The Journal of Southern History articles from August 2007

The Journal of Southern History archives from August 2007

Redefining and reassesssing the colonial South.(Forum)
August 1, 2007... THE TITLE OF THIS FORUM INSTANTLY SUGGESTS A DEFINITIONAL PROBLEM, one that Carl Bridenbaugh encountered more than fifty years ago when he began to think about the Fleming Lectures he was asked to present at Louisiana State University in 1951....

Early modern southeastern North America and the broader Atlantic and American Worlds.
August 1, 2007... HISTORIANS OF NEITHER THE INDIGENOUS INHABITANTS OF THE MAINLAND of southeastern North America nor the colonies Europeans established there after 1560 have ever been comfortable working with the framework of the history of the South. The very...

Learning to live with nature: colonial historians and the southern environment.
August 1, 2007... WHEN CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT GUIDED THREE SMALL SHIPS UP the James River in the spring of 1607, he and the hundred or so colonists on board had little reason to worry about the natural world. Virginia, they believed, was much like the...

How do you get from Jamestown to Santa Fe? A colonial sun belt.
August 1, 2007... LONG AGO, IN 1541, THE WESTERN AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE southern regions of the present-day United States were oh-so-briefly connected. That year, expeditions of two different Spanish explorers, one from the southwestern reaches of the...

Colonial southeastern Indian history.
August 1, 2007... DESPITE GARY B. NASH'S 1974 INSISTENCE THAT DISCUSSIONS OF EARLY America include "red, white, and black," for the next fifteen years early American history and the history of American Indians during the colonial period remained, for the most...

Race matters in the colonial South.
August 1, 2007... WHEN EUROPEANS BEGAN COLONIZING THE SOUTHERN STRETCH OF NORTH America in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, they had been thinking and writing about Indians and Africans for at least a hundred years. As Europeans hungered for Indian...

Esse est percipi: the strange case of early American Economic History.
August 1, 2007... TO START A REVIEW ESSAY IN EARLY MODERN ECONOMIC HISTORY WITH A phrase associated with Bishop George Berkeley, one of that era's foremost immaterialists, is both ironic and depressing. But this phrase, esse est percipi--to be is to be...

Law in the colonial South.
August 1, 2007... WHO GOVERNED? AND BY WHAT WARRANT DID GOVERNORS RULE? THE English who founded Jamestown in 1607, along with every other European who colonized the southern portions of North America, confronted those fundamental questions whenever founder and...

Globalization, creolization, and the not-so-peculiar institution.
August 1, 2007... IT HAS BECOME A CLICHE TO PROCLAIM THE NEED TO INTERNATIONALIZE the study of the United States. Well-funded conferences, special issues of prestigious journals, and countless panels at professional meetings have been devoted to discussions of...

Religion and the early south in an age of Atlantic empire.
August 1, 2007... EARLY 1704: QUEEN ANNE'S WAR RAGES ON THE FRONTIERS OF EASTERN North America. Indian and European allies advance southward through the forest on unsuspecting enemy villages. A surprise raid--defenders are quickly overpowered. Homes and churches...

Women, gender, families, and households in the southern colonies.
August 1, 2007... FAMILY, GENDER, AND HOUSEHOLD RELATIONSHIPS ASSUME CENTER STAGE in fictional portrayals of southern life from Absalom, Absalom to Steel Magnolias. By contrast, historians showed little interest in these topics until recently, and good work was...

Some reflections on the South in the American Revolution.
August 1, 2007... THE SUBJECT OF THE SOUTH IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION WAS ONCE freighted with emotion and controversy. Professional historians were hardly guilty of such partisanship, though relatively few of them have examined the Revolution in comprehensive...

The Making of the American South: A Short History, 1500-1877.(The Making of the American South: A Short History, 1500-1877, Problems in American History)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Making of the American South: A Short History, 1500-1877. By J. William Harris. Problems in American History. (Malden, Mass., and other cities: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. Pp. xiv, 295. Paper, $34.95, ISBN 978-0-631-20964-5; cloth, $88.95,...

Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World.(Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World, Early American Studies)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World. Edited by Robert Appelbaum and John Wood Sweet. Early American Studies. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c. 2005. Pp. xvi, 368. Paper, $24.95,...

Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown. By Helen Rountree. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 292. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 978-0-8139-2596-7; cloth, $29.95, ISBN...

