The Journal of Southern History articles from August 2005

The Journal of Southern History archives from August 2005

Were African American slaveholders benevolent or exploitative? A quantitative approach.
August 1, 2005... THE OWNERSHIP OF AFRICAN AMERICAN SLAVES BY OTHER AFRICAN Americans was surely one of the most peculiar features of the peculiar institution. Yet, in the antebellum South free black people did indeed own enslaved black people. Why that was so...

Power, perception, and interracial sex: former slaves recall a multiracial south.
August 1, 2005... MY FATHER'S NAME WUZ ROBERT STEWART. HE WUZ A WHITE MAN. My mother wuz named Ann. She wuz part Indian. Her father wuz a Choctaw Indian and her mother a black woman--a slave." (1) This is how Charley Stewart, a former slave, described his...

Removing the mask of nationality: unionism, racism, and federal military occupation in North Carolina, 1862-1865.
August 1, 2005... As DAWN CAST ITS SHIMMERING LIGHT OVER THE SLEEPY LITTLE PORT OF Beaufort, North Carolina, on the soggy morning of March 26, 1862, local residents awoke to find their world had changed overnight. They had drifted off to sleep the night before...

Miscegenation and competing definitions of race in twentieth-century Louisiana.(Marcus Bruce's works)
August 1, 2005... MARCUS BRUCE CHRISTIAN, AN AUTHOR AND PROFESSOR AT DILLARD University, observed in the mid-nineteen-fifties that while New Orleans might be known for "gumbo, jambalaya, lagniappe, poor boy sandwiches, pralines, Mardi Gras and Creoles," it also...

A Population History of the United States.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... A Population History of the United States. By Herbert S. Klein. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 300. Paper, $22.00, ISBN 0-521-78810-2; cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-521-78268-6.) It has been twenty years...

Slavery in the Development of the Americas.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Slavery in the Development of the Americas. Edited by David Eltis, Frank D. Lewis, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 372. $75.00, ISBN 0-521-83277-2.) No economic historian has...

The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670-1763.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670-1763. By Steven C. Hahn. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. Pp. x, 392. $59.95, ISBN 0-8032-2414-1.) Steven C. Hahn' s The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670-1763 theorizes that the Creek...

A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America. By Nancy Shoemaker. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 211. $29.95, ISBN 0-19-516792-9.) In seeking to reverse the presumption...

This Remote Part of the World: Regional Formation in Lower Cape Fear, North Carolina, 1725-1775.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... This Remote Part of the World: Regional Formation in Lower Cape Fear, North Carolina, 1725-1775. By Bradford J. Wood. The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xx, 344. $39.95,...

The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley. By Warren R. Hofstra. Creating the North American Landscape. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xviii, 410. Paper, $25.00, ISBN...

Spreading the Gospel in Colonial Virginia: Sermons and Devotional Writings.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Spreading the Gospel in Colonial Virginia: Sermons and Devotional Writings. Introduction and notes by Edward L. Bond. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Published by Lexington Books in association with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation,...

Language and Political Meaning in Revolutionary America.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Language and Political Meaning in Revolutionary America. By John Howe. (Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 281. $39.95, ISBN 1-55849-422-7.) The complex and prolonged struggle that constituted the...

The Final Victims: Foreign Slave Trade to North America, 1783-1810.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... The Final Victims: Foreign Slave Trade to North America, 1783-1810. By James A. McMillin. The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. [xiv], 207. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-546-6.) ...

American Machiavelli: Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... American Machiavelli: Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy. By John Lamberton Harper. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 347. $30.00, ISBN 0-521-83485-6.) In this book, John...

Wilderness Journey: The Life of William Clark.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Wilderness Journey: The Life of William Clark. By William E. Foley. Missouri Biography Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 326. $29.95, ISBN 0-8262-1533-5.) Finally, nearly forty years after Richard...

Community Diaries: Arkansas Newspapering, 1819-2002.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Community Diaries: Arkansas Newspapering, 1819-2002. By Michael B. Dougan. (Little Rock, Ark.: August House Publishers, Inc., c. 2003. Pp. 416. $34.95, ISBN 0-87483-722-7.) In addition to being a history of Arkansas newspapers, Michael B....

Religious Pioneers: Building the Faith in the Archdiocese of New Orleans.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Religious Pioneers: Building the Faith in the Archdiocese of New Orleans. Edited by Dorothy Dawes and Charles Nolan. (New Orleans: Archdiocese of New Orleans, 2004. Pp. xxvi, 398. $30.00, LCCN 2003098891.) Religious Pioneers: Building the...

