie to Louisiana and Texas, 1829-1830, Including Portions of His Souvenirs atlantiques.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... By Betje Black Klier. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Pp. xviii, 280. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8071-2530-X; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-2414-1.) In 1829 seventeen-year-old Theodore Pavie left his native France to visit...

Voyage to North America, 1844-45: Prince Carl of Solms's Texas Diary of People, Places, and Events.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Translation from German and notes by Wolfram M. Von-Maszewski. Introduction by Theodore Gish. (Denton: German-Texan Heritage Society and University of North Texas Press, c. 2000. Pp. x, 244. $32.50, ISBN 1-57441-124-1.) In 1842 twenty-one...

Long Gray Lines: the Southern Military School Tradition, 1839-1915.
August 1, 2002... By Rod Andrew Jr. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [x], 169. $29.95, ISBN 0-8078-2610-3.) This slim book is at once two things. First, Rod Andrew Jr. provides a history of southern military education...

Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless: The WPA Interviews with Former Slaves Living in Indiana.
August 1, 2002... By Ronald L. Baker. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2000. Pp. xx, 341. $29.95, ISBN 0-253-33803-4.) The intent of Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless is to make "available for the first time in a single volume...

Double Character: Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom.
August 1, 2002... By Ariela J. Gross. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford, Eng.: Princeton University Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xii], 263. $39.50, ISBN 0-691-05957-8.) Historians have long noted the dual nature of slaves' legal status, but most of the literature...

Before the New Deal: Social Welfare in the South, 1830-1930.
August 1, 2002... Edited by Elna C. Green. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 1999. Pp. xxvi, 222. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-8203-2114-1; cloth, $36.00, ISBN 0-8203-2091-9.) Before the New Deal is a useful addition to the field of social...

American City, Southern Place: a Cultural History of Antebellum Richmond.
August 1, 2002... By Gregg D. Kimball. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xxvi], 345. $35.00, ISBN 0-8203-2234-2.) Life in antebellum Richmond, state capital and regional commercial center, was defined by contradictions....

Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars.
August 1, 2002... Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars. By Catherine Clinton. (New York and other cities: Simon and Schuster, c. 2000. Pp. 302. $26.00, ISBN 0-684-84414-1.) Fanny Kemble's Journals. Edited with an introduction by Catherine Clinton. (Cambridge, Mass.,...

High Church Baptists in the South: the Origin, Nature, and Influence of Landmarkism.
August 1, 2002... By James E. Tull. Edited and with a foreword and preface by Morris Ashcraft. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2000. Pp. [xviii], 182. $35.00, ISBN 0-86554-705-X.) Arno Press published James E. Tull's seminal 1960 Columbia University...

Chaplain to the Confederacy: Basil Manly and Baptist Life in the Old South.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... By A. James Fuller. Southern Biography Series. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Pp. [xx], 343. $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-2576-8.) Basil Manly has long merited a full biography such as James Fuller's. Manly's wide-ranging...

The Preacher's Tale: The Civil War Journal of Rev. Francis Springer, Chaplain, U.S. Army of the Frontier.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Edited by William Furry. The Civil War in the West. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2001. Pp. xxiv, 182. $34.95, ISBN 1-55728-703-1.) Civil War-era diaries, memoirs, and collections of letters and manuscripts abound in...

Widows by the thousand: the Civil War Letters of Theophilus and Harriet Perry, 1862-1864.
August 1, 2002... Edited by M. Jane Johansson. The Civil War in the West. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000. Pp. xxiv, 333. $34.95, ISBN 1-55728-621-3.) In this volume, editor M. Jane Johansson brings to life the experiences of two young...

Southern Evangelicals and the Coming of the Civil War.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... By Edward R. Crowther. Studies in American Religion, Vol. 73. (Lewiston, N.Y.; Queenston, Ontario; and Lampeter, Wales: The Edward Mellen Press, c. 2000. Pp. vi, 286. $99.95, ISBN 0-7734-7658-X.) A quarter century has passed since the...

Jefferson Davis, American.
August 1, 2002... By William J. Cooper Jr. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. Pp. [xvi], 757. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-375-72542-3; cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-394-56916-4.) Concluding that Jefferson Davis has generally not been kindly treated by historians, William...

