The Journal of Southern History articles from February 2008

The Journal of Southern History archives from February 2008

Was Marie white? The trajectory of a question in the United States.(Essay)
February 1, 2008... MY TOPIC IS TAXONOMY: THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF CLASSIFYING living organisms, in this case human beings, into discrete categories. (1) My examples, verbal and visual, come from the realm of the imagination--from literature, science, and...

New world, real world: improvising English culture in seventeenth-century Virginia.
February 1, 2008... CULTURE IS INDIVISIBLE FROM PLACE. SOME BELIEFS, CUSTOMS, AND practices can be transplanted from one location to another and come through more or less intact. Others are significantly altered by the alien conditions they encounter in their new...

Reconsidering suffrage reform in the 1829-1830 Virginia constitutional convention.(Essay)
February 1, 2008... JAMES MONROE CONVENED VIRGINIA'S FIRST CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION on a tellingly dour note. "All other republics have failed," he remarked. The landscapes of the once mighty Roman and Grecian republics were now dominated by the "ruins of ancient...

Democracy and its consequences in Antebellum America: a review essay.(Social Change in America: From the Revolution through the Civil War, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln)(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Social Change in America: From the Revolution Through the Civil War. By Christopher Clark. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2006. Pp. [xiv], 349. $27.50, ISBN 978-1-56663-686-5.) The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln. By Sean Wilentz....

Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South. By Jack Temple Kirby. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xxii], 361. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3057-4.) Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South is...

Hunting for Hides: Deerskins, Status, and Cultural Change in the Protohistoric Appalachians.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Hunting for Hides: Deerskins, Status, and Cultural Change in the Protohistoric Appalachians. By Heather A. Lapham. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2005. Pp. [xiv], 184. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8173-5276-9; cloth, $60.00, ISBN...

Jamestown, the Buried Truth.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Jamestown, the Buried Truth. By William M. Kelso. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. Pp. [xiv], 238. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8139-2563-9.) For many decades archaeologists believed that the original site of the 1607 fort at...

Caribbean and Southern: Transnational Perspectives on the U.S. South.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Caribbean and Southern: Transnational Perspectives on the U.S. South. Edited by Helen A. Regis. Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings, No. 38. (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2006. Pp. [x], 154. Paper, $19.95, ISBN...

The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America. By Walter C. Rucker. Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. [xiv], 288. $49.95, ISBN...

Stono: Documenting and Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Stono: Documenting and Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt. Edited by Mark M. Smith. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2005. Pp. [xviii], 134. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 1-57003-605-5; cloth, $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-604-7.) This...

Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina. By S. Max Edelson. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. [xvi], 383. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-674-02303-1.) S. Max Edelson's Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South...

The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia. By Christopher E. Hendricks. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Pp. xxii, 186. $36.00, ISBN 978-1-57233-543-1.) Christopher E. Hendricks's book is a good start on a big subject....

The United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... The United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America. By Jeff Biggers. (Emeryville, Calif.: Shoemaker and Hoard, c. 2006. Pp. [xviii], 238. $26.00, ISBN 978-1-59376-031-1.) ...

George Mason, Forgotten Founder.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... George Mason, Forgotten Founder. By Jeff Broadwater. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xiv], 329. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3053-6.) During the Constitutional Convention of 1787, only about a dozen of its...

Emancipating New York: The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777-1827.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Emancipating New York: The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777-1827. By David N. Gellman. Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. [xiv], 297. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3174-9.)...

The American Revolution and Righteous Community: Selected Sermons of Bishop Robert Smith.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... The American Revolution and Righteous Community: Selected Sermons of Bishop Robert Smith. Edited by Charles Wilbanks. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. xxiv, 280. $49.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-665-1.) Charles Wilbanks...

A Secular Faith: Why Christianity Favors the Separation of Church and State.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... A Secular Faith: Why Christianity Favors the Separation of Church and State. By Darryl Hart. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2006. Pp. xiv, 273. $26.95, ISBN 978-1-56663-576-9.) Darryl Hart can be frustrating. Rarely, however, is he boring. In this...

The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe.(In Jefferson's Shadow: The Architecture of Thomas R. Blackburn)(Book review)
February 1, 2008... The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe. By Michael W. Fazio and Patrick A. Snadon. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. xx, 769. $75.00, ISBN 0-8018-8104-8.) In Jefferson's Shadow: The Architecture of Thomas R....

Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy. By Francis D. Cogliano. Jeffersonian America. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. Pp. [xii], 276. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8139-2619-3.) Perhaps the best way to meet Thomas Jefferson is...

"I Tremble for My Country": Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Gentry.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... "I Tremble for My Country": Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Gentry. By Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler. Foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller. Southern Dissent. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2006. Pp. xii,...

Race and Liberty in the New Nation: Emancipation in Virginia from the Revolution to Nat Turner's Rebellion.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Race and Liberty in the New Nation: Emancipation in Virginia from the Revolution to Nat Turner's Rebellion. By Eva Sheppard Wolf. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. [xxiv], 284. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3194-7.) Eva...

Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic. By Matthew Mason. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 339. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3049-9.) In this well-crafted monograph Matthew Mason revises our...

An American Planter: Stephen Duncan of Antebellum Natchez and New York.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... An American Planter: Stephen Duncan of Antebellum Natchez and New York. By Martha Jane Brazy. Southern Biography Series. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. [xvi], 232. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3141-1.) There has long...

Slavery and American Economic Development.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Slavery and American Economic Development. By Gavin Wright. Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. [xii], 162. $25.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3183-1.) This book was...

New Studies in the History of American Slavery.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... New Studies in the History of American Slavery. Edited by Edward E. Baptist and Stephanie M. H. Camp. (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2006. Pp. [x], 306. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2694-8; cloth, $54.95, ISBN...

Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South. By Marie Jenkins Schwartz. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. [xii], 401. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-02202-5.) Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and...

The Kentucky Tragedy: A Story of Conflict and Change in Antebellum America.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... The Kentucky Tragedy: A Story of Conflict and Change in Antebellum America. By Dickson D. Bruce Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. [xii], 183. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3173-2.) The "Kentucky Tragedy" resulted in...

Invisible Texans: Women and Minorities in Texas History.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Invisible Texans: Women and Minorities in Texas History. Edited by Donald Willett and Stephen Curley. (New York and other cities: McGraw-Hill, 2005. Pp. [xx], 236. Paper, $42.81, ISBN 0-07-287163-6.) Most people, when pressed to think about...

The Robertsons, the Sutherlands, and the Making of Texas.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... The Robertsons, the Sutherlands, and the Making of Texas. By Anne H. Sutherland. Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. Pp. [xvi], 222. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-58544-520-2.)...

Love, Wages, Slavery: The Literature of Servitude in the United States.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Love, Wages, Slavery: The Literature of Servitude in the United States. By Barbara Ryan. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2006. Pp. [vi], 246. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03071-0.) In Love, Wages, Slavery: The Literature of...

Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America. By Laura Browder. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xiv], 287. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3050-5.) As the news story of the "suicide grandmother" of Hamas reminds us, the...

Little Zion: A Church Baptized by Fire.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Little Zion: A Church Baptized by Fire. By Shelly O'Foran. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xx], 266. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5763-2; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3048-2.) In the mid-1990s several...

The Bishop of the Old South: The Ministry and Civil War Legacy of Leonidas Polk.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... The Bishop of the Old South: The Ministry and Civil War Legacy of Leonidas Polk. By Glenn Robins. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 243. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-88146-038-4.) Leonidas Polk was the most aggressive of the...

Furl That Banner: The Life of Abram J. Ryan, Poet-Priest of the South.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Furl That Banner: The Life of Abram J. Ryan, Poet-Priest of the South. By David O'Connell. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2006. Pp. [xviii], 251. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-88146-035-3.) We know Father Abram J. Ryan today for his poetry and...

Southern Outcast: Hinton Rowan Helper and The Impending Crisis of the South.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Southern Outcast: Hinton Rowan Helper and The Impending Crisis of the South. By David Brown. Southern Biography Series. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. [xvi], 316. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3178-7.) In 1857 Hinton...

The Boundaries of American Political Culture in the Civil War Era.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... The Boundaries of American Political Culture in the Civil War Era. By Mark E. Neely Jr. The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2005. Pp. [xvi], 159. $29.95, ISBN...

An Honest Calling: The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... An Honest Calling: The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln. By Mark E. Steiner. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, c. 2006. Pp. x, 272. $42.00, ISBN 978-0-87580-358-6.) Although Abraham Lincoln practiced law successfully in the courts...

