The Journal of Southern History articles from February 2005

The Journal of Southern History archives from February 2005

Religion for the blues: evangelicalism, poor whites, and the great depression.
February 1, 2005... MAY JORDAN LIVED A HARD LIFE. BEFORE HER DEATH IN OCTOBER 1914 at age twenty-five, she spent most of her time helping her father and family survive on a small farm in remote Washington County, Alabama. The sandy soil made agriculture difficult...

The brief career of Rufus W. Bailey, American Colonization society agent in Virginia.(Biography)
February 1, 2005... THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY (ACS), A NATIONAL ORGANIZATION headquartered in Washington, D.C., and dedicated to repatriating Americans of African descent, has been the subject of controversy almost from the date of its founding in 1817....

Minute men, yeomen, and the mobilization for secession in the South Carolina upcountry.
February 1, 2005... IN THE FALL OF 1860, LIMESTONE SPRINGS WAS AN UNDISTINGUISHED village in the far upper piedmont of South Carolina, in sight of the Blue Ridge foothills and only a few miles distant from the North Carolina border. The village itself was home to...

Down memory lane: nostalgia for the Old South in Post-Civil War plantation reminiscences.
February 1, 2005... NOSTALGIA, AS A FORM OF MEMORY, IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF OUR everyday world; its presence is indisputable. But like memory, nostalgia is an evasive concept of often-ambiguous meanings. Perhaps we should begin by asking: What exactly is nostalgia?...

London, Metropolis of the Slave Trade.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... London, Metropolis of the Slave Trade. By James A. Rawley. Shades of Blue and Gray Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2003. Pp. xx, 192. $44.95, ISBN 0-8262-1483-5.) It is James A. Rawley's contention that...

Foul Means: the Formation a Slave Society in Virginia 1660-1740.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Foul Means: The Formation a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660-1740. By Anthony S. Parent Jr. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 291....

A Leap in the Dark: the Struggle to Create the American Republic.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic. By John Ferling. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 558. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-19-517600-6: cloth. $30.00, ISBN 0-19515924-1.) John...

Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America. By Angela Lakwete. Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 232. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-7394-0.)...

Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861. By Joshua D. Rothman. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 341. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5440-9; cloth,...

Daniel Boone: An American Life.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Daniel Boone: An American Life. By Michael A. Lofaro. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 216. $25.00, ISBN 0-8131-2278-3.) For more than a quarter century, Michael A. Lofaro has tracked Daniel Boone. Beginning with...

A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic. By Bruce Dain. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 321. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-00946-0.) Bruce Dain's A Hideous Monster of the Mind:...

A Proslavery Foreign Policy: Haitian-American Relations during the Early Republic.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... A Proslavery Foreign Policy: Haitian-American Relations during the Early Republic. By Tim Matthewson. (Westport, Conn., and London: Praeger. 2003. Pp. xii, 159. $64.95, ISBN 0-275-98002-2.) Tim Matthewson skillfully examines the evolution...

The Other War of 1812: the Patriot War and the American Invasion of Spanish East Florida.(Coacoochee's Bones: A Seminole Saga)(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... The Other War of 1812: The Patriot War and the American Invasion of Spanish East Florida. By James G. Cusick. New Perspectives on the History of the South. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 370....

Alabama's Response to the Penitentiary Movement, 1829-1865.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Alabama's Response to the Penitentiary Movement, 1829-1865. By Robert David Ward and William Warren Rogers. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 163. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2663-6.) In Alabama's...

Becoming Free, Remaining Free: Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans, 1846-1862.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Becoming Free, Remaining Free: Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans, 1846-1862. By Judith Kelleher Schafer. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. xxvi, 204. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8071-2880-5; cloth, $49.95, ISBN...

Rhetoric and Resistance in Black Women's Autobiography.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Rhetoric and Resistance in Black Women's Autobiography. By Johnnie M. Stover. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2003. Pp. viii, 244. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2676-8.) This book is primarily an analysis of tour black...

North Carolina Slave Narratives: the Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, and Thomas H. Jones.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... North Carolina Slave Narratives: The Lives of" Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, and Thomas H. Jones. Edited by William L. Andrews et al. The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. (Chapel Hill and London:...

Free Hearts and Free Homes: Gender and American Antislavery Politics.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... By Michael D. Pierson. Gender and American Culture. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 250. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5455-7: cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2782-7.) The central themes of Michael D....