Cultures and Identities in Colonial British America.(Cultures and Identities in Colonial British America, Anglo-America in the Transatlantic World)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Cultures and Identities in Colonial British America. Edited by Robert Olwell and Alan Tully. Anglo-America in the Transatlantic World. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2006. Pp. xiii, 386. $50.00, ISBN 0-8018-8251-6.) In...

From New Babylon to Eden: The Huguenots and Their Migration to Colonial South Carolina.(From New Babylon to Eden: The Huguenots and Their Migration to Colonial South Carolina, The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... From New Babylon to Eden: The Huguenots and Their Migration to Colonial South Carolina. By Bertrand Van Ruymbeke. The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xviii, 396. $49.95,...

American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World. By Susan Scott Parrish. (Chapel Hill: Published by the University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture,...

Camino del Norte: How a Series of Watering Holes, Fords, and Dirt Trails Evolved into Interstate 35 in Texas.(Camino del Norte: How a Series of Watering Holes, Fords, and Dirt Trails Evolved into Interstate 35 in Texas, Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Camino del Norte: How a Series of Watering Holes, Fords, and Dirt Trails Evolved into Interstate 35 in Texas. By Howard J. Erlichman. Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University. (College Station: Texas A&M...

The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America.(The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America, Pivotal Moments in American History)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America. By Colin G. Calloway. Pivotal Moments in American History. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xx, 219. $28.00, ISBN 978-0-19-530071-0.) A...

Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South. By Catherine Kerrison. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 265. $45.00, ISBN 0-8014-4344-X.) Catherine Kerrison examines the intellectual...

Empire and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World.(Empire and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World, Anglo-America in the Transatlantic World)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Empire and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World. Edited by Eliga H. Gould and Peter S. Onuf. Anglo-America in the Transatlantic World. (Baltimore, Md., and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2005. Pp. x, 381. $49.95,...

Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring. By Alexander Rose. (New York: Bantam Dell, c. 2006. Pp. [xiv], 370. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 978-0-553-3829-4; cloth, $26.00, ISBN 978-0-553-80421-8.) In a lucidly written, lively book...

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Volume 32:1 June 1800 to 16 February 1801. Edited by Barbara B. Oberg and others. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford: Princeton University Press, c. 2005. Pp. xl, 677. $99.50, ISBN 0-691-12489-2.) When the present...

The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy. By Bruce Ackerman. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 384. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-01866-4.) ...

The Dawn of Religious Freedom in South Carolina.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Dawn of Religious Freedom in South Carolina. Edited by James Lowell Underwood and W. Lewis Burke. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xviii, 222. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-621-7.) This informative, sometimes...

American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State. By Stephen Aron. A History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2006. Pp. xxiv, 301. $29.95, ISBN...

Slavery, Southern Culture, and Education in Little Dixie, Missouri, 1820-1860.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Slavery, Southern Culture, and Education in Little Dixie, Missouri, 1820-1860. By Jeffrey C. Stone. Studies in African American History and Culture. (New York and London: Routledge, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 107. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-415-97772-2.) ...

Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil, 1824-1854.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil, 1824-1854. By Jonathan H. Earle. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 282. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-8078-5555-3; cloth, $65.00, ISBN...

The Papers of John Marshall.(The Papers of John Marshall: Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions, January 1831-July 1835, with Addendum: June 1783-January 1829, vol. XII)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Papers of John Marshall. Volume XII: Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions, January 1831-July 1835. With Addendum: June 1783-January 1829. Edited by Charles F. Hobson and Joan S. Lovelace. (Chapel Hill: Published by the...

Mark Twain: A Life.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Mark Twain: A Life. By Ron Powers. (New York and other cities: Free Press, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 722. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 0-7432-4901-1; cloth, $35.00, ISBN 978-0-7432-4899-0; e-book, $9.99, ISBN 0-7432-7475-X.) In 1966 Justin Kaplan provided a...

Berea College: An Illustrated History.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Berea College: An Illustrated History. By Shannon H. Wilson. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 246. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2379-0.) This volume appears in conjunction with the sesquicentennial of a remarkable...

Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War. By Nicholas Onuf and Peter Onuf. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 362. $45.00, ISBN 0-8139-2502-9.) Nations, nation making, and...

The Civil War as a Theological Crisis.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Civil War as a Theological Crisis. By Mark A. Noll. Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 199. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3012-7.) Historians often...

Richmond's Wartime Hospitals.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Richmond's Wartime Hospitals. By Rebecca Barbour Calcutt. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 2005. Pp. 224. $22.00, ISBN 978-1-58980-297-1.) This concise study of eighty-five military hospitals that served Confederate soldiers in...

