The Journal of Southern History articles from May 2005

The Journal of Southern History archives from May 2005

Party politics and the debate over the Tennessee Free Negro Bill, 1859-1860.
May 1, 2005... IN EARLY 1860 THE TENNESSEE GENERAL ASSEMBLY ENGAGED IN A heated debate over a proposal to expel free blacks from the state. Tennessee was not the only slave state to consider this option. The Arkansas legislature had passed an expulsion bill...

Urban government and environmental policies: regulating the storage and distribution of fuel oil in Houston, Texas, 1901-1915.
May 1, 2005... IN JANUARY 1901 A NEW OIL FIELD OPENED AT SPINDLETOP NEAR Beaumont, Texas. This production area and its successors made vast amounts of cheap crude petroleum available to the Gulf South, where boiler plants traditionally consumed expensive...

Putting the south on the psychological map: the impact of region and race on the human sciences during the 1930s.
May 1, 2005... IN EARLY 1939 HARRY STACK SULLIVAN, THE NEW YORK PSYCHIATRIST, spent several weeks in Greenville, Mississippi, studying the effects of race on personality development. Walker Percy later sketched Sullivan's habit of conducting research in his...

Southern history in periodicals, 2004: a selected bibliography.
May 1, 2005... THIS CLASSIFIED BIBLIOGRAPHY INCLUDES MOST SCHOLARLY ARTICLES IN the field of southern history published in periodicals in 2004 except for descriptive or genealogical writings of primary interest to a restricted group of readers. If an article...

Annual report of the secretary-treasurer.
May 1, 2005... AT OUR ANNUAL MEETING IN MEMPHIS IN NOVEMBER WE CONFRONTED OUR own past as an organization and honored our leadership in a number of ways. From an opening session reliving an earlier, far more contentious SHA meeting in Memphis, to a session...

Memory and Identity: The Huguenots in France and the Atlantic Diaspora.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Memory and Identity: The Huguenots in France and the Atlantic Diaspora. Edited by Bertrand Van Ruymbeke and Randy J. Sparks. The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 335....

Splendid Land, Splendid People: The Chickasaw Indians to Removal.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Splendid Land, Splendid People: The Chickasaw Indians to Removal. By James R. Atkinson. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 366. Paper, $34.95, ISBN 0-8173-5033-0, cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-8173-1339-7.) This history of...

Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. By Philip Gould. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 258. $45.00, ISBN 0-674-01166-X.) Philip Gould has written an...

Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery. By David Brion Davis. The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. [xii], 115. $18.95, ISBN 0-674-01182-1.) David Brion Davis's most recent...

The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence. By T. H. Breen. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 380. Cloth, $30.00, ISBN 0-19-506395-3.) The dust-jacket blurb for this book...

The Founding Fathers and the Politics of Character.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Founding Fathers and the Politics of Character. By Andrew S. Trees. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xviii, 208. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-691-12236-9; cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-691-11552-4.) Andrew S. Trees...

George Washington's South.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... George Washington's South. Edited by Tamara Harvey and Greg O'Brien. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, 2004. Pp. x, 345. $59.95, ISBN 0-8130-2689-X.) George Washington's South calls to mind Benjamin Franklin's...

Governor Alexander Martin: Biography of a North Carolina Revolutionary War Statesman.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Governor Alexander Martin: Biography of a North Carolina Revolutionary War Statesman. By Charles D. Rodenbough. Foreword by Lindley S. Butler. (Jefferson, N.C., and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers, c. 2004. Pp. viii, 242....

The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880. By Candy Gunther Brown. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 336. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5511-1; cloth,...

Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World. By Robbie Ethridge. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 369. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8078-5495-6; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2827-0.) In Creek...

The Western River Steamboat.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Western River Steamboat. By Adam I. Kane. Foreword by Alan L. Bates. Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archeology Series. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 188. Paper $19.95, ISBN 1-58544343-3; cloth $39.95, ISBN...

Slave Badges and the Slave-Hire System in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783-1865.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Slave Badges and the Slave-Hire System in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783-1865. By Harlan Greene and Harry S. Hutchins Jr. with Brian E. Hutchins. (Jefferson, N.C., and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers, c. 2004. Pp. vi, 194....