Slavery in the Cherokee Nation: The Keetowah Society and the Defining of a People, 1855-1867.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... By Patrick N. Minges. Studies in African American History and Culture. (New York and London: Routledge, 2003. Pp. xiv, 302. $90.00, ISBN 0-415-94586-0.) Following in the footsteps of the late William G. McLoughlin's extensive scholarship...

Fanatics and Fire-eaters: Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... By Lorman A. Ratner and Dwight L. Teeter Jr. The History of Communication. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 138. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-252-07221-9; cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-25202787-6.) Why did the American...

Genteel Rebel: the Life of Mary Greenhow Lee.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... By Sheila R. Phipps. Southern Biography Series. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 259. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-8071-2927-5: cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8071-2885-6.) Although published in a biography series, this volume...

Guarding Greensboro: a Confederate Company in the Making of a Southern Community.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... By G. Ward Hubbs. (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 325. $34.95, ISBN 0-8203-2505-8.) Community studies and military unit histories have long been mainstays of American historiography. In Guarding...

Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... By James L. Huston. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xviii, 394. $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2804-1.) Although laid out in nearly four hundred pages of densely argued text, the essential...

The American Civil War through British Eyes: Dispatches from British Diplomats.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Volume 1: November 1860-April 1862. Edited by James J. Barnes and Patience P. Barnes. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, c. 2003. Pp. viii, 338. $50.00, ISBN 0-87338-787-2.) Civil War scholars interested in the political culture of...

English Public Opinion and the American Civil War.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... By Duncan Andrew Campbell. Studies in History, New Series. (New York and Suffolk: The Boydell Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2003. Pp. viii, 266. $70.00, ISBN 0-86193-263-3.) British reactions to the American Civil War continue to...

Success Is All That Was Expected: the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Success Is All That Was Expected: The South Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War. By Robert M. Browning Jr. (Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, Inc., 2002. Pp. xii, 497. $34.95, ISBN 1-57488-514-6.) With the publication of this...

Where the South Lost the War: an Analysis of the Fort Henry-Fort Donelson Campaign, February 1862.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Where the South Lost the War: An Analysis of the Fort Henry-Fort Donelson Campaign, February 1862. By Kendall D. Gott. (Mechanicsburg, Penn.: Stackpole Books, 2003. Pp. xviii, 346. $45.00, ISBN 0-8117-0049-6.) Often overshadowed by...

"All Cut to Pieces and Gone to Hell": the Civil War, Race Relations, and the Battle of Poison Spring.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... "All Cut to Pieces and Gone to Hell": The Civil War, Race Relations, and the Battle of Poison Spring. Edited by Mark K. Christ. (Little Rock, Ark.: August House Publishers, Inc., 2003. Pp. 147. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-87483-737-5; cloth, $23.95,...

The Union Generals Speak: the Meade Hearings on the Battle of Gettysburg.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... The Union Generals Speak: The Meade Hearings on the Battle of Gettysburg. Edited by Bill Hyde. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 428. $45.00, ISBN 0-8071-2581-4.) Political and military maneuvering typically...

The Papers of Jefferson Davis. Volume 11: September 1864-May 1865.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... The Papers of Jefferson Davis. Volume 11: September 1864-May 1865. Edited by Lynda Lasswell Crist, Barbara J. Rozek, and Kenneth H. Williams. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. xlviii, 699. $85.00, ISBN 0-8071-2909-7.)...

Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home. By Matthew Pinsker. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 256. $30.00, ISBN 0-19-516206-4.) The Soldiers' Home was established outside Washington,...

John Basil Turchin and the Fight to Free the Slaves.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... John Basil Turchin and the Fight to Free the Slaves. By Stephen Chicoine. (Westport, Conn., and London: Praeger, 2003. Pp. xiv, 245. $67.95, ISBN 0-275-97441-3.) Was he the "Mad Cossack" or the "'Russian thunderbolt'"? American Civil War...

Exile in Erin: a Confederate Chaplain's Story; the Life of Father John B. Bannon.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Exile in Erin: A Confederate Chaplain's Story; The Life of Father John B. Bannon. By William Barnaby Faherty, SJ. (St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society Press, c. 2002. Pp. xvi, 237. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 1-883982-47-2; cloth, $29.95, ISBN...

