The Journal of Southern History articles from May 2006

The Journal of Southern History archives from May 2006

The Seminoles, the "bloodhound war," and abolitionism, 1796-1865.
May 1, 2006... ABOLITIONIST GEORGE W. CARLETON OBSERVED IN 1857 THAT IN SLAVE-holding areas of the South, the bloodhound had become "a household word--a 'domestic institution.'" To support this criticism of slavery, he reprinted newspaper advertisements from...

Owen Whitfield and the gospel of the working class in new deal America, 1936-1946.
May 1, 2006... WHEN IN APRIL 1932 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT spoke of "the forgotten man," he was not referring to an African American sharecropper named Owen Whitfield. (1) However, by decade's end, Roosevelt would sit down with Whitfield...

Confronting the garrison state: South Carolina in the early Cold War era.
May 1, 2006... IN 1950 THE HINTERLANDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA BECAME THE CROSSROADS of the Cold War. In January of that year, President Harry S. Truman, in response to public and private pressure, announced that he had ordered the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) to...

Southern history in periodicals, 2005: a selected bibliography.(Bibliography)
May 1, 2006... THIS CLASSIFIED BIBLIOGRAPHY INCLUDES MOST SCHOLARLY ARTICLES IN the field of southern history published in periodicals in 2005 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, 2006... EVEN AS WE ENJOYED A SUCCESSFUL MEETING IN ATLANTA LAST November, there seemed to be a preoccupation with where our next meeting would be. The Fairmont Hotel in New Orleans had assured us only a week before we gathered in Atlanta that the...

Rhys Isaac and history's Uneasy Kingdom: a review essay.(Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation. By Rhys Isaac. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xxiv, 423. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-19-518908-6; cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-19-515926-8.)...

Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America. By Virginia DeJohn Anderson. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 322. $37.50, ISBN 0-19-515860-1.) Virginia De John Anderson here sets out...

The Courthouses of Early Virginia: An Architectural History.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Courthouses of Early Virginia: An Architectural History. By Carl R. Lounsbury. Colonial Williamsburg Studies in Chesapeake History and Culture. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2005. Pp. xxii, 430. $65.00, ISBN...

Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood. By Steven Mintz. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 445. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-674-01998-9; cloth, $29.50, ISBN 0-674-01508-8.) Steven...

Labor of Innocents: Forced Apprenticeship in North Carolina, 1715-1919.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Labor of Innocents: Forced Apprenticeship in North Carolina, 1715-1919. By Karin L. Zipf. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 207. $42.95, ISBN 0-8071-3045-1.) Traditional apprenticeship agreements--the kind that...

A Fierce and Fractious Frontier: The Curious Development of Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1699-2000.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... A Fierce and Fractious Frontier: The Curious Development of Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1699-2000. Edited by Samuel C. Hyde Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 232. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-8071-2923-2; cloth,...

French, Cajun, Creole, Houma: A Primer on Francophone Louisiana.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... French, Cajun, Creole, Houma: A Primer on Francophone Louisiana. By Carl A. Brasseaux. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 159. $19.95, ISBN 0-8071-3036-2.) The diminutive size of this volume belies the wealth...

James Habersham: Loyalty, Politics, and Commerce in Colonial Georgia.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... James Habersham: Loyalty, Politics, and Commerce in Colonial Georgia. By Frank Lambert. Wormsloe Foundation Publications. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2005. Pp. x, 197. $34.95, ISBN 0-8203-2539-2.) Frank...

The History of the American Indians.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The History of the American Indians. By James Adair. Edited and with an introduction and annotations by Kathryn E. Holland Braund. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 589. $65.00, ISBN 0-8173-1393-1.) The community...

Hope's Promise: Religion and Acculturation in the Southern Backcountry.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Hope's Promise: Religion and Acculturation in the Southern Backcountry. By S. Scott Rohrer. Religion and American Culture. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2005. Pp. xxxvi, 266. $42.50, ISBN 0-8173-1435-0.) This monograph...

Jefferson and Education.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Jefferson and Education. By Jennings L. Wagoner Jr. Preface by William G. Bowen. Monticello Monograph. ([Charlottesville]: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2004. Distributed by University of North Carolina Press. Pp. 168. Paper, $15.95, ISBN...