Chains of Love: Slave Couples in Antebellum South Carolina.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Chains of Love: Slave Couples in Antebellum South Carolina. By Emily West. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2004. Pp. xii, 184. $30.00, ISBN 0-252-02903-8.) Given the attention paid to slave families in historical...

Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South. By Jonathan D. Martin. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. [xii], 237. $39.95, ISBN 0-674-01149-X.) Though hiring was at the center of life in the slave...

John L. O'Sullivan and His Times.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... John L. O'Sullivan and His Times. By Robert D. Sampson. (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 304. $38.00, ISBN 0-87338-745-7.) Readers of American history textbooks will know John L. O'Sullivan as the man...

Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838-1907.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838-1907. By Carolyn Ross Johnston. Contemporary American Indian Studies. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 227. Paper, $29.95, ISBN...

The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia. By Claude A. Clegg III. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 330. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5516-2; cloth, $55.00, ISBN...

Front Line of Freedom: African Americans and the Forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Front Line of Freedom: African Americans and the Forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley. By Keith P. Griffler. The Ohio River Valley. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2004. Pp. xviii, 169. $35.00, ISBN...

Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau. By Martha Ward. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2004. Pp. xvii, 246. $26.00, ISBN 1-57806-629-8.) At first glance Martha Ward's study seems to support the long-standing...

Inventing Texas: Early Historians of the Lone Star State.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Inventing Texas: Early Historians of the Lone Star State. By Laura Lyons McLemore. Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, c. 2004. Pp. [x], 130. $29.95, ISBN 1-58544-314-X.) ...

Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South. By William Kauffman Scarborough. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 2003. Pp. xx, 521. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2882-1.) William Kauffman...

The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves. By Stanley Harrold. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2004. Pp. x, 246. $35.00, ISBN 0-8131-2290-2.) The latest addition to Stanley Harrold's prodigious output over...

A Traitor and a Scoundrel: Benjamin Hedrick and the Cost of Dissent.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... A Traitor and a Scoundrel: Benjamin Hedrick and the Cost of Dissent. By Michael Thomas Smith. (Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Press, 2003. Pp. 216. $45.00, ISBN 0-87413-841-8.) Michael Thomas Smith's...

Cuban Confederate Colonel: The Life of Ambrosio Jose Gonzales.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Cuban Confederate Colonel: The Life of Ambrosio Jose Gonzales. By Antonio Rafael de la Cova. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xxx, 537. $59.95, ISBN 1-57003-496-6.) One hopes that Ambrosio Jose Gonzales...

A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration. By Steven Hahn. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 610. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-01169-4.) Awarded the Pulitzer,...

Emma Spaulding Bryant: Civil War Bride, Carpetbagger's Wife, Ardent Feminist; Letters and Diaries, 1860-1900.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Emma Spaulding Bryant: Civil War Bride, Carpetbagger's Wife, Ardent Feminist; Letters and Diaries, 1860-1900. Edited with narrative by Ruth Douglas Currie. Reconstructing America, no. 7. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 503....

Blood and Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Blood and Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937. By Sarah E. Gardner. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. x, 341. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2818-1.) In one of her most famous...

This Great Battlefield of Shiloh: History, Memory, and the Establishment of a Civil War National Military Park.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... This Great Battlefield of Shiloh: History, Memory, and the Establishment of a Civil War National Military Park. By Timothy B. Smith. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. Pp. xxii, 179. $28.95, ISBN 1-57233-281-6.) There exist...

West Wind, Flood Tide: The Battle of Mobile Bay.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... West Wind, Flood Tide: The Battle of Mobile Bay. By Jack Friend. (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 308. $29.95. ISBN 1-59114-292-X.) West Wind, Flood Tide: The Battle of Mobile Bay is likely to be the definitive...

Vicksburg Is the Key: The Struggle for the Mississippi River.(The Defense of Vicksburg: A Louisiana Chronicle)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Vicksburg Is the Key: The Struggle for the Mississippi River. By William L. Shea and Terrence J. Winschel. Great Campaigns of the Civil War. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 232. $35.00, ISBN 0-8032-4254-9.)...

A Politician Turned General: The Civil War Career of Stephen Augustus Hurlbut.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... A Politician Turned General: The Civil War Career of Stephen Augustus Hurlbut. By Jeffrey N. Lash. (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 300. $49.00, ISBN 0-87338-766-X.) Native southerners come in all...

The Battle Rages Higher: The Union's Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Battle Rages Higher: The Union's Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry. By Kirk C. Jenkins. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2003. Pp. xx, 452. $35.00, ISBN 0-8131-2281-3.) Regimental history is one of historical literature's most...

Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! South Carolina and the Confederate Flag.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! South Carolina and the Confederate Flag. By K. Michael Prince. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. [xii], 291. $34.95, ISBN 1-57003-527-X.) Controversy over the legitimacy of the public...

Testament: A Soldier's Story of the Civil War.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Testament: A Soldier's Story of the Civil War. By Benson Bobrick. (New York and other cities: Simon and Schuster, c. 2003. Pp. [x], 277. $23.00, ISBN 0-7432-5091-5.) Despite the massive volume of books on the American Civil War, new...

Diary of a Christian Soldier: Rufus Kinsley and the Civil War.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Diary of a Christian Soldier: Rufus Kinsley and the Civil War. By David C. Rankin. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xxii, 281. $25.00, ISBN 0-521-82334-X.) Rufus Kinsley (1831-1911) was a product of the...

Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court during the Civil War Era.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court during the Civil War Era. By Michael A. Ross. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 2003. Pp. xxvi, 323. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-80712924-0; cloth, $69.95, ISBN...

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America. By Allen C. Guelzo. (New York and other cities: Simon and Schuster, c. 2004. Pp. xviii, 332. Paper, $14.00, ISBN 0-7432-6297-2; cloth, $26.00, ISBN 0-7432-2182-6.) In his...

German-Speaking Officers in the U.S. Colored Troops, 1863-1867.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... German-Speaking Officers in the U.S. Colored Troops, 1863-1867. By Martin W. Ofele. New Perspectives on the History of the South. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2004. Pp. xviii, 320. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2692-X.)...

Elevating the Race: Theophilus G. Steward, Black Theology, and the Making of an African American Civil Society, 1865-1924.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Elevating the Race: Theophilus G. Steward, Black Theology, and the Making of an African American Civil Society, 1865-1924. By Albert G. Miller. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. Pp. xxiv, 211. $28.00, ISBN 1-57233-221-2.) ...

Murder and Mayhem: The War of Reconstruction in Texas.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Murder and Mayhem: The War of Reconstruction in Texas. By James M. Smallwood, Barry A. Crouch, and Larry Peacock. Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 182. $24.95, ISBN...

For Free Press and Equal Rights: Republican Newspapers in the Reconstruction South.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... For Free Press and Equal Rights: Republican Newspapers in the Reconstruction South. By Richard H. Abbott. Edited by John W. Quist. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2004. Pp xii, 266. $39.95, ISBN 0-8203-2527-9.) ...

Music and the Making of a New South.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Music and the Making of a New South. By Gavin James Campbell. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 222. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5517-0; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-80782846-7.) Gavin James Campbell...

To Find My Own Peace: Grace King in Her Journals, 1886-1910.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... To Find My Own Peace: Grace King in Her Journals, 1886-1910. Edited by Melissa Walker Heidari. Publications of the Southern Texts Society. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2004. Pp. xxxviii, 247. $39.95, ISBN...

Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics. By Mark Wahlgren Summers. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 352. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8078-5537-5; cloth, $59.95, ISBN...

We as Freemen: Plessy v. Ferguson.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... We as Freemen: Plessy v. Ferguson. By Keith Weldon Medley. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 2003. Pp. 252. $23.00, ISBN 1-58980-120-2.) This absorbing narrative makes an important contribution to the literature on that notorious...

The Regulars: The American Army, 1898-1941.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Regulars: The American Army, 1898-1941. By Edward M. Coffman. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. viii, 519. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-01299-2.) At the close of the nineteenth century the...

Cobb County, Georgia, and the Origins of the Suburban South: A Twentieth-Century History.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Cobb County, Georgia, and the Origins of the Suburban South: A Twentieth-Century History. By Thomas Allan Scott. (Marietta, Ga.: Cobb Landmarks and Historical Society, Inc., 2003. Pp. xxii, 938. $49.95, ISBN 0-9743646-0-0.) Most historians...

The Whiteness of Child Labor Reform in the New South.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Whiteness of Child Labor Reform in the New South. By Shelley Sallee. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 207. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8203-2570-8; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8203-2445-8.) Shelley Sallee...

Cumberland Island National Seashore: A History of Conservation Conflict.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Cumberland Island National Seashore: A History of Conservation Conflict. By Larry M. Dilsaver. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 323. $35.00, ISBN 0-8139-2268-2.) Larry M. Dilsaver, a geographer and...

T.S. Stribling: A Life of the Tennessee Novelist.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... T. S. Stribling: A Life of the Tennessee Novelist. By Kenneth W. Vickers. (Knoxville: University of Tennesee Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 353. $38.00, ISBN 1-57233-228-X.) With notable exceptions, white southerner writers who produced social...

The Brevard Rosenwald School: Black Education and Community Building in a Southern Appalachian Town, 1920-1966.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Brevard Rosenwald School: Black Education and Community Building in a Southern Appalachian Town, 1920-1966. By Betty Jamerson Reed. Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, no. 11. (Jefferson, N.C., and London: McFarland and Company,...

The Foundations of Texan Philanthropy.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Foundations of Texan Philanthropy. By Mary L. Kelley. Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 134. $30.00, ISBN 1-58544-327.) Chroniclers of Texas have for...

The Messman Chronicles: African Americans in the U.S. Navy, 1932-1943.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Messman Chronicles: African Americans in the U.S. Navy, 1932-1943. By Richard E. Miller. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, c. 2004. Pp. xii, 390. $32.95, ISBN 1-55750-539-X.) Richard E. Miller has written the definitive account of...

Ditches across the Desert: Irrigation in the Lower Pecos Valley.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Ditches across the Desert: Irrigation in the Lower Pecos Valley. By Stephen Bogener. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University, 2003. Pp. xii, 340. $34.95, ISBN 0-89672-509-X.) In the late 1880s and early 1890s the West was agog over the...

African American Life in the Rural South, 1900-1950.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... African American Life in the Rural South, 1900-1950. Edited by R. Douglas Hurt. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2003. Pp. viii, 227. $32.50, ISBN 0-8262-1471-1.) According to the editor, R. Douglas Hurt, "[t]he...

Blue Laws and Black Codes: Conflict, Courts, and Change in Twentieth-Century Virginia.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Blue Laws and Black Codes: Conflict, Courts, and Change in Twentieth-Century Virginia. By Peter Wallenstein. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 270. Paper, $19.50, ISBN 0-8139-2261-5; cloth, $49.50, ISBN...

Lone Star Chapters: The Story of Texas Literary Clubs.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Lone Star Chapters: The Story of Texas Literary Clubs. By Betty Holland Wiesepape. Tarleton State University Southwestern Studies in the Humanities. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 225. $29.95, ISBN 1-58544-324-7.)...

And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank. By Steve Oney. (New York: Pantheon Books, c. 2003. Pp. [x], 742. $35.00, ISBN 0-679-42147-5.) By now the broad outlines of this grim story are well known. On...

The New Deal and Beyond: Social Welfare in the South since 1930.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The New Deal and Beyond: Social Welfare in the South since 1930. Edited by Elna C. Green. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2003. Pp. xx, 275. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8203-2482-5; $49.95, ISBN 0-8203-2481-7.) As the...

Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas. By Amilcar Shabazz. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 301. Paper, $19.95, ISBN...

South of the South: Jewish Activists and the Civil Rights Movement in Miami, 1945-1960.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... South of the South: Jewish Activists and the Civil Rights Movement in Miami, 1945-1960. By Raymond A. Mohl with Matilda "Bobbi" Graft and Shirley M. Zoloth. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, c. 2004. Pp. xii, 263. $39.95, ISBN...

On Capitol Hill: The Struggle to Reform Congress and Its Consequences, 1948-2000.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... On Capitol Hill: The Struggle to Reform Congress and Its Consequences, 1948-2000. By Julian E. Zelizer. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 359. $30.00, ISBN 0-521-80161-3.) In his extensively researched,...

The Slavery Debates, 1952-1990: A Retrospective.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Slavery Debates, 1952-1990: A Retrospective. By Robert William Fogel. The Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. [xii], 106. $22.95, ISBN 0-8071-2881-3.) Robert...

The Social Teachings of the Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc., Since 1961: A Critical Analysis of the Least, the Lost, and the Left-out.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Social Teachings of the Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc., Since 1961: A Critical Analysis of the Least, the Lost, and the Left-out. By Albert A. Avant Jr. Studies in African American History and Culture. (New York and London:...

The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement. By Lance Hill. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xii, 363. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2847-5.) When vigilantes bombed the home of...

Lyndon Johnson Remembered: An Intimate Portrait of a Presidency.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Lyndon Johnson Remembered: An Intimate Portrait of a Presidency. Edited by Thomas W. Cowger and Sherwin J. Markman (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2003. Pp. xxii, 188. $25.95, ISBN 0-7425-2798-0.) ...

Fred Harris: His Journey from Liberalism to Populism.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Fred Harris: His Journey from Liberalism to Populism. By Richard Lowitt. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2002. Pp. xvi, 283. $41.95, ISBN 0-7425-2162-1.) Richard Lowitt's chronicle of the life of...

Britain and the American South: From Colonialism to Rock and Roll.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Britain and the American South: From Colonialism to Rock and Roll. Edited by Joseph P. Ward. Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 281. $45.00, ISBN...

Tar Heel Catholics: A History of Catholicism in North Carolina.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Tar Heel Catholics: A History of Catholicism in North Carolina. By William F. Powers. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: University Press of America, Inc., c. 2003. Pp. xxii, 509. Paper, $34.95, ISBN 0-7618-2599-1; cloth, $49.95, ISBN...

The Way We Lived in North Carolina.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Way We Lived in North Carolina. Edited by Joe A. Mobley. (Chapel Hill and London: Published by the University of North Carolina Press in association with the Office of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources,...

Wonderful Words of Life: Hymns in American Protestant History and Theology.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Wonderful Words of Life: Hymns in American Protestant History and Theology. Edited by Richard J. Mouw and Mark A Noll. The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Liturgical Studies. (Grand Rapids, Mich., and Cambridge, Eng.: William B. Eerdmans...

Public History and the Environment.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Public History and the Environment. Edited by Martin V. Melosi and Philip V. Scarpino. Public History. (Malabar, Fla.: Krieger Publishing Company, 2004. Pp. xiv, 291. $38.50, ISBN 1-57524-071-8.) This collection of fifteen original essays...

Beyond Black and White: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the U.S. South and Southwest.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Beyond Black and White: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the U.S. South and Southwest. Edited by Stephanie Cole and Alison M. Parker. Introduction by Nancy A. Hewitt. Waiter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, no. 35. (College Station: Published by...

Pioneers, Patriots, and Planters: A Historic Narrative of a Woolfolk Family.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Pioneers, Patriots, and Planters: A Historic Narrative of a Woolfolk Family. By Elizabeth Carrow Woolfolk. (Houston: Wynnton Publishing, 2004. Pp. xxxii, 638. Cloth, $47.50, ISBN 0-9716358-2-X. Order from the publisher at 6524 San Felipe, #94,...

A Texas Baptist History Sourcebook: A Companion to McBeth's Texas Baptists.(Book Notes)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... A Texas Baptist History Sourcebook: A Companion to McBeth's Texas Baptists. By Joseph E. Early Jr. Foreword by Harry Leon McBeth. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, c. 2004. Pp. xxiv, 676. $29.95, ISBN 1-57441-176-4.) Joseph E. Early Jr....

Coming Home!: Self-Taught Artists, the Bible and the American South.(Book Notes)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Coming Home! Self-Taught Artists, the Bible and the American South. Edited by Carol Crown. (Jackson: Art Museum of the University of Memphis in association with the University Press of Mississippi, c. 2004. Pp. 215. Paper, $30.00, ISBN...

Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia.(Book Notes)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia. Edited by Sandra L. Ballard and Patricia L. Hudson. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2003. Pp. xxxii, 673. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 0-8131-9066-5; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8131-2283-X.) This...

Linguistic Diversity in the South: Changing Codes, Practices, and Ideology.(Book Notes)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Linguistic Diversity in the South: Changing Codes, Practices, and Ideology. Edited by Margaret Bender. Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings, no. 37. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2004. Pp. [x], 141. Paper,...

American Legal History: Cases and Materials.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... American Legal History: Cases and Materials. Third Edition. Edited by Kermit L. Hall, Paul Finkelman, and James W. Ely Jr. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xxviii, 705. Paper, $44.95, ISBN 0-19-516225-0; cloth, $70.00,...