The Journal of Southern History articles from February 2009

The Journal of Southern History archives from February 2009

"Fight the Power!" The legacy of the civil rights movement.(Essay)
February 1, 2009... THE IMAGES REMAIN FAMILIAR, EVEN TODAY. SOME OF YOU WERE PARTICIPANTS and witnesses; others watched as the scenes came across your television screens; still others learned from books, documentary films, and oral histories and by teaching....

Bosses and broomsticks: ritual and authority in antebellum slave weddings.(Essay)
February 1, 2009... IN DECEMBER 1861 A WOMAN WITNESSED A WEDDING THAT TO SOME eyes would have been indistinguishable from the weddings of white slaveholders. The ceremony took place in a plantation church in Camden, South Carolina, and was performed by a white...

Indebtedness and the origins of guerrilla violence in Civil War Missouri.(Essay)
February 1, 2009... BY MOST MEASURES, T.E CONFEDERATE GUERRILLA INSURGENCY IN Missouri during the Civil War was the most widespread such conflict that has occurred on American soil. By one calculation, nearly twenty-seven thousand Missourians died in the violence....

"Lily white and hard right": the Mississippi Republican Party and black voting, 1965-1980.(Essay)
February 1, 2009... IN 2005 THE U.S. SENATE APPROVED A HIGHLY PUBLICIZED APOLOGY for its failure to pass antilynching legislation in the twentieth century. The symbolic resolution had the cosponsorship of eighty senators, and those who refused to back the measure...

The South Carolina Encyclopedia.('Encyclopedia of North Carolina' and 'The West Virginia Encyclopedia')(Book review)
February 1, 2009... The South Carolina Encyclopedia. Edited by Walter Edgar. A Project of the Humanities [Council.sup.sc]. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xxiv], 1077. $75.00, ISBN 978-1-57003-598-2.) Encyclopedia of North Carolina....

Fellow Travelers: Indians and Europeans Contesting the Early American Trail.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Fellow Travelers: Indians and Europeans Contesting the Early American Trail. By Philip Levy. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2007. Pp. xii, 199. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8130-3058-6.) In Fellow Travelers: Indians...

The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand: Roanoke's Forgotten Indians.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand: Roanoke's Forgotten Indians. By Michael Leroy Oberg. Early American Studies. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c. 2008. Pp. xvi, 205. $32.50, ISBN 978-0-8122-4031-3.) Following the recent...

If We Must Die: Shipboard Insurrections in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... If We Must Die: Shipboard Insurrections in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade. By Eric Robert Taylor. Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. [xviii], 266. $45.00, ISBN...

God's Ambassadors: A History of the Christian Clergy in America.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... God's Ambassadors: A History of the Christian Clergy in America. By E. Brooks Holifield. Pulpit and Pew. (Grand Rapids, Mich., and Cambridge, Eng.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007. Pp. x, 356. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-8028-0381-8.) ...

The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America. By Thomas S. Kidd. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xx], 392. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-300-11887-2.) The dominant historical narrative of...

Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery. By Jason R. Young. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. [xiv], 258. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3279-1.) The study...

Irons in the Fire: The Business History of the Tayloe Family and Virginia's Gentry, 1700-1860.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Irons in the Fire: The Business History of the Tayloe Family and Virginia's Gentry, 1700-1860. By Laura Croghan Kamoie. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2007. Pp. [xii], 222. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8139-2637-7.) This...

To Make This Land Our Own: Community, Identity, and Cultural Adaptation in Purrysburg Township, South Carolina, 1732-1865.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... To Make This Land Our Own: Community, Identity, and Cultural Adaptation in Purrysburg Township, South Carolina, 1732-1865. By Arlin C. Migliazzo. Foreword by Lawrence S. Roland. The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World. (Columbia:...

The Art and Science of William Bartram.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... The Art and Science of William Bartram. By Judith Magee. (University Park: Published by Pennsylvania State University Press in association with the Natural History Museum, London, c. 2007. Pp. [xii], 264. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-271-02914-6.) ...

Votaries of Apollo: The St. Cecilia Society and the Patronage of Concert Music in Charleston, South Carolina, 1766-1820.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Votaries of Apollo: The St. Cecilia Society and the Patronage of Concert Music in Charleston, South Carolina, 1766-1820. By Nicholas Michael Butler. The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press,...

The Revolutionary War in the Southern Back Country.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... The Revolutionary War in the Southern Back Country. By James K. Swisher. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 2008. Pp. 380. $24.95, ISBN 978-1-58980-503-3.) This is a popular history dealing with the Revolutionary War. The text flows...

