The Journal of Southern History articles from August 2004

The Journal of Southern History archives from August 2004

Attacking slavery from within: the making of The Impending Crisis of the South.
August 1, 2004... IT IS DIFFICULT TO THINK OF A FIGURE IN SOUTHERN HISTORY MORE NOTORIOUS in reputation, but the subject of so little rigorous scholarly investigation, as Hinton Rowan Helper (1829-1909). While many essays and biographical sketches have been...

Political legitimacy and local courts: "politicks at such a rage" in a southern community during reconstruction.
August 1, 2004... ACCORDING TO THE TESTIMONY OF TWO WHITE WITNESSES--TAKEN DOWN in late May 1871 by a justice of the peace in Anson County, North Carolina--Jim Coppedge, a fifteen-year-old freedman, had said that on Saturday night, the twentieth of that month,...

The Little Rock school desegregation crisis: moderation and social conflict.
August 1, 2004... ON SEPTEMBER 4, 1957, ARKANSAS GOVERNOR ORVAL E. FAUBUS placed Arkansas National Guard troops around Central High School in Little Rock in order to prevent the entry of African American students to the all-white school. At that moment Little...

The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca. Edited, translated, and with an introduction by Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1999, 2003. Pp. [viii], 204. Paper, $15.95,...

Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands. By James F. Brooks. (Chapel Hill and London: Published by the University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and...

Powhatan Lords of Life and Death: Command and Consent in Seventeenth-Century Virginia.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Powhatan Lords of Life and Death: Command and Consent in Seventeenth-Century Virginia. By Margaret Holmes Williamson. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 323. $55.00, ISBN 0-8032-4798-2.) In Powhatan Lords...

Searching for Their Places: Women in the South across Four Centuries.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Searching for Their Places: Women in the South across Four Centuries. Edited by Thomas H. Appleton Jr. and Angela Boswell. Southern Women. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 296. $39.95, ISBN 0-8262-1468-1.)...

Taverns and Drinking in Early America.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Taverns and Drinking in Early America. By Sharon V. Salinger. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2002. Pp. xiv, 309. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8018-7899-3; cloth, $42.00, ISBN 0-8018-6878-5.) Taverns were crucial and...

Creating the American Mind: Intellect and Politics in the Colonial Colleges.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Creating the American Mind: Intellect and Politics in the Colonial Colleges. By J. David Hoeveler. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2002. Pp. xvi, 381. $39.95, ISBN 0-8476-8830-5.) This interesting,...

Jefferson's Vision for Education, 1760-1845.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Jefferson's Vision for Education, 1760-1845. By Cameron Addis. History of Schools and Schooling. (New York and other cities: Peter Lang, c. 2003. Pp. [xii], 254. $29.95, ISBN 0-8204-5755-8.) Cameron Addis offers four reasons for his...

The Upland South: the Making of an American Folk Region and Landscape.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Upland South: The Making of an American Folk Region and Landscape. By Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov. (Santa Fe, N.Mex., and Harrisonburg, Va.: Center for American Places in association with the University of Virginia Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 121....

A House Divided: the Antebellum Slavery Debates in America, 1776-1865.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... A House Divided: The Antebellum Slavery Debates in America, 1776-1865. Edited by Mason I. Lowance Jr. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford: Princeton University Press, c. 2003. Pp. lxxiv, 492. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-691-00228-2; cloth, $75.00, ISBN...

A Gallant Defense: the Siege of Charleston, 1780.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... A Gallant Defense: The Siege of Charleston, 1780. By Carl P. Borick. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xx, 332. $29.95, ISBN 1-57003-487-7.) South Carolina and the American Revolution: A Battlefield History. By...

George Washington: Uniting a Nation.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... George Washington: Uniting a Nation. By Don Higginbotham. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2002. Pp. xii, 175. $22.95, ISBN 0-7425-2208-3.) In this collection of four brief essays derived from a...

Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation between Church and State.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation between Church and State. By Daniel L. Dreisbach. (New York and London: New York University Press, c. 2002. Pp. x, 283. Paper, $19.00, ISBN 0-8147-1936-8; cloth, $50.00, ISBN 1-8147-1935-X.) In...

