The Journal of Southern History articles from February 2006

The Journal of Southern History archives from February 2006

A region in harmony: southern music and the sound track of freedom.
February 1, 2006... IT HAD BEEN A SCORCHING DAY ON THE SOUTH CAROLINA COAST IN THE summer of 1949, and it promised to be a steamy evening. Out on the beach the lifeguards had already taken down the umbrellas and stacked the beach chairs. The waves kept up a...

Narratives of villainy and virtue: Governor Francis Nicholson and the character of the good ruler in early Virginia.
February 1, 2006... FRANCIS NICHOLSON, THE ROYAL GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA, WAS A WILDLY immoderate and disordered man. His character was depraved, dissolute, and ungodly. "One might as well pretend to describe an hurricane to one that never saw it," observed the...

Welfare and employment policies of the Freedmen's Bureau in the District of Columbia.
February 1, 2006... ON JULY 1, 1865, "THE BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN, AND ABANDONED Lands (Freedmen's Bureau) opened a local office in Washington, D.C. In doing so, an agency that had been created to manage the transition from slavery to freedom in the states of...

Virginia's northern strategy: southern segregationists and the route to national conservatism.
February 1, 2006... IN LATE JULY 1962, A DELEGATION OF THIRTY REPUBLICAN LEGISLATORS from Pennsylvania arrived in Williamsburg, Virginia. Among the party were some of the Keystone State's most powerful and influential politicians, including Albert W. Johnson,...

This Delta, This Land: An Environmental History of the Yazoo-Mississippi Floodplain.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... This Delta, This Land: An Environmental History of the Yazoo-Mississippi Floodplain. By Mikko Saikku. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2005. Pp. xx, 373. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8203-2673-9; cloth, $54.95, ISBN...

The Carolina Parakeet: Glimpses of a Vanished Bird.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... The Carolina Parakeet: Glimpses of a Vanished Bird. By Noel F. R. Snyder. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford, Eng.: Princeton University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 153. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-11795-0.) This book is about a green, yellow, and orange...

Southerners, Too? Essays on the Black South, 1733-1990.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Southerners, Too? Essays on the Black South, 1733-1990. By Alton Hornsby Jr. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: University Press of America, Inc., c. 2004. Pp. xxii, 317. Paper, $40.00, ISBN 0-7618-2872-9; cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-7618-2871-0.) ...

Hearing History: A Reader.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Hearing History: A Reader. Edited by Mark M. Smith. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, 2004. Pp. xxii, 413. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-8203-2583-X; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8203-2582-1.) It is hardly surprising that the history...

Women in Missouri History: In Search of Power and Influence.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Women in Missouri History: In Search of Power and Influence. Edited by LeeAnn Whites, Mary C. Neth, and Gary R. Kremer. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2004. Pp. x, 275. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8262-1526-2.) It is...

The Battle for the American Mind: A Brief History of a Nation's Thought.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... The Battle for the American Mind: A Brief History of a Nation's Thought. By Carl J. Richard. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2004. Pp. xviii, 357. $27.95, ISBN 0-7425-3435-9.) Carl J. Richard's...

Strange Kin: Ireland and the American South.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Strange Kin: Ireland and the American South. By Kieran Quinlan. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. [xiv], 289. $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-2983-6.) As Kieran Quinlan's title indicates, the historical experience of the...

Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia. By Warren M. Billings. Southern Biography. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 290. $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-3012-5.) This long-awaited biography of Sir William...

A Colonial Complex: South Carolina's Frontiers in the Era of the Yamasee War, 1680-1730.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... A Colonial Complex: South Carolina's Frontiers in the Era of the Yamasee War, 1680-1730. By Steven J. Oatis. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 399. $65.00, ISBN 0-8032-3575-5.) The literature on the...

Colonial Virginia's Cooking Dynasty.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Colonial Virginia's Cooking Dynasty. By Katharine E. Harbury. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xx, 479. $59.95, ISBN 1-57003-513-X.) For the colonial Virginia gentry, food and entertainment provided an important...

Virginia's Western Visions: Political and Cultural Expansion on an Early American Frontier.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Virginia's Western Visions: Political and Cultural Expansion on an Early American Frontier. By L. Scott Philyaw. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. Pp. xxviii, 180. $33.00, ISBN 1-57233-307-3.) L. Scott Philyaw offers a fine...