Originalism, Federalism, and the American Constitutional Enterprise: A Historical Inquiry.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Originalism, Federalism, and the American Constitutional Enterprise: A Historical Inquiry. By Edward A. Purcell Jr. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c. 2007. Pp. x, 301. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-300-12203-9.) The truths of American...

From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859. By E Todd Smith. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2005. Pp. [xviii], 314. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8032-4313-2.) F. Todd Smith has...

The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees. Volume 1: 1805-1813; Volume 2: 1814-1821.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees. Volume 1: 1805-1813; Volume 2: 1814-1821. Edited and with an introduction by Rowena McClinton. Preface by Chad Smith. Indians of the Southeast. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska...

Crafting the Overseer's Image.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Crafting the Overseer's Image. By William E. Wiethoff. Studies in Rhetoric/ Communication. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xxii, 234. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-646-0.) In this first systematic study of the...

Mary Telfair to Mary Few: Selected Letters, 1802-1844.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Mary Telfair to Mary Few: Selected Letters, 1802-1844. Edited by Betty Wood. Publications of the Southern Texts Society. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2007. Pp. [x1iv], 317. $44.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2920-8.) From...

Legacy of a Southern Lady: Anna Calhoun Clemson, 1817-1875.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Legacy of a Southern Lady: Anna Calhoun Clemson, 1817-1875. By Ann Ratliff Russell. (Clemson, S.C.: Clemson University Digital Press, c. 2007. Pp. xx, 162. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-9796066-0-1.) Dubbed the favorite daughter of South...

Dead Men Tell No Tales: The Lives and Legends of the Pirate Charles Gibbs.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Dead Men Tell No Tales: The Lives and Legends of the Pirate Charles Gibbs. By Joseph Gibbs. Studies in Maritime History. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xviii], 211. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-693-4.) The title...

Margaret Junkin Preston, Poet of the Confederacy: A Literary Life.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Margaret Junkin Preston, Poet of the Confederacy: A Literary Life. By Stacey Jean Klein. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xviii], 137. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-704-7.) Stacey Jean Klein's study of the life and...

Courtship and Love Among the Enslaved in North Carolina.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Courtship and Love Among the Enslaved in North Carolina. By Rebecca J. Fraser. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. Pp. x, 137. $50.00, ISBN 978-1-934110-07-2.) This book is a history of emotions that places its discussion of...

All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900. By Martha S. Jones. John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. [x],...

The Young America Movement and the Transformation of the Democratic Party, 1828-1861.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... The Young America Movement and the Transformation of the Democratic Party, 1828-1861. By Yonatan Eyal. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 252. $75.00, ISBN 978-0-521-87564-6.) Yonatan Eyal's new book on...

Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality. By James L. Huston. American Profiles. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2007. Pp. [xii], 221. $41.00, ISBN 978-0-7425-3456-8.) Stephen...

Independent Immigrants: A Settlement of Hanoverian Germans in Western Missouri.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Independent Immigrants: A Settlement of Hanoverian Germans in Western Missouri. By Robert W. Frizzell. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xiv], 202. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1761-5.) This thoroughly researched...

The Border Between Them: Violence and Reconciliation on the Kansas-Missouri Line.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... The Border Between Them: Violence and Reconciliation on the Kansas-Missouri Line. By Jeremy Neely. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xx], 305. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1729-5.) Jeremy Neely introduces his...

One Man Great Enough: Abraham Lincoln's Road to Civil War.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... One Man Great Enough: Abraham Lincoln's Road to Civil War. By John C. Waugh. (New York and other cities: Harcourt, Inc., 2007. Pp. [x], 479. $28.00, ISBN 978-0-15-101071-4.) The numerous books about Abraham Lincoln already on the market...

Lincoln's Christianity.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Lincoln's Christianity. By Michael Burkhimer. (Yardley, Pa.: Westholme, 2007. Pp. [xiv], 206. $24.95, ISBN 978-1-59416-053-0.) Lincoln's Christianity by Michael Burkhimer is a thoroughly researched and well-written analysis of the evolution...

Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War. By James O. Lehman and Steven M. Nolt. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xiv], 353. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8018-8672-0.) The Amish and Mennonites of the nineteenth century...

Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia. By Aaron Sheehan-Dean. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 291. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3158-8.) In his farewell address...