The Papers of George Washington. Presidential Series. [Volume] VII: December 1790-March 1791; [Volume] VIII: March-September 1791; [Volume] IX: September 1791-February 1792; [Volume] X: March-August 1792; [Volume] XI: August 1792-January 1793.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Papers of George Washington. Presidential Series. [Volume] VII: December 1790-March 1791; [Volume] VIII: March-September 1791; [Volume] IX: September 1791-February 1792; [Volume] X: March-August 1792; [Volume] XI: August 1792-January 1793....

The French in Texas: History, Migration, Culture.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The French in Texas: History, Migration, Culture. Edited by Francois Lagarde. Focus on American History Series. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 330. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-292-70528-X; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-292-74734-9.) ...

I Would Rather Sleep in Texas: a History of the Lower Rio Grande Valley and the People of the Santa Anita Land Grant.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... I Would Rather Sleep in Texas: A History of the Lower Rio Grande Valley and the People of the Santa Anita Land Grant. By Mary Margaret McAllen Amberson, James A. McAllen, and Margaret H. McAllen. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, c....

The Presidential Companion: Readings on the First Ladies.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Presidential Companion: Readings on the First Ladies. Edited by Robert P. Watson and Anthony J. Eksterowicz. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2003, Pp. xvi, 349. $19.95, ISBN 1-57003-461-3.) While polls attempting to...

A Sphinx on the American Land: the Nineteenth-Century South in Comparative Perspective.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... A Sphinx on the American Land: The Nineteenth-Century South in Comparative Perspective. By Peter Kolchin. The Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 124. $22.95, ISBN...

Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner. By Daniel L. Schafer. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 177. $24.95, ISBN 0-8130-2616-4.) Daniel L. Schafer...

The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History. Vol. 3: 1814-1815 (Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History. Volume III: 1814-1815, Chesapeake Bay, Northern Lakes, and Pacific Ocean. Edited by Michael J. Crawford and others. Foreword by William S. Dudley. (Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center,...

Morality and the Mail in Nineteenth-Century America.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Morality and the Mail in Nineteenth-Century America. By Wayne E. Fuller. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 264. $39.95, ISBN 0-252-02812-0.) Wayne E. Fuller examines evangelical Protestant hopes and fears...

Prophesying Daughters: Black Women Preachers and the Word, 1823-1913.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Prophesying Daughters: Black Women Preachers and the Word, 1823-1913. By Chanta M. Haywood. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 144. $24.95, ISBN 0-8262-1467-3.) In Prophesying Daughters, Chanta M. Haywood...

A Perfect War of Politics: Parties, Politicians, and Democracy in Louisiana, 1824-1861.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... A Perfect War of Politics: Parties, Politicians, and Democracy in Louisiana, 1824-1861. By John M. Sacher. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 331. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2848-1.) A Perfect War of Politics is a useful...

The Papers of Andrew Jackson. Volume VI: 1825-1828.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Papers of Andrew Jackson. Volume VI: 1825-1828. Edited by Harold D. Moser, J. Clint Clifft, and Wyatt C. Wells. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c. 2002. Pp. xlviii, 674. $70.00, ISBN 1-57233-174-7.) The much-anticipated...

The Papers of John Marshall, Vol. 11: Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions, April 1827-December 1830.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Papers of John Marshall. Volume XI: Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions, April 1827-December 1830. Edited by Charles F. Hobson, Susan Holbrook Perdue, and Joan S. Lovelace. (Chapel Hill and London: Published by the...

Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary' Societies.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary' Societies. By Elizabeth McHenry. New Americanists. (Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 423. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8223-2995-6; cloth,...

The Republican Vision of John Tyler.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Republican Vision of John Tyler. By Dan Monroe. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 252. $39.95, ISBN 1-58544-216-X.) John Tyler has generally received superficial treatment in the historical literature. To be...

Evil Necessity: Slavery and Political Culture in Antebellum Kentucky.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Evil Necessity: Slavery and Political Culture in Antebellum Kentucky. By Harold D. Tallant. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 307. $45.00, ISBN 0-8131-2252-X.) On several occasions during the 1840s, northern...

South by Southwest: Planter Emigration and Identity in the Slave South.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... South by Southwest: Planter Emigration and Identity in the Slave South. By James David Miller. The American South Series. (Charlottesville and London: Published by the University of Virginia Press in cooperation with the William P. Clements...

Bold Entrepreneur: a Life of James B. Duke.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Bold Entrepreneur: A Life of James B. Duke. By Robert F. Durden. (Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 223. $25.00, ISBN 0-89089-744-1.) Robert F. Durden has written a concise and sympathetic biography of James B. Duke....

