The Journal of Southern History articles from May 2002

The Journal of Southern History archives from May 2002

Guerrilla warfare, democracy, and the fate of the confederacy.
May 1, 2002... ONE OF THE MOST ENDURING EXPLANATIONS FOR WHY THE CONFEDERACY lost the Civil War asserts that the Rebels were too democratic. First proposed by David H. Donald as a variation on a theme by Frank L. Owsley, it has survived, with some...

Flag culture and the consolidation of confederate nationalism.
May 1, 2002... AS WILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELL'S TRAIN RUMBLED THROUGH NORTH Carolina on April 15, 1861, the celebrated diarist of the London Times spotted his first Confederate flag, waving atop a pine tree stripped of its branches. By the time he witnessed a...

The second battle for woman suffrage: Alabama white women, the poll tax, and V. O. key's master narrative of Southern politics.
May 1, 2002... IN 1937 MINNIE L. STECKEL, A SOCIOLOGIST AT THE ALL-WHITE ALABAMA COLLEGE for women in Montevallo, made the following observations: "A consideration of how [poll tax] laws affect women indicates that in many circumstances they do result in...

Southern history in periodicals, 2001: a selected bibliography.
May 1, 2002... THIS CLASSIFIED BIBLIOGRAPHY INCLUDES MOST SCHOLARLY ARTICLES IN the field of southern history published in periodicals in 2001 except for descriptive or genealogical writings of primary interest to a restricted group of readers. Since some...

Annual report of the secretary-treasurer.
May 1, 2002... THE PAST YEAR WAS A PARTICULARLY EVENTFUL ONE FOR THE SOUTHERN Historical Association. We enjoyed a very successful annual meeting in New Orleans, with the highest attendance in recent decades. Of perhaps more long-term significance, we have...

Going off half-cocked: a review essay of Arming America.
May 1, 2002... THE PROFESSION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS IS NO MORE IMMUNE FROM THE toils of notoriety than the business world with its corporate meltdowns. One popular historian seems to have borrowed lengthy passages from compatriots as coolly as some Houston...

Indians of the Greater Southeast: Historical Archaeology and Ethnohistory.
May 1, 2002... Edited by Bonnie G. McEwan. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2000. Pp. xvi, 336. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-1778-5.) This book of essays is intended to highlight the work of historical archaeologists of the...

The Wichita Indians: Traders of Texas and the Southern Plains, 1540-1845.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... By F. Todd Smith. Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University, No. 87. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. Pp. [xiv], 206. $32.95, ISBN 0-89096-952-3.) Once again F. Todd Smith, an...

The French in Early Florida: In the Eye of the Hurricane.
May 1, 2002... By John T. McGrath. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2000. Pp. [xii], 239. $49.95, ISBN 0-8130-1784-X.) There were three sixteenth-century French eyewitness accounts of the destruction of the short-lived Fort...

Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal. An African American Anthology.
May 1, 2002... Edited by Manning Marable and Leith Mullings. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2000. Pp. [xxvi], 675. $35.00, ISBN 0-8476-9930-7.) In the last five years there have been a good number of anthologies...

Long Green: The Rise and Fall of Tobacco in South Carolina.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... By Eldred E. Prince Jr. with Robert R. Simpson. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xxiv], 272. $40.00, ISBN 0-8203-2176-1.) While rice and cotton are the two crops one normally associates with South...

Colonial Challenges: Britons, Native Americans, and Caribs, 1759-1775.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... By Robin F. A. Fabel. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2000. Pp. x, 282. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-1798-X.) Auburn University history professor Robin Fabel offers an interesting comparative approach to the study of...

Crucible of War: the Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766.
May 1, 2002... By Fred Anderson. With illustrations from the William L. Clements Library. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. Pp. [xl], 862. $40.00, ISBN 0-375-40642-5.) Fred Anderson's magisterial new study of the Seven Years' War begins with the bold...

Gender, Race, and Rank in a Revolutionary Age: the Georgia Lowcountry, 1750-1820.
May 1, 2002... By Betty Wood. Georgia Southern University Jack N. & Addie D. Averitt Lecture Series, No. 9. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2000. Pp. xvi, 104. $25.00, ISBN 0-8203-2183-4.) This slender volume adds significantly...

States' Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876.
May 1, 2002... By Forrest McDonald. American Political Thought. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2000. Pp. viii, 296. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1040-5.) As the Supreme Court repeatedly likes to remind us these days, states' rights is not some...

Founding Brothers: the Revolutionary Generation.
May 1, 2002... By Joseph J. Ellis. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. Pp. [xii], 288. $26.00, ISBN 0-375-40544-5.) Joseph Ellis introduces his notes at the back of Founding Brothers with the following disclaimer: "The awkward truth is that this book...

The Papers of Henry Laurens. Volume XV: December 11, 1778-August 31, 1782.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Edited by David R. Chesnutt and C. James Taylor. (Columbia: Published for the South Carolina Historical Society by the University of South Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. xxxviii, 745. $49.95, ISBN 1-57003-307-2.) This volume, which meets the...

The Road to Poverty: the Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia.
May 1, 2002... By Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen M. Blee. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 434. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-521-65546-3; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-521-65229-4.) Perhaps the central paradox of the Appalachian...

Creole: the History and Legacy of Louisiana's Free People of Color.
May 1, 2002... Edited by Sybil Kein. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Pp. xxiv, 344. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8071-2601-2; cloth, $47.50, ISBN 0-8071-2532-6.) Sybil Kein traces the genesis of this multidisciplinary collection of fifteen...

Mark Anthony Cooper: the Iron Man of Georgia: A Biography.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... By Mark Cooper Pope III with J. Donald McKee. (Atlanta: Graphic Publishing Company, 2000. Pp. xiv, 294. $35.00, ISBN 0-9679640-0-8. Order from the press at 655 Lambert Drive NE, Atlanta, Ga. 30324.) This book manages the difficult feat of...

Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation.
May 1, 2002... By Larry Eugene Rivers. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2000. Pp. xvi, 369. $29.95, ISBN 0-8130-1813-7.) Historians have dedicated hundreds of monographs to the subject of slavery in the American South, yet...

Nature's Management: Writings on Landscape and Reform, 1822-1859.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... By Edmund Ruffin. Edited with an introduction by Jack Temple Kirby. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2000. Pp. xxxii, 375. $70.00, ISBN 0-8203-2162-1.) Although it is hard to determine the focus of this volume from...

Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi: Masculinity, Honor, and the Antiparty Tradition, 1830-1860.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... By Christopher J. Olsen. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. [x], 266. $45.00, ISBN 0-19-513147-9.) For students of antebellum politics, Christopher J. Olsen offers a startling new thesis: Parties were not very...

Voices of the Fugitives: Runaway Slave Stories and Their Fictions of Self-Creation.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... By Sterling Lecater Bland Jr. Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies, No. 199. (Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 2000. Pp. xviii, 184. $22.95, ISBN 0-313-31169-2.) "Simply put, this is a study of identity...

"If You Love That Lady Don't Marry Her": the Courtship Letters of Sally McDowell and John Miller, 1854-1856.
May 1, 2002... Edited by Thomas E. Buckley, S.J. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xlvi], 896. $29.95, ISBN 0-8262-1278-6.) Sally McDowell was a rare woman, indeed. Not only did she own and manage a large Virginia...

When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession.
May 1, 2002... By Charles Adams. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2000. Pp. xiv, 225. $24.95, ISBN 0-8476-9722-3.) For those enamored of the Old South and states' rights, Charles Adams's book will be a joyful...

Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era.
May 1, 2002... By Laura F. Edwards. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xii], 271. $29.95, ISBN 0-252-02568-7.) Laura Edwards joins a number of other historians who have offered an interpretive synthesis of nineteenth-century...

Major McKinley: William McKinley and the Civil War.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... By William H. Armstrong. (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, c. 2000. Pp. xvi, 191. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-87338-657-4.) In a July 1861 message to Congress, President Abraham Lincoln hailed the caliber of the volunteer...