Army and Empire: British Soldiers on the American Frontier, 1758-1775.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Army and Empire: British Soldiers on the American Frontier, 1758-1775. By Michael N. McConnell. Studies in War, Society, and the Military. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2004. Pp. xx, 211. $49.95, ISBN 0-8032-3233-0.) ...

Between the Lines: Banditti of the American Revolution.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Between the Lines: Banditti of the American Revolution. By Harry M. Ward. Studies in Military History and International Affairs. (Westport, Conn., and London: Praeger, 2002. Pp. xiv, 329. $55.00, ISBN 0-275-97633-5.) Harry M. Ward tells a...

The Papers of James Iredell.(The Papers of James Iredell: 1784-1789, vol. 3)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... The Papers of James Iredell. Volume III: 1784-1789. Edited by Donna Kelly and Lang Baradell. (Raleigh: Office of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 2003. Pp. lviii, 583. $30.00, ISBN 0-86526-310-8.) ...

Divided Union: The Politics of War in the Early American Republic.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Divided Union: The Politics of War in the Early American Republic. By Scott A. Silverstone. Cornell Studies in Security Affairs. (Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, c. 2004. Pp. ix, 278. $42.50, ISBN 0-8014-4230-3.) The...

Demanding the Cherokee Nation: Indian Autonomy and American Culture, 1830-1900.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Demanding the Cherokee Nation: Indian Autonomy and American Culture, 1830-1900. By Andrew Denson. Indians of the Southeast. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2004. Pp. [xiv], 327. $55.00, ISBN 0-8032-1726-9.) In...

Fetching the Old Southwest: Humorous Writing from Longstreet to Twain.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Fetching the Old Southwest: Humorous Writing from Longstreet to Twain. By James H. Justus. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 591. $54.95, ISBN 0-8262-1544-0.) "[C]ritical attention to antebellum southern...

The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier. By Scott Zesch. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 362. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-312-31789-1; cloth, $26.95, ISBN 0-312-31787-5.) One day while wandering...

Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American South.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American South. By Robert B. Outland III. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 352. $47.95, ISBN 0-8071-2981-X.) Like the smell of tobacco drying or magnolia in...

Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World. By Thomas C. Buchanan. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 256. $32.50, ISBN 0-8078-2909-9.) Black Life on the...

Steamboats on Louisiana's Bayous: A History and Directory.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Steamboats on Louisiana's Bayous: A History and Directory. By Carl A. Brasseaux and Keith P. Fontenot. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 277. $54.95, ISBN 0-8071-2975-5.) Trails of water washing into land make...

Germans of Louisiana.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Germans of Louisiana. By Ellen C. Merrill. Foreword by Don Heinrich Tolzmann. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 2005. Pp. 380. $25.00, ISBN 1-58980-244-6.) Ellen C. Merrill's Germans of Louisiana is a welcome addition to the...

New Orleans and the Texas Revolution.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... New Orleans and the Texas Revolution. By Edward L. Miller. Foreword by Archie P. McDonald. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 275. $29.95, ISBN 1-58544-358-1.) In this important book Edward Miller broadens the...

Sea of Mud: The Retreat of the Mexican Army after San Jacinto, An Archeological Investigation.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Sea of Mud: The Retreat of the Mexican Army after San Jacinto, An Archeological Investigation. By Gregg J. Dimmick. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, c. 2004. Pp. xviii, 362. $34.95, ISBN 0-87611-198-3.) The stated purpose of...

Slavery and the Making of America.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Slavery and the Making of America. By James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, c. 2005. Pp. 254. Paper, $10.99, ISBN 0-19-530451-9; cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-19-517903-X.) In a companion book...

The Mulatta and the Politics of Race.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... The Mulatta and the Politics of Race. By Teresa C. Zackodnik. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2004. Pp. xxxii, 235. $45.00, ISBN 1-57806-676-X.) Zackodnik examines legal, social, and literary examples of mulattas in...

Rape and Race in the Nineteenth-Century South.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Rape and Race in the Nineteenth-Century South. By Diane Miller Sommerville. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 411. Paper, 24.95, ISBN 0-8078-5560-X; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2891-2.) Diane...

Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South. Edited by Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. xii, 324. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5410-7; cloth, $55.00, ISBN...

The Taney Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... The Taney Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy. By Timothy S. Huebner. ABC-CLIO Supreme Court Handbooks. (Santa Barbara, Calif., Denver, Colo., and Oxford, Eng.: ABC-CLIO, c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 288. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 1-57607-368-8; e-book,...

The American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... The American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. By Richard Franklin Bensel. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 302. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-521-53786-X; cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-521-83101-6.) ...

The Shattering of the Union: America in the 1850s.(The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... The Shattering of the Union: America in the 1850s. By Eric H. Walther. The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era. (Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2004. Pp. xxvi, 210. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8420-2799-8; cloth, $65.00, ISBN...

Gendered Freedoms: Race, Rights, and the Politics of Household in the Delta, 1861-1875.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Gendered Freedoms: Race, Rights, and the Politics of Household in the Delta, 1861-1875. By Nancy Bercaw. Southern Dissent. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2003. Pp. xviii, 279. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8130-2788-8;...

The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861-1865.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861-1865. By Robert R. Mackey. Campaigns and Commanders. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 288. $19.95, ISBN 0-8061-3624-3.) Although various forms of irregular...

Bugle Resounding: Music and Musicians of the Civil War Era.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Bugle Resounding: Music and Musicians of the Civil War Era. Edited by Bruce C. Kelley and Mark A. Snell. Shades of Blue and Gray. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2004. Pp. xii, 260. $44.95, ISBN 0-8262-1538-6.) Bugle...

Sanctified Trial: The Diary of Eliza Rhea Anderson Fain, a Confederate Woman in East Tennessee.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Sanctified Trial: The Diary of Eliza Rhea Anderson Fain, a Confederate Woman in East Tennessee. Edited by John N. Fain. Voices of the Civil War. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. Pp. lxvi, 410. $42.00, ISBN 1-57233-313-8.) ...

Soldiers of Southwestern Virginia: The Civil War Letters of Captain John Preston Sheffey.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Soldiers of Southwestern Virginia: The Civil War Letters of Captain John Preston Sheffey. Edited by James I. Robertson Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press in cooperation with Civil War Studies, c. 2004. Pp. x, 239. $39.95, ISBN...

Sabine Pass: The Confederacy's Thermopylae.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Sabine Pass: The Confederacy's Thermopylae. By Edward T. Cotham Jr. The Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 274. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-292-70594-8; cloth, $39.95, ISBN...

Nashville: The Western Confederacy's Final Gamble.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Nashville: The Western Confederacy's Final Gamble. By James Lee McDonough. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 358. $39.95, ISBN 1-57233-322-7.) In his long and distinguished career as a Civil War historian, James Lee...

Chimborazo: The Confederacy's Largest Hospital.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Chimborazo: The Confederacy's Largest Hospital. By Carol C. Green. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 200. $29.95, ISBN 1-57233-316-2.) One of the principal contributions of the Civil War to medicine was its impact...

For a Great and Grand Purpose: The Beginnings of the AMEZ Church in Florida, 1864-1905.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... For a Great and Grand Purpose: The Beginnings of the AMEZ Church in Florida, 1864-1905. By Canter Brown Jr. and Larry Eugene Rivers. Foreword by Stephen W. Angell and Anthony B. Pinn. The History of African-American Religions. Gainesville and...

Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865-1914.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South. By William A. Blair. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004.) Pp. xiv, 250. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2896-3.) This book...

After the Glory: The Struggles of Black Civil War Veterans.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... After the Glory: The Struggles of Black Civil War Veterans. By Donald R. Shaffer. Modern War Studies. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2004. Pp. [x], 281. $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-1328-5.) This book will be the definitive study of...

The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom: A Legal History.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom: A Legal History. By Alexander Tsesis. (New York and London: New York University Press, c. 2004. Pp. x, 228. $45.00, ISBN 0-8147-8276-0.) This is an imaginative work of constitutional theory...

The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Volume 25: 1874; Volume 26: 1875. Edited by John Y. Simon and others. (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, c. 2003. Pp. xxvi, 505; xxvi, 618. $90.00, ISBN 0-8093-2498-9; $90.00, ISBN...

Come to Texas: Attracting Immigrants, 1865-1915.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Come to Texas: Attracting Immigrants, 1865-1915. By Barbara J. Rozek. Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 250. $39.95, ISBN 1-58544-267-4.) Travel literature...

Legislating Racism: The Billion Dollar Congress and the Birth of Jim Crow.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Legislating Racism: The Billion Dollar Congress and the Birth of Jim Crow. By Thomas Adams Upchurch. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 302. $40.00, ISBN 0-8131-2311-9.) After the 1888 elections brought Benjamin...

Appalachian Folkways.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Appalachian Folkways. By John B. Rehder. Creating the North American Landscape. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xii, 353. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-7879-9.) John B. Rehder begins his study, Appalachian...

Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland. Edited by Michael E. Birdwell and W. Calvin Dickinson. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2004. Pp. xii, 369. $45.00, ISBN 0-8131-2309-7.) Rural Life and Culture in the Upper...

Blessed with Tourists: The Borderlands of Religion and Tourism in San Antonio.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Blessed with Tourists: The Borderlands of Religion and Tourism in San Antonio. By Thomas S. Bremer. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 207. Paper, $19.95, 0-8078-5580-4; cloth, $55.00, ISBN...

Carville: Remembering Leprosy in America.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Carville: Remembering Leprosy in America. By Marcia Gaudet. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 221. $28.00, ISBN 1-57806-693-X.) Leprosy. The word alone conjures up fear, disbelief, ostracism, condemnation--an...

Southern Ladies, New Women: Race, Region, and Clubwomen in South Carolina, 1890-1930.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Southern Ladies, New Women: Race, Region, and Clubwomen in South Carolina, 1890-1930. By Joan Marie Johnson. New Perspectives on the History of the South. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 282. Paper,...

Stories from the Barrio: A History of Mexican Fort Worth.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Stories from the Barrio: A History of Mexican Fort Worth. By Carlos E. Cuellar. (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, c. 2003. Pp. [xvi], 240. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-87565-290-5; cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-87565-275-1.) Stories from the...

No Peace Without Freedom: Race and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1915-1975.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... No Peace Without Freedom: Race and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1915-1975. By Joyce Blackwell. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, c. 2004. Pp. [xxii], 241. $55.00, ISBN 0-8093-2564-0.) Of the...

The Fire Ant Wars: Nature, Science, and Public Policy in Twentieth-Century America.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... The Fire Ant Wars: Nature, Science, and Public Policy in Twentieth-Century America. By Joshua Blu Buhs. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, c. 2004. Pp. x, 216. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-226-07982-1; cloth, $55.00, ISBN...

The Pussycat of Prizefighting: Tiger Flowers and the Politics of Black Celebrity.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... The Pussycat of Prizefighting: Tiger Flowers and the Politics of Black Celebrity. By Andrew M. Kaye. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2004. Pp. [xii], 208. $26.95, ISBN 0-8203-2590-2.) I found very intriguing Andrew...

Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women, and the Mob.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women, and the Mob. By Dora Apel. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xii, 259. Paper, $34.95, ISBN 0-8135-3459-3; cloth, $70.00, ISBN 0-8135-3458-5.) In Imagery of Lynching:...

Witnessing Lynching: American Writers Respond.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Witnessing Lynching: American Writers Respond. Edited by Anne P. Rice. Foreword by Michele Wallace. (New Brunswick, N.J., and London: Rutgers University Press, c. 2003. Pp. xx, 324. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-8135-3330-9; cloth, $65.00, ISBN...

A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music.(More than Precious Memories: The Rhetoric of Southern Gospel Music)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music. Edited by Kristine M. McCusker and Diane Pecknold. American Made Music Series. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2004. Pp. xxiv, 232. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 1-57806-678-6; cloth, $50.00, ISBN...

Head, Heart, and Hand: John Brown University and Modern Evangelical Higher Education.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Head, Heart, and Hand: John Brown University and Modern Evangelical Higher Education. By Rick Ostrander. With a foreword by George Marsden. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 277. $29.95, ISBN 1-55728-761-9.) Rick...

The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund. By William H. Tucker. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Pp. [xii], 286. $34.95, ISBN 0-252-02762-0.) William H. Tucker's thorough and careful...

Waccamaw Legacy: Contemporary Indians Fight for Survival.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Waccamaw Legacy: Contemporary Indians Fight for Survival. By Patricia Barker Lerch. Contemporary American Indian Studies. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 168. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-8173-5124-8; cloth, $57.50, ISBN...

Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South. Edited by Glenn Feldman. The Modern South. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 430. Paper, $27.95, ISBN 0-8173-5134-5; cloth, $60.00, ISBN...

All According to God's Plan: Southern Baptist Missions and Race, 1945-1970.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... All According to God's Plan: Southern Baptist Missions and Race, 1945-1970. By Alan Scot Willis. Religion in the South. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 260. $45.00, ISBN 0-8131-2341-0.) Historiographical lumpers...

Race, Culture, and the Intellectuals, 1940-1970.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Race, Culture, and the Intellectuals, 1940-1970. By Richard H. King. (Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, and Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 398. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8018-8066-1; cloth,...

Defining the Peace: World War II Veterans, Race, and the Remaking of Southern Political Tradition.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Defining the Peace: World War II Veterans, Race, and the Remaking of Southern Political Tradition. By Jennifer E. Brooks. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 256. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5578-2;...

Senator Albert Gore, Sr.: Tennessee Maverick.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Senator Albert Gore, Sr.: Tennessee Maverick. By Kyle Longley. With a foreword by Al Gore Jr. Southern Biography. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 350. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2980-1.) For most casual observers...

Howard Zinn: A Radical American Vision.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Howard Zinn: A Radical American Vision. By Davis D. Joyce. Foreword by Noam Chomsky. (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2003. Pp. 268. $25.00, ISBN 1-59102-131-6.) In this first biography of Howard Zinn, Davis D. Joyce describes the...

Shelby Foote and the Art of History: Two Gates to the City.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Shelby Foote and the Art of History: Two Gates to the City. By James Panabaker. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 238. $32.00, ISBN 1-57233-318-9.) "[H]istory, if it is to be a living part of cultural memory,"...

Judge Faye Sanders Martin: Head Full of Sense, Heart Full of Gold.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Judge Faye Sanders Martin: Head Full of Sense, Heart Full of Gold. By Rebecca Shriver Davis and Sandra J. Peacock. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2004. Pp. xxx, 219. $35.00, ISBN 0-86554-753-X.) As Rebecca Shriver Davis and Sandra J....

White Girl: A Story of School Desegregation.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... White Girl: A Story of School Desegregation. By Clara Silverstein. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2004. Pp. xii, 149. $22.95, ISBN 0-8203-2662-3.) When readers of Clara Silverstein's White Girl: A Story of School...

Throwing Off the Cloak of Privilege: White Southern Women Activists in the Civil Rights Era.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Throwing Off the Cloak of Privilege: White Southern Women Activists in the Civil Rights Era. Edited by Gail S. Murray. Southern Dissent. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 250. $59.95, ISBN...

Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity. By Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar. Reconfiguring American Political History. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xii, 258. Paper, $23.00, ISBN 0-8018-8275-3;...

The Minority Rights Revolution.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... The Minority Rights Revolution. By John D. Skrentny. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 473. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-674-01618-5; cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-674-00899-5.) The Minority Rights Revolution is an...

Southern Women at the Millennium: A Historical Perspective.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Southern Women at the Millennium: A Historical Perspective. Edited by Melissa Walker, Jeanette R. Dunn, and Joe P. Dunn. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 243. $44.95, ISBN 0-8262-1505-X.) The beginning...

Look Away! The U.S. South in New World Studies.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Look Away! The U.S. South in New World Studies. Edited with an introduction by Jon Smith and Deborah Cohn. New Americanists. (Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xii, 521. Paper, $26.95, ISBN 0-8223-3316-3; cloth,...

Shapers of Southern History: Autobiographical Reflections.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Shapers of Southern History: Autobiographical Reflections. Edited by John B. Boles. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2004. Pp. x, 334. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8203-2475-2; cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0-8203-2474-4.) I have...

The Association. (Historical News and Notices).
February 1, 2006... This year's annual meeting will be held in Birmingham, Alabama, rather than in New Orleans as originally planned. In mid-December, the Fairmont Hotel in New Orleans notified the Association that its damage from Hurricane Katrina was more...

European History Section.(Historical News and Notices)
February 1, 2006... The officers for the European History Section of the Association for 2006 are Georgia Mann, North Georgia College and State University, chair; Nancy Rupprecht, Middle Tennessee State University, vice-chair; T. Hunt Tooley, Austin College,...

Personnel.(appointments and promotions at universities and colleges)
February 1, 2006... Abilene Christian University: Mark Cullum promoted to assistant professor. University of Alabama at Birmingham: Brian D. Steele appointed assistant professor. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville: Robert C. McMath appointed professor;...

Announcements and activities.(Historical News and Notices)
February 1, 2006... Beauvoir, the last home of Jefferson F. Davis, suffered severe damage from the waves and winds of Hurricane Katrina. Only two of the buildings remain, the mansion and the Presidential Library. The positive news is that both of these will be...