Records of the Moravians in North Carolina.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Volume XII: 1856-1866. Edited by C. Daniel Crews and Lisa D. Bailey. (Raleigh: Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 2000. Pp. xvi, [556]. $40.00, ISBN 0-86526-290-X.) This is the latest volume...

The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865.
August 1, 2002... By Alice Fahs. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xiv], 410. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2581-6.) Although anyone familiar with the popular press of the 1860s is painfully aware that the...

Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War.
August 1, 2002... By R. J. M. Blackett. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. [xvi], 273. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8071-2645-4; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-2595-4.) Is there no end to books on why Britain failed to intervene in the American...

Burnside's Bridge: The Climactic Struggle of the 2nd and 20th Georgia at Antietam Creek.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... By Phillip Thomas Tucker. (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2000. Pp. x, 198. $24.95, ISBN 0-8117-0199-9.) Burnside's Bridge over Antietam Creek is perhaps the best-known landmark on a Civil War battlefield not located in the immediate...

Cracker Cavaliers: the 2nd Georgia Cavalry under Wheeler and Forrest.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... By John Randolph Poole. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2000. Pp. xx, 297. $34.95, ISBN 0-86554-697-5.) The Second Georgia Cavalry Regiment participated in many of the most important campaigns of the Civil War's western theater. From...

The Jewish Confederates.
August 1, 2002... By Robert N. Rosen. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2000. Pp. xxxvi, 517. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-363-3.) I approached this book with some trepidation. "Here we go again," I thought, "another filiopietistic treatise on...

The Civil War in Kentucky: Battle for the Bluegrass State.
August 1, 2002... Edited by Kent Masterson Brown. (Mason City, Iowa: Savas Publishing Company, 2000. Pp. viii, 320. $29.95, ISBN 1-882810-47-3.) "Kentucky played an unusual if not unique role in the Civil War," writes Charles P. Roland in his essay in this...

Race and Reunion: the Civil War in American Memory.
August 1, 2002... By David W. Blight. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. [xii], 512. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-00332-2.) David W. Blight's book has accomplished for Paul H. Buck's Pulitzer Prize-winning Road to Reunion (Boston, 1937)...

Tampa in Civil War and Reconstruction.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... By Canter Brown Jr. (Tampa, Fla.: University of Tampa Press, 2000. Pp. x, 246. $25.00, ISBN 1-879852-68-3.) Modern Tampa, Florida, is a booming city that encapsulates the New South's urban ethos. However, this Gulf Coast community traveled...

Sir Henry Morton Stanley, Confederate.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Edited with an introduction by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Pp. [xvi], 173. $28.95, ISBN 0-8071-2587-3.) Many years ago, while working on another Civil War project, Nathaniel Hughes...

Thinking Confederates: Academia and the Idea of Progress in the New South.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... By Dan R. Frost. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 207. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 1-57233-098-8, cloth, $40.00, ISBN 1-57233-104-6.) By entitling his study of academic leaders in the postbellum South Thinking...

Teaching Equality: Black Schools in the Age of Jim Crow.
August 1, 2002... By Adam Fairclough. Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures, No. 43. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2001. Pp. x, 110. $24.95, ISBN 0-8203-2272-5.) Adam Fairclough's brief (sixty-seven pages of text) new book is...

Only One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... By David E. Bernstein. Constitutional Conflicts. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001. Pp. [xiv], 191. $39.95, ISBN 0-8223-2583-7.) "As we enter the twenty-first century," David E. Bernstein intones, "worldwide appreciation for the...

To Die For: the Paradox of American Patriotism.
August 1, 2002... By Cecilia Elizabeth O'Leary. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, c. 1999. Pp. [xiv], 365. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-691-07052-0; cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-691-01686-0.) Southern historians usually take for granted that the Civil War never...

Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908.
August 1, 2002... By Michael Perman. The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xvi], 397. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8078-4909-X; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2593-X.) In his...

Culture in the American Southwest: The Earth, the Sky, the People.
August 1, 2002... By Keith L. Bryant Jr. Tarleton State University Southwestern Studies in the Humanities, No. 12. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. Pp. [xii], 379. $34.95, ISBN 0-89096-948-5.) Keith L. Bryant Jr.'s data-packed overview of...

Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality.
August 1, 2002... By Bruce Nelson. Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford, Eng.: Princeton University Press, c. 2001. Pp. xliv, 388. $39.50, ISBN 0-691-01732-8.) Bruce Nelson's ambitious volume on the relationship...

Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality.
August 1, 2002... By Eric Arnesen. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. 332. $39.95, ISBN 0-674-00319-5.) Although the grueling struggle by African Americans for jobs and civil rights within America's railroad unions began soon...

Spindletop Boom Days.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... By Paul N. Spellman. Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series, No. 9. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 266. $29.95, ISBN 0-89096-946-9.) On January 10, 1901, Captain Anthony F. Lucas brought in a gigantic gusher...

Castles in the Sand: The Life and Times of Carl Graham Fisher.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... By Mark S. Foster. The Florida History and Culture Series. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2000. Pp. [xviii], 349. $24.95, ISBN 0-8130-1809-9.) A native of Indiana, Carl Graham Fisher (1874-1939) contributed...

Buncombe Bob: The Life and Times of Robert Rice Reynolds.
August 1, 2002... By Julian M. Pleasants. The James Sprunt Studies in History and Political Science, Vol. 63. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xiv], 357. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-5064-0.) When Robert Rice Reynolds died in...

The Reverend Mark Matthews: An Activist in the Progressive Era.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... By Dale E. Soden. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, c. 2001. Pp. xvi, 274. $30.00, ISBN 0-295-98021-4.) In 1902 a church in America's northwesternmost city called a new pastor from the small-town South and from its...

The Communist Party in Maryland, 1919-57.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... By Vernon L. Pedersen. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xii], 253. $29.95, ISBN 0-252-02321-8.) This minutely detailed volume, by an American historian who teaches in Bulgaria, is one of only three state...

Allen Tate: Orphan of the South.
August 1, 2002... By Thomas A. Underwood. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford, Eng.: Princeton University Press, c. 2000. Pp. viii, 447. $35.00, ISBN 0-691-06950-6.) Twenty years ago Michael O'Brien (The Idea of the American South, 1920-1941 [Baltimore, 1979]) and...

Sir Walter and Mr. Jones: Walter Hagen, Bobby Jones, and the Rise of American Golf.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... By Stephen R. Lowe. (Chelsea, Mich.: Sleeping Bear Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xxviii], 387. $35.00, ISBN 1-58536-009-0.) Walter Hagen and Robert Tyre Jones shared little more than an extraordinary talent for the game of golf, yet in the 1920s...

Southern Workers and the Search for Community: Spartanburg County, South Carolina.
August 1, 2002... By G. C. Waldrep III. The Working Class in American History. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xiv], 272. Paper, $20.95, ISBN 0-252-06901-3; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-252-02587-3.) Textile mills employed large...

Don't Breathe the Air: Air Pollution and U.S. Environmental Politics, 1945-1970.
August 1, 2002... By Scott Hamilton Dewey. Environmental History Series, No. 16. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. Pp. [x], 321. $39.95, ISBN 0-89096-914-0.) Scott Hamilton Dewey's purpose in this book is to trace the "federalizing" of air...

Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy.
August 1, 2002... By James T. Patterson. Pivotal Moments in American History. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. [xxxii], 285. $27.50, ISBN 0-19-512716-1.) This volume by a widely recognized historian of twentieth-century America...

Birmingham Revolutionaries: the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights.
August 1, 2002... Edited by Marjorie L. White and Andrew M. Manis. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xii], 80. $22.00, ISBN 0-86554-709-2.) In May 2001 a jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicted Thomas Blanton Jr. for the 1963 bombing of a...

Atlanta: Race, Class, and Urban Expansion.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... By Larry Keating. Comparative American Cities. (Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xiv], 232. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 1-56639-821-5; cloth, $69.50, ISBN 1-56639-820-7.) Larry Keating's clear portrait of modern...

Cuban-Jewish Journeys: Searching for Identity, Home, and History in Miami.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... By Caroline Bettinger-Lopez. With a foreword by Ruth Behar. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000. Pp. [xlii], 277. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 1-57233-098-8; cloth, $40.00, ISBN 1-57233-097-X.) Data from the 2000 U.S. census reveals that...

Arkansas in Modern America, 1930-1999.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... By Ben F. Johnson III. Histories of Arkansas. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 275. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 1-55728-618-3; cloth, $34.95, ISBN 1-55728-617-5.) Arkansans have a long-standing image problem, and it...

Time to Reconcile: the Odyssey of a Southern Baptist.(Southern Voices from the Past: Women's Letters, Diaries, and Writings)
August 1, 2002... By Grace Bryan Holmes. Southern Voices from the Past: Women's Letters, Diaries, and Writings. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2000. Pp. xii, 307. $27.95, ISBN 0-8203-2217-2.) Grace Bryan Holmes's memoir begins on a...

Civil Rights Since 1787: a Reader on the Black Struggle.
August 1, 2002... Edited by Jonathan Birnbaum and Clarence Taylor. (New York and London: New York University Press, c. 2000. Pp. xxii, 936. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-8147-8249-3; cloth, $85.00, ISBN 0-8147-8215-9.) Civil Rights Since 1787 is a collection of 188...

The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Volume IV: Symbol of the Movement, January 1957-December 1958.
August 1, 2002... Edited by Clayborne Carson and others. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xxxiv], 637. $50.00, ISBN 0-520-22231-8.) The civil rights movement based in Montgomery, Alabama, entered a tumultuous...

Power to Explore: a History of Marshall Space Flight Center, 1960-1990.
August 1, 2002... By Andrew J. Dunar and Stephen P. Waring. The NASA History Series. (Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Office, Office of Policy and Plans, 1999. Pp. x, 713. $49.00, ISBN 0-16-058992-4.) ...

Negotiating Boundaries of Southern Womanhood: Dealing with the Powers That Be.
August 1, 2002... Edited by Janet L. Coryell, Thomas H. Appleton Jr., Anastatia Sims, and Sandra Gioia Treadway. Southern Women. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2000. Pp. [x], 251. $34.95, ISBN 0-8262-1295-6.) The latest volume in a...

Sinking Columbus: Contested History, Cultural Politics, and Mythmaking during the Quincentenary.
August 1, 2002... By Stephen J. Summerhill and John Alexander Williams. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2000. Pp. xii, 219. $49.95, ISBN 0-8130-1799-8.) The five-hundredth anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the...

A Law unto Itself? Essays in the New Louisiana Legal History.
August 1, 2002... Edited by Warren M. Billings and Mark F. Fernandez. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 224. $34.95, ISBN 0-8071-2583-0.) Primary documents are the building blocks of history, and new documents present the...

The Oxford Companion to United States History.
August 1, 2002... Edited by Paul S. Boyer. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xliv, 940. $60.00, ISBN 0-19-508209-5.) When the previous edition of this important reference work was published in 1966 (then titled a companion to...

Family and Society in American History.
August 1, 2002... Edited by Joseph M. Hawes and Elizabeth I. Nybakken. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xii], 342. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 0-252-06873-4; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-252-02567-9.) Comprised of thirteen previously published...

Early Tejano Ranching: Daily Life at Ranchos San Jose and El Fresnillo.
August 1, 2002... By Andres Saenz. Edited, with an introduction by Andres Tijerina. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. Pp. [xxviii], 159. Paper, $9.95, ISBN 1-58544-163-5; cloth, $21.95, ISBN 1-58544-134-1.) Andres Saenz is a descendant of the...

Forgotten Texas Census: First Annual Report of the Agricultural Bureau of the Department of Agriculture, Insurance, Statistics, and History, 1887-88.
August 1, 2002... By L. L. Foster. Introduction by Barbara J. Rozek. The Fred H. and Ella Mae Moore Texas History Reprint Series. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2001. Pp. I-xxii, [II]-lvi, 351. $29.95, ISBN 0-87611-183-5.) This compilation of data,...

Alabama Architecture: Looking at Building and Place.
August 1, 2002... By Alice Meriwether Bowsher. Photographs by M. Lewis Kennedy Jr. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, in cooperation with the Alabama Architectural Foundation, c. 2001. Pp. [xiv], 217. $39.95, ISBN 0-8173-1081-9.) This beautiful...

The WPA Guide to 1930s Alabama.
August 1, 2002... By Workers of the Writers' Program of the Works Projects Administration in the State of Alabama. New introduction by Harvey H. Jackson III. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 2000. Pp. lvi, 442. Paper, $24.95, ISBN...