Brothers `Til Death: the Civil War Letters of William, Thomas, and Maggie Jones, 1861-1865.
May 1, 2002... Edited by Richard M. Trimble. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2000. Pp. [xxiv], 173. $35.00, ISBN 0-86554-698-3.) Brothers `Til Death can be added to the long list of published soldiers' letters. Besides the Jones siblings, this book...

Through Ordinary Eyes: the Civil War Correspondence of Rufus Robbins, Private, 7th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers.
May 1, 2002... Edited by Ella Jane Bruen and Brian M. Fitzgibbons. (Westport, Conn., and London: Praeger Publishers, 2000. Pp. [xiv], 220. $39.95, ISBN 0-275-96589-9.) Doctor to the Front: The Recollections of Confederate Surgeon Thomas Fanning Wood,...

Confederate Engineer: Training and Campaigning with John Morris Wampler.(Voices of the Civil War)
May 1, 2002... By George G. Kundahl. Voices of the Civil War. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000. Pp. [xxiv], 336. $34.00, ISBN 1-57233-073-2.) George G. Kundahl examines the often neglected role played by Civil War engineers in his...

A Meteor Shining Brightly: Essays on the Life and Career of Major General Patrick R. Cleburne.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Edited by Mauriel Phillips Joslyn. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2000. Pp. [xliv], 237. $34.95, ISBN 0-86554-693-2.) Of all the men who served the Confederate cause as a division commander outside the Army of Northern Virginia, none...

Joshua Chamberlain: the Soldier and the Man.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... By Edward G. Longacre. (Conshohocken, Pa.: Combined Publishing, c. 1999. Pp. 395. $29.95, ISBN 1-58097-021-4.) Edward Longacre has sought "to fashion a more rounded, more inclusive, and more objective portrait" of Joshua Chamberlain "as...

Fighting with the Eighteenth Massachusetts: the Civil War Memoir of Thomas H. Mann.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Edited by John J. Hennessy. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Pp. xxii, 264. $34.95, ISBN 0-8071-2577-6.) The publication of Civil War diaries, correspondence, and memoirs is always a welcome treat. They broaden the...

Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey.
May 1, 2002... Written and illustrated by Robert Knox Sneden. Edited by Charles F. Bryan Jr. and Nelson D. Lankford. (New York and other cities: The Free Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xviii], 329. $37.50, ISBN 0-684-86365-0.) Union private Robert Knox Sneden, 40th...

Training, Tactics and Leadership in the Confederate Army of Tennessee: Seeds of Failure.(Cass Series: Military History and Policy)
May 1, 2002... By Andrew Haughton. Cass Series: Military History and Policy. (London and Portland, Ore.: Frank Cass, 2000. Pp. [x], 261. $59.50, ISBN 0-7146-5032-3.) This short monograph, written by Andrew Haughton, a recent graduate of King's College,...

The Richmond Campaign of 1862: the Peninsula and the Seven Days.(Military Campaigns of the Civil War)
May 1, 2002... Edited by Gary W. Gallagher. Military Campaigns of the Civil War. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2000, Pp. [xvi], 272. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2552-2.) The Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg in July...

To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13-25, 1864.
May 1, 2002... By Gordon C. Rhea. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Pp. [xx], 505. $34.95, ISBN 0-8071-2535-0.) On May 11, 1864, Ulysses S. Grant wrote to the War Department and proposed "to fight it out on this line if it takes all...

A Place Called Appomattox.(Civil War America)
May 1, 2002... By William Marvel. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. [xii], 400. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2568-9.) In this book William Marvel turns his attention to the location synonymous with the...

This Astounding Close: the Road to Bennett Place.
May 1, 2002... By Mark L. Bradley. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xxii], 404. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2565-4.) Even after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox, the Civil War continued to be fought and surrenders...

America's Public Holidays, 1865-1920.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... By Ellen M. Litwicki. (Washington, D.C., and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, c. 2000. Pp. x, 293. $39.95, ISBN 1-56098-863-0.) In this thoughtful book, Ellen M. Litwicki examines how middle-class representatives of various...

