The Journal of Southern History articles from August 2006

The Journal of Southern History archives from August 2006

The threat from Havana: Southern Public Health, yellow fever, and the U.S. intervention in the Cuban struggle for independence, 1878-1898.
August 1, 2006... IN SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER 1897 THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES WAS gripped by a terror that shuttered businesses, paralyzed trade, and caused tens of thousands of people to abandon their homes and flee for their lives: the dreaded yellow fever had...

George I. Sanchez, ideology, and whiteness in the making of the Mexican American civil rights movement, 1930-1960.
August 1, 2006... Let us keep in mind that the Mexican-American can easily become the front-line of defense of the civil liberties of ethnic minorities. The racial, cultural, and historical involvements in his case embrace those of all of the other minority...

Contesting pollution in Dixie: the case of Corney Creek.
August 1, 2006... NATIONAL SURVEYS OF WATER QUALITY IN THE MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY repeatedly identified the U.S. urban industrial core--the heavily populated areas of the Northeast and Midwest--as the "pollution belt" (see Figure 1). (1) In 1956 Congress...

A Companion to American Technology.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... A Companion to American Technology. Edited by Carroll Pursell. Blackwell Companions to American History. (Malden, Mass., and other cities: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Pp. x, 463. $141.95, ISBN 0-631-228844-6.) Carroll Pursell has brought...

A Companion to African American History.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... A Companion to African American History. Edited by Alton Hornsby Jr., Delores P. Aldridge, and Angela M. Hornsby. Blackwell Companions to American History. (Malden, Mass., and other cities: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Pp. xiv, 564. $131.95,...

A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction. Edited by Lacy K. Ford. Blackwell Companions to American History. (Malden, Mass., and other cities: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Pp. x, 518. $104.95, ISBN 0-631-21551-4.) A Companion to the...

The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607-1814.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607-1814. By John Grenier. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 232. $30.00, ISBN 0-521-84566-1.) John Grenier argues that war in the British...

The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Organization, Operation, Practice, and Personnel.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Organization, Operation, Practice, and Personnel. Edited by Peter A. Coclanis. The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press,...

The Westo Indians: Slave Traders of the Early Colonial South.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... The Westo Indians: Slave Traders of the Early Colonial South. By Eric E. Bowne. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2005. Pp. [xii], 144. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8173-5178-7; cloth, $48.00, ISBN 0-8173-1454-7.) The Westo peoples,...

French Colonial Louisiana and the Atlantic World.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... French Colonial Louisiana and the Atlantic World. Edited by Bradley G. Bond. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. Pp. xxiv, 322. $59.95, ISBN 0-8071-3035-4.) In 1999 an international team of scholars assembled to present...

The Texas Indians.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... The Texas Indians. By David La Vere. Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 293. $29.95, ISBN 1-58544-301-8.) Most Americans who associate Texas with cowboys...

Frontier Texas: History of a Borderland to 1880.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Frontier Texas: History of a Borderland to 1880. By Robert F. Pace and Donald S. Frazier. (Abilene, Tex.: State House Press, c. 2004. Pp. 272. $19.95, ISBN 1-880510-83-9.) Histories of the American West are often written as sweeping...

Trembling Earth: A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Trembling Earth: A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp. By Megan Kate Nelson. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2005. Pp. xviii, 262. $34.95, ISBN 0-8203-2677-1.) Megan Kate Nelson has tapped a voluminous wealth...

Samuel Wiseman's Book of Record: The Official Account of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, 1676-1677.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Samuel Wiseman's Book of Record: The Official Account of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, 1676-1677. Edited by Michael Leroy Oberg. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Lexington Books, c. 2005. Pp. viii, 296. $70.00, ISBN 0-7391-9711-9.) This...

Bath: The First Town in North Carolina.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Bath: The First Town in North Carolina. By Alan D. Watson with Eva C. (Bea) Latham and Patricia M. Samford. (Raleigh: North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Office of Archives and History, in association with the Historic Bath...

Murder at Montpelier: Igbo Africans in Virginia.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Murder at Montpelier: Igbo Africans in Virginia. By Douglas B. Chambers. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2005. Pp. x, 325. $45.00, ISBN 1-57806-706-5.) In 1732 three enslaved Afro-Virginians--Pompey, Turk, and Dido--were...

