The Journal of Southern History articles from August 2008

The Journal of Southern History archives from August 2008

Conflict and the "slave community": violence among slaves in upcountry South Carolina.(Report)
August 1, 2008... IN 1826 WILLIAM HAMILTON, A SLAVEHOLDER IN PENDLETON DISTRICT, South Carolina, reported to the authorities "that his Negro Fellow Dave was violently Beat & abused." He identified Dave's attackers as "two Negro Fellows by the Name of Ben & Aleck...

National policing, lynching, and constitutional change.(Report)
August 1, 2008... IT COMES AS NO SURPRISE TO LEARN THAT THROUGH THE 1920S AND 1930s, the national government insisted it had no jurisdiction to investigate lynching and instead waged a campaign against black militancy. The greater surprise to historians comes...

Black working-class political activism and biracial unionism: Galveston Longshoremen in Jim Crow Texas, 1919-1921.(Report)
August 1, 2008... J. V. BELL, A FEDERAL AGENT WHO INVESTIGATED THE 1920 LONGSHOREMEN'S strike in Galveston, Texas, expressed alarm over the militancy of the island's black and white workers, which had prompted Governor William P. Hobby on June 7 to declare...

Making best use of the new laws: the NAACP and the fight for civil rights in the south, 1965-1975.(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)(Report)
August 1, 2008... ON THE MORNING OF MARCH 3, 1970, THREE BUSES CARRYING BLACK schoolchildren arrived at Lamar High School in Lamar, South Carolina, a small town in the eastern part of the state. The buses were transporting some of the 514 children who were...

The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000. By Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton. (New York and other cities: Viking, 2005. Pp. xxiv, 520. $27.95, ISBN 0-670-03370-7.) Citizens of the United States like to think of...

Cradle of America: Four Centuries of Virginia History.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Cradle of America: Four Centuries of Virginia History. By Peter Wallenstein. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2007. Pp. [xviii], 476. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1507-0.) Writing the history of a single state is quite a challenge. No...

A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia. By Thomas Hariot. The 1590 Theodor de Bry Latin edition. (Charlottesville and London: Published by the University of Virginia Press for the Library at the Mariners' Museum, 2007. Pp....

From a Watery Grave: The Discovery and Excavation of La Salle's Shipwreck.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... From a Watery Grave: The Discovery and Excavation of La Salle's Shipwreck, La Belle. By James E. Bruseth and Toni S. Turner. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 159. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 1-58544-431-6; cloth, $39.95,...

Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands. By Juliana Barr. (Chapel Hill: Published by the University of North Carolina Press in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies,...

Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834. By Emily Clark. (Chapel Hill: Published by the University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and...

Voices from an Early American Convent: Marie Madeleine Hachard and the New Orleans Ursulines, 1727-1760.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Voices from an Early American Convent: Marie Madeleine Hachard and the New Orleans Ursulines, 1727-1760. Edited by Emily Clark. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. [xii], 138. $25.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3237-1.) This...

Who Shall Rule at Home? The Evolution of South Carolina Political Culture, 1748-1776.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Who Should Rule at Home? The Evolution of South Carolina Political Culture, 1748-1776. By Jonathan Mercantini. The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xiv], 314. $49.95, ISBN...

World of Toil and Strife: Community Transformation in Backcountry South Carolina, 1750-1805.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... World of Toil and Strife: Community Transformation in Backcountry South Carolina, 1750-1805. By Peter N. Moore. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 175. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-666-8.) Peter N. Moore tracks...

The Memoirs of Lt. Henry Timberlake: The Story of a Soldier, Adventurer, and Emissary to the Cherokees, 1756-1765.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Memoirs of Lt. Henry, Timberlake: The Story of a Soldier, Adventurer, and Emissary to the Cherokees, 1756-1765. Edited by Duane H. King. (Cherokee, N.C.: Museum of the Cherokee Indian Press, distributed by the University of North Carolina...

After the Massacre: The Violent Legacy of the San Saba Mission.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... After the Massacre: The Violent Legacy of the San Saba Mission. By Robert S. Weddle. With the original diary of the 1759 Red River campaign, translated by Carol Lipscomb. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xx], 196. $32.95,...

Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness. By Matt Wray. (Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. [xiv], 213. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3873-4; cloth, $74.95, ISBN 9780-8223-3882-3.) Not Quite...