St. Louis in the Century of Henry Shaw: a View beyond the Garden Wall.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... St. Louis in the Century of Henry Shaw: A View beyond the Garden Wall. Edited and with an introduction by Eric Sandweiss. (Columbia and London: Published by the University of Missouri Press for the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Missouri...

American Nightmare: the History of Jim Crow.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow. By Jerrold M. Packard. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 291. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-312-30241-X; cloth, $24.95, ISBN 0-312-26122-5.) In American Nightmare, Jerrold M. Packard attempts...

The Human Tradition in the Old South.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Human Tradition in the Old South. Edited by James C. Klotter. The Human Tradition in America, no. 15. (Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2003. Pp. xviii, 225. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8420-2978-8; cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-8420-2977-X.) Portraits...

Roots of Secession: Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Roots of Secession: Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia. By William A. Link. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xx, 387. $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2771-1.) Henry A. Wise's moment...

Faith in the Fight: Civil War Chaplains.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Faith in the Fight: Civil War Chaplains. Edited by John W. Brinsfield and others. (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2003. Pp. xii, 256. $29.95, ISBN 0-8117-0017-8.) According to the four historians who compiled and edited this book,...

Campfires of Freedom: the Camp Life of Black Soldiers during the Civil War.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Campfires of Freedom: The Camp Life of Black Soldiers during the Civil War. By Keith P. Wilson. (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, c. 2002. Pp. xviii, 336. $39.00, ISBN 0-87338-709-0.) Keith P. Wilson's provocative study...

Baseball in Blue and Gray: the National Pastime during the Civil War.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Baseball in Blue and Gray: The National Pastime during the Civil War. By George B. Kirsch. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford: Princeton University Press, c. 2003. Pp. xviii, 145. $19.95, ISBN 0-691-05733-8.) Sport historians have long debated...

The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862. Edited by Gary W. Gallagher. Military Campaigns of the Civil War. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xxii, 255. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2786-X.) The Shenandoah...

Wandering to Glory: Confederate Veterans Remember Evans' Brigade.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Wandering to Glory: Confederate Veterans Remember Evans' Brigade. Edited by DeWitt Boyd Stone Jr. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. xx, 331. $34.95, ISBN 1-57003-433-8.) As in most entities with a consciously...

A Year in the South: Four Lives in 1865.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... A Year in the South: Four Lives in 1865. By Stephen V. Ash. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Pp. xiv, 289. $26.95, ISBN 0-312-29493-X.) Stephen V. Ash's study of three southern men and one woman offers an eyewitness account of the...

Brigadier General John D. Imboden: Confederate Commander in the Shenandoah.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Brigadier General John D. Imboden: Confederate Commander in the Shenandoah. By Spencer C. Tucker. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 372. $32.00, ISBN 0-8131-2266-X.) Spencer C. Tucker has written well about the...

Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. and Second Bishop of Tennessee: the Memoir and Civil War Diary of Charles Todd Quintard.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. and Second Bishop of Tennessee: The Memoir and Civil War Diary of Charles Todd Quintard. Edited by Sam Davis Elliott. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. xxii, 285. $39.95, ISBN...

To Battle for God and the Right: the Civil War Letterbooks of Emerson Opdycke.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... To Battle for God and the Right: The Civil War Letterbooks of Emerson Opdycke. Edited by Glenn V. Longacre and John E. Haas. Foreword by Peter Cozzens. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2003. Pp. xxxviii, 332. $34.95, ISBN...

The 16th Mississippi Infantry: Civil War Letters and Reminiscences.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The 16th Mississippi Infantry: Civil War Letters and Reminiscences. Compiled and edited by Robert G. Evans. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2002. Pp. xxviii, 365. $40.00, ISBN 1-57806-486-4.) The Weary Boys: Colonel J. Warren...

General John Bratton: Sumter to Appomattox, In Letters to His Wife.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... General John Bratton: Sumter to Appomattox, In Letters to His Wife. By J. Luke Austin. (Sewanee, Tenn.: Proctor's Hall Press, c. 2003. Pp. xviii, 315. $19.95, ISBN 0-9706214-3-4.) While Father Is Away: The Civil War Letters of William H....

