The Journal of Southern History articles from February 2004

The Journal of Southern History archives from February 2004

The corporeal and ocular veil: Dr. Matilda A. Evans (1872-1935) and the complexity of southern history.
February 1, 2004... After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,--a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but...

Family dynamics and the great revival: religious conversion in the South Carolina Piedmont.
February 1, 2004... IN JANUARY 1802 THE REVEREND SAMUEL MCCORKLE LED THE DEDICATED core of his Presbyterian congregation across the North Carolina piedmont to a sacramental camp meeting in Randolph County. Such meetings were nearly as old as Presbyterianism...

The paradox of freedom: tribal sovereignty and emancipation during the reconstruction of Indian territory.(Native American slaveowners )
February 1, 2004... IN 1937 NINETY-THREE-YEAR-OLD KIZIAH LOVE OF COLBERT, OKLAHOMA, told Jessie Ervin, a field-worker from the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration, about her years as a slave. "I can recollect things that happened way back...

The Scopes trial and Southern fundamentalism in black and white: race, region, and religion.
February 1, 2004... THE ANTI-EVOLUTION MOVEMENT OF THE 1920s DEMONSTRATED THAT SOME aspects of Protestant fundamentalism flourished with particular vigor in the American South. Although fundamentalism, like the anti-evolution movement itself, originated in the...

The Deadly Truth: a History of Disease in America.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Gerald N. Grob. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. [xii], 349. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-0081-2.) Rutgers University emeritus professor and prominent medical historian Gerald N. Grob does not present a utopian...

A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Edited by Theodore Rosengarten and Dale Rosengarten. Preface by Eli N. Evans. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press in association with McKissick Museum, c. 2002. Pp. [xx], 268. $34.95, ISBN 1-57003-445-1.) This magnificent volume...

The History of Southern Women's Literature.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Edited by Carolyn Perry and Mary Louise Weaks. Southern Literary Studies. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Pp. [xx], 689. $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-2753-1.) With The History of Southern Women's Literature, Carolyn Perry and...

"Mixed Blood" Indians: Racial Construction in the Early South.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Theda Perdue. Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures, No. 45. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2003. Pp. [xiv], 135. $24.95, ISBN 0-8203-2453-1.) The language and logic of race have long shaped our...

Recreating the American Republic: Rules of Apportionment, Constitutional Change, and American Political Development, 1700-1870.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Charles A. Kromkowski. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. [xxxiv], 451. $70.00, ISBN 0-521-80848-0.) At first glance Charles A. Kromkowski's Recreating the American Republic might seem a strange book for a...

Shenandoah Religion: Outsiders and the Mainstream, 1716-1865.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Stephen L. Longenecker. (Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, c. 2002. Pp. xiv, 247. $16.95, ISBN 0-918954-83-5.) Stephen L. Longenecker's new book explores the experience of "outsider" and "mainstream" status among a variety of...

Savannah in the Old South.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Walter J. Fraser Jr. Wormsloe Foundation Publications, No. 23. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2003. Pp. [xvi], 423. $39.95, ISBN 0-8203-2436-1.) Savannah, Georgia, is one of the loveliest of all southern...

London Booksellers and American Customers: Transatlantic Literary Community and the Charleston Library Society, 1748-1811.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By James Raven. The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. xxii, 522. $59.95, ISBN 1-57003-406-0.) The continuing evolution of the history of the book in America is evident...

Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750-1830.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Greg O'Brien. Indians of the Southeast. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xxx], 158. $45.00, ISBN 0-8032-3569-0.) The first paragraph of Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age ends with the assertion that, in...

Slavery at the Home of George Washington.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Edited by Philip J. Schwarz. (Mount Vernon, Va.: Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, c. 2001. Pp. [iv], 182. $13.95, ISBN 0-931917-38-7.) This book is a collection of six scholarly essays that illuminate the role of George Washington as a...

River of Enterprise: the Commercial Origins of Regional Identity in the Ohio Valley, 1790-1850.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Kim M. Gruenwald. Midwestern History and Culture. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2002. Pp. xvi, 214. $39.95, ISBN 0-253-34132-9.) Previous studies seeking to identify the roots of midwestern culture have...

Interim Appointment: W. C. C. Claiborne Letter Book, 1804-1805.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Edited with Biographical Sketches by Jared William Bradley. The Louisiana Purchase Collection. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Pp. xxii, 666. $85.00, ISBN 0-8071-2684-5.) The early published version of the Official...

