The Journal of Southern History articles from February 2003

The Journal of Southern History archives from February 2003

Women writers, the "Southern Front," and the dialectical imagination.(Critical Essay)
February 1, 2003... The "present" for me, the intellectual present in which I came of age, was the peak and crest of the Southern Literary Renaissance. No Southern youth of any sensitivity could help being excited by the explosion of creativity taking place during...

An education in Southern masculinity: The Ball family of South Carolina in the New Republic.
February 1, 2003... IN THE 1780s JOHN BALL SR., RECENTLY MARRIED TO HIS FIRST COUSIN and inheritor of several hundred acres on two plantations from his late father, assumed leadership of one of the South's wealthiest, most powerful families. Along with similarly...

Civil War Unionists and the political culture of loyalty in Alabama, 1860-1861.
February 1, 2003... FROM THE ELECTION SUMMER OF 1860 THROUGH THE SECESSION CRISIS OF 1861, ardent southern fights advocates in Alabama rarely missed an opportunity to publicly chastise Black Republicans, weak-kneed Democrats, advocates of "freesoilism and...

Beyond parochialism: southern Progressivism, prohibition, and state-building.
February 1, 2003... BEGINNING IN THE 1940s, STUDENTS OF SOUTHERN REFORM MOVEMENTS generally argued that southern Progressivism was a regional by-product of the Populist revolt and its disruptive impact on the southern political system. In some of these accounts,...

Faulkner's County: The Historical Roots of Yoknapatawpha.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Don H. Doyle. The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. xxiv, 458. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8078-4931-6; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2615-4.) I pity the...

The South and the Caribbean: Essays and Commentaries.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Edited by Douglass Sullivan-Gonzalez and Charles Reagan Wilson. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2001. Pp. xii, 208. $35.00, ISBN 1-57806-312-4.) The essays and commentaries in this book were previously presented at the Porter...

Black Rice: the African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Judith A. Carney. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 240. $37.50, ISBN 0-674-00452-3.) Black Rice is an eye-opening book about the African knowledge behind America's agricultural success. Carney's...

Religion, Power, and Politics in Colonial St. Augustine.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Robert L. Kapitzke. The Ripley P. Bullen Series, Florida Museum of Natural History. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2001. Pp. [xii], 219. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2076-X.) Florida's Spanish missions and their...

The Slave Ship Fredensborg.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Leif Svalesen. Translated by Pat Shaw and Selena Winsnes. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2000. Pp. 244. $45.00, ISBN 0-253-33777-1.) Leif Svalesen has brought a slave ship and its crew back from the dead in...

The Punished Self: Surviving Slavery in the Colonial South.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Alex Bontemps. (Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 224. $29.95, ISBN 0-8014-3521-8.) Anyone who has tried to keep up with the burgeoning literature on the subject of early American slavery will be very...

American Towns: an Interpretive History.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By David J. Russo. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, c. 2001. Pp. xvi, 350. $28.95, ISBN 1-56663-348-6.) David J. Russo paints with broad strokes the history of small American towns from colonial times to present. Rather than focusing on particular...

The Papers of George Washington. Revolutionary War Series.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... [Volume] IV: April-June 1776; [Volume] V: June-August 1776; [Volume] VI: August-October 1776; [Volume] VII: October 1776-January 1777; [Volume] VIII: January-March 1777; [Volume] IX: March-June 1777; [Volume] X: June-August 1777; [Volume] XI:...

The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker. (Boston: Beacon Press, c. 2000. Pp. [viii], 433. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-8070-5007-5; cloth, $30.00, ISBN 0-8070-5006-7.) According to classical Greek mythology, the demigod Hercules slew the...

The Southern Debate over Slavery.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Volume I: Petitions to Southern Legislatures, 1778-1864. Edited by Loren Schweninger. Race and Slavery Petitions Project. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2001. Pp. xl, 281. $34.95, ISBN 0-252-02632-2.) In his...

The Political Philosophy of James Madison.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Garrett Ward Sheldon. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 143. $32.00, ISBN 0-8018-6479-8.) For most of the twentieth century it was fashionable among academics to view the founders as the children of a...

Free Some Day: the African-American Families of Monticello.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Lucia Stanton. Preface by David Brion Davis. Monticello Monograph Series. (Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2000. Pp. 192. Paper, $13.95, ISBN 1-882886-14-3.) Historians have wrestled with the relationship between...

Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2000. Pp. xviii, 366. Paper, $19.50, ISBN 0-8139-1774-3; cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-8139-1773-5.) This is a revised edition of a significant...