The Journal of a Civil War Surgeon.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Journal of a Civil War Surgeon. By J. Franklin Dyer. Edited by Michael B. Chesson. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2003. Pp. xxxvi, 317. $25.00, ISBN 0-8032-6637-5.) At first glance, this book might attract only...

Legacy of Disunion: the Enduring Significance of the American Civil War.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Legacy of Disunion: The Enduring Significance of the American Civil War. Edited by Susan-Mary Grant and Peter J. Parish. Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. x,...

Martin R. Delany: a Documentary Reader.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader. Edited by Robert S. Levine. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 507. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8078-5431-X; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2763-0.) The historical...

Lyon College, 1872-2002: the Perseverance and Promise of an Arkansas College.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Lyon College, 1872-2002: The Perseverance and Promise of an Arkansas College. By Brooks Blevins. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 453. $34.95, ISBN 1-55728-742-2.) Brooks Blevins tells the story of Lyon...

The Buffalo Soldier Tragedy of 1877.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Buffalo Soldier Tragedy of 1877. By Paul H. Carlson. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 177. $24.95, ISBN 1-58544-253-4.) In 1877, during a drought, Troop A of the Tenth Cavalry, a regiment of black soldiers...

No Saloon in the Valley: the Southern Strategy of Texas Prohibitionists in the 1880s.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... No Saloon in the Valley: The Southern Strategy of Texas Prohibitionists in the 1880s. By James D. Ivy. (Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, c. 2003. Pp. x, 150. $24.95, ISBN 0-918954-87-8.) To this day, the South is often associated with...

Edith D. Pope and Her Nashville Friends: Guardians of the Lost Cause in the Confederate Veteran.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Edith D. Pope and Her Nashville Friends: Guardians of the Lost Cause in the Confederate Veteran. By John A. Simpson. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 276. $35.00, ISBN 1-57233-211-5.) Edith D. Pope spent forty...

Marion Butler and American Populism.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Marion Butler and American Populism. By James L. Hunt. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 338. $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2770-3.) James L. Hunt's excellent and eagerly awaited biography, Marion Butler...

A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial. By Suzanne Lebsock. (New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company, 2003. Pp. 442. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-393-32606-3; cloth, $26.95, ISBN 0-393-04201-4.) In A Murder in Virginia, Suzanne...

Dixie's Daughters: the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. By Karen L. Cox. Foreword by John David Smith. New Perspectives on the History of the South. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press...

Transition to the Twentieth Century: Thomas County, Georgia, 1900-1920.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Transition to the Twentieth Century: Thomas County, Georgia, 1900-1920. By William Warren Rogers. (Tallahassee, Fla.: Sentry Press, c. 2002. Pp. xiv, 608. $35.00, ISBN 1-889574-15-5.) This offering represents the fourth volume in an...

Problems of Plenty: the American Farmer in the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Problems of Plenty: The American Farmer in the Twentieth Century. By R. Douglas Hurt. The American Ways Series. (Chicago, III.: Ivan R. Dee, c. 2002. Pp. xiv, 192. Paper, $13.95, ISBN 1-56663-462-8; cloth, $24.95, ISBN 1-56663-463-6.) The...

Weavers of the Southern Highlands.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Weavers of the Southern Highlands. By Philis Alvic. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2003. Pp. xxiv, 234. $35.00, ISBN 0-8131-2258-9.) A century ago, white Protestant middle-class women descended on the southern highlands to...

The Greening of Georgia: the Improvement of the Environment in the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Greening of Georgia: The Improvement of the Environment in the Twentieth Century. By R. Harold Brown. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2002. Pp. [vi], 362. $39.95, ISBN 0-86554-789-0.) The news media are often accused of giving us...

Florida's Farmworkers in the Twenty-First Century.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Florida's Farmworkers in the Twenty-first Century. By Nano Riley. Photographs by Davida Johns. Foreword by Raymond Arsenault and Gary R. Mormino. The Florida History and Culture Series. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of...

Making Waves: Female Activists in Twentieth-Century Florida.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Making Waves: Female Activists in Twentieth-Century Florida. Edited by Jack E. Davis and Kari Frederickson. Foreword by Gary R. Mormino and Raymond Arsenault. The Florida History and Culture Series. (Gainesville and other cities: University...