Civil War on the Missouri-Kansas Border.(Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand: The Renowned Missouri Bushwhacker)(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Civil War on the Missouri-Kansas Border. By Donald L. Gilmore. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 2006. Pp. 384. $29.95, ISBN 978-158980-329-9.) Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand: The Renowned Missouri Bushwhacker. Edited by...

The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set Its Sails.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set Its Sails. By Erik Calonius. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2006. Pp. [xviii], 298. $25.95, ISBN 978-0-312-34347-7.) The flaming rhetoric of the southerners who...

Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History, of the American Civil War.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History, of the American Civil War. By Harry S. Stout. (New York and other cities: Viking, 2006. Pp. [xxiv], 552. $29.95, ISBN 0-670-03470-3.) By applying just-war theory to the Civil War, Harry S....

The Confederate States of America: What Might Have Been.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... The Confederate States of America: What Might Have Been. By Roger L. Ransom. (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2005. Pp. [xvi], 352. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 978-0-393-32911-7; cloth, $25.95, ISBN 978-0-393-05967-0.) No sooner had the Civil...

Crucible of the Civil War: Virginia from Secession to Commemoration.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Crucible of the Civil War: Virginia from Secession to Commemoration. Edited by Edward L. Ayers, Gary W. Gallagher, and Andrew J. Torget. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2006. Pp. [x], 226. $35.00, ISBN...

Clash of Loyalties: A Border County in the Civil War.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Clash of Loyalties: A Border County in the Civil War. By John W. Shaffer. West Virginia and Appalachia. (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2003. Pp. [viii], 264. $40.00, ISBN 0-937058-73-4.) Within the past several years community...

Clyde Built: Blockade Runners, Cruisers and Armoured Rams of the American Civil War.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Clyde Built: Blockade Runners, Cruisers and Armoured Rams of the American Civil War. By Eric J. Graham. (Edinburgh, Scotland: Birlinn Limited, 2006. Pp. [xviii], 238. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-84158-424-9.) Numerous historical studies have been...

From Conciliation to Conquest: The Sack of Athens and the Court-Martial of Colonel John B. Turchin.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... From Conciliation to Conquest: The Sack of Athens and the Court-Martial of Colonel John B. Turchin. By George C. Bradley and Richard L. Dahlen. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xii], 297. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8173-1526-9.)...

Confederate Heroines: 120 Southern Women Convicted by Union Military Justice.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Confederate Heroines: 120 Southern Women Convicted by Union Military Justice. By Thomas P. Lowry. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. [xx], 212. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8071-2990-6.) Thomas P. Lowry's latest work,...

Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War. By Lisa A. Long. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c. 2004. Pp. [vii, 332. $59.95, ISBN 0-8122-3748-X.) In spite of its title, Rehabilitating Bodies: Health,...

Copperhead Gore: Benjamin Wood's Fort Lafayette and Civil War America.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Copperhead Gore: Benjamin Wood's Fort Lafayette and Civil War America. Edited and with an introduction by Menahem Blondheim. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xiv], 291. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-253-21847-0;...

When This Evil War Is Over: The Correspondence of the Francis Family, 1860-1865.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... When This Evil War Is Over: The Correspondence of the Francis Family, 1860-1865. Edited by James P. Pate. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xiv], 321. $42.50, ISBN 978-0-8173-1517-7.) James M. McPherson's For Cause and...

Commanding the Army of the Potomac.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Commanding the Army of the Potomac. By Stephen R. Taaffe. Modern War Studies. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2006. Pp. [x], 284. $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-1451-6.) Stephen R. Taaffe has set out to write about the commanders who led...

Nathan Bedford Forrest's Escort and Staff.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Nathan Bedford Forrest's Escort and Staff. By Michael R. Bradley. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 2006. Pp. 238. $25.00, ISBN 978-1-58980-363-3.) Nathan Bedford Forrest is often considered one of the finest cavalry commanders on...

Through the Howling Wilderness: The 1864 Red River Campaign and Union Failure in the West.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Through the Howling Wilderness: The 1864 Red River Campaign and Union Failure in the West. By Gary D. Joiner. Foreword by Edwin C. Bearss. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Pp. [xxii], 305. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-57233-544-8.) ...

Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War. By Nicholas Lemann. (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. Pp. [xii], 257. $24.00, ISBN 978-0-374-24855-0.) For Reconstruction scholars, Nicholas Lemann's Redemption: The Last Battle of...

Harvesting Freedom: African American Agrarianism in Civil War Era South Carolina.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Harvesting Freedom: African American Agrarianism in Civil War Era South Carolina. By Akiko Ochiai. Contributions in American History, No. 190. (Westport, Conn., and London: Praeger, 2004. Pp. xvi, 289. $67.95, ISBN 0-275-97935-0.) In...

A Black Congressman in the Age of Jim Crow: South Carolina's George Washington Murray.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... A Black Congressman in the Age of Jim Crow: South Carolina's George Washington Murray. By John F. Marszalek. New Perspectives on the History of the South. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2006. Pp. [xx], 211....

Conceiving a New Republic: The Republican Party and the Southern Question, 1869-1900.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Conceiving a New Republic: The Republican Party and the Southern Question, 1869-1900. By Charles W. Calhoun. American Political Thought. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2006. Pp. x, 347. $39.95, ISBN 0-7006-1462-1.) ...

Before Scopes: Evangelicalism, Education, and Evolution in Tennessee, 1870-1925.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Before Scopes: Evangelicalism, Education, and Evolution in Tennessee, 1870-1925. By Charles A. Israel. (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2004. Pp. [xii], 252. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8203-2646-1; cloth, $49.95, ISBN...

Texas Women on the Cattle Trails.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Texas Women on the Cattle Trails. Edited by Sara R. Massey. Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 326. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-58544-543-1.) Following the Civil War, southerners struggled to...

Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History. By Deborah R. Weiner. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2006. Pp. x, 234. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978-0-252-073355-9; cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03094-9.) It is a pleasure to...

"Demetrios Is Now Jimmy": Greek Immigrants in the Southern United States, 1895-1965.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... "Demetrios Is Now Jimmy": Greek Immigrants in the Southern United States, 1895-1965. By Lazar "Larry" Odzak. (Durham, N.C.: Monograph Publishers, 2006. Pp. 260. $24.95, ISBN 0-9778024-1-8.) Ah, the book I wanted to write--almost. Having...

Trial and Error: The Case of John Brownfield and Race Relations in Georgetown, South Carolina.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Trial and Error: The Case of John Brownfield and Race Relations in Georgetown, South Carolina. By Tom Rubillo. (Charleston, S.C., and London: History Press, 2005. Pp. 221. Paper, $24.99, ISBN 1-59629-035-8.) Like many writers who use legal...

Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890-1910.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890-1910. Edited by Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xl], 120. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-633-0.) Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq, the...

History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie: Scholarship, Activism, and Wayne Flynt in the Modern South.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie: Scholarship, Activism, and Wayne Flynt in the Modern South. Edited by Gordon E. Harvey, Richard D. Starnes, and Glenn Feldman. The Modern South. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2006. Pp....

The American South in the Twentieth Century.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... The American South in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Craig S. Pascoe, Karen Trahan Leathern, and Andy Ambrose. (Athens and London: Published by the University of Georgia Press for the Atlanta History Center, c. 2005. Pp. [xvi], 320. Paper,...

Rails through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia and Florida Railroad.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Rails through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia and Florida Railroad. By H. Roger Grant. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, c. 2006. Pp. xvi, 223. $36.00, ISBN 978-0-87580-365-4.) After writing histories of such prominent...

Looking Beyond the Highway: Dixie Roads and Culture.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Looking Beyond the Highway: Dixie Roads and Culture. Edited by Claudette Stager and Martha Carver. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Pp. [xxii], 298. $48.00, ISBN 1-57233-467-3.) This anthology covers various aspects of...

The Social Sciences and Theories of Race.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... The Social Sciences and Theories of Race. By Vernon J. Williams Jr. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xii], 151. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 978-0-252-07320-5; cloth, $50.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03086-4.) Vernon J....

The Paper Bag Principle: Class, Colorism, and Rumor and the Case of Black Washington, D.C.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... The Paper Bag Principle: Class, Colorism, and Rumor and the Case of Black Washington, D.C. By Audrey Elisa Kerr. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Pp. xx, 145. $27.00, ISBN 1-57233-462-2.) In this revision of her...

