The Journal of Southern History articles from February 2007

The Journal of Southern History archives from February 2007

African American farmers and civil rights.(Pigford v. Glickman)
February 1, 2007... FORTY ACRES AND A MULE." JUDGE PAUL L. FRIEDMAN BEGAN HIS 1999 decision in Pigford v. Glickman, the successful class-action suit brought by African American farmers, with that familiar broken promise from the Civil War/Reconstruction era. The...

Networks of military educators: middle-class stability and professionalization in the late antebellum South.
February 1, 2007... ON THE FOURTH OF JULY 1845 NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD ROBERT HENRY Simpson received his diploma from the Virginia Military Institute (VMI). Though Simpson was surely happy to have been released from the academic toil and military discipline, graduation...

"No Jap Crow": Japanese Americans encounter the World War II south.
February 1, 2007... DURING THE FINAL WINTER OF WORLD WAR II, BILL HOSOKAWA boarded a bus bound for the Arkansas Delta. Having received an early release from a Wyoming internment camp to work for the Des Moines Register, the young reporter set off to visit two...

The not so silent minority: Louisville's antiwar movement, 1966-1975.
February 1, 2007... I DON'T HAVE NO PERSONAL QUARREL WITH THOSE VIETCONGS," DECLARED heavyweight boxing champion and Louisville native Muhammad All. The fighter's 1966 statement against the Vietnam War, along with his refusal the next year to be inducted into the...

Creating Black Americans: African American History and its Meanings, 1619 to the Present.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Creating Black Americans: African American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present. By Nell Irvin Painter. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 458. Paper, $35.00, ISBN 978-0-19513756-9; cloth, $35.00, ISBN...

La Florida del Inca and the Struggle for Social Equality in Colonial Spanish America.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... La Florida del Inca and the Struggle for Social Equality in Colonial Spanish America. By Jonathan D. Steigman. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2005. Pp. x, 125. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8173-5257-0; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8173-1483-0.)...

Feast of Souls: Indians and Spaniards in the Seventeenth-Century Missions of Florida and New Mexico.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Feast of Souls: Indians and Spaniards in the Seventeenth-Century Missions of Florida and New Mexico. By Robert C. Galgano. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 212. $37.50, ISBN 0-8263-3648-5.) The stated purpose of...

Conceiving Carolina: Proprietors, Planters, and Plots, 1662-1729.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Conceiving Carolina: Proprietors, Planters, and Plots, 1662-1729. By L. H. Roper. (New York and other cities: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. viii, 214. $55.00, ISBN 1-4039-6479-3.) L. H. Roper's Conceiving Carolina: Proprietors, Planters,...

How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier. By Stuart Banner. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. [viii], 344. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-01871-0.) Stuart Banner, a professor of...

Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America. By Joshua Piker. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 270. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02253-9; cloth, $47.50, ISBN 978-0-674-01335-3.) Joshua...

How Early America Sounded.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... How Early America Sounded. By Richard Cullen Rath. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 227. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-80147272-5; cloth, $32.50, ISBN 0-8014-4126-9.) While scholarly works frequently recite commentary...

Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man. By Vincent Carretta. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, 2005. Pp. xxviii, 436. $29.95, ISBN 0-8203-2571-6.) Olaudah Equiano has captured the imagination of a generation...

The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey. By Randy J. Sparks. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. [xii], 189. $22.00, ISBN 0-674-01312-3.) The Two Princes of Calabar: An...

Richard Henry Lee of Virginia: A Portrait of an American Revolutionary.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Richard Henry Lee of Virginia: A Portrait of an American Revolutionary. By J. Kent McGaughy. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2004. Pp. xx, 248. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-7425-3385-9; cloth, $82.50, ISBN...

General George Washington: A Military Life.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... General George Washington: A Military Life. By Edward G. Lengel. (New York: Random House, 2005. Pp. xlii, 450. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 978-0-8129-6950-4; cloth, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-4000-6081-8; e-book, $17.95, ISBN 978-1-58836-480-7.) ...