Toussaint's Clause: The Founding Fathers and the Haitian Revolution.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Toussaint's Clause: The Founding Fathers and the Haitian Revolution. By Gordon S. Brown. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 321. $32.00, ISBN 1-57806-711-1.) Toussaint's Clause: The Founding Fathers and the Haitian...

Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence. By Carol Berkin. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. Pp. xviii, 194. Paper, $21.00, ISBN 1-4000-7532-7; cloth, $24.00, ISBN 1-4000-4163-5.) No serious scholar today...

The Papers of Henry Laurens. vol. XVI: September 1, 1782-December 17, 1792.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... The Papers of Henry Laurens. Volume XVI: September 1, 1782-December 17, 1792. Edited by David R. Chesnutt and C. James Taylor. (Columbia: Published by the University of South Carolina Press for the South Carolina Historical Society, c. 2003....

The First Emancipator: the Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... The First Emancipator: The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves. By Andrew Levy. (New York: Random House, 2005. Pp. xviii, 310. Cloth, $25.95, ISBN 0-375-50865-1; e-book, $17.95, ISBN 978-58836-469-2.) ...

One Nation under Law: America's Early National Struggles to Separate Church and State.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... One Nation Under Law: America's Early National Struggles to Separate Church and State. By Mark Douglas McGarvie. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xii, 256. $38.00, ISBN 0-87580-333-4.) This extensively researched,...

Dining at Monticello: In Good Taste and Abundance.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Dining at Monticello: In Good Taste and Abundance. Edited by Damon Lee Fowler. (Chapel Hill: Published by the University of North Carolina Press for the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc., c. 2005. Pp. vi, 202. $35.00, ISBN 1-882886-25-9.) ...

Thomas Jefferson's Military Academy: Founding West Point.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Thomas Jefferson's Military Academy: Founding West Point. Edited by Robert M. S. McDonald. Jeffersonian America. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2004. Pp. xxii, 233. $35.00, ISBN 0-8139-2298-4.) Historians have...

A Whole Country in Commotion: The Louisiana Purchase and the American Southwest.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... A Whole Country in Commotion: The Louisiana Purchase and the American Southwest. Edited by Patrick G. Williams, S. Charles Bolton, and Jeannie M. Whayne. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 228. Paper, $19.95, ISBN...

The Generals: Andrew Jackson, Sir Edward Pakenham, and the Road to the Battle of New Orleans.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... The Generals: Andrew Jackson, Sir Edward Pakenham, and the Road to the Battle of New Orleans. By Benton Rain Patterson. (New York and London: New York University Press, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 289. $32.95, ISBN 0-8147-6717-6.) The Battle of New...

A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade. By Robert H. Gudmestad. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 246. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-8071-2922-4; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8071-2884-8.) ...

Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South. By Adam Rothman. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, c. 2005. Pp. xvi, 296. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-01674-2.) The title of Slave Country: American...

Hell without Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Hell Without Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative. By Yolanda Pierce. History of African-American Religions. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 151. $59.95, ISBN...

The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History Through Songs, Sermons, and Speech.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History Through Songs, Sermons, and Speech. By Shane White and Graham White. (Boston: Beacon Press, 2005). Pp. xxii, 241. Paper, $17.00, ISBN 0-8070-5027-X; cloth, $29.95, ISBN 0-8070-5026-1.)...

The Lamp and the Cross: A History of Averett College, 1859-2001.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... The Lamp and the Cross: A History of Averett College, 1859-2001. By Jack Irby Hayes Jr. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xxxvi, 252. $40.00, ISBN 0-86554-854-4.) Jack Irby Hayes Jr. of Averett University presents a...

The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War. By Frank Towers. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 285. $45.00, ISBN 0-8139-2297-6.) In The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War, Frank...

The Confederate Battle Flag: America's Most Embattled Emblem.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... The Confederate Battle Flag: America's Most Embattled Emblem. By John M. Coski. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 401. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-674-01983-0; cloth, $29.95, ISBN 0-674-01722-6.)...

"First Among Equals": Abraham Lincoln's Reputation During His Administration.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... "First Among Equals": Abraham Lincoln's Reputation During His Administration. By Hans L. Trefousse. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 199. $27.95, ISBN 0-8232-2468-6.) Few historians have contributed more to our...

Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War. By Nina Silber. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. [x], 332. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-01677-7.) Like their Confederate sisters, northern women immersed...

Grander in Her Daughters: Florida's Women during the Civil War.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Grander in Her Daughters: Florida's Women during the Civil War. By Tracy J. Revels. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xviii, 205. $29.95, ISBN 1-57003-559-8.) In Grander in Her Daughters: Florida's Women during the...

The American Civil War through British Eyes: Dispatches from British Diplomats.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... The American Civil War through British Eyes: Dispatches from British Diplomats. Volume II: April 1862-February 1863; Volume III: February 1863-December 1865. By James J. Barnes and Patience P. Barnes. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press,...

Twilight at Little Round Top: July 2, 1863--The Tide Turns at Gettysburg.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Twilight at Little Round Top: July 2, 1863--The Tide Turns at Gettysburg. By Glenn W. LaFantasie. (Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., c. 2005. Pp. xx, 315. $27.95, ISBN 0-471-46231-4.) The skirmish at Little Round Top caught the...

Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign. By Kent Masterson Brown. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2005. Pp. xviii, 534. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2921-8.) Lost...

Sons of Privilege: The Charleston Light Dragoons in the Civil War.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Sons of Privilege: The Charleston Light Dragoons in the Civil War. By W. Eric Emerson. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2005. Pp. xx, 192. $24.95, ISBN 1-57003-592-X.) Hell's Broke Loose in Georgia: Survival in a Civil War...

Spartan Band: Burnett's 13th Texas Cavalry in the Civil War.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Spartan Band: Burnett's 13th Texas Cavalry in the Civil War. By Thomas Reid. War and the Southwest. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, c. 2005. Pp. viii, 240. $29.95, ISBN 1-57441-189-6.) Spartan Band: Burnett's 13th Texas Cavalry in...

High Seas and Yankee Gunboats: A Blockade-Running Adventure from the Diary of James Dickson.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... High Seas and Yankee Gunboats: A Blockade-Running Adventure from the Diary of James Dickson. By Roger S. Durham. Studies in Maritime History. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2005. Pp. xx, 185. $24.95, ISBN 1-57003-572-5.) ...

Honoring the Civil War Dead: Commemoration and the Problem of Reconciliation.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Honoring the Civil War Dead: Commemoration and the Problem of Reconciliation. By John R. Neff. Modern War Studies. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 328. $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-13668.) John R. Neff notes that although...

The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865-1920.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865-1920. By Alecia P. Long. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xviii, 282. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8071-3112-1; cloth, $39.95, ISBN...

Race over Empire: Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865-1900.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Race over Empire: Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865-1900. By Eric T. Love. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xxii, 245. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5565-0; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2900-5.) Eric T....

Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction. By Michele Mitchell. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. v, 388. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8078-55677; cloth, $59.95, ISBN...

Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920. By Paul Ortiz. American Crossroads. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California...

A History of Eastern Kentucky University: The School of Opportunity.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... A History of Eastern Kentucky University: The School of Opportunity. By William E. Ellis, with a foreword by Thomas D. Clark. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 282. $35.00, ISBN 0-8131-2346-1.) In this volume,...

Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947. By Michael J. Pfeifer. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2004. Pp. x, 245. $35.00, ISBN 0-252-02917-8.) Just over a century ago James Elbert Cutler published his...

Visions of Zion: Christianity, Modernization and the American Pursuit of Liberty: Progressivism in Rural Nelson and Washington Counties Kentucky.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Visions of Zion: Christianity, Modernization and the American Pursuit of Liberty: Progressivism in Rural Nelson and Washington Counties Kentucky. By J. Larry Hood. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: University Press of America, Inc., c. 2005. Pp....

Henry Adams and the Southern Question.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Henry Adams and the Southern Question. By Michael O'Brien. Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures, No. 47. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 199. $34.95, ISBN 0-8203-2711-5.) Michael O'Brien addresses...

Making North Carolina Literate: The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, from Normal School to Metropolitan University.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Making North Carolina Literate: The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, from Normal School to Metropolitan University. By Allen W. Trelease. (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, c. 2004. Pp. xx, 659. $40.00, ISBN 0-89089-523-6.) ...

The Other Missouri History: Populists, Prostitutes, and Regular Folk.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... The Other Missouri History: Populists, Prostitutes, and Regular Folk. Edited and with an introduction by Thomas M. Spencer. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2004. Pp. x, 241. $24.95, ISBN 0-8262-1565-3.) This volume...

The Progressive Era and Race: Reaction and Reform, 1900-1917.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... The Progressive Era and Race: Reaction and Reform, 1900-1917. By David W. Southern. The American History Series. (Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, Inc., c. 2005. Pp. xii, 239. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-88295-234-X.) Scholars as well as...

Talk of the Town: The Rise of Alexandria, Louisiana, and the Daily Town Talk.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Talk of the Town: The Rise of Alexandria, Louisiana, and the Daily Town Talk. By Frederick M. Spletstoser. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 2005. Pp. xvi, 325. $27.95, ISBN 0-8071-2934-8.) Small towns formed the backbone...

Mencken: The American Iconoclast.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Mencken: The American Iconoclast. By Marion Elizabeth Rodgers. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 662. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-507238-3.) Marion Elizabeth Rodgers's biography of Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956), the...

The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP. By Patricia Bernstein. Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. Pp....

The Bristol Sessions: Writings About the Big Bang of Country Music.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... The Bristol Sessions: Writings About the Big Bang of Country Music. Edited by Charles K. Wolfe and Ted Olson. Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies. (Jefferson, N.C., and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers, c. 2005. Pp. x,...

Louisiana Hayride: Radio and Roots Music along the Red River.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Louisiana Hayride: Radio and Roots Music along the Red River. By Tracey E.W. Laird. American Musicspheres. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 208. $29.95, ISBN 0-19-516751-1.) The radio program Louisiana Hayride is known to...

Never Seen the Moon: The Trials of Edith Maxwell.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Never Seen the Moon: The Trials of Edith Maxwell. By Sharon Hatfield. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2005. Pp. xx, 286. $21.95, ISBN 0-252-03003-6.) Appalachian native and journalist Sharon Hatfield has written a...

Conversations with Robert Penn Warren.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Conversations with Robert Penn Warren. Edited by Gloria L. Cronin and Ben Siegel. Literary Conversations. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2005. Pp. xxii, 231. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 1-57806-734-0; cloth, $50.00, 1-57806-733-2.) ...

A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston. By Stephanie E. Yuhl. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 285. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5599-5; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2936-6.) ...

Jacksonville: The Consolidation Story, From Civil Rights to the Jaguars.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Jacksonville: The Consolidation Story, From Civil Rights to the Jaguars. By James B. Crooks. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, c. 2004. Pp. xx, 274. $27.95, ISBN 0-8130-2708-X.) Casting his eyes about Jacksonville, Florida, and...

Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina. By Christina Greene. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2005. Pp. xviii, 366. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5600-2; cloth, $59.95, ISBN...

Rattlesnake Bomber Base: Pyote Army Airfield in World War II.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Rattlesnake Bomber Base: Pyote Army Airfield in World War II. By Thomas E. Alexander. (Abilene, Tex.: State House Press, c. 2005. Pp. 216. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 1-880510-90-1.) Thomas E. Alexander, author of two previous books about the...

Labor Embattled: History, Power, Rights.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Labor Embattled: History, Power, Rights. By David Brody. The Working Class in American History. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 166. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-252-07246-4; cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-252-03004-4.) ...

The Rural Face of White Supremacy: Beyond Jim Crow.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... The Rural Face of White Supremacy: Beyond Jim Crow. Mark Schultz. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2005. Pp. xviii, 305. $42.00, ISBN 0-252-02960-7.) In The Rural Face of White Supremacy: Beyond Jim Crow, Mark Schultz...

Lulac, Mexican Americans, and National Policy.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... LULAC, Mexican Americans, and National Policy. By Craig A. Kaplowitz. Fronteras. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 254. $35.00, ISBN 1-58544-388-3.) Craig A. Kaplowitz has written a book on an important and...

The Supreme Court under Earl Warren, 1953-1969.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... The Supreme Court under Earl Warren, 1953-1969. By Michal R. Belknap. Chief Justiceships of the United States Supreme Court. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2005. Pp. xx, 406. $49.95, ISBN 1-57003-563-6.) In The Supreme...

Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement that Changed America.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement that Changed America. By Frye Gaillard. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 419. Paper, $29.97, ISBN 0-8173-5298-8; cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-8173-1388-5.) Cradle of Freedom:...