Women on the Civil War Battlefront.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Women on the Civil War Battlefront. By Richard H. Hall. Modern War Studies. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2006. Pp. x, 397. $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-1437-0.) Much has recently come to light regarding women in the Civil War, and...

Like Grass before the Scythe: The Life and Death of Sgt. William Remmel, 121st New York Infantry.('Welcome the Hour of Conflict: William Cowan McClellan and the 9th Alabama', 'Little to Eat and Thin Mud to Drink: Letters, Diaries, and Memoirs from the Red River Campaigns, 1863-1864', 'The Civil War Memoirs of a Virginia Cavalryman: Lt. Robert T. Hubard, Jr. ' and '''Those Damn Horse Soldiers'': True Tales of the Civil War Cavalry')(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Like Grass before the Scythe: The Life and Death of Sgt. William Remmel, 121st New York Infantry. Edited by Robert Patrick Bender. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2007. Pp. xiv, 177. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8173-1552-8.) Welcome...

War's Relentless Hand: Twelve Tales of Civil War Soldiers.('Boy Soldier of the Confederacy: The Memoir of Johnnie Wickersham', '"Fear Was Not In Him": The Civil War Letters of Major General Francis C. Barlow, U.S.A.' and 'Honor in Command: Lt. Freeman S. Bowley's Civil War Service in the 30th United States Colored Infantry')(Book review)
February 1, 2009... War's Relentless Hand: Twelve Tales of Civil War Soldiers. By Mark H. Dunkelman. Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. [xvi], 288. $34.95, ISBN...

Confederate Guerrilla: The Civil War Memoir of Joseph M. Bailey.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Confederate Guerrilla: The Civil War Memoir of Joseph M. Bailey. Edited by T. Lindsay Baker. Civil War in the West. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2007. Pp. [xx], 148. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-55728-838-7.) Confederate Guerrilla:...

The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865. By Susannah Ural Bruce. (New York and London: New York University Press, c. 2006. Pp. xiv, 309. Paper, $22.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-9940-6; cloth, $70.00, ISBN...

Civil War Leadership and Mexican War Experience.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Civil War Leadership and Mexican War Experience. By Kevin Dougherty. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. Pp. [xiv], 207. $50.00, ISBN 978-1-57806-968-2.) We have always known, in a general sort of way, that the Mexican War...

Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: The Mississippi Squadron.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: The Mississippi Squadron. By Gary D. Joiner. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2007. Pp. [xiv], 199. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-7425-5098-8; cloth, $65.00, ISBN...

Lincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated with Our Greatest President.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Lincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated with Our Greatest President. By Edward Steers Jr. Introduction by Harold Holzer. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2007. Pp. [xviii], 264. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8131-2466-7.)...

History Teaches Us to Hope: Reflections on the Civil War and Southern History.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... History Teaches Us to Hope: Reflections on the Civil War and Southern History. By Charles E Roland. Edited and with an introduction by John David Smith. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2007. Pp. x, 353. $45.00, ISBN...

In the Wake of Slavery: Civil War, Civil Rights, and the Reconstruction of Southern Law.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... In the Wake of Slavery: Civil War, Civil Rights, and the Reconstruction of Southern Law. By Joseph A. Ranney. (Westport, Conn., and London: Praeger, 2006. Pp. x, 199. $49.95, ISBN 0-275-98972-0.) In this succinct treatise on southern law...

Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South. By Michael W. Fitzgerald. American Ways Series. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, c. 2007. Pp. [xiv], 234. $26.00, ISBN 978-1-56663-734-3.) Publisher Ivan R. Dee's American Ways Series...

West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War. By Heather Cox Richardson. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xiv], 396. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-300-11052-4.) Heather Cox Richardson has given us...

Wade Hampton III.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Wade Hampton III. By Robert K. Ackerman. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xviii], 341. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-667-5.) Douglas Southall Freeman described General Wade Hampton III as "possess[ing] high...

William Jennings Bryan: An Uncertain Trumpet.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... William Jennings Bryan: An Uncertain Trumpet. By Gerald Leinwand. American Profiles. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2007. Pp. xx, 183. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-7425-5158-9.) Gerald Leinwand's study of...

Race and Medicine in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century America.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Race and Medicine in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century America. By Todd L. Savitt. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, c. 2007. Pp. x, 453. $49.00, ISBN 978-0-87338-878-8.) Race and Medicine in Nineteenth- and...

Chevato: The Story of the Apache Warrior Who Captured Herman Lehmann.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Chevato: The Story of the Apache Warrior Who Captured Herman Lehmann. By William Chebahtah and Nancy McGown Minor. American Indian Lives. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 276. $40.00, ISBN...

Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910. By Andrew R. Graybill. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 277. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8032-6002-3.) Andrew R....

Asheville: A History.(Asheville: Mountain Majesty)(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Asheville: A History. By Nan K. Chase. Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, No. 19. (Jefferson, N.C., and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., c. 2007. Pp. x, 281. Paper, $35.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-3176-2.) Asheville: Mountain...

Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950. By Sterling Evans. Texas A&M Environmental History Series, No. 21. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press,...

Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause: Southern White Evangelicals and the Prohibition Movement.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause: Southern White Evangelicals and the Prohibition Movement. By Joe L. Coker. Religion in the South. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2007. Pp. x, 329. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2471-1.) Joe L....

"The Greatest Game Ever Played in Dixie": The Nashville Vols, Their 1908 Season, and the Championship Game.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... "The Greatest Game Ever Played in Dixie": The Nashville Vols, Their 1908 Season, and the Championship Game. By John A. Simpson. (Jefferson, N.C., and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., c. 2007. Pp. [x], 282. Paper, $29.95, ISBN...

Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America. By Micki McElya. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. [xii], 322. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02433-5.) One might wonder why Micki McElya did not...

Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II. By Cedric J. Robinson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xxii], 431. Paper, $22.50, ISBN...

Reclaiming the American Farmer: The Reinvention of a Regional Mythology in Twentieth-Century Southern Writing.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Reclaiming the American Farmer: The Reinvention of a Regional Mythology in Twentieth-Century Southern Writing. By Mary Weaks-Baxter. Southern Literary Studies. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. [xiv], 191. $42.95, ISBN...

A Class of Their Own: Black Teachers in the Segregated South.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... A Class of Their Own: Black Teachers in the Segregated South. By Adam Fairclough. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. [xii], 533. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02307-9.) Adam Fairclough's new book...

Home of the Infantry: The History of Fort Benning.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Home of the Infantry: The History of Fort Benning. By Peggy A. Stelpflug and Richard Hyatt. (Macon, Ga.: Published by Mercer University Press in association with the Historic Chattahoochee Commission and the National Infantry Association, 2007....

The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry. By Diane Pecknold. Refiguring American Music. (Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 294. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4080-5; cloth, $79.95, ISBN...

Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City. By Craig Havighurst. Music in American Life. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xx], 279. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-252-03257-8.) Among academic historians,...

An American Art Colony: The Art and Artists of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 1930-1940.('Roger Brown: Southern Exposure', 'Jerry Bywaters, Lone Star Printmaker: A Study of His Print Notebook, with a Catalogue of His Prints and a Checklist of His Illustrations and Ephemeral Works', 'Jerry Bywaters: Interpreter of the Southwest' and 'Imprinting the South: Southern Printmakers and Their Images of the Region, 1920s-1940s')(Book review)
February 1, 2009... An American Art Colony: The Art and Artists of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 1930-1940. By Scott Kerr and R. H. Dick. Introduction by Robert Archibald. (St. Louis: McCaughen and Burr Press, c. 2004. Pp. 235. $75.00, ISBN 0-9762424-0-0.) Roger...

Black Communists Speak on Scottsboro: A Documentary History.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Black Communists Speak on Scottsboro: A Documentary History. Edited by Walter T. Howard. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007. Pp. [x], 197. $47.00, ISBN 978-1-59213-597-4.) Scholarly inquiry into the history of the black Left has...

The Wilmington Shipyard: Welding a Fleet for Victory in World War II.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... The Wilmington Shipyard: Welding a Fleet for Victory in World War II. By Ralph Scott. (Charleston and London: History Press, 2007. Pp. 158. Paper, $19.99, ISBN 978-1-59629-210-9.) Wilmington's North Carolina Shipbuilding Company (NCSC)...

Herbert Aptheker on Race and Democracy: A Reader.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Herbert Aptheker on Race and Democracy: A Reader. Edited by Eric Foner and Manning Marable. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xxiv], 270. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03029-1.) For students of African American...

From Yellow Dog Democrats to Red State Republicans: Florida and Its Politics since 1940.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... From Yellow Dog Democrats to Red State Republicans: Florida and Its Politics since 1940. By David R. Colburn. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2007. Pp. x, 262. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8130-3155-2.) David R....

There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975. By Jason Sokol. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Pp. [viii], 433. $27.95, ISBN 0-307-26356-8.) More than thirty-five years after Numan V. Bartley's and Neil...