Challenging Slavery in the Chesapeake: Black and White Resistance to Human Bondage, 1775-1865.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Challenging Slavery in the Chesapeake: Black and White Resistance to Human Bondage, 1775-1865. By T. Stephen Whitman. (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 2007. Pp. [xvi], 301. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-938420-96-8.) T. Stephen Whitman,...

Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence. By John Ferling. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. [xiv], 679. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-518121-0.) John Ferling has been writing distinguished work...

Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship That Saved the Revolution.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship That Saved the Revolution. By David A. Clary. (New York: Bantam Books, c. 2007. Pp. [xxviii], 564. $27.00, ISBN 978-0-553-80435-5.) Enlightening studies of historical pairings have long...

The Society of the Cincinnati: Conspiracy and Distrust in Early America.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Society of the Cincinnati: Conspiracy and Distrust in Early America. By Markus Hunemorder. European Studies in American History. (New York and Oxford, Eng.: Berghahn Books, 2006. Pp. [viii], 212. $75.00, ISBN 1-84545-107-4.) Markus...

Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880. By Lynn A. Nelson. Environmental History and the American South. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xx], 295. $39.95, ISBN...

From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and Influences.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and Influences. By Nathalie Dessens. Foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller. Southern Dissent. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2007. Pp. xiv, 257. $65.00,...

By His Own Hand? The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... By His Own Hand? The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis. Edited by John D. W. Guice. Contributions by James J. Holmberg, John D. W. Guice, and Jay H. Buckley. Introduction by Clay S. Jenkinson. Foreword by Elliott West. (Norman: University of...

Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World. By J. R. Kerr-Ritchie. Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. [xxii], 272. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3232-6.)...

A Will to Choose: The Origins of African American Methodism.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... A Will to Choose: The Origins of African American Methodism. By J. Gordon Melton. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2007. Pp. xii, 317. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7425-5265-4; cloth, $80.00, ISBN...

Alexander Campbell: Adventurer in Freedom: A Literary Biography, Volume Two.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Alexander Campbell: Adventurer in Freedom: A Literary Biography, Volume Two. By Eva Jean Wrather. Edited by D. Duane Cummins. (Fort Worth, Tex.: Published by TCU Press for the Disciples of Christ Historical Society, c. 2007. Pp. x, 412. $25.00,...

Southern Sons: Becoming Men in the New Nation.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Southern Sons: Becoming Men in the New Nation. By Lorri Glover. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. [xii], 250. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-8498-6.) Scarlett's Sisters: Young Women in the Old South. By Anya Jabour. (Chapel...

African American Slave Medicine: Herbal and Non-Herbal Treatments.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... African American Slave Medicine: Herbal and Non-Herbal Treatments. By Herbert C. Covey. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Lexington Books, c. 2007. Pp. [viii], 207. $85.00, ISBN 978-0-7391-1644-9.) Herbert C. Covey's book African American...

The Birth of the Banjo: Joel Walker Sweeney and Early Minstrelsy.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Birth of the Banjo: Joel Walker Sweeney and Early Minstrelsy. By Bob Carlin. (Jefferson, N.C., and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., c. 2007. Pp. [x], 193. Paper, $35.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-2874-8.) Ragged but Right: Black Traveling...

Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture. By Jeannine Marie DeLombard. Studies in Legal History. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. xiv, 330. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5812-7; cloth, $65.00, ISBN...

Slavery and the Meetinghouse: The Quakers and the Abolitionist Dilemma, 1820-1865.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Slavery and the Meetinghouse: The Quakers and the Abolitionist Dilemma, 1820-1865. By Ryan P. Jordan. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 175. $29.95, ISBN 0-253-34860-9.) Perhaps the most difficult...

Becoming Free in the Cotton South.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Becoming Free in the Cotton South. By Susan Eva O'Donovan. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. [xiv], 364. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-674-02483-0.) Susan Eva O'Donovan begins her book about the transition from...

Historical Dictionary of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Historical Dictionary of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny. By Terry Corps. Historical Dictionaries of U.S. Historical Eras, No. 6. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Scarecrow Press, 2006. Pp. xxvi, 435. $85.00, ISBN 978-0-8108-5453-6.) ...