Kate Chase and William Sprague: Politics and Gender in a Civil War Marriage.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Kate Chase and William Sprague: Politics and Gender in a Civil War Marriage. By Peg A. Lamphier. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 315. $55.00, ISBN 0-8032-2947-X.) Peg A. Lamphier has written an...

Sacred Debts: State Civil War Claims and American Federalism, 1861-1880.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Sacred Debts: State Civil War Claims and American Federalism, 1861-1880. By Kyle S. Sinisi. The North's Civil War Series. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 208. $50.00, ISBN 0-8232-2259-4.) The conclusion of the Civil War...

Soldiers of Peace: Civil War Pacifism and the Postwar Radical Peace Movement.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Soldiers of Peace: Civil War Pacifism and the Postwar Radical Peace Movement. By Thomas F. Curran. The North's Civil War Series. (New York: Fordham University Press. 2003. Pp. xviii. 228. $45.00, ISBN 0-8232-2210-1.) When historians refer...

The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865-1895.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865-1895. By Jane Turner Censer. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 316. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8071-2921-6; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8071-2907-0.) Jane Turner...

Women's Radical Reconstruction: the Freedmen's Aid Movement.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Women's Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen's Aid Movement. By Carol Faulkner. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c. 2004. Pp. [viii], 200. $39.95, ISBN 0-8122-3744-7.) Carol Faulkner's fascinating and important book focuses...

Dangerous Liaisons: Sex and Love in the Segregated South.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Dangerous Liaisons: Sex and Love in the Segregated South. By Charles Frank Robinson II. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 196. $29.95. ISBN 1-55278-755-4.) This study focuses on the enforcement of southern laws...

Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia. By Anthony Cavender. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xx, 266. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5493-X: cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2824-6.) Anthony Cavender offers a...

Origins of the New South Fifty Years Later: the Continuing Influence of a Historical Classic.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Origins of the New South Fifty Years Later: The Continuing Influence of a Historical Classic. Edited by John B. Boles and Bethany L. Johnson. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 308. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8071-2920-8;...

One Woman's Political Journey: Kate Barnard and Social Reform, 1875-1930.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... One Woman's Political Journey: Kate Barnard and Social Reform, 1875-1930. By Lynn Musslewhite and Suzanne Jones Crawford. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 231. $34.95, ISBN 0-8061-3563-8.) Kate Barnard's odyssey...

Black Physicians in the Jim Crow South.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Black Physicians in the Jim Crow South. By Thomas J. Ward Jr. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2003. Pp. xxiv, 368. $34.95, ISBN 1-55728756-2.) To be black and to practice medicine in the South in the decades from...

Out of Sight: the Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895. By Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff. American Made Music Series. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2002. Pp. xviii, 510. $75.00, ISBN 1-57806-499-6.) There is...

The Social Origins of the Urban South: Race, Gender, and Migration in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, 1890-1930.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... The Social Origins of the Urban South: Race, Gender, and Migration in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, 1890-1930. By Louis M. Kyriakoudes. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xx, 226. Paper, $19.95, ISBN...

Kentucky Justice, Southern Honor, and American Manhood: Understanding the Life and Death of Richard Reid.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Kentucky Justice, Southern Honor, and American Manhood: Understanding the Life and Death of Richard Reid. By James C. Klotter. Southern Biography Series. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 197. $34.95, ISBN...

A Chief Lieutenant of the Tuskegee Machine: Charles Banks of Mississippi.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... A Chief Lieutenant of the Tuskegee Machine: Charles Banks of Mississippi. By David H. Jackson Jr. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2002. Pp. xvi, 282. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2544-3.) In A Chief Lieutenant of the...

The Stranahans of Fort Lauderdale: a Pioneer Family of New River.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... The Stranahans of Fort Lauderdale: A Pioneer Family of New River. By Harry A. Kersey Jr. Foreword by Raymond Arsenault and Gary R. Mormino. The Florida History and Culture Series. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c....

The North Carolina Century: Tar Heels Who Made a Difference, 1900-2000.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... The North Carolina Century: Tar Heels Who Made a Difference, 1900-2000. Edited by Howard E. Covington Jr. and Marion A. Ellis. (Charlotte, N.C.: Levine Museum of the New South, c. 2002. Pp. xiv. 645. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2757-6.) The...