The Life and Times of Martha Laurens Ramsay, 1759-1811.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Joanna Bowen Gillespie. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. xxx, 315. $34.95, ISBN 1-57003-373-0.) Martha Laurens Ramsay might be considered as important a symbol for the Revolutionary age, in her own way, as her...

Religion in Mississippi.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Randy J. Sparks. Heritage of Mississippi Series, Volume II. (Jackson: Published by the University Press of Mississippi for the Mississippi Historical Society, c. 2001. Pp. xiv, 374. $40.00, ISBN 1-57806-361-2.) Randy J. Sparks's work on...

Science, Race, and Religion in the American South: John Bachman and the Charleston Circle of Naturalists, 1815-1895.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Lester D. Stephens. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xx], 338. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2518-2.) In 1850 the American Association for the Advancement of Science held its third annual meeting in...

Ways of Wisdom: Moral Education in the Early National Period.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Jean E. Friedman. Including the Diary of Rachel Mordecai Lazarus. Transcribed and edited with the assistance of Glenna Schroeder-Lein. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xx], 286. $40.00, ISBN...

The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Manisha Sinha. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2000. Pp. xvi, 362. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4884-0; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2571-9.) As Manisha Sinha implies, the well-known "problem of South...

The University of Louisville.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Dwayne D. Cox and William J. Morison. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2000. Pp. xii, 251. $30.00, ISBN 0-8131-2142-6.) The usual pattern of university growth is to begin with an undergraduate school, then add professional...

A Tree Accurst: Bobby McMillon and Stories of Frankie Silver.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Daniel W. Patterson. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2000. Pp. xiv, 224. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4873-5; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2564-6.) In the summer of 1833 in western North Carolina, a young...

Local Matters: Race, Crime, and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century South.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Edited by Christopher Waldrep and Donald G. Nieman. Studies in the Legal History of the South. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xxii], 259. $50.00, ISBN 0-8203-2247-4.) "All politics is local," former...

Calhoun and Popular Rule: The Political Theory of the Disquisition and Discourse.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By H. Lee Cheek Jr. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xiv], 202. $29.95, ISBN 0-8262-1333-2.) In recent years we have witnessed a somewhat surprising resurrection of John C. Calhoun's intellectual reputation....

The Websters: Letters of an American Army Family in Peace and War, 1836-1853.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Edited by Van R. Baker. (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, c. 2000. Pp. xiv, 327. $45.00, ISBN 0-87338-654-X.) Van R. Baker centers the story of the Webster family around the career of 1823 West Point graduate Lucien...

Best Companions: Letters of Eliza Middleton Fisher and Her Mother, Mary Hering Middleton, from Charleston, Philadelphia, and Newport, 1839-1846.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Edited by Eliza Cope Harrison. Women's Diaries and Letters of the South. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xliv], 532. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-375-7.) Best Companions integrates three collections of letters between...

Lost Virginia: Vanished Architecture of the Old Dominion.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Bryan Clark Green, Calder Loth, and William M. S. Rasmussen. (Charlottesville, Va.: Howell Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xxvi], 222. $37.50, ISBN 1-57427-127-X.) Lost Virginia is a book of pictures of vanished buildings with a scholarly and...

Creating Freedom: Material Culture and African American Identity at Oakley Plantation, Louisiana, 1840-1950.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Laurie A. Wilkie. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Pp. [xxvi], 294. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8071-2648-9; cloth, $69.95, ISBN 0-8071-2582-2.) In Creating Freedom Laurie A. Wilkie analyzes African American culture and...

Grasping at Independence: Debt, Male Authority, and Mineral Rights in Appalachian Kentucky, 1850-1915.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Robert S. Weise. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c. 2001. Pp. xii, 374. $40.00, ISBN 1-57233-112-7.) Although historians are trained to pay attention to detail and nuance in the past, they often explore the complexity and...

A Separate Circle: Jewish Life in Knoxville, Tennessee.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Wendy Lowe Besmann. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c. 2001. Pp. xiv, 206. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 1-57233-125-9; cloth, $35.00, ISBN 1-57233-124-0.) This volume covers the entire span of Knoxville's Jewish history, from the...

African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory; From Midwives to Medicine: The Birth of American Gynecology.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Gertrude Jacinta Fraser. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 287. $39.95, ISBN 0-674-00852-9.) From Midwives to Medicine: The Birth of American Gynecology. By Deborah Kuhn McGregor. (New Brunswick,...

