The Journal of Southern History articles from May 2003

The Journal of Southern History archives from May 2003

Spanish colonization literature, Powhatan geographies, and English perceptions of Tsenacommacah/Virginia.
May 1, 2003... IN 1612 VIRGINIA COLONIST WILLIAM STRACHEY EXPLAINED THAT HIS Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania depicted in greatest detail that part of the Virginia Company's claims where the English had concentrated their colonizing activities. This...

The Randolph scandal in early national Virginia, 1792-1815: new voices in the "Court of Honour".
May 1, 2003... CONFRONTED BY RUMORS THAT MADE THEM APPEAR REPREHENSIBLE, IN 1792 members of an elite Virginia family tried to recast themselves as exemplars of virtue. Dogged by notoriety, they choreographed a series of public responses, targeted at a...

The limits of interracial compromise: Louisiana, 1941.
May 1, 2003... There is no little divergence of opinion as to the extent of segregation and discrimination in the interpersonal sphere. The literature tends to emphasize "interesting" individual experiences, which may be exceptions. In eliciting opinions as...

Southern history in periodicals, 2002: a selected bibliography.(Bibliography)
May 1, 2003... THIS CLASSIFIED BIBLIOGRAPHY INCLUDES MOST SCHOLARLY ARTICLES IN the field of Southern history published in periodicals in 2002 except for descriptive or genealogical writings of primary interest to a restricted group of readers. If an article...

Annual report of the secretary-treasurer.(includes statistical tables)
May 1, 2003... OUR FIRST MEETING IN BALTIMORE IN NOVEMBER PROVED TO BE A VERY successful one. Convening only blocks from the churchyard where Edgar Allan Poe was buried in a pauper's grave, the docks where Frederick Douglass worked as a caulker and learned to...

The Early Modern Atlantic Economy.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Edited by John J. McCusker and Kenneth Morgan. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 369. $59.95, ISBN 0-521-78249-X.) In recent decades no scholar has contributed more than Jacob M. Price to our...

Beloved Bethesda: a History of George Whitefield's Home for Boys, 1740-2000.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Edward J. Cashin. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 278. $39.95, ISBN 0-86554-722-X.) According to Edward J. Cashin, George Whitefield "changed the religious character of colonial America more than any of his...

George Washington in and as Culture.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Edited by Kevin L. Cope with William W. Pederson and Frank Williams. AMS Studies in the Eighteenth Century, No. 38. (New York: AMS Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xx], 324. $74.50, ISBN 0-404-63538-5.) I review this volume, which was published to...

Jeffersonian America.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Peter S. Onuf and Leonard J. Sadosky. Problems in American History. (Malden, Mass., and Oxford, Eng.: Blackwell Publishers, 2002. Pp. x, 270. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 1-55786-923-5; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 1-55786-922-7.) Peter S. Onuf and...

Jefferson's Pillow: the Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Roger Wilkins. (Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, c. 2001. Pp. 163. $23.00, ISBN 0-8070-0956-3.) Roger Wilkins is not a conventional academic, and Jefferson's Pillow is not a conventional scholarly book. Wilkins, who teaches history at...

Crowds and Soldiers in Revolutionary North Carolina: the Culture of Violence in Riot and War.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Wayne E. Lee. Foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller. Southern Dissent. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2001. Pp. xvi, 380. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2095-6.) The underlying thesis of this extensively...

William Henry Drayton: South Carolina Revolutionary Patriot.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Keith Krawczynski. Southern Biography Series. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. [xviii], 358. $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-2261-6.) Interpreting William Henry Drayton has never been easy. A loyalist in the late 1760s,...

The Federal Principle in American Politics, 1790-1833.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Andrew C. Lenner. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, c. 2001. Pp. [xiv], 223. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-7425-2071-4; cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-8071-2070-6.) Andrew C. Lenner argues that disagreements over...

"The Tyranny of Printers": Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Jeffrey L. Pasley. Jeffersonian America. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001. Pp. [xx], 517. $37.50, ISBN 0-8139-2030-2.) Newspaper editors of the early republic received a bad press from many of their...

Unitarianism in the Antebellum South: the Other Invisible Institution.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By John Allen Macaulay. Religion and American Culture. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xvi], 222. $32.95, ISBN 0-8173-1086-X.) The few scholars who associate Unitarianism with the antebellum South usually...

The Irish in the South, 1815-1877.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By David T. Gleeson. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xiv], 278. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4968-5; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2639-1.) It has been sometimes said around Savannah that the town...