John Tyler: The Accidental President.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... John Tyler, the Accidental President. By Edward P. Crapol. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xii], 332. $37.50, ISBN 978-0-8078-3041-3.) Despite the scorn heaped on him by Whigs and historians alike, John...

City of Intrigue, Nest of Revolution: A Documentary History of Key West in the Nineteenth Century.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... City of Intrigue, Nest of Revolution: A Documentary History of Key West in the Nineteenth Century. By Consuelo E. Stebbins. Foreword by Gary R. Mormino and Raymond Arsenault. Florida History and Culture. (Gainesville and other cities:...

Lincoln the Lawyer.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Lincoln the Lawyer. By Brian Dirck. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 228. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-252-03181-6.) Abraham Lincoln spent his working life in the courtroom. Arriving in Illinois at age...

Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency. By William C. Harris. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2007. Pp. xii, 412. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1520-9.) This is the third large-scale work on Abraham Lincoln by the genial and meticulous...

Jim Lane: Scoundrel, Statesman, Kansan.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Jim Lane: Scoundrel, Statesman, Kansan. By Robert Collins. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 2007. Pp. 320. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-58980445-6.) James H. Lane is one of the most controversial figures in Kansas history. A politician from...

In the Shadow of the Civil War: Passmore Williamson and the Rescue of Jane Johnson.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... In the Shadow of the Civil War: Passmore Williamson and the Rescue of Jane Johnson. By Nat Brandt with Yanna Kroyt Brandt. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 216. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-687-3.) Most...

Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America. By Sylviane A. Diouf. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. [xii], 340. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-19-531194-4.) ...

This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War. By James M. McPherson. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 260. $28.00, ISBN 978-0-19-531366-6.) This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War...

First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis's Civil War.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis's Civil War. By Joan E. Cashin. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. [xii], 403. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02294-2.) Remarkably, more than forty years...

Cry Havoc! The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Cry Havoc! The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861. By Nelson D. Lankford. (New York: Viking, 2007. Pp. [xii], 308. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-670-03821-3.) Cry Havoc! The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861 by Nelson D. Lankford is a riveting,...

Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War. By Bruce Levine. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. [x], 252. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-514762-9.) Bruce Levine presents a...

Beleaguered Winchester: A Virginia Community at War, 1861-1865.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Beleaguered Winchester: A Virginia Community at War, 1861-1865. By Richard R. Duncan. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. [xxii], 380. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3217-3.) Beleaguered Winchester, indeed. The Virginia town...

Jeb Stuart and the Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Jeb Stuart and the Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg. By Warren C. Robinson. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xviii], 198. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8032-1101-8.) The long-running debate on who was to blame for the...

Nathan Bedford Forrest: In Search of the Enigma.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Nathan Bedford Forrest: In Search of the Enigma. By Eddy W. Davison and Daniel Foxx. Foreword by Edwin C. Bearss. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 2007. Pp. 528. $35.00, ISBN 978-1-58980-415-9.) Over the last quarter century the...

War Crimes against Southern Civilians.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... War Crimes against Southern Civilians. By Walter Brian Cisco. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 2007. Pp. 220. $24.95, ISBN 978-1-58980-466-1.) Walter Brian Cisco, a professional writer, seeks in this work to convince a broad...

Civil War to the Bloody End: The Life and Times of Major General Samuel P. Heintzelman.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Civil War to the Bloody End: The Life and Times of Major General Samuel P. Heintzelman. By Jerry Thompson. Canseco-Keck History Series, No. 9. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. Pp. [xviii], 443. $35.00, ISBN...

Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana: Confederate General and New South Reformer.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana: Confederate General and New South Reformer. By Mary Gorton McBride with Ann Mathison McLaurin. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. [xvi], 320. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3234-0.) This...

Yearning to Breathe Free: Robert Smalls of South Carolina and His Families.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Yearning to Breathe Free: Robert Smalls of South Carolina and His Families. By Andrew Billingsley. Foreword by James E. Clyburn. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. xxvi, 253. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-686-6.) On May...

Preserving the Constitution: Essays on Politics and the Constitution in the Reconstruction Era.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Preserving the Constitution: Essays on Politics and the Constitution in the Reconstruction Era. By Michael Les Benedict. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. Pp. |xiv], 314. Paper, $26.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-2554-5; cloth, $80.00, ISBN...