Paving Tobacco Road: a Century of Progress by the North Carolina Department of Transportation.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Paving Tobacco Road: A Century of Progress by the North Carolina Department of Transportation. By Walter R. Turner. (Raleigh: North Carolina Office of Archives and History, c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 181. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 0-86526-305-1.) The era...

Booker T. Washington and Black Progress: Up From Slavery 100 Years Later.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Booker T. Washington and Black Progress: Up From Slavery 100 Years Later. Edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2003. Pp. viii, 227. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8130-28140; cloth, $55.00, ISBN...

Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans. By Benjamin Heber Johnson. Western Americana Series. (New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, c. 2003. Pp. [x], 260. $30.00,...

Howard W. Odum's Folklore Odyssey: Transformation to Tolerance through African American Folk Studies.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Howard W. Odum's Folklore Odyssey: Transformation to Tolerance through African American Folk Studies. By Lynn Moss Sanders. (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2003. Pp. xviii, 184. $29.95, ISBN 0-8203-2549-X.) In an essay...

"We're, the Light Crust Doughboys from Burrus Mill": An Oral History.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... "We're, the Light Crust Doughboys from Burrus Mill": An Oral History. By Jean A. Boyd. (Austin: University of Texas Press, c. 2003. Pp. xxviii, 164. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-292-70925; cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-292-70916-1.) Country music, in all...

Portrait of America: a Cultural History of the Federal Writers' Project.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Portrait of America: A Cultural History of the Federal Writers' Project. By Jerrold Hirsch. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 293. Paper, $19.95. ISBN 0-8078-5489-1: cloth, $55.00, ISBN...

Paul Green: Playwright of the Real South.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Paul Green: Playwright of the Real South. By John Herbert Roper. (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 320. $34.95, ISBN 0-8203-2488-4.) Paul Green (1894-1981) is perhaps best known today for his most enduring...

Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race: How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race: How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown. By Kevin J. McMahon. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. x, 298. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-226-50088-8; cloth, $52.00, ISBN 0-226-50086-1.) ...

"We, Too, Are Americans": African American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-54.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... "We, Too, Are Americans": African American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-54. By Megan Taylor Shockley. Women in American History. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2004. Pp. x, 256. $39.95, ISBN 0-252-02863-5.) ...

Beyond Atlanta: the Struggle for Racial Equality in Georgia, 1940-1980.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Beyond Atlanta: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Georgia, 1940-1980. By Stephen G. N. Tuck. (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2001. Pp. xiv, 341. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8203-2528-7; cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-8203-2265-2.) ...

The Enemy among Us: POWs in Missouri during World War II.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... The Enemy among Us: POWs in Missouri during World War II. By David Fiedler. (Saint Louis: Missouri Historical Society Press, c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 466. $29.95, ISBN 1-883982-49-9.) The odyssey of the roughly 50,000 Italian and 378,000 German...

Stuart Symington: a Life.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Stuart Symington: A Life. By James C. Olson. Missouri Biography Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2003. Pp. xviii, 550. $39.95, ISBN 0-8262-1503-3.) James C. Olson's comprehensive biography of Stuart Symington...

Black Struggle, Red Scare: Segregation and Anti-Communism in the South, 1948-1968.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Black Struggle, Red Scare: Segregation and Anti-Communism in the South, 1948-1968. By Jeff Woods. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 282. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8071-2926-7; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8071-2875-9.) A...

Down in Houston: Bayou City Blues.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Down in Houston: Bayou City Blues. By Roger Wood. Photographs by James Fraher. Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture, no. 8. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. Pp. x, 345. $34.95, ISBN 0-292-79159-3.) ...

Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America. By Renee C. Romano. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 368. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-01033-7.) Renee C. Romano's Race Mixing is an imaginative "marriage"...

Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner's Go Down, Moses.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner's Go Down, Moses. By Thadious M. Davis. (Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 339. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-8223-3139-X; cloth, $64.95, ISBN 0-8223-3103-9.) Best...

African American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... African American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas. By Johnny E. Williams. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2003. Pp. xxvi, 177. $40.00, ISBN 1-57806-545-3.) Johnny E. Williams explores the connections between...

Civil War on Race Street: the Civil Rights Movement in Cambridge, Maryland.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Civil War on Race Street: The Civil Rights Movement in Cambridge, Maryland. By Peter B. Levy. Southern Dissent. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2003. Pp. xviii, 242. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-81302815-9; cloth,...