Thomas ap Catesby Jones: Commodore of Manifest Destiny.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Gene A. Smith. Library of Naval Biography. (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2000. Pp. xx, 223. $35.95, ISBN 1-55750-848-8.) Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones is best known for two deeds. One is his determined defense of the city...

Anna: the Letters of a St. Simons Island Plantation Mistress, 1817-1859.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Anna Matilda Page King. Edited by Melanie Pavich-Lindsay. Southern Voices from the Past: Women's Letters, Diaries, and Writings. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2002. Pp. xxxiv, 453. $49.95, ISBN 0-8203-2332-2.) ...

Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820-1920.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By James M. O'Toole. (Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xiv], 284. $34.95, ISBN 1-55849-341-7.) James M. O'Toole has written a well-researched account of the biracial progeny of Irish immigrant Michael...

Stories of Freedom in Black New York.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Shane White. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. [x], 260. $27.95, ISBN 0-674-00893-6.) Jurgen Habermas's notion of the "public sphere" as a site of political engagement has stimulated much recent...

Myths and Realities of American Slavery: the True History of Slavery in America.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By John C. Perry. (Shippensburg, Pa.: Burd Street Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xii], 291. $39.95, ISBN 1-57249-335-6.) This brief, synthetic work intended for the "average everyday reader" is meant to provide "not just a study of the life [sic] of...

America after Tocqueville: Democracy against Difference.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Harvey Mitchell. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. [xii], 324. $65.00, ISBN 0-521-81246-1.) Harvey Mitchell offers this volume as a companion piece to his previous book about Alexis de Tocqueville,...

American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety: Wages, Competition, and Degraded Labor in the Antebellum United States.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Jonathan A. Glickstein. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2002. Pp. [xii], 361. $39.50, ISBN 0-8139-2115-5.) Jonathan A. Glickstein's new book is at once broad and narrow in scope. On the one hand, it is a...

Martin Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular Politics.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Joel H. Silbey. American Profiles. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c. 2002. Pp. xiv, 237. $35.00, ISBN 0-7425-2243-1.) On the whole, this is an excellent short biography. That said, one wonders who will...

A Short, Offhand, Killing Affair: Soldiers and Social Conflict during the Mexican-American War.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Paul Foos. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. 223. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-5405-0; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2731-2.) Scholars of the U.S.-Mexican War have often bemoaned the fact that it has been obscured...

Schemers and Dreamers: Filibustering in Mexico, 1848-1921.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Joseph A. Stout Jr. (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xviii], 148. $27.95, ISBN 0-87565-258-1.) The past cannot be ignored. That is the thrust of this short but potent book, which delineates the history of...

The Hanging of Old Brown: a Story of Slaves, Statesmen, and Redemption.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Gregory Toledo. (Westport, Conn., and London: Praeger, 2002. Pp. xiv, 276. $64.95, ISBN 0-275-97479-0.) Gregory Toledo strives "to approach an old drama anew, by overcoming assumptions and composing a story that reflects a singular life...

Confederate Crackers and Cavaliers.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Grady McWhiney. (Abilene, Tex.: McWhiney Foundation Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xviii], 312. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 1-893114-27-9; cloth, $29.95, ISBN 1-893114-25-2.) Controversial. Unconventional. Influential. These are words easily applied to...

Charles Dahlgren of Natchez: the Civil War and Dynastic Decline.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Herschel Gower. (Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 2002. Pp. [xviii], 293. $26.95, ISBN 1-57488-394-1.) The research for this book began well over a decade ago when Herschel Gower was shown a boulder recently discovered at Beersheba Springs,...

Lincoln's Quest for Equality: the Road to Gettysburg.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Carl F. Wieck. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, c. 2002. Pp. x, 214. $36.00, ISBN 0-87580-299-0.) Carl F. Wieck's Lincoln's Quest for Equality is a careful study of the intellectual and moral background of two of Abraham...

Judging Lincoln.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Frank J. Williams. With a Foreword by Harold Holzer and an Epilogue by John Y. Simon. (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xxvi], 202. $25.00, ISBN 0-8093-2391-5.) Frank J. Williams is the...

Lincoln's Moral Vision: the Second Inaugural Address.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By James Tackach. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. Pp. [xxviii], 176. $28.00, ISBN 1-57806-495-3.) James Tackach's new book on Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address appears hard on the heels of a newly reawakened interest in...

A Constitutional History of Secession.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By John Remington Graham. Foreword by Donald Livingston. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 2002. Pp. 460. $24.95, ISBN 1-58980-066-4.) According to John Remington Graham, an American lawyer who participated as an advisor in...