The Yankee Invasion of Texas.(The Yankee Invasion of Texas: Canseco-Keck History)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Yankee Invasion of Texas. By Stephen A. Townsend. Canseco-Keck History. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. Pp. [xii], 189. $25.00, ISBN 1-58544-487-1.) Union forces made four attempts to invade Texas during the Civil...

Fort Pillow, a Civil War Massacre, and Public Memory.(Fort Pillow, a Civil War Massacre, and Public Memory: Conflicting Worlds, New Dimensions of the American Civil War)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Fort Pillow, a Civil War Massacre, and Public Memory. By John Cimprich. Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 193. $29.95, ISBN 0-8071-3110-5.) The...

Banners South: A Northern Community at War.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Banners South: A Northern Community at War. By Edmund J. Raus Jr. Civil War in the North. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 333. $39.00, ISBN 978-0-87338-842-9.) Edmund J. Raus Jr. served as a historian at the...

"Whip the Rebellion": Ulysses S. Grant's Rise to Command.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... "Whip the Rebellion": Ulysses S. Grant's Rise to Command. By George Walsh. (New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2005. Pp. 480. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-7653-0527-5; cloth, $25.95, ISBN 0-765-30526-7.) George Walsh, a journalist and former...

John M. Schofield and the Politics of Generalship.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... John M. Schofield and the Politics of Generalship. By Donald B. Connelly. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xvi, 471. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3007-0.) In nineteenth-century America, U.S. Army...

The Southern Journey of a Civil War Marine: The Illustrated Note-Book of Henry O. Gusley.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Southern Journey of a Civil War Marine: The Illustrated Note-Book of Henry O. Gusley. Edited and annotated by Edward T. Cotham Jr. Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. Pp. x, 213....

A Civil War Soldier's Diary: Valentine C. Randolph, 39th Illinois Regiment.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... A Civil War Soldier's Diary: Valentine C. Randolph, 39th Illinois Regiment. Edited by David D. Roe. With commentary and annotations by Stephen R. Wise. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 280. $35.00, ISBN...

A Maryland Bride in the Deep South: The Civil War Diary of Priscilla Bond.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... A Maryland Bride in the Deep South: The Civil War Diary of Priscilla Bond. Edited, with an introduction, by Kimberly Harrison. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 2006. Pp. xviii, 384. $45.00, ISBN 0-8071-3143-1.) In January 1861 a...

Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Dixie Betrayed: How The South Really Lost the Civil War. By David J. Eicher. (New York and Boston: Little, Brown and Company, c. 2006. Pp. x, 338. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-316-73905-4.) David J. Eicher has written a lively survey of political...

Black Cadet in a White Bastion: Charles Young at West Point.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Black Cadet in a White Bastion: Charles Young at West Point. By Brian G. Shellum. Foreword by Vincent K. Brooks. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2006. Pp. xxii, 175. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 978-0-8032-9315-1.) Brian G....

Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898. By Edward J. Blum. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. Pp. xxi, 356. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 978-0-8071-3052-7; cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-8071-2905-4.)...

South Carolina Scalawags.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... South Carolina Scalawags. By Hyman Rubin III. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xxx, 192. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-625-5.) In this study Hyman Rubin III finds that established interpretations of the...

The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory. By W. Fitzhugh Brundage. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 418. $27.95, ISBN 0-674-01876-1.) Somehow W. Fitzhugh Brundage has managed to...

The Education of Booker T. Washington: American Democracy and the Idea of Race Relations.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Education of Booker T. Washington: American Democracy and the Idea of Race Relations. By Michael Rudolph West. (New York: Columbia University Press, c. 2006. Pp. xiv, 281. $29.50, ISBN 0-231-13048-1.) Michael Rudolph West has written an...

Up from the Mudsills of Hell: The Farmers' Alliance, Populism, and Progressive Agriculture in Tennessee, 1870-1915.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Up from the Mudsills of Hell: The Farmers' Alliance, Populism, and Progressive Agriculture in Tennessee, 1870-1915. By Connie L. Lester. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2006. Pp. xiv, 321. $44.95, ISBN...

War Dance at Fort Marion: Plains Indian War Prisoners.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... War Dance at Fort Marion: Plains Indian War Prisoners. By Brad D. Lookingbill. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c. 2006. Pp. xiv, 290. $29.95, ISBN 0-8061-3739-8.) At the close of the Red River War on the southern High Plains in...

Carnival of Blood: Dueling, Lynching, and Murder in South Carolina, 1880-1920.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Carnival of Blood: Dueling, Lynching, and Murder in South Carolina, 1880-1920. By John Hammond Moore. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xiv], 250. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-620-0.) On February 3, 1903, the...

A Time of Paradox: America Since 1890.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... A Time of Paradox: America since 1890. By Glen Jeansonne and David Luhrssen (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2006. Pp. xxxiv, 539. Paper, $32.95, ISBN 978-0-7425-3377-6; cloth, $90.00, ISBN...

American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century: How It Flourished and What It Cost.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century: How It Flourished and What It Cost. By Bruce L. Gardner. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 388. Paper, $27.95, ISBN 978-0-674-00748-8; cloth, $60.00, ISBN...

The Tennessee-Virginia Tri-Cities: Urbanization in Appalachia, 1900-1950.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Tennessee-Virginia Tri-Cities: Urbanization in Appalachia, 1900-1950. By Tom Lee. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 342. $42.00, ISBN 1-57233-334-0.) It is exceedingly rare for anyone to mention urbanization and...

American Outback: The Oklahoma Panhandle in the Twentieth Century.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... American Outback: The Oklahoma Panhandle in the Twentieth Century. By Richard Lowitt. Plains Histories. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, c. 2006. Pp. xxii, 137. $21.95, ISBN 0-89672-558-8.) While several states have geographic...

Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Birth of Modern America.(Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Birth of Modern America: Making the Modern South)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Birth of Modern America. Edited by Michele K. Gillespie and Randal L. Hall. Making the Modern South. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 2006. Pp. x, 224. $42.95, ISBN 0-8071-3130-X.) At first...

Crusader in the Cold War: A Biography of Fr. John F. Cronin, S.S. (1908-1994).(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Crusader in the Cold War: A Biography of Fr. John F. Cronin, S.S. (1908-1994). By John T. Donovan. (New York and other cities: Peter Lang, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 245. $67.95, ISBN 978-0-8204-7413-7.) Few historians are familiar with John F....

"Work or Fight!": Race, Gender, and the Draft in World War One.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... "Work or Fight!" Race, Gender, and the Draft in World War One. By Gerald E. Shenk. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. x, 194. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 1-4039-6177-8; cloth, $85.00, ISBN 1-4039-6175-1.) The Civil War was not the only...

A Black Physician's Struggle for Civil Rights: Edward C. Mazique, M.D.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... A Black Physician's Struggle for Civil Rights: Edward C. Mazique, M.D. By Florence Ridlon. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. Pp. xxiv, 391. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8263-3339-9.) Drawing primarily on oral interviews, Florence...

"The Ticket to Freedom": The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration.("The Ticket to Freedom": The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration, New Perspectives on the History of the South)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... "The Ticket to Freedom": The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration. By Manfred Berg. Foreword by John David Smith. New Perspectives on the History of the South. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c....

Barnstorming to Heaven: Syd Pollock and His Great Black Teams.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Barnstorming to Heaven: Syd Pollock and His Great Black Teams. By Alan J. Pollock. Edited by James A. Riley. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 407. $35.00, ISBN 0-8173-1495-4.) Syd Pollock's lengthy career as a...

Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race. By Jennifer Ritterhouse. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xiv, 306. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5684-0; cloth, $49.95, ISBN...

None Can Have Richer Memories: Polk County, Florida, 1940-2000.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... None Can Have Richer Memories: Polk County, Florida, 1940-2000. By Canter Brown Jr. (Tampa, Fla.: Published by the University of Tampa Press for the Polk County Historical Association, 2005. Pp. xiv, 368. $39.95, ISBN 1-879852-36-5.) It is...

Lost Delta Found: Rediscovering the Fisk University--Library of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941-1942.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Lost Delta Found: Rediscovering the Fisk University--Library of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941-1942. Edited by Robert Gordon and Bruce Nemerov. (Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 343. $29.95, ISBN...

Mexican Americans and World War II.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Mexican Americans and World War II. Edited by Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. Pp. xxvi, 310. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-292-70681-1; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 978-0-292-70651-4.) In recent years World War II and...

The Making of a Civil Rights Lawyer.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Making of a Civil Rights Lawyer. By Michael Meltsner. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 309. $34.95, ISBN 0-8139-2501-0.) Michael Meltsner's memoir is a valuable resource for historians....