A Jackson Man: Amos Kendall and the Rise of American Democracy.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... A Jackson Man: Amos Kendall and the Rise of American Democracy. By Donald B. Cole. Southern Biography Series. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 332. $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-2930-5.) Donald B. Cole has written a...

Joseph Mills White: Anti-Jacksonian Floridian.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Joseph Mills White: Anti-Jacksonian Floridian. By Ernest F. Dibble. (Cocoa: Florida Historical Society Press, c. 2003. Pp. [viii], 210. $23.95, ISBN 1-886104-07-7.) Ernest F. Dibble's biography of Joseph Mills White reveals White's...

Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827-1863.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827-1863. By Maureen Konkle. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xii, 367. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5492-1; cloth, $49.95,...

Living in the Land of Death: The Choctaw Nation, 1830-1860.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Living in the Land of Death: The Choctaw Nation, 1830-1860. By Donna L. Akers. Native American Series. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xxviii, 202. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-87013-684-4.) Donna L. Akers has...

The Seminole Wars: America's Longest Indian Conflict.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... The Seminole Wars: America's Longest Indian Conflict. By John Missall and Mary Lou Missall. Foreword by Raymond Arsenault and Gary R. Mormino. Florida History and Culture. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2004. Pp....

Almonte's Texas: Juan N. Almonte's 1834 Inspection, Secret Report, and Role in the 1836 Campaign.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Almonte's Texas: Juan N. Almonte's 1834 Inspection, Secret Report and Role in the 1836 Campaign. Edited by Jack Jackson. Translated by John Wheat. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, c. 2003. Pp. x, 503. $39.95, ISBN 0-87611-191-6.)...

Sacrificed at the Alamo: Tragedy and Triumph in the Texas Revolution.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Sacrificed at the Alamo: Tragedy and Triumph in the Texas Revolution. By Richard Bruce Winders. Military History of Texas. (Abilene, Tex.: State House Press, McMurry University, c. 2004. Pp. 167. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 1-880510-81-2; cloth,...

Correspondence of James K. Polk. Volume X: July-December 1845.(Correspondence of James K. Polk: July-December 1845, vol. 10)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Correspondence of James K. Polk. Volume X: July-December 1845. Edited by Wayne Cutler, James L. Rogers II, Brian E. Crowson, and Cynthia J. Rogers. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. Pp. xxviii, 551. $55.00, ISBN 1-57233-304-9.)...

Masterful Women: Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Masterful Women: Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War. By Kirsten E. Wood. Gender and American Culture. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 281. Paper, $19.95, ISBN...

Gardens and Historic Plants of the Antebellum South.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Gardens and Historic Plants of the Antebellum South. By James R. Cothran. (Columbia and London: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 321. $49.00, ISBN 1-57003-501-6.) James R. Cothran's Gardens and Historic Plants of the...

A Bachelor's Life in Antebellum Mississippi: The Diary of Dr. Elijah Millington Walker, 1849-1852.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... A Bachelor's Life in Antebellum Mississippi: The Diary of Dr. Elijah Millington Walker, 1849-1852. Edited by Lynette Boney Wrenn. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. Pp. xxxviii, 343. $34.00 ISBN 1-57233-283-2.) This volume is...

Winfield Scott and the Profession of Arms.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Winfield Scott and the Profession of Arms. By Allan Peskin. (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 328. $49.00, ISBN 0-87338-774-0.) Allan Peskin is a highly respected historian whose many books and...

Kentucky's Last Cavalier: General William Preston, 1816-1887.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Kentucky's Last Cavalier: General William Preston, 1816-1887. By Peter J. Sehlinger. (Frankfort: Kentucky Historical Society, c. 2004. Pp. xx, 309. $33.95, ISBN 0-916968-33-2.) Born in 1816 to an aristocratic family near Louisville,...

Time Longer Than Rope: A Century of African American Activism, 1850-1950.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Time Longer Than Rope: A Century of African American Activism, 1850-1950. Edited by Charles M. Payne and Adam Green. (New York and London: New York University Press, c. 2003. Pp. viii, 584. Paper, $24.00, ISBN 0-8147-6703-6; cloth $70.00, ISBN...