North from the Mountains: a Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By John S. Kessler and Donald B. Ball. Melungeons--History, Culture, Ethnicity, and Literature. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 220. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-86554-700-9; cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-86554-703-3.) This work is...

Mexican Americans in Texas History: Selected Essays.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Edited by Emilio Zamora, Cynthia Orozco, and Rodolfo Rocha. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, c. 2000. Pp. 226. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-87611174-6.) The fruit of a groundbreaking conference, this collection contributes far more to...

The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston, Volume IV: 1852-1863.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Volume IV: 1852-1863. Edited by Madge Thornall Roberts. (Denton, Tex.: University of North Texas Press, c. 2001. Pp. xii, 571. $45.95, ISBN 1-57441-084-9.) In this volume Madge Thornall Roberts concludes her efforts to illuminate the...

The Fugitive's Gibraltar: Escaping Slaves and Abolitionism in New Bedford, Massachusetts.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Kathryn Grover. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xvi], 350. $39.95, ISBN 1-55849-271-2.) For several decades before the Civil War, New Bedford, Massachusetts, was a major destination for persons fleeing slavery....

A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia Before the Civil War.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By John Majewski. Studies in Economic History and Policy. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. [xx], 214. $49.95, ISBN 0-521-59023-X.) A House Dividing largely departs from that thankfully slowing tide of...

The Men of Secession and Civil War, 1859-1861.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By James L. Abrahamson. The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era, No. 1. (Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2000. Pp. xxxiv, 186. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8420-2819-6; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8420-2818-8.) Why secession? James L....

Enemies of the Country: New Perspectives on Unionists in the Civil War South.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Edited by John C. Inscoe and Robert C. Kenzer. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2001. Pp. [x], 242. $45.00, ISBN 0-8203-2288-1.) Ten essays and an introduction compose this useful collection on the still neglected...

All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Gerald J. Prokopowicz. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xiv], 265. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2626-X.) In the first general history of the Army of the Ohio published since the...

Southern Families at War: Loyalty and Conflict in the Civil War South.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Edited by Catherine Clinton. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xii], 244. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-19-513684-5; cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-19-513683-7.) By calling it a "brothers' war," Americans have long...

"Oh, For a Touch of the Vanished Hand": Discovering a Southern Family and the Civil War.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Dana M. Mangham. The Journal of Confederate History Book Series, Vol. 23. (Murfreesboro, Tenn.: Southern Heritage Press, 2000. Pp. xx, 780. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 1-889332-40-2.) Dana M. Mangham is both a military man (a lieutenant colonel...

Letters from a North Carolina Unionist: John A. Hedrick to Benjamin S. Hedrick, 1862-1865.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Edited by Judkin Browning and Michael Thomas Smith. (Raleigh: Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 2001. Pp. [xxx], 287. $25.00, ISBN 0-86526-295-0.) John and Benjamin Hedrick, native North...

Bound to Be a Soldier: the Letters of Private James T. Miller, 111th Pennsylvania Infantry, 1861-1864.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Edited by Jedediah Mannis and Galen R. Wilson. Voices of the Civil War. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001. Pp. xxiv, 244. $30.00, ISBN 1-57233-119-4.) Interesting old letters suggest Einstein was right: time is relative. Each...

Clashes of Cavalry: the Civil War Careers of George Armstrong Custer and Jeb Stuart.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Thom Hatch. (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2001. Pp. xii, 291. $26.95, ISBN 0-8117-0356-8.) In Civil War lore the names George Armstrong Custer and Jeb Stuart are synonymous with heroic and legendary cavalry exploits. Although...

General William Dorsey Pender: a Military Biography.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Edward G. Longacre. (Conshohocken, Pa.: Combined Publishing, c. 2001. Pp. 224. $29.95, ISBN 1-58097-034-6.) General William Dorsey Pender was a rising star in the Confederate army when he suffered an untimely death from a wound he...

Gettysburg--The First Day.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Harry W. Pfanz. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xx], 472. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2624-3.) Harry W. Pfanz's long-awaited microstudy of the opening day of the battle of Gettysburg...

Gettysburg: Day Three.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Jeffry D. Wert. (New York and other cities: Simon and Schuster, c. 2001. Pp. 448. $27.50, ISBN 0-684-85914-9.) While much has been written about the battle of Gettysburg (and indeed, about its third day), Jeffry D. Wert has supplied a...