To Live and Die: Collected Stories of the Civil War, 1861-1876.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Edited by Kathleen Diffley. (Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 2002. Pp. [xiv], 429. $32.95, ISBN 0-8223-2887-9.) In search of the "real war" that Walt Whitman had predicted "will never get in the books," Kathleen Diffley has...

Climbing Up to Glory: a Short History of African Americans during the Civil War and Reconstruction.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Wilbert L. Jenkins. (Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2002. Pp. [xvi], 285. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-8420-2817-X; cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-8420-2816-1.) In this well-written volume Wilbert L. Jenkins tells the story of African Americans during...

The War Was You and Me: Civilians in the American Civil War.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Edited by Joan E. Cashin. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford, Eng.: Princeton University Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xii], 397. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-691-09174-9; cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-691-09173-0.) This volume's fifteen essays about civilian life...

The Blessed Place of Freedom: Europeans in Civil War America.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Dean B. Mahin. (Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 2002. Pp. xii, 299. $27.95, ISBN 1-57488-484-0.) There is a well-established literary genre, dating mainly from the first few decades of the twentieth century, that celebrates the...

The Civil War in the Carolinas.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Dan L. Morrill. (Charleston, S.C.: Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America, c. 2002. Pp. [vi], 526. $32.95, ISBN 1-877853-56-9.) One may wonder about the intellectual justification for writing a book about the Civil War in...

Louisianians in the Civil War.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Edited by Lawrence Lee Hewitt and Arthur W. Bergeron Jr. Shades of Blue and Gray Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xiv], 197. $32.50, ISBN 0-8262-1403-7.) Louisianians in the Civil War is a collection...

Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By James M. McPherson. Pivotal Moments in American History. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 203. $26.00, ISBN 0-19-513521-0.) The writings of James M. McPherson can be described by three words:...

War and Ruin: William T. Sherman and the Savannah Campaign.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Anne J. Bailey. The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era, No. 10. (Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2003. Pp. [xvi], 152. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8420-2851-X; cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-8420-2850-1.) To most Americans, Sherman's "march...

Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26-June 3, 1864.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Gordon C. Rhea. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Pp. [xx], 532. $34.95, ISBN 0-8071-2803-1.) He's done it again. Gordon C. Rhea is a masterful storyteller whose books are fact-driven, fast-paced, and replete with...

And Keep Moving On: the Virginia Campaign, May-June 1864.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Mark Grimsley. Great Campaigns of the Civil War. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xxii], 282. $45.00, ISBN 0-8032-2162-2.) Mark Grimsley's new book provides readers with the high quality of research,...

Camp Nelson, Kentucky: a Civil War History.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Richard D. Sears. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2002. Pp. [lxxxiv], 401. $45.00, ISBN 0-8131-2246-5.) Richard D. Sears's Camp Nelson, Kentucky is a major contribution to the literature of the Civil War and to the history...

Yeoman in Farragut's Fleet: the Civil War Diary of Josiah Parker Higgins.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Edited and annotated by E. C. Herrmann. (Carmel, Calif.: Guy Victor Publications, c. 1999. Pp. 98. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-9667063-0-7.) Yeoman in Farragut's Fleet is the edited and annotated journal of the yeoman (clerk) of the Union gunboat...

Distinction in Every Service: Brigadier General Marcellus A. Stovall, C.S.A.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By C. L. Bragg. (Shippensburg, Pa.: White Mane Books, c. 2002. Pp. [xiv], 239. $29.95, ISBN 1-57249-291-0.) Author C. L. Bragg describes Marcellus A. Stovall, born in 1818, as the moderately privileged son of an Augusta, Georgia, merchant...

From First to Last: the Life of Major General William B. Franklin.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Mark A. Snell. The North's Civil War Series. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2002. Pp. [xviii], 392. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 0-8232-2149-0; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8232-2148-2.) Mark A. Snell has written a fine biography of Union general...

Southern Service on Land and Sea: the Wartime Journal of Robert Watson, CSA/CSN.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Edited by R. Thomas Campbell. Voices of the Civil War. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 207. $37.00, ISBN 1-57233-193-3.) This volume is a transcribed version of a handwritten journal kept during the Civil War by...

With Sheridan in the Final Campaign against Lee.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Frederick C. Newhall. Edited by Eric J. Wittenberg. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Pp. [xxviii], 212. $34.95, ISBN 0-8071-2756-6.) Originally published in 1866 as With General Sheridan in Lee's Last Campaign under...