Without Regard to Race: The Other Martin Robison Delany.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Without Regard to Race: The Other Martin Robison Delany. By Tunde Adeleke. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2003. Pp. xxxiv, 274. $42.00, ISBN 1-57806-598-4.) Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) is remembered as an abolitionist...

Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom.(Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories)(Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom. By Catherine Clinton. (New York and Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2004. Pp. xiv, 272. $27.95, ISBN 0-316-14492-4.) Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories. By Jean M. Humez. Wisconsin Studies...

The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation.(Slavery in the American Mountain South)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation. By Wilma A. Dunaway. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 368. Paper, $28.00, ISBN 0-521-01216-3; cloth, $80.00, ISBN 0-521-81276-3.) Slavery in the...

Lincoln's War: The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander in Chief.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Lincoln's War: The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander in Chief. By Geoffrey Perret. (New York: Random House, 2004. Pp. xviii, 470. $35.00, ISBN 0-375-50738-8.) Geoffrey Perret has turned to the Civil War in this...

"We are Lincoln Men": Abraham Lincoln and His Friends.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... "We are Lincoln Men": Abraham Lincoln and His Friends. By David Herbert Donald. (New York and other cities: Simon and Schuster, c. 2003. Pp. xviii, 269. $25.00, ISBN 0-7432-5468-6.) According to David Herbert Donald, an award-winning...

Freedom, Union, and Power: Lincoln and His Party during the Civil War.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Freedom, Union, and Power: Lincoln and His Party during the Civil War. By Michael S. Green. The North's Civil War. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 398. $65.00, ISBN 0-8232-2275-6.) This is a thoroughly researched and...

Children for the Union: The War Spirit on the Northern Home Front.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Children for the Union: The War Spirit on the Northern Home Front. By James Marten. American Childhoods. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2004. Pp. [xii], 209. $26.00, ISBN 1-56663-563-2.) In Children for the Union: The War Spirit on the Northern...

Devil's Game: The Civil War Intrigues of Charles A. Dunham.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Devil's Game: The Civil War Intrigues of Charles A. Dunham. By Carman Cumming. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2004. Pp. [xviii], 305. $35.00, ISBN 0-252-02890-2.) The stories that appeared in Civil War newspapers were...

Confederate Women.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Confederate Women. Edited by Mauriel Phillips Joslyn. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 2004. Pp. 174. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 1-58980-186-5; First published in 1996 as Valor and Lace: Roles of Confederate Women 1861-1865 by Southern...

Audacity Personified: The Generalship of Robert E. Lee.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Audacity Personified: The Generalship of Robert E. Lee. Edited by Peter S. Carmichael. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xxiv, 174. $24.95, ISBN 0-8071-2929-1.) Seventy years ago, Douglas Southall Freeman completed a...

Days of Glory: The Army of the Cumberland, 1861-1865.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Days of Glory: The Army of the Cumberland, 1861-1865. By Larry J. Daniel. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 490. $44.95, ISBN 0-8071-2931-3.) Of the three major Union armies participating in the American Civil...

The Ongoing Civil War: New Versions of Old Stories.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... The Ongoing Civil War: New Versions of Old Stories. Edited with an introduction by Herman Hattaway and Ethan S. Rafuse. Shades of Blue and Gray. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2004. Pp. [xii], 164. $32.50, ISBN...

Two Germans in the Civil War: The Diary of John Daeuble and the Letters of Gottfried Rentschler, 6th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Two Germans in the Civil War: The Diary of John Daeuble and the Letters of Gottfried Rentschler, 6th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. Edited and translated by Joseph R. Reinhart. Voices of the Civil War. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press,...

Walker's Texas Division, C.S.A.: Greyhounds of the Trans-Mississippi.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Walker's Texas Division, C.S.A.: Greyhounds of the Trans-Mississippi. By Richard Lowe. Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 339. $39.95, ISBN...

Brothers One and All: Esprit de Corps in a Civil War Regiment.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Brothers One and All: Esprit de Corps in a Civil War Regiment. By Mark H. Dunkelman. Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 344. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2978-X.)...

Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War. By Michael J. Bennett. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xviii, 337. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2870-X.) The American Civil War was...

Iron from the Deep: The Discovery and Recovery of the USS Monitor.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Iron from the Deep: The Discovery and Recovery of the USS Monitor. By Robert E. Sheridan. (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 261. $34.95, ISBN 1-55750-413-X.) Robert E. Sheridan's boyhood passion for the USS Monitor...