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, vol. 1.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series. Volume 1: 4 March to 15 November 1809. Edited by J. Jefferson Looney. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford, Eng.: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. [1], 729. $99.50, ISBN 0-691-12121-4.) The...

When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes. By Jay Feldman. (New York and other cities: Free Press, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 307. $27.00, ISBN 0-7432-4278-5.) The author has taken the series of...

Along the Maysville Road: The Early American Republic in the Trans-Appalachian West.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Along the Maysville Road: The Early American Republic in the Trans-Appalachian West. By Craig Thompson Friend. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 378. $42.00, ISBN 1-57233-315-4.) Craig Thompson Friend has written...

Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850. By Andres Resendez. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 309. Paper, $23.99, ISBN 0-521-54319-3; cloth, $65.00, ISBN...

Head Masters: Phrenology, Secular Education, and Nineteenth-Century Social Thought.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Head Masters: Phrenology, Secular Education, and Nineteenth-Century Social Thought. By Stephen Tomlinson. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2005. Pp. xviii, 437. $47.50, ISBN 0-8173-1439-3.) This aptly titled book tackles an...

Walking by Faith: The Diary of Angelina Grimke, 1828-1835.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Walking by Faith: The Diary of Angelina Grimke, 1828-1835. Edited by Charles Wilbanks. Women's Diaries and Letters of the South. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xxviii, 245. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-511-3.) Accounts...

No Taint of Compromise: Crusaders in Antislavery Politics.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... No Taint of Compromise: Crusaders in Antislavery Politics. By Frederick J. Blue. Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 301. $54.95, ISBN 0-8071-2976-3.) This book is...

Slavery and the American South.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Slavery and the American South. Edited by Winthrop D. Jordan. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2003. Pp. xx, 234. $48.00, ISBN 1-57806-581-X.) Held at the University of Mississippi in 2000, the Twenty-fifth Porter L. Fortune,...

Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom. By Tiya Miles. American Crossroads. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, c. 2005. Pp. xx, 306. $34.95, ISBN 0-520-24132-0.) At the...

Holy Boldness: Women Preachers' Autobiographies and the Sanctified Self.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Holy Boldness: Women Preachers' Autobiographies and the Sanctified Self. By Susie C. Stanley. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c. 2002. Pp. xxxvi, 268. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 1-57233-310-3; cloth, $35.00, ISBN 1-57233-199-2.) Susie...

Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, 1840-1900.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, 1840-1900. Edited by Kevin E. O'Donnell and Helen Hollingsworth. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 385. $42.00, ISBN 1-57233-278-6.) This collection of...

John Barleycorn Must Die: The War against Drink in Arkansas.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... John Barleycorn Must Die: The War Against Drink in Arkansas. By Ben F. Johnson III. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2005. Pp. x, 99. $19.95, ISBN 1-55728-787-2.) Ben F. Johnson III's latest book is written for two audiences,...

Great Necessities: The Life, Times, and Writings of Anna Ella Carroll, 1815-1894.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Great Necessities: The Life, Times, and Writing of Anna Ella Carroll, 1815-1894. By C. Kay Larson. (New York: Xlibris Corporation, c. 2004. Pp. 693. Paper, $26.64, ISBN 1-4134-2748-0; cloth, $35.09, ISBN 1-4134-2749-9.) Though an astute...

The Pearl: A Failed Slave Escape on the Potomac.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Pearl: A Failed Slave Escape on the Potomac. By Josephine F. Pacheco. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 307. $29.95, ISBN 0-8078-2918-8.) Josephine F. Pacheco's book brings to light the...

Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861-1865.(A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861-1865. By Armstead L. Robinson. Carter G. Woodson Institute Series. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2005. Pp. xx, 352. $34.95,...

From Property to Person: Slavery and the Confiscation Acts, 1861-1862.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... From Property to Person: Slavery and the Confiscation Acts, 1861-1862. By Silvana R. Siddali. Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 298. $44.95, ISBN...

With Fire and Sword: Arkansas, 1861-1874.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... With Fire and Sword: Arkansas, 1861-1874. By Thomas A. DeBlack. Histories of Arkansas. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 263. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 1-55728-740-6; cloth, $34.95, ISBN 1-55728-739-2.) During the past...