Nathan B. Young and the Struggle over Black Higher Education.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Nathan B. Young and the Struggle over Black Higher Education. By Antonio F. Holland. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xii], 236. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1679-3.) Born a slave in Alabama, Nathan B. Young...

The Church in the Barrio: Mexican American Ethno-Catholicism in Houston.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... The Church in the Barrio: Mexican American Ethno-Catholicism in Houston. By Roberto R. Trevino. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xiv, 308. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-8078-5667-3; cloth, $59.95, ISBN...

From Syria to Seminole: Memoir of a High Plains Merchant.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... From Syria to Seminole: Memoir of a High Plains Merchant. By Ed Aryain. Edited and with an introduction by J'Nell L. Pate. Foreword by John R. Wunder. Afterword by Edward Aryain and Jameil Aryain. Plains Histories. (Lubbock: Texas Tech...

Sexuality, Politics, and Social Control in Virginia, 1920-1945.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Sexuality, Politics, and Social Control in Virginia, 1920-1945. By Pippa Holloway. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xiv], 258. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5764-9; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3051-2.) ...

The Weight of Their Votes: Southern Women and Political Leverage in the 1920s.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... The Weight of Their Votes: Southern Women and Political Leverage in the 1920s. By Lorraine Gates Schuyler. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xvi], 336. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-8078-5776-2; cloth, $59.95, ISBN...

The Civil Rights Movement.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... The Civil Rights Movement. By Mark Newman. BAAS Paperbacks. (Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, c. 2004. Pp. [xiv], 193. Paper, $22.00, ISBN 0-7486-1593-8.) Mark Newman intends his study to be "an introductory survey of civil...

What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality. By Theda Skocpol, Ariane Liazos, and Marshall Ganz. Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative...

Paradoxes of Desegregation: African American Struggles for Educational Equity in Charleston, South Carolina, 1926-1972.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Paradoxes of Desegregation: African American Struggles for Educational Equity in Charleston, South Carolina, 1926-1972. By R. Scott Baker. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xxvi], 248. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-632-3.)...

Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South. By Ralph C. Wood. (Grand Rapids, Mich., and Cambridge, Eng.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, c. 2004. Pp. xii, 272. $22.00, ISBN 0-8028-2117-0.) That Flannery O'Connor conceived her...

Sea Change at Annapolis: The United States Naval Academy, 1949 2000.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Sea Change at Annapolis: The United States Naval Academy, 1949-2000. By H. Michael Gelfand. Foreword by Senator John McCain. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xxxiv], 382. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3047-5.) Sea...

The Silencing of Ruby McCollum: Race, Class, and Gender in the South.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... The Silencing of Ruby McCollum: Race, Class, and Gender in the South. By Tammy Evans. Foreword by Jacqueline Jones Royster. Afterword by Lynn Worsham. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2006. Pp. xxxii, 173. $34.95,...

Brick Walls: Reflections on Race in a Southern School District.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Brick Walls: Reflections on Race in a Southern School District. By Thomas E. Truitt. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. x, 164. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-638-5.) This well-written case study by former Florence School...

Debating Vietnam: Fulbright, Stennis, and Their Senate Hearings.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Debating Vietnam: Fulbright, Stennis, and Their Senate Hearings. By Joseph A. Fry. Vietnam: America in the War Years. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2006. Pp. [xii], 199. Paper, $24.95, ISBN...

The Association.(Historical News and Notices)(Southern Historical Association)
February 1, 2008... The seventy-fourth annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association will take place at the Sheraton Hotel on Canal Street in New Orleans on October 10-12, 2008, Friday through Sunday. Because Thursday, October 9, is Yom Kippur, which...

Latin American and Caribbean section.(Historical News and Notices)
February 1, 2008... The Latin American and Caribbean Section (LACS) of the Association has announced its officers. They are Barbara A. Ganson, Florida Atlantic University, president; Matt D. Childs, Florida State University, vice president; Michael J. LaRosa,...

Personnel.(Historical News and Notices)
February 1, 2008... University of Arkansas: Shih-Shan Henry Tsai appointed National Endowed Chair in Taipei, Taiwan; Evan B. Bukey named emeritus. University of Arkansas at Monticello: Trey Berry named Dean of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences and...