At Freedom's Door: African American Founding Fathers and Lawyers in Reconstruction South Carolina.
May 1, 2002... Edited by James Lowell Underwood and W. Lewis Burke Jr. With an introduction by Eric Foner. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xxvi], 269. $34.95, ISBN 1-57003-357-9.) The essays in this book were given at the...

Imperfect Equality: African Americans and the Confines of White Racial Attitudes in Post-Emancipation Maryland.
May 1, 2002... By Richard Paul Fuke. Reconstructing America Series. (New York: Fordham University Press, 1999. Pp. [xxviii], 307. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8232-1963-1; cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8232-1962-3.) The last generation has witnessed several studies of...

Black Prisoners and Their World, Alabama 1865-1900.
May 1, 2002... By Mary Ellen Curtin. Carter G. Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2000. Pp. [xiv], 261. Paper, $19.50, ISBN 0-8139-1984-3; cloth, $59.50, ISBN 0-8139-1981-9.) This...

Jumpin' Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights.
May 1, 2002... Edited by Jane Dailey, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, and Bryant Simon. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford, Eng.: Princeton University Press, c. 2000. Pp. xiv, 325. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-691-00193-6; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-691-00192-8.) This is an...

Before Jim Crow: the Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia.(Gender and American Culture)
May 1, 2002... By Jane Dailey. Gender and American Culture. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xii], 278. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4901-4; cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2587-5.) The period between Reconstruction and...

Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta after the Civil War.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... By John C. Willis. The American South Series. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2000. Pp. [xvi], 239. Paper, $19.50, ISBN 0-8139-1982-7; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8139-1971-1.) Neither historians of Mississippi nor...

Appalachians and Race: the Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation.
May 1, 2002... Edited by John C. Inscoe. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2000. Pp. [viii], 330. $34.95, ISBN 0-8131-2173-6.) Once upon a time, historians viewed antebellum Appalachian southerners as naturally democratic Anglo-Saxon...

The Supreme Court's Retreat from Reconstruction: A Distortion of Constitutional Jurisprudence.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... By Frank J. Scaturro. Contributions in Legal Studies, No. 91. (Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 305. $69.50, ISBN 0-313-31105-6.) Law-and-society boundary disputes tend to involve many social scientists and law...

Sorting Out the New South City: Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975.
May 1, 2002... By Thomas W. Hanchett. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 1998. Pp. [xvi], 380. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8078-4677-5; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2376-7.) In examining the evolution of Charlotte's urban landscape...

Peaceful Revolution: Constitutional Change and American Culture from Progressivism to the New Deal.
May 1, 2002... By Maxwell Bloomfield. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. [xiv], 209. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-00304-7.) Maxwell Bloomfield, a distinguished historian of American law and constitutionalism, must have had the time...

Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives: the Florida Reminiscences of George Gillett Keen and Sarah Pamela Williams.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Edited by James M. Denham and Canter Brown Jr. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2000. Pp. xx, 215. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-346-3.) Pioneer settlement is often painted in grand and sweeping strokes, but in Cracker Times and...

Galveston and the 1900 Storm: Catastrophe and Catalyst.
May 1, 2002... By Patricia Bellis Bixel and Elizabeth Hayes Turner. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. Pp. [xvi], 174. Paper, $27.95, ISBN 0-292-70884-X; cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-292-70883-1.) Through a Night of Horrors: Voices from the 1900 Galveston...

Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America.
May 1, 2002... By Ronald R. Kline. Revisiting Rural America. (Baltimore, Md., and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2000. Pp. xii, 372. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-6248-5.) In Consumers in the Country author Ronald Kline, an associate professor in the...

Pluralism Comes of Age: American Religious Culture in the Twentieth Century.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... By Charles H. Lippy. (Armonk, N.Y., and London: M. E. Sharpe, c. 2000. Pp. x, 250. $34.95, ISBN 0-7656-0150-8.) In the past decade numerous scholars of American social and intellectual life have portrayed pluralism as the key to...