The Levy Family and Monticello, 1834-1923: Saving Thomas Jefferson's House.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Melvin I. Urofsky. Monticello Monograph Series. (Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2001. Pp. 256. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 1-882886-16-X; cloth, $26.95, ISBN 1-882886-15-1.) Monticello is one of our greatest national...

Frontier Blood: the Saga of the Parker Family.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Jo Ella Powell Exley. The Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University, No. 90. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 331. $29.95, ISBN 1-58544-136-8.) In Frontier Blood Jo Ella...

Taming Texas: Captain William T. Sadler's Lone Star Service.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Stephen L. Moore. (Austin, Tex.: State House Press, 2000. Pp. 387. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 1-880510-69-3; cloth, $34.95, ISBN 1-880510-68-5.) Stephen L. Moore first presents William T. Sadler's journey to Texas and his establishment of the...

Her Act and Deed: Women's Lives in a Rural Southern County, 1837-1873.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... By Angela Boswell. Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, No. 3. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 190. $29.95, ISBN 1-58544-128-7.) Since most historians of nineteenth-century American women have focused upon the...

A Rebel Wife in Texas: the Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Edited by Erika L. Murr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. [xvi], 476. $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-2702-7.) "Lord," demanded Texas plantation mistress Elizabeth Scott ("Lizzie") Neblett in March 1864, "if I was made a woman...

The Papers of William Woods Holden. Volume I: 1841-1868.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Edited by Horace W. Raper and Thornton W. Mitchell. (Raleigh: Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 2000. Pp. 1, 457. $40.00, ISBN 0-86526-292-6.) No North Carolina political figure invoked a...

No Cross, No Crown: Black Nuns in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Sister Mary Bernard Deggs. Edited by Virginia Meacham Gould and Charles E. Nolan. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xxxviii], 226. $44.95, ISBN 0-253-33630-9.) "We are not to be played with...."...

The Waterman's Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By David S. Cecelski. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. xx, 304. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4972-3; cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2643-X.) Recent studies by historians such as W. Jeffrey Bolster, Marcus...

Death of an Overseer: Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation South.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Michael Wayne. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 257. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-19-514004-4; cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-19-514003-6.) Michael Wayne has created an unusual text, not quite what some readers may be...

Voices from the Gathering Storm: the Coming of the American Civil War.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Glenn M. Linden. (Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2001. Pp. xxxii, 236. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8420-2999-0; cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-8420-2998-2.) David M. Potter warned historians long ago about the fallacy of reading history backward. It is...

Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Volume I: The Eve of War. By Edward L. Ayers and Anne S. Rubin. (New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company, 2000. Pp. [viii], 103, and CD-ROM. $49.95, ISBN 0-393-04604-4.) In the early 1990s Edward L. Ayers of the University of Virginia...

The Longest Night: a Military History of the Civil War.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By David J. Eicher. Foreword by James M. McPherson. Maps by Lee Vande Visse. (New York and other cities: Simon and Schuster, c. 2001. Pp. 990. $40.00, ISBN 0-684-84944-5.) In his foreword to David J. Eicher's new book, James M. McPherson...

The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By William W. Freehling. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xvi], 238. $25.00, ISBN 0-19-513027-8.) William W. Freehling shifts the focus of debate over why the South lost the Civil War onto two particular...

Lee and His Army in Confederate History.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Gary W. Gallagher. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. xviii, 295. $29.95, ISBN 0-8078-2631-6.) Gary W. Gallagher has written extensively about Robert E. Lee, and this collection...

Lee in the Shadow of Washington.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Richard B. McCaslin. Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. [xii], 260. $29.95, ISBN 0-8071-2696-9.) Richard B. McCaslin builds a strong case for...

Civil War High Commands.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By John H. Eicher and David J. Eicher. Foreword by John Y. Simon. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001. Pp. [xxvi], 1009. $59.95, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.) Collectors of Civil War reference books will certainly want to add this...

Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and Their Wives.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Edited by Carol K. Bleser and Lesley J. Gordon. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. [xxiv], 292. $27.50, ISBN 0-19-511509-0.) Carol K. Bleser and Lesley J. Gordon, the editors of this excellent book, set as their...

A Short History of the Civil War at Sea.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... By Spencer C. Tucker. The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era, No. 5. (Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2002. Pp. [xiv], 188. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8420-2868-4; cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-8420-2867-6.) This is a "niche book": a...

Northern Naval Superiority and the Economics of the American Civil War.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By David G. Surdam. Studies in Maritime History. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xxiv], 286. $34.95, ISBN 1-57003-407-9.) This is an important book for scholars of the Confederacy. Its pages of charts and...

While God Is Marching On: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... By Steven E. Woodworth. Modern War Studies. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2001. Pp. xii, 394. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1099-5.) The Civil War stirs the American imagination like few other national events. As a democracy, America...

Making and Remaking Pennsylvania's Civil War.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Edited by William Blair and William Pencak. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xx], 332. $35.00, ISBN 0-271-02079-2.) Editors William Blair and William Pencak have selected ten essays to suggest new ways...

The Business of Captivity: Elmira and Its Civil War Prison.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... By Michael P. Gray. (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xvi], 228. $35.00, ISBN 0-87338-708-2.) Michael P. Gray's The Business of Captivity offers a detailed history of the Union prison at Elmira, New York,...

When the Texans Came: Missing Records from the Civil War in the Southwest, 1861-1862.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... By John P. Wilson. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 364. $39.95, ISBN 0-8263-2290-5.) It was not until the last half of the twentieth century that any serious scholarship appeared on the disastrous 1861-62...

A Prussian Observes the American Civil War: The Military Studies of Justus Scheibert.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Translated and edited by Frederic Trautmann. Shades of Blue and Gray Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xviii], 250. $34.95, ISBN 0-8262-1348-0.) In the mid-nineteenth century, professionalizing armies...

The Mosby Myth: A Confederate Hero in Life and Legend.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... By Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill. The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era, No. 4. (Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2002. Pp. xxxvi, 231. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8420-2929-X; cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-8420-2928-1.) Paul Ashdown and...

The Final Fury: Palmito Ranch, the Last Battle of the Civil War.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... By Philip Thomas Tucker. (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2001. Pp. x, 196. $26.95, ISBN 0-8117-0652-4.) Until the appearance of this book, the battle of Palmito Ranch spawned little interest, except among Texans or teachers of Civil...

Rally on the High Ground: The National Park Service Symposium on the Civil War, Ford's Theatre, May 8 and 9, 2000.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Edited by Robert K. Sutton. (Fort Washington, Pa.: Eastern National, c. 2001. Pp. xvi, 103. Paper, $6.95, ISBN 1-888213-72-8.) It is an article of our professional faith that all people are historians. And all professional historians are...

The Day Dixie Died: Southern Occupation, 1865-1866.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Thomas and Debra Goodrich. (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2001. Pp. viii, 312. $26.95, ISBN 0-8117-0487-4.) In 1990 Ken Burns's documentary The Civil War strengthened the already brisk book trade in studies of the Civil War. Like...

The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Heather Cox Richardson. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. [xviii], 312. $39.95, ISBN 0-674-00637-2.) The Death of Reconstruction is an important book on a big topic. It offers a full-scale...

Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform: 1880-1930.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Patricia A. Schechter. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xx], 386. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4963-0; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2633-2.) In this detailed and carefully constructed study, Patricia...

Traps: African American Men on Gender and Sexuality.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Edited by Rudolph P. Byrd and Beverly Guy-Sheftall. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xxii], 378. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-253-21448-3; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-253-33901-4.) Any wide-ranging discussion of...

A Question of Manhood: A Reader in U.S. Black Men's History and Masculinity, vol.2, The 19th Century: From Emancipation to Jim Crow.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Edited by Earnestine Jenkins and Darlene Clark Hine. Blacks in the Diaspora. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xx], 482. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-253-33924-3; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-253-21343-6.) This...

Feeding the Wolf: John B. Rayner and the Politics of Race, 1850-1918.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Gregg Cantrell. (Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, c. 2001. Pp. [x], 149. Paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-88295-961-1.) Gregg Cantrell has revised the second half of his award-winning earlier work, Kenneth and John B. Rayner and the Limits of...

The Conquest of Labor: Daniel Pratt and Southern Industrialization.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Curtis J. Evans. Southern Biography Series. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. [xvi], 337. $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-2695-0.) Daniel Pratt (1799-1873), the transplanted New Englander who became antebellum Alabama's...

Barnett: The Story of "Florida's Bank".(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By David J. Ginzl. (Tampa, Fla.: University of Tampa Press, 2001. Pp. [xx], 441. $35.00, ISBN 1-879852-72-1.) On January 9, 1998, Barnett Bank, the largest in Florida, was acquired by NationsBank (formerly NCNB of North Carolina). The...

The Life of Selina Campbell: A Fellow Soldier in the Cause of Restoration.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... By Loretta M. Long. Religion and American Culture. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 2001. Pp. [x], 235. $34.95, ISBN 0-8173-1059-2.) Loretta M. Long, an assistant professor of history at Abilene Christian University,...

Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Matthew Frye Jacobson. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 338. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-06371-6.) In calling race a "social fabrication" (p.ix), Matthew Frye Jacobson applies a conventional wisdom. But,...

Homelands: Southern Jewish Identity in Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Leonard Rogoff. Judaic Studies Series. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 2001. Pp. x, 398. $39.95, ISBN 0-8173-1055-X.) This fine study of Jewish life in Durham and Chapel Hill places that community squarely within...

W. E. B. Du Bois: The Quest for the Abolition of the Color Line.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Zhang Juguo. Studies in African American History and Culture. (New York and London: Routledge, 2001. Pp. [xvi], 195. $75.00, ISBN 0-415-93087-1.) Zhang Juguo, a scholar at Nankai University in China, charts W. E. B. Du Bois's struggle...

Regarding Ellen Glasgow: Essays for Contemporary Readers.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Edited by Welford Dunaway Taylor and George C. Longest. (Richmond: The Library of Virginia, 2001. Pp. xxii, 202. $25.00, ISBN 0-88490-188-2.) Regarding Ellen Glasgow is a collection of essays that will appeal to both scholars and general...

Contesting the New South Order: The 1914-1915 Strike at Atlanta's Fulton Mills.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Clifford M. Kuhn. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xiv], 302. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4973-1; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2644-8.) A decade ago, Gary M Fink's The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Strike of...

Blood in Their Eyes: The Elaine Race Massacres of 1919.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Grif Stockley. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2001. Pp. xxxii, 264. $29.95, ISBN 1-55728-717-1.) After a period of relative dormancy, there has recently been a new florescence of interest in the Elaine, Arkansas, racial...

Selling the Old-Time Religion: American Fundamentalists and Mass Culture, 1920-1940.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... By Douglas Carl Abrams. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xvi], 168. $35.00, ISBN 0-8203-2294-6.) Historians and other scholars have amply documented the paradoxical propensity of religious fundamentalists...

The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative Thought.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Paul V. Murphy. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xiv], 351. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4960-X; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2630-8.) The Southern Agrarians continue to fascinate. They do so as a...

Sites of Southern Memory: The Autobiographies of Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, and Pauli Murray.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... By Darlene O'Dell. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001. Pp. [xvi], 189. Paper, $18.50, ISBN 0-8139-2072-8; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8139-2071-X.) Born near the turn of the twentieth century, Katharine Du Pre...

Wright Patman: Populism, Liberalism, and the American Dream.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Nancy Beck Young. (Dallas, Tex.: Southern Methodist University Press, 2000. Pp. [xxii], 428. $34.95, ISBN 0-87074-453-4.) Wright Patman served in the U.S. House of Representatives for forty-seven years, and although he often loudly...

A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... By James H. Madison. (New York and Basingstoke, Eng.: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xiv, 204. $24.95, ISBN 0-312-23902-5.) Indiana University professor James H. Madison recounts the 1930 lynching of Tom Shipp and Abe Smith in Marion, Indiana. The two...

South Carolina and the New Deal.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... By Jack Irby Hayes Jr. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xvi], 290. $34.95, ISBN 1-57003-399-4.) State histories help explain national movements. Though their significance reaches beyond the borders of the state...

The Second Great Emancipation: The Mechanical Cotton Picker, Black Migration, and How They Shaped the Modern South.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... By Donald Holley. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 284. $36.00, ISBN 1-55728-606-X.) The mechanization of cotton production in the Arkansas and Mississippi Delta, according to Donald Holley, was part of the...

The Second Wave: Southern Industrialization from the 1940s to the 1970s.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Edited by Philip Scranton. Economy and Society in the Modern South. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xvi], 310. $50.00, ISBN 0-8203-2218-0.) Henry Grady's vision of a New South rested on the belief that...

The Big Lie: Hale Boggs, Lucille May Grace, and Leander Perez in 1951.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Garry Boulard. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 2001. Pp. 285. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 1-56554-868-X.) Garry Boulard, a freelance journalist with an obvious relish for the pungency of Louisiana politics, has produced an entertaining...

Ralph Emerson McGill: Voice of the Southern Conscience.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... By Leonard Ray Teel. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001. Pp. xx, 559. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 1-57233-135-6; cloth, $50.00, ISBN 1-57233-133-X.) Winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1959 for condemning racial violence, Ralph Emerson...