Undaunted by the Fight: Spelman College and the Civil Rights Movement, 1957-1967.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Undaunted by the Fight: Spelman College and the Civil Rights Movement, 1957-1967. By Harry G. Lefever. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2005. Pp. [xviii], 286. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 0-86554-938-9; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-86554-976-1.) ...

The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice, from the Civil Rights Movement to Today.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice, from the Civil Rights Movement to Today. By Charles Marsh. (New York: Basic Books, c. 2005. Pp. x, 292. $26.00, ISBN 0-465-04415-8.) Charles Marsh is a theologian and the director of...

At the Water's Edge: American Politics and the Vietnam War.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... At the Water's Edge: American Politics and the Vietnam War. By Melvin Small. American Ways. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 241. $26.00, ISBN 1-56663-593-4.) In At the Water's Edge: American Politics and the Vietnam War Melvin...

From Meetinghouse to Megachurch: A Material and Cultural History.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... From Meetinghouse to Megachurch: A Material and Cultural History. By Anne C. Loveland and Otis B. Wheeler. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 307. $59.95, ISBN 0-8262-1480-0.) Few recent developments in...

Continental Crossroads: Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Continental Crossroads: Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History. Edited by Samuel Truett and Elliott Young. Foreword by David J. Weber. American Encounters/Global Interactions. (Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp....

Cracker: the Cracker Culture in Florida History.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Cracker: The Cracker Culture in Florida History. Second Edition. By Dana Ste.Claire. (Gainesville: Distributed by the University Press of Florida for the Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach, Florida, c. 1998. Pp. 255. Paper, $19.95, ISBN...

Bridging Southern Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Approach.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Bridging Southern Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Edited by John Lowe. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 317. $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-3031-1.) This collection aims to help southern studies establish "the...

Two Covenants: Representations of Southern Jewishness.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Two Covenants: Representations of Southern Jewishness. By Eliza R.L. McGraw. Southern Literary Studies. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 194. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-3043-5.) What are the textual crossroads of...

Baptists in America.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Baptists in America. By Bill J. Leonard. Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series. (New York: Columbia University Press, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 316. $45.00, ISBN 0-231-12702-2.) Touch someone's religion and you touch their all. Adding to...

The association.(Historical News and Notices)(Southern Historical Association's meeting for african american civil rights )
August 1, 2006... The seventy-second annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association (SHA) will be held Wednesday through Saturday, November 15-18, 2006, at the Sheraton Birmingham Hotel in Birmingham, Alabama. Ernest J. Gaines will be the speaker for the...

Personnel.(Historical News and Notices)(appointments and promotions at Auburn University, Berea College and Catholic University of America)
August 1, 2006... Armstrong Atlantic State University: June Hopkins named head; Allison Belzer and Carey Shellman appointed full-time temporary faculty; Christopher E. Hendricks promoted to professor. Auburn University: Anthony G. Carey named chair; Jennifer...

Obituaries.(Historical News And Notices)(interpreter, Lance G. Banning)(historian, Grady McWhiney)(professor of Emporia State University, William H. Seiler)(Obituary)
August 1, 2006... Lance G. Banning, one of the leading interpreters of America's founding generation, died January 31, 2006, at age sixty-four, after complications from lung surgery. Born January 24, 1942, in Kansas City, Missouri, he earned his B.A. at the...

Announcements and activities.(Historical News And Notices)(Western History Association's meeting on western culture)(Texas Women's History Network's meeting for historical scholarship )(Charles W. Sanders receives award for his book )
August 1, 2006... The Program Committee for the 2007 meeting of the Western History Association invites proposals for panels and papers for "Crossroads of the West: Meetings and Exchanges, Old and New." The association will gather in Oklahoma City, October 3-6,...

Libraries and archives.(Historical News And Notices)
August 1, 2006... The John Carter Brown Library will award approximately thirty short- and long-term research fellowships for the year of June 1, 2007-July 31, 2008. Short-term fellowships are available for periods of two to four months and carry a stipend of...

Birmingham: deja vu all over again.(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... IN ANTICIPATION OF OUR SEVENTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING IN BIRMINGHAM this year, we thought members would be interested to see the program of the Southern Historical Association's first annual meeting in 1935, also in Birmingham, along with a...