The Journal of Southern History articles from May 2004

The Journal of Southern History archives from May 2004

The southern response to British abolitionism: the maturation of proslavery apologetics.
May 1, 2004... ON JULY 4, 1833, JAMES HENRY HAMMOND DELIVERED AN ORATION FOR his future constituency in Barnwell, South Carolina. An ambitious young planter who had been a key player in the nullification movement earlier that year, Hammond represented a...

A courtroom massacre: politics and public sentiment in progressive-era Virginia.
May 1, 2004... REMINISCING, FLOYD ALLEN'S ATTORNEY RECOUNTED HIS CLIENT'S actions in the courtroom in Carroll County, Virginia, on March 14, 1912: "[Floyd] hesitated a moment, and then he arose.... He looked to me like a man who was about to say something,...

Reflections on the Brown decision after fifty years.(Forum)(Brown v. Board of Education)
May 1, 2004... ON MAY 17, 1954, THE U.S. SUPREME COURT RULED IN BROWN V. BOARD of Education of Topeka that separate educational facilities for blacks and whites were "inherently unequal." The unanimous opinion, delivered by Chief Justice Earl Warren,...

The effects of Brown: personal and historical reflections on American racial atavism.(Brown v. Board of Education )
May 1, 2004... I WOULD LIKE TO BEGIN WITH A PERSONAL STORY. I WAS BORN IN 1941 IN Houston, Texas, but shortly after my birth my mother and I left the state to join my father in Oakland, California. Before I was born my father had come to California in search...

Brown and the "road to reunion".(Brown v. Board of Education)
May 1, 2004... ON MAY 16, 1954, AFTER A HEROIC SCRAMBLE TO MEET A SELF-IMPOSED publishing deadline, the University of North Carolina Press released Harry S. Asbmore's The Negro and the Schools just hours before the United States Supreme Court handed down its...

Race, equality, and "hearts and minds".(influence of Brown v. Board of Education)
May 1, 2004... IT IS TEMPTING IN RETROSPECT TO CONSIDER BROWN V. BOARD OF Education of Topeka as the all-but-inevitable outgrowth of a post-1945 popular consensus that racial segregation violated the tenets of what Gunnar Myrdal called "the American Creed."...

From Brown to Green and back: the changing meaning of desegregation.(Brown v. Board of Education)
May 1, 2004... BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF TOPEKA TOLLED THE BELL FOR JIM Crow America. The full significance of the Supreme Court's decision and opinion will be apparent only with the passage of more time; however, even now it is clear that in some...

A continuity of conservatism: the limitations of Brown v. Board of Education.
May 1, 2004... ON MAY 17, 1954, THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT ISSUED THE landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that laws mandating racial segregation in public schools were unconstitutional. Some civil rights activists reacted with...

The Brown decision: its long anticipation and lasting influence.(Brown v. Board of Education)
May 1, 2004... THOUGH IT WAS LONG IN COMING AND SURPRISINGLY FAR-REACHING IN ITS influence, the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision was not unanticipated. In the decades following the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), African...

Black, White, and Brown.(Brown v. Board of Education)
May 1, 2004... WITH EVERY PASSING DECADE SINCE 1954 WE CONTINUE TO ASK OURselves how much the South and the nation have changed since the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision ended "separate but equal" education in public schools. The hallowed words...

Southern history in periodicals, 2003: a selected bibliography.(Bibliography)
May 1, 2004... THIS CLASSIFIED BIBLIOGRAPHY INCLUDES MOST SCHOLARLY ARTICLES IN the field of southern history published in periodicals in 2003 except for descriptive or genealogical writings of primary interest to a restricted group of readers. If an article...

Annual report of the Secretary-Treasurer.(Southern Historical Association )
May 1, 2004... HOUSTON PLAYED HOST TO A ROUSING ANNUAL MEETING IN NOVEMBER. With Texas scholar Darlene Clark Hine as our president and Journal editor and Texas native John B. Boles in charge of local arrangements, the meeting in the spectacular Hyatt Regency...

Anne Orthwood's Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Anne Orthwood's Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia. By John Ruston Pagan. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. [x], 222. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-19-514479-1; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-19-514478-3.) John Ruston Pagan...

Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law--an American History.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law--An American History. By Peter Wallenstein. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Pp. xii, 305. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 1-4039-6408-4; cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-312-29474-3.) Peter...

Francois Valle and His World: Upper Louisiana before Lewis and Clark.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Francois Valle and His World: Upper Louisiana before Lewis and Clark. By Carl J. Ekberg. Missouri Biography Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xx], 316. $44.95, ISBN 0-8262-1418-5.) Francois Valle was...

Ladies and Gentlemen on Display: Planter Society at the Virginia Springs, 1790-1860.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Ladies and Gentlemen on Display: Planter Society at the Virginia Springs, 1790-1860. By Charlene M. Boyer Lewis. The American South Series. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001. Pp. x, 293. Paper, $19.50, ISBN...

Architecture in the United States, 1800-1850.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Architecture in the United States, 1800-1850. By W. Barksdale Maynard. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c. 2002. Pp. xiv, 322. $50.00, ISBN 0-300-09383-7.) W. Barksdale Maynard surveys American architecture from the end of the...

Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase. By Roger G. Kennedy. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 350. $30.00, ISBN 0-19-515347-2.) As Laurence Sterne wrote,...

A River and Its City: the Nature of Landscape in New Orleans.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans. By Ari Kelman. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 283. $29.95, ISBN 0-520-23432-4.) In A River and Its City, Ari Kelman...

Splintering the Wooden Wall: the British Blockade of the United States, 1812-1815.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Splintering the Wooden Wall: The British Blockade of the United States, 1812-1815. By Wade G. Dudley. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2003. Pp. [xiv], 229. $32.95, ISBN 1-55750-167-X.) The target of this book is Captain Alfred Thayer...

Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865. By Stanley Harrold. Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 2003. Pp. [xvi], 280. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8071-2834-4;...

Nat Turner: a Slave Rebellion in History and Memory.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory. Edited by Kenneth S. Greenberg. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. [xx], 289. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-513404-4.) We know less about Nat Turner, who led one of the...

A Fighter from Way Back: the Mexican War Diary of Lt. Daniel Harvey Hill, 4th Artillery, USA.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... A Fighter from Way Back: The Mexican War Diary of Lt. Daniel Harvey Hill, 4th Artillery, USA. Edited by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr. and Timothy D. Johnson. (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, c. 2002. Pp. xvi, 231. $39.00,...

The Creole Mutiny: a Tale of Revolt aboard a Slave Ship.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... The Creole Mutiny: A Tale of Revolt aboard a Slave Ship. By George Hendrick and Willene Hendrick. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2003. Pp. x, 177. $24.95, ISBN 1-56663-493-8.) The story of the slave mutiny aboard the Creole is well known. Madison...

The Humblest May Stand Forth: Rhetoric, Empowerment, and Abolition.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... The Humblest May Stand Forth: Rhetoric, Empowerment, and Abolition. By Jacqueline Bacon. Studies in Rhetoric/Communication. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. xvi, 291. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-434-6.) Arguing that...

In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our Heritage of Slavery.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our Heritage of Slavery. By David Brion Davis. (New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 392. $35.00, ISBN 0-300-08814-0.) Fifteen years after the publication of a...

Beyond the River: the Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad. By Ann Hagedorn. (New York and other cities: Simon and Schuster, c. 2002. Pp. xvi, 333. $25.00, ISBN 0-684-87065-7.) The Underground Railroad proved to be one of...

Pen of Fire: John Moncure Daniel.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Pen of Fire: John Moncure Daniel. By Peter Bridges. (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, c. 2002. Pp. [x], 284. $28.00, ISBN 0-87338-736-8.) As editor and proprietor of the Richmond Examiner, American minister to the...

Cultural Values in the Southern Sporting Narrative.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Cultural Values in the Southern Sporting Narrative. By Jacob F. Rivers III. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. xviii, 165. $29.95, ISBN 1-57003-483-4.) Jacob F. Rivers III's Cultural Values in the Southern Sporting...

Mulattas and Mestizas: Representing Mixed Identities in the Americas, 1850-2000.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Mulattas and Mestizas: Representing Mixed Identities in the Americas, 1850-2000. By Suzanne Bost. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 268. $39.95, ISBN 0-8203-2325-X.) In this broadly conceived study,...

John Brown: the Legend Revisited.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... John Brown: The Legend Revisited. By Merrill D. Peterson. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 195. $23.95, ISBN 0-8139-2132-5.) The profound issues raised by the enigmatic John Brown's strikes against...

Lincoln, Religion, and Romantic Cultural Politics.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Lincoln, Religion, and Romantic Cultural Politics. By Stewart Winger. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, c. 2003. Pp. viii, 271. $38.00, ISBN 0-87580-300-8.) In this admirably intelligent study of the moral and religious themes...

Colors and Blood: Flag Passions of the Confederate South.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Colors and Blood: Flag Passions of the Confederate South. By Robert E. Bonner. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford: Princeton University Press, c. 2002. Pp. xvi, 223. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-09158-7.) Almost 150 years after Robert E. Lee's surrender at...

Plain Folk in a Rich Man's War: Class and Dissent in Confederate Georgia.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Plain Folk in a Rich Man's War: Class and Dissent in Confederate Georgia. By David Williams, Teresa Crisp Williams, and David Carlson. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2002. Pp. xii, 263. $55.00, ISBN...

Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era. Edited by John David Smith. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. xxvi, 451. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5579-0; cloth, $39.95, ISBN...

They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War. By DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook. Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 277. $29.95,...

The Fredericksburg Campaign: Winter War on the Rappahannock.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... The Fredericksburg Campaign: Winter War on the Rappahannock. By Francis Augustin O'Reilly. (Baton Rouge: Lousiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 630. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2809-0.) Nobody knows the Fredericksburg battlefield better...

Lee's Last Retreat: the Flight to Appomattox.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Lee's Last Retreat: The Flight to Appomattox. By William Marvel. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. xiv, 308. $29.95, ISBN 0-8078-2745-2.) In this well-researched and carefully...

The Civil War Soldier: a Historical Reader.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... The Civil War Soldier: A Historical Reader. Edited by Michael Barton and Larry M. Logue. (New York and London: New York University Press, c. 2002. Pp. xii, 515. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8147-9880-2; cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-8147-9879-9.) When...

Diary of a Contraband: the Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor. By William B. Gould IV. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2002. Pp. xxvi, 373. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8047-4708-3; cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-8047-4640-0.) In his...

Gray Cavalier: the Life and Wars of General W. H. F. "Rooney" Lee.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Gray Cavalier: The Life and Wars of General W. H. F. "Rooney" Lee. By Mary Bandy Daughtry. (Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 376. $27.50, ISBN 0-306-81173-1.) Gray Cavalier is a biography of one of the most capable...

"No Disgrace to My Country": the Life of John C. Tidball.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... "No Disgrace to My Country": The Life of John C. Tidball. By Eugene C. Tidball. (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, c. 2002. Pp. xviii, 564. $49.00, ISBN 0-87338-722-8.) John C. Tidball led an eventful life. He graduated...

The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction. By James Alex Baggett. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 323. $55.00, ISBN 0-8071-2798-1.) Scalawags--"white southerners... who...

Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War. By David W. Blight. (Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, c. 2002. Pp. xiv, 301. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 1-55849-361-1; cloth, $70.00, ISBN 1-55849-344-1.) In...

Sunbelt Revolution: the Historical Progression of the Civil Rights Struggle in the Gulf South, 1866-2000.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Sunbelt Revolution: The Historical Progression of the Civil Rights Struggle in the Gulf South, 1866-2000. Edited by Samuel C. Hyde Jr. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2003. Pp. x, 275. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2577-X.)...

Lynching in Colorado, 1859-1919.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Lynching in Colorado, 1859-1919. By Stephen J. Leonard. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, c. 2002. Pp. xvi, 246. $24.95, ISBN 0-87081-680-2.) The Many Faces of Judge Lynch: Extralegal Violence and Punishment in America. By...

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (documentary; four VHS videotapes).(Video Recording Review)
May 1, 2004... The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (documentary; four VHS videotapes). Produced, directed, and written by Sam Pollard, Richard Wormser, and Bill Jersey. A co-production of Quest Productions, VideoLine Productions, and Thirteen/WNET New York....

A Way Out of No Way: Claiming Family and Freedom in the New South.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... A Way Out of No Way: Claiming Family and Freedom in the New South. By Dianne Swann-Wright. The American South Series. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 195. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8139-2137-6; cloth,...

In the Great Maelstrom: Conservatives in Post-Civil War South Carolina.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... In the Great Maelstrom: Conservatives in Post-Civil War South Carolina. By Charles J. Holden. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xii], 164. $29.95, ISBN 1-57003-476-1.) In this fine brief study of four South...

Cultivating a New South: Abbie Holmes Christensen and the Politics of Race and Gender, 1852-1938.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Cultivating a New South: Abbie Holmes Christensen and the Politics of Race and Gender, 1852-1938. By Monica Maria Tetzlaff. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. xxii, 340. $49.95, ISBN 1-57003-453-2.) Cultivating a...

A Southern Family in White and Black: the Cuneys of Texas.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... A Southern Family in White and Black: The Cuneys of Texas. By Douglas Hales. Texas A&M Southwestern Studies. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 178. $29.95, ISBN 1-58544-200-3.) Douglas Hales's biography traces...

Strangers in Zion: Fundamentalists in the South, 1900-1950.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Strangers in Zion: Fundamentalists in the South, 1900-1950. By William R. Glass. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2001. Pp. xxiv, 309. $39.95, ISBN 0-86554-756-4.) There is a strong consensus among historians of religion in America...

A Different Day: African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900-1970.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... A Different Day: African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900-1970. By Greta de Jong. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. xviii, 316. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-80785379-8; cloth, $49.95, ISBN...

Rethinking the Great Depression.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Rethinking the Great Depression. By Gene Smiley. The American Way Series. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, c. 2002. Pp. xii, 179. $24.95, ISBN 1-56663-472-5.) Gene Smiley's Rethinking the Great Depression is a book-length essay that seeks to distill...

Behind the Backlash: White Working-Class Politics in Baltimore, 1940-1980.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Behind the Backlash: White Working-Class Politics in Baltimore, 1940-1980. By Kenneth D. Durr. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. [xiv], 284. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-54336; cloth, $55.00, ISBN...

Shaw Industries: a History.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Shaw Industries: A History. By Randall L. Patton. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2002. Pp. x, 217. $29.95, ISBN 0-8203-2364-0.) In their book Carpet Capital: The Rise of a New South Industry (Athens, Ga., 1999)...

To Save the Land and People: a History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia. By Chad Montrie. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xviii, 245. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-5435-2; cloth, $45.00,...

Witness to the Truth: My Struggle for Human Rights in Louisiana.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Witness to the Truth: My Struggle for Human Rights in Louisiana. By John H. Scott with Cleo Scott Brown. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xxii, 289. $29.95, ISBN 1-57003-489-3.) Based on personal interviews...

The Dawn at My Back: Memoir of a Black Texas Upbringing.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... The Dawn at My Back: Memoir of a Black Texas Upbringing. By Carroll Parrott Blue. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. Pp. 303. $29.95, ISBN 0-292-70913-7.) The Dawn at My Back chronicles the life of a black filmmaker, Carroll Parrott...

Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988. Edited by Brenda Gayle Plummet. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. [viii], 259. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-5428-X; cloth, $45.00, ISBN...

The Political Use of Racial Narratives: School Desegregation in Mobile, Alabama, 1954-1997.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... The Political Use of Racial Narratives: School Desegregation in Mobile, Alabama, 1954-1997. By Richard A. Pride. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2002. Pp. [x], 314. $39.95, ISBN 0-252-02766-3.) In this provocative...

The Lynching of Emmett Till: a Documentary Narrative.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... The Lynching, of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative. Edited by Christopher Metress. The American South Series. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 360. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8139-2122-8; cloth, $59.50,...

Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma. By J. Mills Thornton III. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 2002. Pp. xiv, 733. $59.95, ISBN 0-8173-1170-X.) ...

Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South. By Catherine Fosl. (New York and other cities: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Pp. xxx, 418. $35.00, ISBN 0-312-29487-5.) Born into a solidly middle...

The Politics of Injustice: the Kennedys, the Freedom Rides, and the Electoral Consequences of a Moral Compromise.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... The Politics of Injustice: The Kennedys, the Freedom Rides, and the Electoral Consequences of a Moral Compromise. By David Niven. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 269. $28.00, ISBN 1-57233-212-3.) Although...

Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement. By Debra L. Schultz. (New York and London: New York University Press, c. 2001. Pp. xxii, 229. Paper, $19.00, ISBN 0-8147-9775-X; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8147-9774-1.) Since the early...

Florida's Space Coast: the Impact of NASA on the Sunshine State.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Florida's Space Coast: The Impact of NASA on the Sunshine State. By William Barnaby Faherty, SJ. The Florida History and Culture Series. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2002. Pp. xx, 205. $24.95, ISBN...

A Strike Like No Other Strike: Law and Resistance During the Pittston Coal Strike of 1989-1990.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... A Strike Like No Other Strike: Law and Resistance During the Pittston Coal Strike of 1989-1990. By Richard A. Brisbin Jr. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2002. Pp. xvi, 350. $44.95, ISBN 0-8018-6901-3.) In this...

White Men Challenging Racism: 35 Personal Stories.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... White Men Challenging Racism: 35 Personal Stories. By Cooper Thompson, Emmett Schaefer, and Harry Brod. Foreword by James W. Loewen. (Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, c. 2003. Pp. xxxvi, 353. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-8223-3096-2;...

Hearts of Darkness: Wellsprings of a Southern Literary Tradition.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Hearts of Darkness: Wellsprings of a Southern Literary Tradition. By Bertram Wyatt-Brown. The Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. xxvi, 235. Paper, $24.95, ISBN...

South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture. Edited by Suzanne W. Jones and Sharon Monteith. Foreword by Richard Gray. Southern Literary Studies. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Pp. xxvi, 394. Paper, $34.95, ISBN...

Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains: an Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains: An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America. By Timothy Silver. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xxiv, 322. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5432-9;...

Cumberland Island: a History.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Cumberland Island: A History. By Mary R. Bullard. Wormsloe Foundation Publications, No. 22. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2003. Pp. xxii, 415. $39.95, ISBN 0-8203-2267-9.) Cumberland Island, a wild and natural...

African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000.(Book Notes)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000. Edited by Quintard Taylor and Shirley Ann Wilson Moore. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c. 2003. Pp. [x], 390. $34.95, ISBN 0-8061-3524-7.) With this volume of historical essays and...

Two recent releases show how studies of the Atlantic World are again being enriched by insights from economic historians.(Book Notes)(Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development)(The Rise of Commercial Empires: England and the Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism, 1650-1770)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Two recent releases show how studies of the Atlantic World are again being enriched by insights from economic historians. Southernists should find Joseph E. Inikori's Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International...

Charity, Philanthropy, and Civility in American History.(Book Notes)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Charity, Philanthropy, and Civility in American History. Edited by Lawrence J. Friedman and Mark D. McGarvie. (Cambridge and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 467. $40.00, ISBN 0-521-81989X.) This collection of essays is...

Bearing Witness: Memories of Arkansas Slavery: Narratives from the 1930s WPA Collections.(Book Notes)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Bearing Witness: Memories of Arkansas Slavery: Narratives from the 1930s WPA Collections. Edited by George E. Lankford. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2003. Pp. xxvii, 428. $34.95, ISBN 1-55728-747-3.) A curious distinction of...

The Forest City Lynching of 1900: Populism, Racism, and White Supremacy in Rutherford County, North Carolina.(Book Notes)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... The Forest City Lynching of 1900: Populism, Racism, and White Supremacy in Rutherford County, North Carolina. By J. Timothy Cole. Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, No. 10. (Jefferson, N.C., and London: McFarland & Company, Inc.,...

That Old-Time Religion in Modern America: Evangelical Protestantism in the Twentieth Century.(Book Notes)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... That Old-Time Religion in Modern America: Evangelical Protestantism in the Twentieth Century. By D. G. Hart. The American Ways Series. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, c. 2002. Pp. [viii], 246. $24.95, ISBN 1-56663-460-1.) D.G. Hart has artfully...

One In Spirit: the Liberal Evangelical Witness of Union Church, Berea, Kentucky, 1853-2003.(Book Notes)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... One In Spirit: The Liberal Evangelical Witness of Union Church, Berea, Kentucky, 1853-2003. By Richard B. Drake. (Berea, Ky.: The Church of Christ, Union, 2003. Pp. [xii], 132. $15.00, ISBN 0-9740395-0-0.) From its founding by abolitionist John...

Staff Officers in Gray: a Biographical Register of the Staff Officers in the Army of Northern Virginia.(Book Notes)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Staff Officers in Gray: A Biographical Register of the Staff Officers in the Army of Northern Virginia. By Robert E. L. Krick. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 406. $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2788-6.) A...

History of Wake Forest College, 1834-1967.(Brief Article)(E-book Review)
May 1, 2004... History of Wake Forest College, 1834-1967. Volumes I-IV on CD-ROM. Coordinated by J. Edwin Hendricks and Jing Wei. Digitized by Historical Database. Introduction by J. Edwin Hendricks. (Winston-Salem, N.C.: Wake Forest University, c. 2003....

Willard Gayheart, Appalachian Artist.(Book Notes)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Willard Gayheart, Appalachian Artist. By Willard Gayheart and Donia S. Eley. Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, No. 9. (Jefferson, N.C., and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, c. 2003. Pp. x, 190. $35.00, ISBN...

The association.(Historical News and Notices)(Southern Historical Association officers nominated and new prize announced)
May 1, 2004... Nominations for 2004: The 2003 Nominating Committee, consisting of Jane G. Landers, Vanderbilt University, chair; Richard J. M. Blackett, Vanderbilt University; Charles W. Eagles, University of Mississippi; Thavolia Glymph, Duke University; and...