Automobility: Social Changes in the American South, 1909-1939.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Automobility: Social Changes in the American South, 1909-1939. By Corey T. Lesseig. American Popular History and Culture. (New York and London: Routledge, c. 2001. Pp. viii, 142. $75.00, ISBN 0-8153-3343-9.) This slender volume (118 pages...

Shelby Foote: a Writer's Life.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Shelby Foote: A Writer's Life. By C. Stuart Chapman. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2003. Pp. xxii, 317. $30.00, ISBN 1-57806-359-0.) Before 1958, novelist Shelby Foote moved in the second rank of the southern literary...

Charles Faulkner Bryan: His Life and Music.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Charles Faulkner Bryan: His Life and Music. By Carolyn Livingston. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 368. $38.00, ISBN 1-57233-220-4.) Many years ago, the groundbreaking American musicologist Oscar Sonneck observed...

Rights for a Season: the Politics of Race, Class, and Gender in Richmond, Virginia.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Rights for a Season: The Politics of Race, Class, and Gender in Richmond, Virginia. By Lewis A. Randolph and Gayle T. Tate. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. Pp. xxii, 345. $38.00, ISBN 1-57233-224-7.) In Rights for a...

The Cajuns: Americanization of a People.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Cajuns: Americanization of a People. By Shane K. Bernard. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2003. Pp. xxiv, 196. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 1-57806-523-2; cloth, $48.00, ISBN 1-57806-522-4.) Shane K. Bernard, a descendant of...

Tales from the Sacred Wind: Coming of Age in Appalachia.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Tales from the Sacred Wind: Coming of Age in Appalachia. By Cratis D. Williams. Edited by David Cratis Williams and Patricia D. Beaver. Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, no. 8. (Jefferson, N.C., and London: McFarland and Company,...

The Rise of Judicial Management in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, 1955-2000.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Rise of Judicial Management in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, 1955-2000. By Steven Harmon Wilson. Studies in the Legal History of the South. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2002. Pp. xvi, 559....

Freedom Walk: Mississippi or Bust.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Freedom Walk: Mississippi or Bust. By Mary Stanton. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 254. $28.00, ISBN 1-57806-505-4.) Mary Stanton has written an excellent book on the public and private lives of three white...

Liberalism's Last Hurrah: the Presidential Campaign of 1964.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Liberalism's Last Hurrah: The Presidential Campaign of 1964. By Gary Donaldson. (Armonk, N.Y., and London: M. E. Sharpe, c. 2003. Pp. x, 376. $34.95, ISBN 0-7656-1119-8.) The presidential election of 1964 occupies an ironic place in recent...

Jimmy Carter's Hometown: People of Plains.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Jimmy Carter's Hometown: People of Plains. By Duane Hutchinson. Foreword by Jimmy Carter. (Lincoln, Neb.: Foundation Books, c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 336. $19.95, ISBN 0-934988-41-2.) In Jimmy Carter's Hometown, Duane Hutchinson has published a...

Contemporary Voices of White Nationalism in America.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Contemporary. Voices of White Nationalism in America. Edited by Carol M. Swain and Russ Nieli. (Cambridge and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 298. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-521-01693-2; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-521-81673-4.)...

"Lord, We're Just Trying to Save Your Water": Environmental Activism and Dissent in the Appalachian South.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... "Lord, We're Just Trying to Save Your Water": Environmental Activism and Dissent in the Appalachian South. By Suzanne Marshall. Foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall J. Miller. Southern Dissent. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press...

Operation Pretense: the FBI's Sting on County Corruption in Mississippi.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Operation Pretense: The FBI's Sting on County Corruption in Mississippi. By James R. Crockett. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2003. Pp. xviii, 339. $40.00, ISBN 1-57806-496-1.) When a disgruntled Pentecostal preacher and...

Race and Redistricting: the Shaw-Cromartie Cases.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Race and Redistricting: The Shaw-Cromartie Cases. By Tinsley E. Yarbrough. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2002. Pp. xiv, 225. Paper, $14.95, 0-7006-1219-X; cloth, $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1218-1.)...

Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South. By Tara McPherson. (Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 318. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-8223-3040-7; cloth, $64.95, 0-8223-3029-6.) Like Jack...

Historical news and notices.
August 1, 2004... THE ASSOCIATION The seventieth annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association will be held Wednesday through Saturday, November 3-6, 2004, in Memphis, Tennessee, with the Memphis Marriott Downtown serving as the headquarters hotel,...