A Scalawag in Georgia: Richard Whiteley and the Politics of Reconstruction.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... A Scalawag in Georgia: Richard Whiteley and the Politics of Reconstruction. By William Warren Rogers Jr. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 269. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03160-1.) Historians have turned...

Manners and Southern History.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Manners and Southern History. Edited by Ted Ownby. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. Pp. [xvi], 169. $50.00, ISBN 978-1-57806-979-8.) Although many caricatures of southerners depict them as exhibiting excessively correct...

Tourism in the Mountain South: A Double-Edged Sword.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Tourism in the Mountain South: A Double-Edged Sword. By C. Brenden Martin. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. Pp. [xxii], 246. $32.00, ISBN 978-1-57233-575-2.) Tourism's contribution to the highland South has not been a...

Winding through Time: The Forgotten History and Present-Day Peril of Bayou Manchac.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Winding through Time: The Forgotten History and Present-Day Peril of Bayou Manchac. By Mary Ann Sternberg. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. [xiv], 158. $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8071-3253-1.) Author Mary Ann Sternberg...

Appalachian Aspirations: The Geography of Urbanization and Development in the Upper Tennessee River Valley, 1865-1900.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Appalachian Aspirations: The Geography of Urbanization and Development in the Upper Tennessee River Valley, 1865-1900. By John Benhart Jr. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 184. $38.00, ISBN 978-1-57233-562-2.) ...

The New Orleans of Lafcadio Hearn: Illustrated Sketches from the Daily City Item.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The New Orleans of Lafcadio Hearn: Illustrated Sketches from the Daily City Item. Edited by Delia LaBarre. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. Iii, 175. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8071-3243-2.) Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), a...

Kindler of Souls: Rabbi Henry Cohen of Texas.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Kindler of Souls: Rabbi Henry Cohen of Texas. By Henry Cohen II. Focus on American History Series. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. Pp. [xviii], 153. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-292-71461-8.) In 1888 Henry Cohen began his tenure as the...

W.E.B. Du Bois: American Prophet.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... W. E. B. Du Bois: American Prophet. By Edward J. Blum. Politics and Culture in Modern America. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c. 2007. Pp. viii, 273. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-4010-8.) With this book Edward J. Blum...

Black Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the Twentieth Century.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Black Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Jonathan Scott Holloway and Ben Keppel. African American Intellectual Heritage Series. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press,...

Macon Black and White: An Unutterable Separation in the American Century.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Macon Black and White: An Unutterable Separation in the American Century. By Andrew M. Manis. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press and the Tubman African American Museum, 2004. Pp. xvi, 429. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-86554-958-3; cloth, $45.00,...

The Supreme Court of Florida, 1917-1972.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Supreme Court of Florida, 1917-1972. By Walter W. Manley II and Canter Brown Jr. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 428. $59.95, ISBN 0-8130-3003-X.) Legal historians have long been preoccupied...

In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement. By Michael Lienesch. H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xii], 338....

Private Politics and Public Voices: Black Women's Activism from World War I to the New Deal.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Private Politics and Public Voices: Black Women's Activism from World War I to the New Deal. By Nikki Brown. Blacks in the Diaspora. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xiv], 194. $29.95, ISBN...

Entitled to the Pedestal: Place, Race, and Progress in White Southern Women's Writing, 1920-1945.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Entitled to the Pedestal: Place, Race, and Progress in White Southern Women's Writing, 1920-1945. By Nghana Tamu Lewis. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 208. $37.95, ISBN 978-1-58729-529-4.) Entitled to the...

Looking for the New Deal: Florida Women's Letters during the Great Depression.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Looking for the New Deal: Florida Women's Letters during the Great Depression. Edited by Elna C. Green. Women's Diaries and Letters of the South. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 243. $39.95, ISBN...

Remembering the Great Depression in the Rural South.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Remembering the Great Depression in the Rural South. By Kenneth J. Bindas. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2007. Pp. [viii], 184. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8130-3048-7.) Over a period of four years, Kenneth J....

Staging Tradition: John Lair and Sarah Gertrude Knott.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Staging Tradition: John Lair and Sarah Gertrude Knott. By Michael Ann Williams. Music in American Life. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xvi], 221. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 978-0-25207344-1 cloth, $60.00, ISBN...