Surviving the Confederacy: Rebellion, Ruin, and Recovery--Roger and Sara Pryor during the Civil War.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By John C. Waugh. (New York, San Diego, and London: Harcourt, c. 2002. Pp. [xii], 447. $28.00, ISBN 0-15-100389-0.) This dramatic account of Sara and Roger Pryor's marriage helps to explain why there are so few Civil War novels. Fact simply...

Jefferson Davis in Blue: the Life of Sherman's Relentless Warrior.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr. and Gordon D. Whitney. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Pp. [xx], 475. $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-2777-9.) Finally, it appears that men who commanded corps and divisions in the Union army--such...

Dear Catharine, Dear Taylor: the Civil War Letters of a Union Soldier and His Wife.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Edited by Richard L. Kiper. Modern War Studies. (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xvi], 448. $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-1205-X.) Taylor Peirce joined the 22nd Iowa Volunteer Infantry in 1862 as third sergeant, leaving behind...

A Citizen-Soldier's Civil War: the Letters of Brevet Major General Alvin C. Voris.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Edited by Jerome Mushkat. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xii], 321. $36.00, ISBN 0-87580-298-2.) Volumes containing the correspondence of Civil War soldiers can sometimes simply be poorly written descriptions of...

Campbell Brown's Civil War: with Ewell and the Army of Northern Virginia.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Edited with an introduction by Terry L. Jones. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. [xvi], 414. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2703-5.) Campbell Brown was a southern aristocrat from the antebellum planter class, a proud example...

I Acted from Principle: the Civil War Diary of Dr. William M. McPheeters, Confederate Surgeon in the Trans-Mississippi.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Edited by Cynthia Dehaven Pitcock and Bill J. Gurley. The Civil War in the West. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 423. $34.95, ISBN 1-55728-725-2.) William M. McPheeters was forty-seven years old when his...

The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Victoria E. Bynum. The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xviii], 316. $29.95, ISBN 0-8078-2636-7.) According to legend, a gang of committed Unionists...

Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile, 1860-1890.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Michael W. Fitzgerald. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Pp. [xviii], 301. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8071-2837-6; cloth, $67.50, ISBN 0-8071-2807-4.) The theme of Michael W. Fitzgerald's study of Mobile's "grassroots...

Freedom's Promise: Ex-Slave Families and Citizenship in the Age of Emancipation.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Elizabeth Regosin. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2002. Pp. [xiv], 239. Paper, $17.50, ISBN 0-8139-2096-5; cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-8139-2905-7.) Civil War pension files provide an inexplicably neglected source...

Moral Reconstruction: Christian Lobbyists and the Federal Legislation of Morality, 1865-1920.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Gaines M. Foster. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xvi], 318. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5366-6; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2697-9.) Moral Reconstruction offers new perspectives on American...

A Southern Woman of Letters: the Correspondence of Augusta Jane Evans Wilson.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Edited by Rebecca Grant Sexton. Women's Diaries and Letters of the South. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xxxviii], 205. $29.95, ISBN 1-57003-440-0.) Although largely forgotten today, Augusta Evans Wilson...

Southern Women at Vassar: the Poppenheim Family Letters, 1882-1916.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Edited by Joan Marie Johnson. Women's Diaries and Letters of the South. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xvi], 258. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-443-5.) In 1882 sixteen-year-old Mary Poppenheim, eldest child of a...

Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Lu Ann Jones. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. xvi, 250. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5384-4; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2716-9.) Lu Ann Jones explores how rural women used both traditional...

Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By J. Douglas Smith. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. xiv, 411. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5424-7; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2756-8.) As the nation struggles today with the lingering effects of...

African American Women and Social Action: the Clubwomen and Volunteerism from Jim Crow to the New Deal, 1896-1936.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Floris Barnett Cash. Contributions in Women's Studies, No. 188. (Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 2001. Pp. [xii], 213. $64.00, ISBN 0-313-31563-9.) Floris Barnett Cash has written a compact study of black clubwomen's...

Giant Under the Hill: a History of the Spindletop Oil Discovery at Beaumont, Texas, in 1901.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Judith Walker Linsley, Ellen Walker Rienstra, and Jo Ann Stiles. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, c. 2002. Pp. xii, 304. $29.95, ISBN 0-87611-182-7.) Giant Under the Hill, the first collaboration between the three authors,...

Woodrow Wilson.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By John A. Thompson. Profiles in Power. (New York and other cities: Longman, 2002. Pp. [xviii], 265. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-582-24737-3.) The world has long been fascinated and baffled by Woodrow Wilson. Recognizing his importance to...

The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Tim Madigan. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001. Pp. [xxii], 297. $24.95, ISBN 0-312-27283-9.) On the last day of May and the first of June in 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma, witnessed one of the nation's worst race riots. In less than two...