Blind Obedience: A True Story of Family Loyalty and Murder in South Georgia.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... By Bill Boyd. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2000. Pp. [xviii], 239. $24.95, ISBN 0-86554-707-6.) The "blindly obedient" of the title are the three sons of Joe Rawlins, a prosperous South Georgia farmer. Rawlins became embroiled in...

Black-Jewish Relations on Trial: Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... By Jeffrey Melnick. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2000. Pp. xiv, 165. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 1-57806-287-X; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 1-57806-286-1.) In Black-Jewish Relations on Trial Jeffrey Melnick brings a fresh approach to the...

Tent Show: Arthur Names and His "Famous" Players.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... By Donald W. Whisenhunt. Introduction by W. Kenneth Waters Jr. West Texas A&M University Series, No. 6. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. Pp. [xiv], 174. $29.95, ISBN 0-89096-954-X.) From the early 1920s through the...

Civilizing Capitalism: the National Consumers' League, Women's Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era.
May 1, 2002... By Landon R. Y. Storrs. Gender and American Culture. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xvi], 392. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4838-7; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2527-1.) As little scholarly work has...

Tuskegee's Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
May 1, 2002... Edited by Susan M. Reverby. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xx], 630. Paper, $27.50, ISBN 0-8078-4852-2; cloth, $69.95, ISBN 0-8078-2539-5.) The use of human beings in medical experimentation in...

All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941.
May 1, 2002... By Melissa Walker. Revisiting Rural America. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. [xviii], 341. $42.50, ISBN 0-8018-6318-X.) Melissa Walker's All We Knew Was to Farm is a provocative study of women in the...

Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana.
May 1, 2002... By Lawrence N. Powell. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2000. Pp. xx, 593. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-5374-7; cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2504-2.) This is an eloquent book about civic responsibility. In the...

Montgomery in the Good War: Portrait of a Southern City, 1939-1946.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... By Wesley Phillips Newton. Introduction by Allen Cronenberg. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xxx], 321. $34.95, ISBN 0-8173-1043-6.) As part of a recent scholarly trend that focuses on the South during...

The Texas Sheriff: Lord of the County Line.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... By Thad Sitton. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c. 2000. Pp. xiv, 253. $24.95, ISBN 0-8061-3216-7.) An interesting result of the civil rights movement in Texas is that some of the Texas sheriffs accustomed to enforcing white...

Grace Towns Hamilton and the Politics of Southern Change.
May 1, 2002... By Lorraine Nelson Spritzer and Jean B. Bergmark. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 1997. Pp. [xviii], 227. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8203-2085-4; cloth, $29.95, 0-8203-1889-2.) Grace Towns Hamilton (1907-1992), who came...

Freedomways Reader: Prophets in Their Own Country.(Interventions: Theory and Contemporary Politics)
May 1, 2002... Edited by Esther Cooper Jackson and Constance Pohl. Interventions: Theory and Contemporary Politics. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2000. Pp. [xxxii], 382. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-8133-6452-3; cloth, $28.00, ISBN 0-8133-6769-7.) ...

Race, Rock, and Elvis.(Music in American Life)
May 1, 2002... By Michael T. Bertrand. Music in American Life. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2000. Pp. xii, 327. $32.95, ISBN 0-252-02586-5.) In his ambitious Race, Rock, and Elvis Michael Bertrand poses a central question: "Did...

Ernest Vandiver: Governor of Georgia.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... By Harold Paulk Henderson. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xiv], 300. $35.00, ISBN 0-8203-2223-7.) Harold Paulk Henderson, a political scientist, already had written a biography of Governor Ellis Arnall...

Triumph of Good Will: How Terry Sanford Beat a Champion of Segregation and Reshaped the South.
May 1, 2002... By John Drescher. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2000. Pp. [xxii], 316. $27.00, ISBN 1-57806-310-8.) John Drescher, who served as a state capitol reporter and editor for the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, has written a competent,...

For Freedom's Sake: the Life of Fannie Lou Hamer.(Women in American History)
May 1, 2002... By Chana Kai Lee. Women in American History. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 1999. Pp. xviii, 255. $29.95, ISBN 0-252-02151-7.) Fannie Lou Hamer, like other leading African American women of her time, became an...