The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission: Civil Rights and States' Rights.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Yasuhiro Katagiri. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2001. Pp. [xxxvi], 348. $40.00, ISBN 1-57806-388-4.) The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission is an agency that intrigues both scholars and casual observers of the...

An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By William Doyle. (New York and other cities: Doubleday, 2001. Pp. xii, 383. $26.00, ISBN 0-385-49969-8.) In 1962, nearly a century after Appomattox, the University of Mississippi continued to provide sanctuary for an unvanquished Old...

Media, Culture, and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Edited by Brian Ward. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2001. Pp. [x], 312. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2074-3.) In his introduction Brian Ward observes that scholars of black protest have tended to fix on such...

African-American Mayors: Race, Politics, and the American City.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Edited by David R. Colburn and Jeffrey S. Adler. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2001. Pp. Ix], 266. $32.50, ISBN 0-252-02634-9.) "All these Black politicians--they're Black until they're elected," blasted Atlanta...

The Great Divide: Religious and Cultural Conflict in American Party Politics.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Geoffrey Layman. Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the Twenty-first Century. (New York: Columbia University Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xvi], 435. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-231-12059-1; cloth, $45.50, ISBN 0-231-12058-3.) ...

Democracy Heading South: National Politics in the Shadow of Dixie.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... By Augustus B. Cochran III. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2001. Pp. x, 307. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1089-8.) Augustus B. Cochran III introduces Democracy Heading South as being "both about the South and not about the South." "But...

LBJ's Texas White House: "Our Heart's Home.".(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... By Hal K. Rothman. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. Pp. [xii], 300. $24.95, ISBN 1-58544-141-4.) Hal K. Rothman has written an interesting study of Lyndon B. Johnson's ranch in the Texas Hill Country that explores the...

Rebels, Rubyfruit, and Rhinestones: Queering Space in the Stonewall South.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By James T. Sears. (New Brunswick, N.J., and London: Rutgers University Press, c. 2001. Pp. xvi, 420. $28.00, ISBN 0-8135-2964-6.) Continuing the story he spun in Lonely Hunters: An Oral History of Lesbian and Gay Southern Life, 1948-1968...

Florida Sheriffs: a History, 1821-1945.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... By William Warren Rogers and James M. Denham. (Tallahassee, Fla.: Sentry Press, 2001. Pp. vi, 345. $29.95, ISBN 1-889574-11-2.) For most of southern history, county sheriffs have assumed central roles in local politics, social life, and...

Mobile: the New History of Alabama's First City.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Edited by Michael V. R. Thomason. Foreword by Joe Langan. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xiv], 416. $45.00, ISBN 0-8173-1065-7.) Mobile: The New History of Alabama's First City is a collection of...

Autobiographical Reflections on Southern Religious History.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Edited by John B. Boles. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2001. Pp. [x], 272. $34.95, ISBN 0-8203-2297-0.) When one studies the South, dealing with religion may be as obvious as climbing the mountain "because it is...

Engagement with the Past: the Lives and Works of the World War II Generation of Historians.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By William Palmer. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2001. Pp. [xviii], 372. $32.00, ISBN 0-8131-2206-6.) William Palmer, a professor of early modern British history at Marshall University, has broadened his usual research...

Swinging in Place: Porch Life in Southern Culture.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... By Jocelyn Hazelwood Donlon. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xiv], 193. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4977-4; cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2652-9.) Confirming that "the porch is much more than a shady...

Dictionary of Virginia Biography. Volume II: Bland-Cannon.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Edited by Sara B. Bearss, John T. Kneebone, J. Jefferson Looney, Brent Tarter, and Sandra Gioia Treadway. (Richmond: The Library of Virginia, 2001. Pp. [xx], 591. $49.95, ISBN 0-88490-199-8.) This is the second published volume of the...

Louisiana History: an Annotated Bibliography.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Compiled by Florence M. Jumonville. Bibliographies of the States of the United States, No. 10. (Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 2002. Pp. xxvi, 782. $119.95, ISBN 0-313-28240-4.) Florence Jumonville puts her three decades of...

The Tennessee Handbook.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... By Ed Speer. Foreword by Ned L. Irwin. (Jefferson, N.C., and London: McFarland and Company, c. 2002. Pp. xii, 276. $45.00, ISBN 0-7864-1117-1.) This handbook provides an interesting compendium of documents and trivia regarding the political and...