Virginia's Civil War.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Virginia's Civil War. Edited by Peter Wallenstein and Bertram Wyatt-Brown. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 303. $35.00, ISBN 0-8139-2315-8.) This volume originated with papers delivered in 2002 at...

Mountaineers in Gray: The Nineteenth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment, C.S.A.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Mountaineers in Gray: The Nineteenth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment, C.S.A. By John D. Fowler. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 282. $34.00, ISBN 1-57233-314-6.) In recent years scholars have begun to...

The Confederates of Chappell Hill, Texas: Prosperity, Civil War, and Decline.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Confederates of Chappell Hill, Texas: Prosperity, Civil War, and Decline. By Stephen Chicoine. (Jefferson, N.C., and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., c. 2005. Pp. viii, 260. $45.00, ISBN 0-7864-1982-2.) Stephen Chicoine draws upon...

Alexandria Goes to War: Beyond Robert E. Lee.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Alexandria Goes to War: Beyond Robert E. Lee. By George G. Kundahl. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 387. $45.00, ISBN 1-57233-320-0.) Can a community be explained through the stories of individuals? The author of...

The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Forgotten History: Immigrants, Women, and African Americans in the Civil War's Defining Battle.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Forgotten History: Immigrants, Women, and African Americans in the Civil War's Defining Battle. By Margaret S. Creighton. (New York: Basic Books, c. 2005. Pp. xxviii, 321. $26.00, ISBN 0-465-01456-9.) By...

The Civil War Era: An Anthology of Sources.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Civil War Era: An Anthology of Sources. Edited by Lyde Cullen Sizer and Jim Cullen. (Malden, Mass., and other cities: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Pp. xxviii, 434. Paper, $34.95, ISBN 1-4051-0691-3; cloth, $73.95, ISBN 1-4051-0690-5.) ...

The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words. By Ronald C. White Jr. (New York: Random House, 2005. Pp. xxiv, 448. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-8129-7046-2; cloth, $26.95, ISBN 1-4000-6119-9.) This is a difficult book to...

Commander of All Lincoln's Armies: A Life of General Henry W. Halleck.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Commander of All Lincoln's Armies: A Life of General Henry W. Halleck. By John F. Marszalek. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 324. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-01493-6.) John F. Marszalek has...

The Alabama, British Neutrality, and the American Civil War.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Alabama, British Neutrality, and the American Civil War. By Frank J. Merli. Edited by David M. Fahey. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xxii, 225. $29.95, ISBN 0-253-34473-5.) Frank J. Merli,...

Texas after the Civil War: The Struggle of Reconstruction.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Texas after the Civil War: The Struggle of Reconstruction. By Carl H. Moneyhon. Texas A&M Southwestern Studies. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. Pp. Ix], 237. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 1-58544-362-X; cloth, $45.00, ISBN...

Lee's Last Stand: Sailor's Creek, Virginia, 1865.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Lee's Last Stand: Sailor's Creek, Virginia, 1865. By Derek Smith. (Shippensburg, Pa.: White Mane Books, c. 2002. Pp. xiv, 262. $29.95, ISBN 1-57249-251-1.) Derek Smith retells the story of Robert E. Lee's retreat from Petersburg to...

Civil War and Revolution on the Rio Grande Frontier: A Narrative and Photographic History.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Civil War and Revolution on the Rio Grande Frontier: A Narrative and Photographic History. By Jerry Thompson and Lawrence T. Jones III. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, c. 2004. Pp. [x], 174. $39.95, ISBN 0-87611-201-7.) This...

Lincoln's Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion after the Civil War.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Lincoln's Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion after the Civil War. By Elizabeth D. Leonard. (New York and London: W.W. Norton and Company, c. 2004. Pp. xviii, 373. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-393-32677-2; cloth, $25.95, ISBN 0-393-04868-3.) ...

The House I Live In: Race in the American Century.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The House I Live In: Race in the American Century. By Robert J. Norrell. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xx, 379. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-507345-2.) In a season when Huey Newton's widow and former Black Panther...

Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era. By Paul Harvey. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2005. Pp. xviii, 338. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2901-3.)...

Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow. By Thad Sitton and James H. Conrad. Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. Pp. [viii], 248. Paper,...