Beaches, Blood, and Ballots: A Black Doctor's Civil Rights Struggle.
May 1, 2002... By Gilbert R. Mason M.D. with James Patterson Smith. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2000. Pp. [xx], 227. $27.00, ISBN 1-57806-278-0.) Gilbert Mason details his role in the struggle for racial equality on the Mississippi Gulf...

From Selma to Sorrow: the Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo.
May 1, 2002... By Mary Stanton. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 1998. Pp. xiv, 250. $24.95, ISBN 0-8203-2045-5.) On March 25, 1965, angry Klansmen murdered a Detroit housewife outside of Selma, Alabama. Viola Liuzzo was...

From Southern Wrongs to Civil Rights: The Memoir of a White Civil Rights Activist.
May 1, 2002... By Sara Mitchell Parsons. With a Foreword by David J. Garrow. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xxviii], 184. $24.95, ISBN 0-8173-1026-6.) For obvious reasons, biographers are indebted to famous persons who...

Nixon and the Environment.
May 1, 2002... By J. Brooks Flippen. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. Pp. [xii], 308. $24.95, ISBN 0-8263-1993-9.) In this first systematic discussion of the Nixon administration's environmental policy and the major environmental...

Reelection: William Jefferson Clinton as a Native-Son Presidential Candidate.(Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the Twenty-First Century)
May 1, 2002... By Hanes Walton Jr. Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the Twenty-First Century. (New York: Columbia University Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xxxviii], 308. Paper, $22.00, ISBN 0-231-11553-9; cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-231-11552-0.) ...

Where These Memories Grow: History, Memory, and Southern Identity.
May 1, 2002... Edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xiv], 366. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4886-7; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2572-7.) Everyone interested in historical memory or...

Life at Southern Living: A Sort of Memoir.
May 1, 2002... By John Logue and Gary McCalla. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Pp. [xiv], 323. $24.95, ISBN 0-8071-2561-X.) Founded practically on the centenary of Appomattox, Southern Living magazine is now approaching middle age...

The Wild East: A Biography of the Great Smoky Mountains and The Great Smokies: From Natural Habitat to National Park.
May 1, 2002... By Margaret Lynn Brown. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2000. Pp. [xxii], 457. $44.95, ISBN 0-8130-1750-5.) The Great Smokies: From Natural Habitat to National Park. By Daniel S. Pierce. (Knoxville: University...

The Estuary's Gift: An Atlantic Coast Cultural Biography.
May 1, 2002... By David Griffith. Rural Studies Series. (University Park: Pennyslvania State University Press, c. 1999). Pp. [xx], 196. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-271-01951-4; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-271-01950-6.) In recent years, the mid-Atlantic coast,...

The Kentucky River.(William E. Ellis)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... By William E. Ellis. The Ohio River Valley Series. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2000. Pp. xviii, 226. $29.95, ISBN 0-8131-2152-3.) William E. Ellis has written, in his own words, a "synthesis" of the Kentucky River and its...

The Association. (Historical News and Notices).
May 1, 2002... Nominations for 2002: The 2001 Nominating Committee, consisting of Raymond Gavins, Duke University, chair; Sally G. McMillen, Davidson College; Waldo E. Martin, University of California at Berkeley; Edmund L. Drago, College of Charleston; and...

SHA Sexual Harassment Policy. (Historical News and Notices).(Southern Historical Association)
May 1, 2002... The Southern Historical Association opposes sexual harassment in all aspects of academia. Further, the Association encourages informational activities designed to promote the education of its members and the public regarding sexual harassment...

Obituaries. (Historical News and Notices).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Public historian Jerry W. DeVine passed away on December 13, 2001. Jerry grew up in Alabama and attended Jacksonville State College, where he received his B.A. in secondary education and M.A. in history. For ten years he taught in various...

Announcements and activities. (Historical News and Notices).
May 1, 2002... At the annual meeting of the Southern Association for Women Historians (SAWH) on Friday, November 16, 2001, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Joan Marie Johnson, a scholar-in-residence at the Newberry Library, received the A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize...