The Journal of Southern History articles from August 2003

The Journal of Southern History archives from August 2003

The novel as teacher: learning to be female in the early American South.
August 1, 2003... "BEGAN A VERY CLEVER NOVEL--EVELINA IT WAS CALL'D," FRANCES Baylor Hill recorded on a late October day in 1797. She had spent most of the previous week looking after a household of sick children, interspersing her nursing chores with sewing...

Travel, ritual, and national identity: planters on the European tour, 1820-1860.
August 1, 2003... LATE IN THE WINTER OF 1845 FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND A NUMBER OF friends went sightseeing at Eaton Hall, the Liverpool residence of the Marquis of Westminster. In the queue Douglass noticed several of his fellow passengers from the Cunard liner...

Reading, intimacy, and the role of Uncle Remus in white southern social memory.
August 1, 2003... You see, my grandmother explained to me that when a black woman went into a white family's house as the cook and the baby sitter, this is the role of the mother.... [T]hat child is nurtured by whoever that person is, but somewhere that child...

Using the WPA ex-slave narratives to study the impact of the Great Depression.
August 1, 2003... FOR AT LEAST TWO GENERATIONS ACADEMICS HAVE BEEN REAPING THE benefits of the Works Progress Administration's (WPA) Federal Writers' Project. White-collar workers employed by this program during the 1930s summarized and indexed government...

A Companion to the American South.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Edited by John B. Boles. Blackwell Companions to American History. (Malden, Mass., and Oxford, Eng.: Blackwell Publishers, 2002. Pp. xii, 524. $124.95, ISBN 0-631-21319-8.) "Southern history is thriving as a field of study," John B. Boles...

Reading Southern History: Essays on Interpreters and Interpretations.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Edited by Glenn Feldman. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 2001. Pp. xii, 376. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8173-1102-5; cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0-8173-1099-1.) An early measure of a student's commitment to the pursuit of...

The South: A Concise History.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Volumes I and II. By Jeanette Keith. (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, c. 2002. Pp. [xiv], 226; xii, 228. Paper, $20.85, ISBN 0-13-022056-6; paper, $20.85, ISBN 0-13-094198-0.) Jeanette Keith of Bloomsburg University has written an...

We Can't Go Home Again: an Argument about Afrocentrism.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Clarence E.Walker. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp.[xxxvi], 172. $25.00, ISBN 0-19-509571-5.) African Americans in the twenty-first century continue to grapple with being the ultimate "Other" in a nation...

Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Joyce E. Chaplin. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 411. $45.00, ISBN 0-674-00453-1.) Joyce E. Chaplin makes one of the most original contributions to the history of race since the classic studies by...

The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Southeast.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green. The Columbia Guides to American Indian History and Culture. (New York: Columbia University Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xxii], 325. $45.00, ISBN 0-231-11570-9.) In this volume Theda Perdue and Michael Green...

The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Edited by Robbie Ethridge and Charles Hudson. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2002. Pp. [x1], 369. $50.00, ISBN 1-57806-351-5.) The scholarly study of southeastern Indians has reached an exciting new level in the past decade....

Big Chief Elizabeth: the Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... By Giles Milton. (New York: Picador USA, 2001. Pp. x, 358. Paper, $14.00, ISBN 0-312-42018-8.) Titles can be misleading. Elizabeth I is but a minor character in this swashbuckling popular history. Sir Walter Raleigh (here spelled Ralegh)...

The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Alan Gallay. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c. 2002. Pp. xviii, 444. $45.00, ISBN 0-300-08754-3.) Alan Gallay characterizes his book as a "geopolitical" study (p. 7), one in which nations competed for the control of...

The Origins of African American Literature, 1680-1865.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Dickson D. Bruce Jr. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001. Pp. [xviii], 374. Paper, $19.50, ISBN 0-8139-2067-1; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8139-2066-3.) The writings of Wheatley, Equiano, Walker, Douglass, and other...

A Blessed Company: Parishes, Parsons, and Parishioners in Anglican Virginia, 1690-1776.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By John K. Nelson. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xiv], 477. $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2663-4.) For decades most scholars were convinced that the inhabitants of the Virginia colony revered gold more...

Peace and War on the Anglo-Cherokee Frontier, 1756-63.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By John Oliphant. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xviii], 269. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2637-3.) This is a detailed analysis of Indian relations involving primarily the Cherokees and the colony of South Carolina....

Spiritual Merchants: Religion, Magic, and Commerce.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Carolyn Morrow Long. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001. Pp. xxx, 314. Paper, $19.00, ISBN 1-57233-110-0; cloth, $38.00, ISBN 1-57233-109-7.) From colonial times to the present, African American spirituality has been...

Contesting Democracy: Substance and Structure in American Political History, 1775-2000.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Edited by Byron E. Shafer and Anthony J. Badger. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2001. Pp. xii, 271. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-7006-1139-8; cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-1138-X.) This collection grows out of a debate over what some have...

Dixie Looks Abroad: the South and U.S. Foreign Relations, 1789-1973.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Joseph A. Fry. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Pp. [xiv], 334. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2745-0.) The South's prominent role in the nation's political history has never failed to attract scholarly attention, but the same...

The Roots of Appalachian Christianity: The Life and Legacy of Elder Shubal Stearns.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By John Sparks. Religion in the South. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2001. Pp. xx, 327. $32.50, ISBN 0-8131-2223-6.) There has long been and continues to be a romantic conviction that Appalachia reflects America as it once...

John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By R. Kent Newmyer. Southern Biography Series. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. [xx], 511. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2701-9.) This study--the latest in a long line of Marshall biographies stretching back to the...

A Lady of the High Hills: Natalie Delage Sumter.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... By Thomas Tisdale. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xx], 188. $29.95, ISBN 1-57003-415-X.) Charting the extraordinary life of the displaced French aristocrat Natalie Delage Sumter (1782-1841 ), Tisdale' s...

Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Margaret Humphreys. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. [xii], 196. $41.50, ISBN 0-8018-6637-5.) This study by physician and historian Margaret Humphreys treats a small fraction of the career of a disease...

Notorious Woman: The Celebrated Case of Myra Clark Gaines.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Elizabeth Urban Alexander. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 301. $34.95, ISBN 0-8071-2698-5.) Myra Clark Gaines, the "notorious woman" who is the focal point of this saga, achieved her notoriety as the...

Listening to Nineteenth-Century America.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Mark M. Smith. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. xii, 372. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4982-0; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2657-X.) In this fascinating study Mark M. Smith analyzes how sound and the...

Young Hickory: The Making of Andrew Jackson.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... By Hendrik Booraem.(Dallas, Tex.: Taylor Trade Publishing, c. 2001. Pp. [xviii], 318. $26.95, ISBN 0-87833-263-4.) Hendrik Booraem delivers what he promises: a book that "adds some context and depth to the standard version [of Andrew...

Academy and College: The History of the Woman's College of Furman University.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... By Judith T. Bainbridge. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2001. Pp. [xiv], 290. $39.95, ISBN 0-86554-736-X.) Academy and College traces the story of the Woman's College of Furman University from its beginnings as the Greenville [South...

The Adventures and Recollections of General Walter P. Lane, a San Jacinto Veteran, Containing Sketches of the Texian, Mexican, and Late Wars, with Several Indian Fights Thrown In.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... By Walter Paye Lane. Edited by Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. The Library of Texas, No. 6. (Dallas, Tex.: Published by Southern Methodist University for the DeGolyer Library, William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, 2000. Pp. 216. $55.00.) ...

Maria von Blucher's Corpus Christi: Letters from the South Texas Frontier, 1849-1879.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... By Maria von Blucher. Edited and annotated by Bruce S. Cheeseman. Canseco-Keck History Series, No. 5. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. Pp. xxii, 292. $29.95, ISBN 1-58544-135-X.) In 1849 newly married Felix and Maria von...

Rhett: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-Eater.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By William C. Davis. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xvi], 702. $59.95, ISBN 1-57003-439-7.) William C. Davis's revealing portrait of Robert Barnwell Rhett, antebellum South Carolina's most insistent...

Bathed in Blood: Hunting and Mastery in the Old South.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... By Nicolas W. Proctor. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2002. Pp. [xii], 220. Paper, $16.50, ISBN 0-8139-2091-4; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8139-2087-6.) In Bathed in Blood Nicolas W. Proctor explores the significance...

The Making of a Modern City: Philanthropy, Civic Culture, and the Baltimore YMCA.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Jessica I. Elfenbein. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2001. Pp. [xiv], 179. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2435-8.) This slim book (118 pages of text) looks at the history of the Baltimore YMCA between 1852 and 1932....

The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By John Stauffer. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. 367. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-00645-3.) In this imaginative work John Stauffer interprets the interracial alliance of four antislavery heroes: Gerrit Smith, John...

Lincoln and Davis: Imagining America, 1809-1865.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Brian R. Dirck. American Political Thought. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2001. Pp. [xiv], 326. $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-1137-1.) Although comparing Abraham Lincoln (the winner) to Jefferson Davis (the loser) is familiar...

From Rail-Splitter to Icon: Lincoln's Image in Illustrated Periodicals, 1860-1865.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Gary L. Bunker. (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, c. 2001. Pp. x, 387. $55.00, ISBN 0-87338-701-5.) Gary L. Bunker, professor emeritus of psychology at Brigham Young University, has created an in-depth examination of...

The American Civil War: an English View: the Writings of Field Marshal Viscount Wolseley.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Edited and introduced by James A. Rawley. (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2002. Pp. [xxxviii], [228]. $26.95, ISBN 0-8117-0093-3.) This volume is a collection of disparate Civil War essays by a career soldier who rose ultimately to...

Terrain of Freedom: American Art and the Civil War.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Eric Foner, Kirk Savage, Angela Miller, Steven Conn, Andrew Walker, and Margaret Rose Vendryes. Introduction by Andrew Walker and Clare Kunny. Museum Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, c. 2001. Pp. 104. Paper,...

Images from theStorm: 300 Civil War Images by the Author of Eye of the Storm & Prang's Civil War Pictures: The Complete Battle Chromos of Louis Prang.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Images from the Storm: 300 Civil War Images by the Author of Eye of the Storm. Written and illustrated by Robert Knox Sneden. Edited by Charles F. Bryan Jr., James C. Kelly, and Nelson D. Lankford. (New York and other cities: The Free Press, c....

Slaves, Sailors, Citizens: African Americans in the Union Navy.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... By Steven J. Ramold. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, c. 2002. Pp. [x], 253. $32.00, ISBN 0-87580-286-9.) Thanks to the pioneering work of scholars like Leon F. Litwack and Eric Foner, we have long understood the important role...

Gunsmoke Over the Atlantic: First Naval Actions of the Civil War.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Jack D. Coombe. (New York and other cities: Bantam Books, c. 2002. Pp. [xx], 268. $23.95, ISBN 0-553-80162-7.) Jack D. Coombe is the author of two previous books on Civil War naval activities, Thunder Along the Mississippi (New York,...

Union Soldiers and the Northern Home Front: Wartime Experiences, Postwar Adjustments.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Edited by Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller. The North's Civil War Series. (New York: Fordbam University Press, 2002. Pp. [xviii], 508. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 0-8232-2146-6; cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-8232-2145-8.) Continued fascination with...

Railroads in the Civil War: The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... By John E. Clark Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. [xviii], 275. $34.95, ISBN 0-8071-2726-4.) It is a familiar concept that our Civil War was the first war in history to make extensive use of railroads. Union and...

Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Kenneth W. Noe. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2001. Pp. xxiv, 494. $35.00, ISBN 0-8131-2209-0.) Recently, Civil War historians have begun to emphasize the late summer and fall of 1862, rather than the summer of 1863, as...

Struggle for the Heartland: The Campaigns from Fort Henry to Corinth.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... By Stephen D. Engle. Great Campaigns of the Civil War. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xxiv], 251. $34.95, ISBN 0-8032-1818-4.) By February 1862 the Confederacy had reason to believe that the war was well...

Civil War in the Southwest: Recollections of the Sibley Brigade.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Edited and with an introduction by Jerry Thompson. Foreword by Donald S. Frazier. Canseco-Keck History Series, No. 4. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. Pp. [xxvi], 195. $24.95, ISBN 1-58544-131-7.) The Confederate...

The War Hits Home: The Civil War in Southeastern Virginia.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Brian Steel Wills. A Nation Divided: New Studies in Civil War History. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001. Pp. [xvi], 345. $34.95, ISBN 0-8139-2027-2.) Brian Steel Wills turns a spotlight on a neglected...

Mobile, 1865: Last Stand of the Confederacy.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... By Sean Michael O'Brien. (Westport, Conn., and London: Praeger, 2001. Pp. xii, 270. $26.95, ISBN 0-275-97334-4.) Evaluating a book is always difficult when the author does not include a foreword or introduction of any kind to state his...

Elmira: Death Camp of the North.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... By Michael Horigan. (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2002. Pp. x, 246. $26.95, ISBN 0-8117-1432-2.) Elmira, New York, was a prosperous community of 8,800 located west of Binghamton with good access to canal and rail service. At the...

The Half Not Told: The Civil War in a Frontier Town & Civil War St. Louis.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Preston Filbert.(Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2001. Pp. [xiv], 209. $26.95, ISBN 0-8117-1536-1.) Civil War St. Louis. By Louis S. Gerteis. Modern War Studies. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2001. Pp. [xii], 410....

Minister to the Cherokees: A Civil War Autobiography.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... By James Anderson Slover. Edited by Barbara Cloud. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xxxiv], 212. $47.50, ISBN 0-8032-4283-2.) This autobiography of a Southern Baptist minister provides an interesting glimpse...

The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy: The Death of Stonewall Jackson and Other Chapters on the Army of Northern Virginia.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... By Robert K. Krick. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Pp.[xiv],274. $34.95, ISBN 0-8071-2747-7.) Robert K. Krick has compiled a book of his essays (some previously published) on the best and the worst individuals who...

Repairing the "March of Mars": The Civil War Diaries of John Samuel Apperson, Hospital Steward in the Stonewall Brigade, 1861-1865.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Edited by John Herbert Roper. Transcribed by Jason Clayman, Peter Gretz, and John Herbert Roper. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2001. Pp. [xvi], 654. $39.95, ISBN 0-86554-779-3.) John Herbert Roper has done a valuable service for...

All's for the Best: The Civil War Reminiscences and Letters of Daniel W. Sawtelle, Eighth Maine Volunteer Infantry.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Edited with an introduction by Peter H. Buckingham. Voices of the Civil War. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001. Pp. xxxii, 361. $34.00, ISBN 1-57233-136-4.) The typical classroom synthesis of the American Civil War jets from...

The Black Regulars, 1866-1898.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By William A. Dobak and Thomas D. Phillips. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c. 2001. Pp. xviii, 360. $34.95, ISBN 0-8061-3340-6.) Although black men have participated in every American war since colonial times, it was not until the...

The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Edited by Gary W. Gallagher and Alan T. Nolan. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2000. Pp. [viii], 231. $29.95, ISBN 0-253-33822-0.) French historian and cultural critic Ernest Renan once wrote that nations and...

Highbrows, Hillbillies, and Hellfire: Public Entertainment in Atlanta, 1880-1930.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Steve Goodson. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xiv], 253. $35.00, ISBN 0-8203-2319-5.) Atlanta became a true city during the fifty years from 1880 to 1930. Rapid economic and demographic growth was...

The Great Kanawha Navigation.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Emory L. Kemp. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c. 2000. Pp. xii, 300. $45.00, ISBN 0-8229-4112-0.) Historians of technology and public works will appreciate The Great Kanawha Navigation, a detailed study of two massive...

Oil in Texas: The Gusher Age, 1895-1945.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Diana Davids Olien and Roger M. Olien. Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series, No. 3. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. Pp. [xii], 307. $39.95, ISBN 0-292-76056-6.) Diana Davids Olien and Roger M. Olien's latest book...

The Last Days of Big Grassy Fork.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... By Hunter James. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2002. Pp. 214. $29.95, ISBN 0-8131-2215-5.) Journalist Hunter James has written a lively memoir sketching his family's long history on a farm near Winston-Salem, North Carolina,...

At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Philip Dray. (New York: Random House, 2002. Pp. [xiv], 528. $35.00, ISBN 0-375-50324-2.) During the past quarter century the scholarship on lynching has exploded. Two decades ago the best extant scholarly study of lynching remained...

The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Matthew Pratt Guterl. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. [xii], 234. $49.95, ISBN 0-674-00615-1.) Rather than a fully conceived monograph, Matthew Pratt Guterl's book consists of four linked meditative...

W.E.B. Du Bois and Race: Essays Celebrating the Centennial Publication of The Souls of Black Folk.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Edited by Chester J. Fontenot Jr. and Mary Alice Morgan, with Sarah Gardner. Voices of the African Diaspora. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2001. Pp. [x], 198. $35.00, ISBN 0-86554-727-0.) W.E.B. Du Bois and Race is the first...

First to Fly: North Carolina and the Beginnings of Aviation.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Thomas C. Parramore. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xvi], 372. $29.95, ISBN 0-8078-2676-6.) As the site of the Wright brothers' historic first flights in a powered airplane at Kitty Hawk on...

Once Upon a Time in Texas: A Liberal in the Lone Star State.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... By David Richards. Focus on American History Series. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. Pp. [xx], 275. $39.95, ISBN 0-292-77118-5.) David Richards was not only present at the creation of modern political Texas, he had a good deal to...

The Modern Presidency and Civil Rights: Rhetoric on Race from Roosevelt to Nixon.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Garth E. Pauley. Presidential Rhetoric Series, No. 3. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. Pp. [viii], 259. $39.95, ISBN 1-58544-107-4.) This book focuses on four significant civil rights speeches by Presidents Truman,...

Joseph W. Byrns of Tennessee: A Political Biography.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... By Ann B. Irish. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 318. $30.00, ISBN 1-57233-131-3.) The pantheon of Tennessee's political gods includes such luminaries as Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, Cordell Hull, Albert Gore...

Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the League of Nations.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By John Milton Cooper Jr. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. [x], 454. $34.95, ISBN 0-521-80786-7.) Ever since the dramatic fight over American membership in the League of Nations in 1919 and 1920, historians...

The New South's New Frontier: A Social History of Economic Development in Southwestern North Carolina.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Stephen Wallace Taylor. Foreword by John David Smith. New Perspectives on the History of the South. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2001. Pp. [xx], 186. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2116-2.) Stephen Wallace Taylor...

Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Edited by William H. Chafe, Raymond Gavins, Robert Korstad, and others. (New York: The New Press, in association with Lyndhurst Books of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, c. 2001. Pp. [xxxviii], 346, and two audio compact...

A Seminole Legend: The Life of Betty Mae Tiger Jumper.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... By Betty Mae Tiger Jumper and Patsy West. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2001. Pp. [xvi], 198. $24.95, ISBN 0-8130-2285-1.) The life of Betty Mae Tiger Jumper is a tribute to tenacity and the human spirit....

Black Days, Black Dust: The Memories of an African American Coal Miner.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... By Robert Armstead. As told to S. L. Gardner. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 255. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 1-57233-176-3; cloth, $35.00, ISBN 1-57233-175-5.) Robert Armstead, a third-generation African American coal...

A History of the University of South Carolina: 1940-2000.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Henry H. Lesesne. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, in cooperation with the University of South Carolina Bicentennial Commission, c. 2001. Pp. [xx], 471. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-444-3.) In this superbly researched book Henry H....

Getting Right with God: Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945-1995.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Mark Newman. Religion and American Culture. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 2001. Pp. xii, 292. $39.95, ISBN 0-8173-1060-6.) Mark Newman examines the processes by which Southern Baptists adapted to desegregation,...

Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-72.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Gretchen Cassel Eick. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xvi], 312. $39.95, ISBN 0-252-02683-7.) On July 19, 1958, African American students orchestrated the nation's first successful sit-in, targeting...

The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Thomas Borstelmann. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 369. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-00597-X.) Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration favored the "see-no-evil/hear-no-evil" approach. When Sherman Adams...

Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Lynne Olson. (New York and other cities: Scribner, c. 2001. Pp. 460. $30.00, ISBN 0-684-85012-5.) Freedom's Daughters adds to the growing scholarship on African American and white women's vital contributions to the civil fights...

Nixon's Civil Rights: Politics, Principle, and Policy.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Dean J. Kotlowski. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, c. 2001. Pp. x, 404. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-00623-2.) "Watch what we do, rather than what we say," Attorney General John N. Mitchell told civil rights leaders in 1969. Taking...

Hill Folks: A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Brooks Blevins. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xvi], 340. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5342-9; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2675-8.) The search for a southern identity invariably gets bogged down...

Vanderbilt Divinity School: Education, Contest, and Change.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Edited by Dale A. Johnson. (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2001. Pp. [xii], 420. $49.95, ISBN 0-8265-1386-7.) This collection of essays dealing with a specific divinity school faced two obstacles to its success. First, it would...

Close Harmony: A History of Southern Gospel.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By James R. Goff Jr. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xvi], 394. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8078-5346-1; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2681-2.) In one way, southern gospel represents the favored music of a...

Commonwealth Catholicism: A History of the Catholic Church in Virginia.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Gerald P. Fogarty, S.J. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xxx], 687. $34.95, ISBN 0-268-02264-X.) Slowly, American Catholic historiography is penetrating the states of the old Confederacy. The region has...

Texas Flags.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Robert Maberry Jr. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2001. Pp. [xxvi], 198. $50.00, ISBN 1-58544-151-1.) Recent years have witnessed a series of flag fights, from the...

The association.(Historical News and Notices)
August 1, 2003... The sixty-ninth annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association will be held Thursday through Sunday, November 6-9, 2003, in Houston, Texas, with the downtown Hyatt Regency Hotel serving as the headquarters hotel. The opening session on...

Personnel.(Historical News and Notices)
August 1, 2003... University of Alabama in Huntsville: Molly Johnson appointed assistant professor; Virginia Martin promoted to associate professor; and Jack D. Ellis has retired. Berea College: Dwayne A. Mack appointed assistant professor; Robert W. Foster...