The First American Army: The Untold Story of George Washington and the Men behind America's First Fight for Freedom.(Iron Tears: America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire: 1775-1783)(Book review)
February 1, 2007... The First American Army: The Untold Story of George Washington and the Men behind America's First Fight for Freedom. By Bruce Chadwick. (Naperville, Il.; Sourcebooks, Inc., c. 2005. Pp. [xiv], 399. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 1-4022-0753-0; cloth...

Town House: Architecture and Material Life in the Early American City, 1780-1830.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Town House: Architecture and Material Life in the Early American City, 1780-1830. By Bernard L. Herman. (Chapel Hill: Published by the University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture,...

Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790-1860.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790-1860. By Tom Downey. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 262. $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-3107-5.) In Planting a...

Paths to a Middle Ground: The Diplomacy of Natchez, Boukfouka, Nogales, and San Fernando de las Barrancas, 1791-1795.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Paths to a Middle Ground: The Diplomacy of Natchez, Boukfouka, Nogales, and San Fernando de las Barrancas, 1791-1795. By Charles A. Weeks. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 292. $45.00, ISBN 0-8173-1210-2.) Paths...

The Shawnees and their Neighbors, 1795-1870.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... The Shawnees and Their Neighbors, 1795-1870. By Stephen Warren. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 217. $35.00, ISBN 0-252-02995-X.) Books are among the tools of the trade for academic historians. Yet...

Eastern Band Cherokee Women: Cultural Persistence in Their Letters and Speeches.(A Cherokee Woman's America: Memoirs of Narcissa Owen, 1831-1907)(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Eastern Band Cherokee Women: Cultural Persistence in Their Letters and Speeches. By Virginia Moore Carney. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. Pp. xvii, 230. $32.00, ISBN 1-57233-332-4.) A Cherokee Woman's America: Memoirs of...

Whither the Early Republic: A Forum on the Future of the Field.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Whither the Early Republic: A Forum on the Future of the Field. Edited by John Lauritz Larson and Michael A. Morrison. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c. 2005. Pp. viii, 201. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8122-1932-5.) In 2004 the...

Establishing Congress: The Removal to Washington, D.C., and the Election of 1800.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Establishing Congress: The Removal to Washington, D.C., and the Election of 1800. Edited by Kenneth R. Bowling and Donald R. Kennon. Perspectives on the History of Congress, 1789-1801. (Athens, Ohio: Published by Ohio University Press for the...

Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the Making of America.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the Making of America. Edited by Douglas Seefeldt, Jeffrey L. Hantman, and Peter S. Onuf. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2005. Pp. x, 222. Paper, $19.50, ISBN...

Nineteenth-Century America: Essays in Honor of Paul H. Bergeron.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Nineteenth-Century America: Essays in Honor of Paul H. Bergeron. Edited by W. Todd Groce and Stephen V. Ash. With an afterword by Paul H. Bergeron. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005). Pp. x, 188. $40.00, ISBN 1-57233-441-X.) ...

The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820-1875.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820-1875. By Gary Clayton Anderson. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c. 2005. Pp. x, 494. $29.95, ISBN 0-8061-3698-7.) In 1820 roughly four thousand Hispanics resided in...

Moses Levy of Florida: Jewish Utopian and Antebellum Reformer.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Moses Levy of Florida: Jewish Utopian and Antebellum Reformer. By C. S. Monaco. Southern Biography Series. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 240. $44.95, ISBN 0-8071-3095-8.) In this biography C. S. Monaco draws...

Beyond Garrison: Antislavery and Social Reform.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Beyond Garrison: Antislavery and Social Reform. By Bruce Laurie. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xxiv, 340. Paper, $23.99, ISBN 0-521-60517-2; cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-521-84408-8.) Bruce Laurie of the...

Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic. By Erskine Clarke. (New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, c. 2005. Pp. xvi, 601. $35.00, ISBN 0-300-10867-2.) This is a marvelous book. In my judgment very few books match the hype of title...

In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South. By John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger. New Narratives in American History. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xviii, 286. Paper, $13.95, ISBN...

The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820-1860.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820-1860. By Richard Follett. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 290. $54.95, ISBN 0-8071-3038-9.) Richard Follett is the latest historian to...

Undaunted: A Norwegian Woman in Frontier Texas.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Undaunted: A Norwegian Woman in Frontier Texas. By Charles H. Russell. Tarleton State University Southwestern Studies in the Humanities. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 234. $29.95, ISBN 1-58544-453-7.) This...

Love and Duty: Amelia and Josiah Gorgas and Their Family.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Love and Duty: Amelia and Josiah Gorgas and Their Family. By Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2005. Pp. xviii, 110. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8173-5294-5; cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-8173-1480-6.) Sarah Woolfolk...

Isaac Taylor Tichenor: The Creation of the Baptist New South.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Isaac Taylor Tichenor: The Creation of the Baptist New South. By Michael E. Williams Sr. Religion and American Culture. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2005. Pp. [xiv], 240. $42.50, ISBN 0-8173-1474-1.) Michael E. Williams St....

Storm Over Texas: The Annexation Controversy and the Road to Civil War.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Storm over Texas: The Annexation Controversy and the Road to Civil War. By Joel H. Silbey. Pivotal Moments in American History. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xxii, 230. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 978-0-19-531592-9;...

Magnolias without Moonlight: The American South from Regional Confederacy to National Integration.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Magnolias without Moonlight: The American South from Regional Confederacy to National Integration. By Sheldon Hackney. (New Brunswick, N.J., and London: Transactions Publishers, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 152. $29.95, ISBN 0-7658-0293-7.) Alabamian...

Never One Nation: Freaks, Savages, and Whiteness in U.S. Popular Culture, 1850-1877.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Never One Nation: Freaks, Savages, and Whiteness in U.S. Popular Culture, 1850-1877. By Linda Frost. (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c. 2005. Pp. xx, 241. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 978-0-8166-4490-2; cloth, $60.00, ISBN...

Inside the Confederate Nation: Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Inside the Confederate Nation: Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas. Edited by Lesley J. Gordon and John C. Inscoe. Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 381....

Planters' Progress: Modernizing Confederate Georgia.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Planters' Progress: Modernizing Confederate Georgia. By Chad Morgan. Foreword by John David Smith. New Perspectives on the History of the South. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 163. $55.00, ISBN...

Virginia at War, 1861.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Virginia at War, 1861. Edited by William C. Davis and James I. Robertson Jr. Virginia Center for Civil War Studies. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 241. $35.00, ISBN 0-8131-2372-0.) Respected historians William...

Justice Curtis in the Civil War Era: At the Crossroads of American Constitutionalism.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Justice Curtis in the Civil War Era: At the Crossroads of American Constitutionalism. By Stuart Streichler. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 271. $37.50, ISBN 0-8139-2342-5.) Justice Benjamin R....

While in the Hands of the Enemy: Military Prisons of the Civil War.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... While in the Hands of the Enemy: Military Prisons of the Civil War. By Charles W. Sanders Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 390. $44.95, ISBN 0-8071-3061-3.) Accounts of Civil War military prisons abound...

Soldiers of the Cross: Confederate Soldier-Christians and the Impact of War on Their Faith.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Soldiers" of the Cross: Confederate Soldier-Christians and the Impact of War on Their Faith. By Kent T. Dollar. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, c. 2005. Pp. xx, 253. $35.00, ISBN 0-86554-926-5.) The election of 1860 was the call to...

The Divided Family in Civil War America.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... The Divided Family in Civil War America. By Amy Murrell Taylor. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2005. Pp. xvi, 319. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2969-2.) Amy Murrell Taylor's book joins a flourishing...

"War Governor of the South": North Carolina's Zeb Vance in the Confederacy.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... "War Governor of the South": North Carolina's Zeb Vance in the Confederacy. By Joe A. Mobley. Foreword by John David Smith. New Perspectives on the History of the South. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2005. Pp....

A Confederate Chronicle: The Life of a Civil War Survivor.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... A Confederate Chronicle: The Life of a Civil War Survivor. By Pamela Chase Hain. Shades of Blue and Gray Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2005. Pp. xx, 273. $39.95, ISBN 0-82621599-8.) Thomas Lowndes Wragg had...

Lincoln's Last Months.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Lincoln's Last Months. By William C. Harris. (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. [xii], 303. $27.95, ISBN 0-674-01199-6.) In Lincoln's Last Months William C. Harris focuses his attention on the period...

Defining Moments: African American Commemoration and Political Culture in the South, 1863-1913.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Defining Moments: African American Commemoration and Political Culture in the South, 1863-1913. By Kathleen Ann Clark. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2005. Pp. x, 302. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5622-3; cloth, $55.00, ISBN...

Plain Folk's Fight: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Plain Folk's Fight: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia. By Mark V. Wetherington. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2005. Pp. [xiv], 383. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2963-3.) Mark V....

Vale of Tears: New Essays on Religion and Reconstruction.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Vale of Tears: New Essays on Religion and Reconstruction. Edited by Edward J. Blum and W. Scott Poole. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 265. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 0-86554-987-7; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-86554-962-1.) Most...

No Space Hidden: The Spirit of African American Yard Work.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... No Space Hidden: The Spirit of African American Yard Work. By Grey Gundaker and Judith McWillie. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 237. $26.95, ISBN 1-57233-356-1.) At a spring 1968 Yale University conference...

Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery. By Rebecca J. Scott. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. [xiv], 365. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-01932-6.) Although historians have been engaging...

On Jordan's Banks: Emancipation and Its Aftermath in the Ohio River Valley.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... On Jordan's Banks: Emancipation and Its Aftermath in the Ohio River Valley. By Daniel E. Bigham. Ohio River Valley Series. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2006. Pp. x, 428. $45.00, ISBN 0-8131-2366-6.) A carefully researched...

The Texas Railroad Commission: Understanding Regulation in America to the Mid-Twentieth Century.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... The Texas Railroad Commission: Understanding Regulation in America to the Mid-Twentieth Century. By William R. Childs. Kenneth L. Montague Series in Oil and Business History. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 323....

Can Anything Beat White? A Black Family's Letters.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Can Anything Beat White? A Black Family's Letters. By Elisabeth Petry. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005. Pp xxx, 190. $35.00, ISBN 1-57806-785-5.) The text of Elisabeth Petry's Can An)'thing Beat White? A Black Family's...

Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations. By David Fort Godshalk. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2005. Pp. xviii, 365. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8078-5626-6: cloth...

Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America. By Francesca Morgan. Gender and American Culture. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2005. Pp. xviii, 293. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-8078-5630-4; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2968-4.) ...

The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South. By William P. Jones. The Working Class in American History. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2005. Pp. xvi, 235. Paper, $20.00, ISBN...

Labor, Civil Rights, and the Hughes Tool Company.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Labor, Civil Rights, and the Hughes Tool Company. By Michael R. Botson Jr. Kenneth E. Montague Series in Oil and Business History. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 265. $43.00, ISBN 1-58544-438-3.) In the...

Republican Women: Feminism and Conservatism from Suffrage through the Rise of the New Right.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Republican Women: Feminism and Conservatism from Suffrage through the Rise of the New Right. By Catherine E. Rymph. Gender and American Culture. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xvi, 338. Paper, $24.95, ISBN...

Private Lives/Public Consequences: Personality and Politics in Modern America.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Private Lives/Public Consequences: Personality and Politics in Modern America. By William H. Chafe. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. [x], 420. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-01877-X.) In Private Lives/Public...

Eudora Welty: A Biography.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Eudora Welty: A Biography. By Suzanne Marrs. (New York and other cities: Harcourt, Inc., c. 2005. Pp. x, 652. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 0-15-603063-2; cloth, $28.00, ISBN 0-15-100914-7.) Suzanne Marrs, a career Eudora Welty scholar, was a friend...

Hidden Treasures of the American West: Muriel H. Wright, Angie Debo, and Alice Marriott.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Hidden Treasures of the American West: Muriel H. Wright, Angie Debo, and Alice Marriott. By Patricia Loughlin. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, c. 2005. Pp. xxii, 234. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8263-3802-X; cloth, $32.50, ISBN...

Race and the Houston Police Department, 1930-1990: A Change Did Come.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Race and the Houston Police Department, 1930-1990: A Change Did Come. By Dwight Watson. Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. Pp. viii, 208. $44.00, ISBN 1-58544-437-5.) ...

The Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee: A Narrative History.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... The Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee: A Narrative History. By Bobby L. Lovett. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. Pp. xxvi, 483. $45.00, ISBN 1-57233-443-6.) In The Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee: A Narrative History,...

Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986. By J. Todd Moye. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. [xii], 281. Paper, $19.95, ISBN...

The Brown Decision, Jim Crow, and Southern Identity.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... The Brown Decision, Jim Crow, and Southern Identity. By James C. Cobb. Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 93. $22.95, ISBN 0-8203-2498-1.) James C. Cobb uses...

Wives of Steel: Voices of Women from the Sparrows Point Steelmaking Communities.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Wives of Steel: Voices of Women from the Sparrows Point Steelmaking Communities. By Karen Olson. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, c. 2005. Pp. x, 216. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-271-02685-5.) The complexity of...

Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post-World War II South.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post-World War II South. By Pete Daniel. The Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History. (Baton Rouge: Published by Louisiana State University Press in association with Smithsonian National...

White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism. By Kevin M. Kruse. Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford, Eng.: Princeton University Press, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 325. $35.00, ISBN...

Fair Ways: How Six Black Golfers Won Civil Rights in Beaumont, Texas.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Fair Ways: How Six Black Golfers Won Civil Rights in Beaumont, Texas. By Robert J. Robertson. Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 232. $29.95, ISBN...

Promises Kept: The University of Mississippi Medical Center.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Promises Kept: The University of Mississippi Medical Center. By Janis Quinn. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi for the University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2005. Pp. xii, 226. $35.00, ISBN 1-57806805-3.) Most schools of...

Walking George: The Life of George John Beto and the Rise of the Modern Texas Prison System.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Walking George: The Life of George John Beto and the Rise of the Modern Texas Prison System. By David M. Horton and George R. Nielsen. North Texas Crime and Criminal Justice. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 257....

Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore. By James T. Patterson. The Oxford History of the United States. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 448. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 978-0-19-530522-7;...

Politics and Religion in the White South.(Religion and Public Life in the South: In the Evangelical Mode)(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Politics and Religion in the White South. Edited by Glenn Feldman. Religion in the South. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 386. $55.00, ISBN 0-8131-2363-1.) Religion and Public Life in the South: In the...

Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South. By Marcie Cohen Ferris. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 327. $29.95, ISBN 0-8078-2978-1.) Through in-depth interviews, newspapers, museum and library...

The City as Suburb: A History of Northeast Baltimore Since 1660.(Road, River, and 01' Boy Politics: A Texas County's Path from Farm to Supersuburb)(Book review)
February 1, 2007... The City as Suburb: A History of Northeast Baltimore since 1660. By Eric L. Holcomb. Center Books on American Places. (Santa Fe, N.Mex., and Staunton, Va.: Center for American Places, 2005. Pp. xxii, 265. $39.95, ISBN 1-930066-29-5.) Road,...

The Tar Heel State: A History of North Carolina.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... The Tar Heel State: A History of North Carolina. By Milton Ready. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2005. Pp. xviii, 404. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-591-1.) Milton Ready, a professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina...

Religion in the American South: Protestants and Others in History and Culture.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Religion in the American South: Protestants and Others in History and Culture. Edited by Beth Barton Schweiger and Donald G. Mathews. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. viii, 340. Paper, $21.95. ISBN...