No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics and Postwar America.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics and Postwar America. By Waldo E. Martin Jr. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. [xii], 161. $19.95, ISBN 978-0-674-01507-4.) Unlike other works on modern African...

Romance and Rights: The politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954. By Alex Lubin. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2005. Pp. xxii, 183. $45.00, ISBN 1-57806-705-7.) In Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy,...

Drilling Ahead: The Quest for Oil in the Deep South, 1945-2005.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Drilling Ahead: The Quest for Oil in the Deep South, 1945-2005. By Alan Cockrell. (Jackson: Published by University Press of Mississippi for the Mississippi Geological Society, c. 2005. Pp. xxiv, 301. $35.00, ISBN 1-57806-811-8.) Alan...

Fishing for Gold: The Story of Alabama's Catfish Industry.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Fishing for Gold: The Story of Alabama's Catfish Industry. By Karni R. Perez. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2006. Pp. xvi, 263. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8173-5344-5.) The Alabama Black Belt is one of the most economically...

The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South. By Byron E. Shafer and Richard Johnston. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 200. $39.95, ISBN 0-674-01934-2.) ...

Race and Sport: The Struggle for Equality on and off the Field.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Race and Sport: The Struggle for Equality on and off the Field. Edited by Charles K. Ross. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 232. Paper, $22.00, ISBN 1-57806-897-5; cloth, $46.00, ISBN 1-57806-657-3.) This...

Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice.(Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, Pivotal Moments in American History)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice. By Raymond Arsenault. Pivotal Moments in American History. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 690. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-19-532714-4; cloth, $30.00,...

The New Southern Politics.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The New Southern Politics. By J. David Woodard. (Boulder, Colo., and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006. Pp. xviii, 445. Paper, $26.50, ISBN 1-58826-397-5; cloth, $65.00, ISBN 1-58826-373-8.) J. David Woodard, a professor of government...

American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era.(American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era, The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era. By Kevin K. Gaines. The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xvi, 342. $34.95,...

Struggle for a Better South: The Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1964-1969.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Struggle for a Better South: The Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1964-1969. By Gregg L. Michel. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. xii, 324. $39.95, ISBN 1-4039-6010-0.) In this well-researched and well-written study, Gregg L....

Forging a Common Bond: Labor and Environmental Activism during the BASF Lockout.(Forging a Common Bond: Labor and Environmental Activism during the BASF Lockout, New Perspectives on the History of the South)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Forging a Common Bond: Labor and Environmental Activism during the BASF Lockout. By Timothy J. Minchin. Foreword by John David Smith. New Perspectives on the History of the South. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida,...

Exiled: Voices of the Southern Baptist Convention Holy War.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Exiled: Voices of the Southern Baptist Convention Holy War. Edited by Carl L. Kell. Introduction by Samuel S. Hill. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Pp. xliv, 194. $25.95, ISBN 1-57233-448-7.) In the preface to Exiled:...

Music in the Air Somewhere: The Shifting Borders of West Virginia's Fiddle and Song Traditions.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Music in the Air Somewhere: The Shifting Borders of West Virginia's Fiddle and Song Traditions. By Erynn Marshall. CD included. (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, c. 2006. Pp. xvi, 271. $25.00, ISBN 1-933202-05-X.) Erynn Marshall...

Women Shaping the South: Creating and Confronting Change.(Women Shaping the South: Creating and Confronting Change, Southern Women)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Women Shaping the South: Creating and Confronting Change. Edited by Angela Boswell and Judith N. McArthur. Southern Women. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2006. Pp. x, 269. $44.95, ISBN 0-8262-1617-X.) This...

Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783.(Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783, Early America: History, Context, Culture; Category 5: The Story of Camille, Lessons Unlearned from America's Most Violent Hurricane)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783. By Matthew Mulcahy. Early America: History, Context, Culture. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 257. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-8223-0.) Category 5:...

Yellow Fever: A Deadly Disease Poised to Kill Again.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Yellow Fever: A Deadly Disease Poised to Kill Again. By James L. Dickerson. (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, c. 2006. Pp. 271. $25.00, ISBN 1-59102-399-8.) Along with the history of wars--particularly those that involved the largest mass...

Homeplace Geography: Essays for Appalachia.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Homeplace Geography: Essays for Appalachia. By Donald Edward Davis. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2006. Pp. [x], 221. $25.00, ISBN 978-0-88146-014-8.) Author Donald Edward Davis describes the engagement of communities with their...