Divine Agitators: the Delta Ministry and Civil Rights in Mississippi.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Divine Agitators: The Delta Ministry and Civil Rights in Mississippi. By Mark Newman. (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2004. Pp. xx, 352. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8203-2532-5; cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0-82032526-0.) Mississippi...

A Voting Rights Odyssey: Black Enfranchisement in Georgia.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... A Voting Rights Odyssey: Black Enfranchisement in Georgia. By Laughlin McDonald. (Cambridge, Eng., and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 254. Paper, $19.99, ISBN 0-521-01179-5; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-521-81232-1.) ...

Civil Rights Crossroads: Nation, Community, and the Black Freedom Struggle.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Civil Rights Crossroads: Nation, Community, and the Black Freedom Struggle. By Steven F. Lawson. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 384. $35.00, ISBN 0-8131-2287-2.) This collection reflects the work of Steven F....

Confronting Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism in the USA.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Confronting Right-wing Extremism and Terrorism in the USA. By George Michael. Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy. (New York and London: Routledge, 2003. Pp. xiv, 283. $90.00, ISBN 0-415-31500-X.) The May 2004 sentencing of Tyler,...

Realignment: the Theory That Changed the Way We Think about American Politics.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Realignment: The Theory That Changed the Way We Think about American Politics. By Theodore Rosenof. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc., c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 231. Paper, $26.95, ISBN 0-7425-3105-8; cloth, $75.00,...

Warm Ashes: Issues in Southern History at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Warm Ashes: Issues in Southern History at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Winfred B. Moore Jr., Kyle S. Sinisi, and David H. White Jr. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 413. $49.95, ISBN...

The South, the Nation, and the World: Perspectives on Southern Economic Development.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... The South, the Nation, and the World: Perspectives on Southern Economic Development. By David L. Carlton and Peter A. Coclanis. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2003. Pp. [xii], 234. Paper, $19.50, ISBN 0-8139-2185-6:...

"Lives Full of Struggle and Triumph": Southern Women, Their Institutions, and Their Communities.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... "Lives Full of Struggle and Triumph": Southern Women, Their Institutions, and Their Communities. Edited by Bruce L. Clayton and John A. Salmond. Foreword by John David Smith. New Perspectives on the History of the South. (Gainesville and other...

The Future of the Southern Plains.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... The Future of the Southern Plains. Edited by Sherry L. Smith. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 275. $29.95, ISBN...

Pioneer in Space and Time: John Mann Goggin and the Development of Florida Archaeology.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Pioneer in Space and Time: John Mann Goggin and the Development of Florida Archaeology. By Brent Richard Weisman. Foreword by Jerald T. Milanich. The Ripley P. Bullen Series, Florida Museum of Natural History. (Gainesville and other cities:...

The Roots of Texas Music.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... The Roots of Texas Music. Edited by Lawrence Clayton and Joe W. Specht. Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University, no. 93. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 235. $29.95, ISBN...

San Antonio on Parade: Six Historic Festivals.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... San Antonio on Parade: Six Historic Festivals. By Judith Berg Sobre. Tarleton State University Southwestern Studies in the Humanities, no. 15. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 264. $29.95, ISBN 1-58544-222-4.) ...

Rock beneath the Sand: Country Churches in Texas.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Rock beneath the Sand: Country Churches in Texas. By Lois E. Myers and Rebecca Sharpless. Photographs by Clark G. Baker. Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, no. 5. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 197. $35.00, ISBN...

Minding the South.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Minding the South. By John Shelton Reed. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 291. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8262-1490-8.) I was reluctant to review this book because the author is a special friend. But as the...

Historical news and notices.
February 1, 2005... THE ASSOCIATION The seventy-first meeting of the Southern Historical Association will be held on November 2-5, 2005, Wednesday through Saturday, at the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta. At the close of the Association's seventieth...

Obituary.(Obituary)
February 1, 2005... After several years of declining health, Dewey Wesley Grantham died on August 26, 2004, in Nashville, at the age of eighty-three. Professor Grantham was born March 16, 1921, in Manassas, Georgia, and grew up in the impoverished rural South of...

Libraries and archives.
February 1, 2005... The Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center at the University of Oklahoma seeks applicants for its Visiting Scholars Program, which provides financial assistance to researchers working at the center's archives. Awards of $500 to...