The Music of Bill Monroe.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Music of Bill Monroe. By Neil V. Rosenberg and Charles K. Wolfe. Music in American Life. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xxviii], 347. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03121-2.) This book is an exercise in...

The Lost Promise of Civil Rights.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Lost Promise of Civil Rights. By Risa L. Goluboff. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. viii, 376. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-674-02465-6.) Citizenship claims combined with marketplace opportunities constitute the...

Pauli Murray and Caroline Ware: Forty Years of Letters in Black and White.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Pauli Murray and Caroline Ware: Forty Years of Letters in Black and White. Edited by Anne Firor Scott. Gender and American Culture. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xvi], 194. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3055-0.) ...

Invisible Activists: Women of the Louisiana NAACP and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1915-1945.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Invisible Activists: Women of the Louisiana NAACP and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1915-1945. By Lee Sartain. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. [x], 212. $36.50, ISBN 978-0-8071-3221-0.) Invisible Activists: Women...

Massive Resistance: The White Response to the Civil Rights Movement.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Massive Resistance: The White Response to the Civil Rights Movement. By George Lewis. (London: Hodder Arnold, c. 2006. Pp. [x], 254. Paper, $35.00, ISBN 978-0-340-90022-2.) Nearly four decades after Numan V. Bartley published his classic...

Troubled Commemoration: The American Civil War Centennial, 1961-1965.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Troubled Commemoration: The American Civil War Centennial, 1961-1965. By Robert J. Cook. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. [xvi], 300. $45.00, 978-0-8071-3227-2.) Robert J. Cook's Troubled Commemoration: The American...

The Offshore Imperative: Shell Oil's Search for Petroleum in Postwar America.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Offshore Imperative: Shell Oil's Search for Petroleum in Postwar America. By Tyler Priest. Kenneth E. Montague Series in Oil and Business History, No. 19. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. Pp. [xiv], 317. $39.95, ISBN...

Cajun Women and Mardi Gras: Reading the Rules Backward.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Cajun Women and Mardi Gras: Reading the Rules Backward. By Carolyn E. Ware. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xii], 233. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-252-07377-9; cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03138-0.) On the...

Sunshine in the Dark: Florida in the Movies.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Sunshine in the Dark: Florida in the Movies. By Susan J. Fernandez and Robert P. Ingalls. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2006. Pp. xviii, 283. $34.95, ISBN 0-8130-2990-2.) In 1513 Juan Ponce de Leon became...

The Old German Baptist Brethren: Faith, Farming, and Change in the Virginia Blue Ridge.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Old German Baptist Brethren: Faith, Farming, and Change in the Virginia Blue Ridge. By Charles D. Thompson Jr. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2006. Pp. xxxvi, 219. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 978-0-252-07343-4; cloth, $60.00,...

Kinfolks: Falling off the Family Tree: The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Kinfolks: Falling off the Family Tree--The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors. By Lisa Alther. (New York: Arcade Publishing, 2007. Pp. [xvi], 241. $25.00, ISBN 978-1-55970-832-6.) Although the word Melungeon is featured in the title, Lisa...

The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power: Pan-African Embodiment and Erotic Schemes of Empire.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power: Pan-African Embodiment and Erotic Schemes of Empire. By Greg Thomas. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 200. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 978-0-253-21894-0; cloth, $50.00,...

Historical Knowledge, Historical Error: A Contemporary Guide to Practice.(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Historical Knowledge, Historical Error: A Contemporary Guide to Practice. By Allan Megill, with contributions by Steven Shepard and Phillip Honenberger. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, c. 2007. Pp. xvi, 288. Paper, $25.00,...

The Association.(Historical News and Notices)(Southern Historical Association 74th annual meeting)
August 1, 2008... The seventy-fourth annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association will be held October 9-12, 2008, Thursday through Sunday, at the Sheraton Hotel on Canal Street in New Orleans. (For a full explanation of the earlier-than-usual date and...

Personnel.(Historical News and Notices)
August 1, 2008... University of Alabama at Birmingham: Daniel R. Lesnick and Michael N. McConnell have retired. University of Arkansas: Robert C. McMath Jr. named interim provost; Liang Cai appointed assistant professor; Thomas Grischany appointed visiting...