Fiction as Fact: the Horse Soldiers and Popular Memory.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Neil Longley York. (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xviii], 179. $28.00, ISBN 0-87338-685-X.) Fiction as Fact is a perceptive and well-written examination of the various ways that a Civil War cavalry...

Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation, 1861-1865; Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By William K. Klingaman. (New York: Viking, 2001. Pp. 344. $25.95, ISBN 0-670-86754-3.) Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment. By Michael Vorenberg. Cambridge Historical Studies in American...

Ashe County's Civil War: Community and Society in the Appalachian South.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Martin Crawford. New Studies in Civil War History. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001. Pp. [xvi], 238. Paper, $17.50, ISBN 0-8139-2034-5; cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-8139-2033-7.) In this important and insightful...

Archaeological Perspectives on the American Civil War.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Edited by Clarence R. Geier and Stephen R. Potter. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2000. Pp. [xxxiv], 412. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-1834-X.) Collectively, the contributors to this volume possess more than 250...

Edge of the Sword: the Ordeal of Carpetbagger Marshall H. Twitchell in the Civil War and Reconstruction.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Ted Tunnell. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. [xviii], 326. $34.95, ISBN 0-8071-2659-4.) After Ted Tunnell's excellent work in editing Marshall Twitchell's memoirs (Carpetbagger from Vermont: The Autobiography...

Confederate Settlements in British Honduras.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Donald C. Simmons Jr. Foreword by William F. Winter. (Jefferson, N.C., and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, c. 2001. Pp. viii, 176. Paper, $27.50, ISBN 0-7864-1016-7.) Donald C. Simmons Jr. examines the little-known plight...

Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By J. William Harris. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. [xiv], 454. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-6563-8.) Any attempt to distill the essential elements of regional identity must reconcile innumerable exceptions to its...

Keepers of the Spirit: The Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M University, 1876-2001.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By John A. Adams Jr. Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University, No. 89. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. Pp. [xx], 396. $40.00, ISBN 1-58544-126-0.) A 1973 graduate of Texas A&M...

The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Richard Franklin Bensel. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. [xxiv], 549. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-521-77604-X; cloth, $64.95, ISBN 0-521-77233-8.) Political economists have traditionally argued that rapid...

The Metaphysical Club.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Louis Menand. (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, c. 2000. Pp. xii, 546. $27.00, ISBN 0-374-1993-9.) Rarely has a work of intellectual history been as widely noticed and acclaimed as this one. The praise has been well deserved. It is...

Lessons in Progress: State Universities and Progressivism in the New South, 1880-1920.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Michael Dennis. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xii], 272. $39.95, ISBN 0-252-02617-9.) After Appomattox, Robert E. Lee turned his waning energies to higher education as the new field on which the South...

On Her Own Ground: the Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By A'Lelia Bundles. (New York and other cities: Scribner, c. 2001. Pp. 415. $30.00, ISBN 0-684-82582-1.) Madam C. J. Walker was nationally famous when she died in 1919. The black press in particular lauded her as a heroine of the race,...

A Private in the Texas Rangers: A. T. Miller of Company B, Frontier Battalion.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... By John Miller Morris. Canseco-Keck History Series, No. 3. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 334. $24.95, ISBN 0-89096-964-7.) On New Year's Day 1887 twenty-nine-year-old A. T. Miller wrote, "Clear and cold....

Clayton's Galveston: The Architecture of Nicholas J. Clayton and His Contemporaries.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Barrie Scardino and Drexel Turner. Foreword by Peter Brink. Afterword by Stephen Fox. Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities, No. 7. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 291. $45.00, ISBN...

Avenues of Faith: Shaping the Urban Religious Culture of Richmond, Virginia, 1900-1929.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Samuel C. Shepherd Jr. Religion and American Culture. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xiv], 414. $44.95, ISBN 0-8173-1076-2.) Samuel C. Shepherd Jr. offers a splendid study of urban religious culture...

Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Grant Wacker. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. [xvi], 364. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-00499-X.) Of the many important movements in early-twentieth-century America, the rise of Pentecostal religion is surely one...

Politics and Growth in Twentieth-Century Tampa.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Robert Kerstein. Foreword by Gary R. Mormino and Raymond Arsenault. The Florida History and Culture Series. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2001. Pp. [xii], 440. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2083-2.) Robert...

Learning to Win: Sports, Education, and Social Change in Twentieth-Century North Carolina.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Pamela Grundy. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. x, 377. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4934-0; cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2619-7.) For many readers acquainted with Pamela Grundy's previous deeply...

Electrifying the Piedmont Carolinas: the Duke Power Company, 1904-1997.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Robert F. Durden. (Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, c. 2001. Pp. xiv, 298. $30.00, ISBN 0-89089-743-3.) Academic historians generally shun official histories. They see them as biased and sterilized accounts devoid of critical...

Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Brian Kelly. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2001. Pp. ix, 264. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-252-06933-1; cloth, $49.95, 0-252-02622-5.) Interracial unionism has been a major concern for labor historians. Of all the...

Mexican American Odyssey: Felix Tijerina, Entrepreneur and Civic Leader, 1905-1965.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Thomas H. Kreneck. University of Houston Series in Mexican American Studies, No. 2. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. Pp. [xviii], 402. $39.95, ISBN 0-89096-936-1.) He came to the United States from a humble environment...

Capitol Women: Texas Female Legislators, 1923-1999.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Nancy Baker Jones and Ruthe Winegarten. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. Pp. [xvi], 328. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-292-74063-8; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-292-74062-X.) This is a well-written, carefully researched biographical...

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shaping of American Political Culture.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Edited by Nancy Beck Young, William D. Pederson, and Byron W. Daynes. The M. E. Sharpe Library of Franklin D. Roosevelt Studies, Vol. I. (Armonk, N.Y., and London: M. E. Sharpe, c. 2001. Pp. 154. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-7656-0621-6; cloth,...

Where No Flag Flies: Donald Davidson and the Southern Resistance.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Mark Royden Winchell. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xiv], 386. $29.95, ISBN 0-8262-1274-3.) Donald Davidson, an original member of the Southern Agrarians, one of the twelve authors of I'll Take My...

The Southern Agrarians and the New Deal: Essays after I'll Take My Stand.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Edited by Emily S. Bingham and Thomas A. Underwood. Publications of the Southern Texts Society. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001. Pp. [xiv], 310. $45.00, ISBN 0-8139-1995-9.) Editors Emily S. Bingham and...

The Politics of Whiteness: Race, Workers, and Culture in the Modern South.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Michelle Brattain. Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xii], 301. $35.00, ISBN 0-691-00731-4.) According to Michelle Brattain, the "politics of whiteness"...

The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Timothy J. Minchin. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xiv], 277. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8078-4933-2; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2618-9.) A racial division of labor was one of the defining features...

Framing the South: Hollywood, Television, and Race during the Civil Rights Struggle.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Allison Graham. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2001. Pp. xiv, 224. $32.50, ISBN 0-8018-6615-4.) More than thirty years ago a television producer referred to his medium as "the chosen instrument of the black...

Brown, Not White: School Integration and the Chicano Movement in Houston.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Guadalupe San Miguel Jr. University of Houston Series in Mexican American Studies, No. 3. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xiv], 283. $34.00, ISBN 1-58544-115-5.) In 1970 the Houston Independent School District...

Fortunes, Fiddles, and Fried Chicken: a Nashville Business History.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Bill Carey. (Franklin, Tenn.: Hillsboro Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xii], 500. $34.95, ISBN 1-57736-178-4.) Fortunes, Fiddles, and Fried Chicken is a study of the many industries and businesses that developed as a result of the entrepreneurial...

The association. (Historical News and Notices).(Southern Historical Association )
February 1, 2003... The sixty-ninth meeting of the Southern Historical Association will be held November 6-9, 2003, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Houston. The meeting will begin on Thursday and end on Sunday, which is a deviation from our regular...

European History Section. (Historical News and Notices).(Southern Historical Association)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... The European History Section of the Southern Historical Association elected the following officers at its annual business meeting in Baltimore on November 8, 2002: Nancy E. Rupprecht, Middle Tennessee State University, chair; Joanne R. Sanchez,...

Personnel. (Historical News and Notices).
February 1, 2003... Austin College: T. Hunt Tooley promoted to professor. Barber-Scotia College: Lisa J. Jones appointed assistant professor. Campbell University: Walter S. Barge Sr. has retired and continues to serve as an adjunct professor. Clemson...

Announcements and activities. (Historical News and Notices).
February 1, 2003... In celebration of the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase, the Historic New Orleans Collection will present an exhibition that focuses on the domestic and international events and personalities that surrounded the purchase. The exhibition,...

Libraries and archives. (Historical News and Notices).
February 1, 2003... The Galveston and Texas History Center of the Rosenberg Library in Galveston, Texas, announces a new online exhibition titled "Galveston: A City Transformed, 1890-1915," which is available on the center's website: www.gthc.org. Galveston was...