Flannery O'Connor: a Life.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Jean W. Cash. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 356. $30.00, ISBN 1-57233-192-5.) Flannery O'Connor has been dead for almost forty years. Sally Fitzgerald, one of O'Connor's literary executors, spent most of...

Someone Had to Be Hated: Julian LaRose Harris, a Biography.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Gregory C. Lisby and William F. Mugleston. (Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, c. 2002. Pp. x, 357. $45.00, ISBN 0-89089-631-3.) Julian LaRose Harris (1874-1963) was a nationally recognized journalist from Georgia, a Pulitzer...

The General Textile Strike of 1934: from Maine to Alabama.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By John A. Salmond. (Columbia and London: University of Missoun Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xiv], 295. $37.50, ISBN 0-8262-1395-2.) It is remarkable that the story of an event as significant as the textile strike of 1934 has never been told in its...

A Question of Justice: New South Governors and Education, 1968-1976.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Gordon E. Harvey. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 2002. Pp. [x], 229. $34.95, ISBN 0-8173-1157-2.) This work is a study of three southern Democratic governors who confronted the problems of school desegregation...

Editor for Justice: the Life of Louis I. Jaffe.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Alexander S. Leidholdt. Southern Biography Series. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Pp. [xviii], 507. $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-2751-5.) Louis I. Jaffe, the courageous editor of the Norfolk (Va.) Virginian-Pilot from 1919...

The Shame of Southern Politics: Essays and Speeches.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Leslie Dunbar. Introduction by Dan Carter. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2002. Pp. xxvi, 175. $29.95, ISBN 0-8131-2261-9.) Leslie Dunbar served as research director and then executive director of the Southern Regional...

The Changing South of Gene Patterson: Journalism and Civil Rights, 1960-1968.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Edited by Roy Peter Clark and Raymond Arsenault. Foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller. Southern Dissent. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida. c. 2002. Pp. [xviii], 305, $24.95, ISBN 0-8130-2574-5.) ...

The Role of Ideas in the Civil Rights South.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Edited by Ted Ownby. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2002. Pp. xiv, 219. $48.00, ISBN 1-57806-467-8.) The premise of this anthology is that ideas count and have important consequences. We generally think of the civil rights...

Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By W. J. Rorabaugh. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. [xxiv], 317. $29.00, ISBN 0-521-81617-3.) W. J. Rorabaugh emphasizes that during the abbreviated presidency of John F. Kennedy there were already...

Women in the Barracks: the VMI Case and Equal Rights.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Philippa Strum. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2002. Pp. x, 417. $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-1164-9.) Women in the Barracks is many different studies rolled into one. It is a detailed legal history of discrimination against women's...

The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Carol M. Swain. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xxx, 526. $30.00, ISBN 0-521-80886-3.) Political scientist Carol M. Swain intends for this provocative book to sound a warning about the expanding...

The American South and the Italian Mezzogiorno: Essays in Comparative History.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Edited by Enrico Dal Lago and Rick Halpern. (New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. [x], 256. $65.00, ISBN 0-333-73971-X.) The original impetus for this collection was the 1999 Commonwealth Fund Conference in American History, organized by Enrico...

Bread and Respect: the Italians of Louisiana.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By A. V. Margavio and Jerome J. Salomone. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 2002. Pp. 320. $25.00, ISBN 1-58980-023-0.) A. V. Margavio and Jerome J. Salomone examine "how Italian culture shaped the lives of the immigrants to...

My Father's People: a Family of Southern Jews.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Louis D. Rubin Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Pp. [xvi], 139. $22.50, ISBN 0-8071-2808-2.) The southern literary scholar Louis D. Rubin Jr. has graced us with a thoughtful and sensitive memoir of his father's...

Where There Are Mountains: an Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... By Donald Edward Davis. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xviii], 320. $40.00, ISBN 0-8203-2125-7.) With Where There Are Mountains, Donald Edward Davis makes an important contribution to the growing...

On the Border: an Environmental History of San Antonio.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Edited by Char Miller. (Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xii], 291. $26.00, ISBN 0-8229-4163-5.) On the Border is an interdisciplinary collection of eleven essays on the natural, human, and built environments...

The Association.(Historical News and Notices)(Southern Historical Association)
February 1, 2004... The seventieth meeting of the Southern Historical Association will be held on November 3-6, 2004, at the Marriott Downtown in Memphis. The meeting will begin on Wednesday night and run through Saturday afternoon. At the close of the...