Brigadier General Tyree H. Bell, C.S.A.: Forrest's Fighting Lieutenant.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Brigadier General Tyree H. Bell, C.S.A.: Forrest's Fighting Lieutenant. By Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 346. $45.00, ISBN 1-57233-309-X.) This is military biography at its best by a...

The Correspondence of Sarah Morgan and Francis Warrington Dawson, with Selected Editorials Written by Sarah Morgan for the Charleston News and Courier.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... The Correspondence of Sarah Morgan and Francis Warrington Dawson, with Selected Editorials Written by Sarah Morgan for the Charleston News and Courier. Edited by Giselle Roberts. Publications of the Southern Texts Society. (Athens, Ga., and...

High Mountains Rising: Appalachia in Time and Place.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... High Mountains Rising: Appalachia in Time and Place. Edited by Richard A. Straw and H. Tyler Blethen. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2004. Pp. x, 240. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-252-0716-X; cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-252-02916-X.)...

Perilous Voyages: Czech and English Immigrants to Texas in the 1870s.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Perilous Voyages: Czech and English Immigrants to Texas in the 1870s. By Lawrence H. Konecny and Clinton Machann. Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004....

Mythic Galveston: Reinventing America's Third Coast.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Mythic Galveston: Reinventing America's Third Coast. By Susan Wiley Hardwick. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Pp. 200. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-6887-4.) Susan Wiley Hardwick, a geographer, examines Galveston, Texas,...

The Disfranchisement Myth: Poor Whites and Suffrage Restriction in Alabama.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... The Disfranchisement Myth: Poor Whites and Suffrage Restriction in Alabama. By Glenn Feldman. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 311. $39.95, ISBN 0-8203-2651-1.) Glenn Feldman argues that historians...

Inside Alabama: A Personal History of My State.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Inside Alabama: A Personal History of My State. By Harvey H. Jackson III. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2004. Pp. xviii, 325. $26.95, ISBN 0-8173-5068-3.) Harvey H. Jackson III wrote a book he was not "supposed to write" (p....

This Business of Relief: Confronting Poverty in a Southern City, 1740-1940.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... This Business of Relief: Confronting Poverty in a Southern City, 1740-1940. By Elna C. Green. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 356. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8203-2552-X; cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0-8203-2451-5.)...

The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon. By Robert D. Johnston. Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America. (Princeton and Oxford, Eng.: Princeton University Press,...

Minnie Fisher Cunningham: A Suffragist's Life in Politics.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Minnie Fisher Cunningham: A Suffragist's Life in Politics. By Judith N. McArthur and Harold L. Smith. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 266. $45.00, ISBN 0-19-512215-1.) Judith N. McArthur and Harold L....

Weathering the Storm: Inside Winslow Homer's Gulf Stream.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Weathering the Storm: Inside Winslow Homer's Gulf Stream. By Peter H. Wood. Mercer University Lamar Lectures. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 128. $24.95, ISBN 0-8203-2625-9.) The subject of Peter...

Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. By Daylanne K. English. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 267. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5531-6; cloth, $49.95, ISBN...

The Texas Post Office Murals: Art for the People.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... The Texas Post Office Murals: Art for the People. By Philip Parisi. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 181. $50.00, ISBN 1-58544-231-3.) If every state had a guide to its New Deal post-office and courthouse murals...

Carl Vinson: Patriarch of the Armed Forces.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Carl Vinson: Patriarch of the Armed Forces. By James F. Cook. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2004. Pp. xxxiv, 390. $35.00, ISBN 0-86554-754-8.) Carl Vinson occupies a prominent place in the history of the United States Congress...

Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story. of Justice Wiley Rutledge. By John M. Ferren. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 577. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2866-1.) Wiley Blount Rutledge...

White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960. By Lisa Lindquist Dorr. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. viii, 327. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5514-6; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2841-6.)...

Luther P. Jackson and a Life for Civil Rights.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Luther P. Jackson and a Life for Civil Rights. By Michael Dennis. Foreword by John David Smith. New Perspectives on the History of the South. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 254. Paper, $24.95, ISBN...

Methodists and the Crucible of Race, 1930-1975.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Methodists and the Crucible of Race, 1930-1975. By Peter C. Murray. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2004. Pp. xxii, 266. $44.95, ISBN 0-8262-1514-9.) Peter C. Murray surveys the struggle to break down the ironclad...