Central in Our Lives: Voices from Little Rock Central High School, 1957-1959.(Race, Politics, and Memory: A Documentary History of the Little Rock School Crisis)(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Central in Our Lives: Voices from Little Rock Central High School, 1957-1959. By Ralph Brodie and Marvin Schwartz. (Little Rock: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Central Arkansas Library System, c. 2007. Pp. 211. Paper, $24.95, ISBN...

Maxine Smith's Unwilling Pupils: Lessons Learned in Memphis's Civil Rights Classroom.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Maxine Smith's Unwilling Pupils: Lessons Learned in Memphis's Civil Rights Classroom. By Sherry L. Hoppe and Bruce W. Speck. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. Pp. [xx], 290. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-57233-587-5.) This biography...

From Rights to Economics: The Ongoing Struggle for Black Equality in the U.S. South.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... From Rights to Economics: The Ongoing Struggle for Black Equality in the U.S. South. By Timothy J. Minchin. New Perspectives on the History of the South. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2007. Pp. xii, 211. $39.95,...

Cuban Catholics in the United States, 1960-1980: Exile and Integration.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Cuban Catholics in the United States, 1960-1980: Exile and Integration. By Gerald E. Poyo. Latino Perspectives. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, c. 2007. Pp. xiv, 369. Paper, $32.00, ISBN 978-0-268-03833-5; cloth, $65.00, ISBN...

New Lights in the Valley: The Emergence of UAB.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... New Lights in the Valley: The Emergence of UAB. By Tennant S. McWilliams. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xxii], 546. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8173-1546-7.) This work tells the story of the emergence of the University of...

Black Sailor, White Navy: Racial Unrest in the Fleet during the Vietnam War Era.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Black Sailor, White Navy: Racial Unrest in the Fleet during the Vietnam War Era. By John Darrell Sherwood. (New York and London: New York University Press, c. 2007. Pp. xxiv, 344. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-4036-1.) Any study of the Vietnam...

Mighty Peculiar Elections: The New South Gubernatorial Campaigns of 1970 and the Changing Politics of Race.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Mighty Peculiar Elections: The New South Gubernatorial Campaigns of 1970 and the Changing Politics of Race. By Randy Sanders. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 218. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 978-0-8071-3290-6.) Tired...

Prophet from Plains: Jimmy Carter and His Legacy.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Prophet from Plains: Jimmy Carter and His Legacy. By Frye Gaillard. Foreword by David C. Carter. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 128. $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2914-7.) Some twenty years after he...

Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast. Edited by Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt. History of the Urban Environment. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c. 2007. Pp. [viii], 344. Paper, $27.95,...

Grounded Globalism: How the U.S. South Embraces the World.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Grounded Globalism: How the U.S. South Embraces the World. By James L. Peacock. The New Southern Studies. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xii], 311. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2868-3.) James L. Peacock is...

African American Foodways: Explorations of History and Culture.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... African American Foodways: Explorations of History and Culture. Edited by Anne L. Bower. The Food Series. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2007. Pp. [x], 183. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03185-4.) African American Foodways:...

Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture. By Anthony Wilson. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006. Pp. [xxvi], 208. $45.00, ISBN 1-57806-804-5.) Anthony Wilson's Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture...

The Best American History Essays 2007.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... The Best American History Essays 2007. Edited by Jacqueline Jones for the Organization of American Historians. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. [x], 284. Paper, $23.95, ISBN 978-1-4039-7660-4; cloth, $84.95, ISBN 978-1-4039-7659-8.) ...

The association.(Historical News and Notices)(Southern Historical Association)
February 1, 2009... The seventy-fifth annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association will take place in Louisville at the Marriott and Hyatt Regency Hotels on November 5-8, 2009, Thursday through Sunday. The Marriott is a brand-new hotel four blocks from...

European history section.(Historical News and Notices)(Southern Historical Association)
February 1, 2009... The European History Section (EHS) announces its officers for 2009: James F. Tent, University of Alabama at Birmingham, chair; Katharine D. Kennedy, Agnes Scott College, vice chair; Robert D. Billinger Jr., Wingate University, and Nancy...

Personnel.(Historical News and Notices)(appointments and promotions of college faculty)
February 1, 2009... University of Alabama at Birmingham: Glenn Feldman promoted to professor. Appalachian State University: Anthony Gene Carey appointed vice provost for faculty affairs. University of Arkansas: Lynda L. Coon named chair; Charles Muntz...