Southern Struggles: The Southern Labor Movement and the Civil Rights Struggle.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Southern Struggles: The Southern Labor Movement and the Civil Rights Struggle. By John A. Salmond. Foreword by John David Smith. New Perspectives on the History of the South. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2004....

Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy. By Nikhil Pal Singh. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. [xii], 285. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-674-01951-2; cloth, $29.95, ISBN 0-674-01300-X.) ...

Lion in the Lobby: Clarence Mitchell, Jr.'s Struggle for the Passage of Civil Rights Laws.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Lion in the Lobby: Clarence Mitchell, Jr.'s Struggle for the Passage of Civil Rights Laws. Revised Edition. By Denton L. Watson. (Lanham, Md., New York, and Oxford: University Press of America, Inc., c. 2002. Pp. xxxii, 885. $145.00, ISBN...

Charles S. Johnson: Leadership Beyond the Veil in the Age of Jim Crow.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Charles S. Johnson: Leadership beyond the Veil in the Age of Jim Crow. By Patrick J. Gilpin and Marybeth Gasman. Foreword by David Levering Lewis. (Albany: State University of New York Press, c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 318. Paper, $23.95, ISBN...

Is Separate Unequal? Black Colleges and the Challenge to Desegregation.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Is Separate Unequal? Black Colleges and the Challenge to Desegregation. By Albert L. Samuels. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2004. Pp. x, 246. $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-1301-3.) Albert L. Samuels presents a compelling argument of why...

Murder in Mississippi: United States v. Price and the Struggle for Civil Rights.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Murder in Mississippi: United States v. Price and the Struggle for Civil Rights. By Howard Ball. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2004. Pp. xviii, 171. Paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-7006-1316-1; cloth,...

In the Shadow of Selma: The Continuing Struggle for Civil Rights in the Rural South.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... In the Shadow of Selma: The Continuing Struggle for Civil Rights in the Rural South. By Cynthia Griggs Fleming. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2004. Pp. xx, 349. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-7425-0811-0;...

Indomitable Sarah: The Life of Judge Sarah T. Hughes.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Indomitable Sarah: The Life of Judge Sarah T. Hughes. By Darwin Payne. Foreword by Barefoot Sanders. Afterword by Sarah Weddington. (Dallas, Tex.: Southern Methodist University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 467. $35.00, ISBN 0-807074-487-9.) Judge...

The Pursuit of Fairness: A History of Affirmative Action.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... The Pursuit of Fairness: A History of Affirmative Action. By Terry H. Anderson. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 320. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-19-518245-6; cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-19-515764-8.) Affirmative...

Better Places, Better Lives: A Biography of James Rouse.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Better Places, Better Lives: A Biography of James Rouse. By Joshua Olsen. (Washington, D.C.: ULI-the Urban Land Institute, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 442. $34.95, ISBN 0-87420-919-6.) James Rouse was one of the most important actors in the shaping...

Hurricane Camille: Monster Storm of the Gulf Coast.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Hurricane Camille: Monster Storm of the Gulf Coast. By Philip D. Hearn. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2004. Pp. xx, 233. $25.00, ISBN 1-57806-655-7.) After a season in which four hurricanes battered Florida, these monster...

The Serpent and the Spirit: Glenn Summerford's Story.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... The Serpent and the Spirit: Glenn Summerford's Story. By Thomas Burton. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 262. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 1-57233-246-8.) Thomas Burton is professor emeritus of English at East Tennessee...

Power and Prudence: The Presidency of George H. W. Bush.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Power and Prudence: The Presidency of George H. W. Bush. By Ryan J. Barilleaux and Mark J. Rozell. The Presidency and Leadership. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. Pp. [x], 183. $35.00, ISBN 1-58544-291-7.) Convinced that...

Counting Votes: Lessons from the 2000 Presidential Election in Florida.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Counting Votes: Lessons from the 2000 Presidential Election in Florida. Edited by Robert P. Watson. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2004. Pp. xxiv, 302. $34.95, ISBN 0-8130-2714-4.) Counting Votes: Lessons...

Historical news and notices.(Southern Historical Association holds annual meeting in Atlanta)(Arkansas Tech University promotes James L. Moses)(Auburn University appoints Charles A. Israel, and Joseph M. Turrini)
August 1, 2005... THE ASSOCIATION The seventy-first annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association will be held Wednesday through Saturday, November 2-6, 2005, in Atlanta, with the Westin Peachtree Plaza serving as the headquarters hotel. The opening...