Waltz the Hall: The American Play Party.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Waltz the Hall: The American Play Party. By Alan L. Spurgeon. American Made Music Series. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2005. Pp. viii, 238. $45.00, ISBN 1-57806-742-1.) For musicologists, ethnomusicologists, and folklorists...

A.J. Tomlinson: Plainfolk Modernist.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... A. J. Tomlinson: Plainfolk Modernist. By R. G. Robins. Religion in America. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 316. $45.00, ISBN 0-19-516591-8.) R.G. Robins has written an intriguing, insightful, and thoroughly researched...

The Atlanta Riot: Race, Class, and Violence in a New South City.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Atlanta Riot: Race, Class, and Violence in a New South City. By Gregory Mixon. Foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller. Southern Dissent. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2005. Pp. xvi, 197. $59.95,...

Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare. By Johanna Schoen. Gender and American Culture. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2005. Pp. xviii, 331. Paper, 19.95,...

Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America. By Douglas Flamming. The George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, c. 2005. Pp. xviii, 467. $29.95,...

White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP. By Kenneth Robert Janken. (New York: New Press, c. 2003. Pp. xviii, 477. $29.95, ISBN 1-56584-773-3.) Kenneth Robert Janken's detailed and provocative account of Walter White provides an...

Picturing Faith: Photography and the Great Depression.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Picturing Faith: Photography and the Great Depression. By Colleen McDannell. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c. 2004. Pp [x], 319. $45.00, ISBN 0-300-10430-8.) Scholars researching the 1930s and early 1940s depend heavily on...

Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal. By Keith J. Volanto. Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 194. $35.00, ISBN 1-58544-402-2.) As a first reaction, one might question the need for...

Thad Snow: A Life of Social Reform in the Missouri Bootheel.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Thad Snow: A Life of Social Reform in the Missouri Bootheel. By Bonnie Stepenoff. Missouri Biography Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2003. Pp. xviii, 182. $37.50, ISBN 0-8262-1496-7.) People who know of Thad...

Country Music Goes to War.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Country Music Goes to War. Edited by Charles K. Wolfe and James E. Akenson. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2005. Pp. viii, 250. $35.00, ISBN 0-8131-2308-9.) Country, Music Goes to War explores how war has been portrayed in...

Singing in a Strange Land: C.L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Singing in a Strange Land: C.L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America. By Nick Salvatore. (New York and Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2005. Pp. xii, 419. $27.95, ISBN 0-316-16037-7.) In The Souls of Black Folk...

Black Workers' Struggle for Equality in Birmingham.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Black Workers' Struggle for Equality in Birmingham. Edited by Horace Huntley and David Montgomery. Afterword by Odessa Woolfolk. The Working Class in American History. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 244....

Fighting against the Odds: A History of Southern Labor since World War II.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Fighting Against the Odds: A History of Southern Labor Since World War II. By Timothy J. Minchin. Foreword by John David Smith. New Perspectives on the History of the South. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2005....

The White South and the Red Menace: Segregationists, Anticommunism, and Massive Resistance, 1945-1965.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The White South and the Red Menace: Segregationists, Anticommunism, and Massive Resistance, 1945-1965. By George Lewis. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2004. Pp. x, 228. $59.95, ISBN 0-8130-2753-5.) In this...

Yellow Dogs and Republicans: Allan Shivers and Texas Two-Party Politics.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Yellow Dogs and Republicans: Allan Shivers and Texas Two-Party Politics. By Ricky F. Dobbs. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 194. $32.95, ISBN 1-58544-4073.) Ricky F. Dobbs believes that Allan Shivers, Texas's...

From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy. Edited by Peter F. Lau. Constitutional Conflicts. (Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, c. 2004. Pp. x, 406. Paper, $25.95, ISBN...

A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow. By David L. Chappell. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. [xiv], 344. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-5660-6; cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2819-X.)...

I Am A Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... I Am A Man! Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement. By Steven Estes. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 239. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5593-6; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2929-3.) In I Am A...

Pure Fire: Self-Defense as Activism in the Civil Rights Era.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Pure Fire: Self-Defense as Activism in the Civil Rights Era. By Christopher B. Strain. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2005. Pp. x, 254. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8203-2687-9; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8203-2686-0.) ...

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and its Legacy.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacy. By Kenneth T. Andrews. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 265. Paper, $21.00, ISBN 0-226-02043-6; cloth, $50.00, ISBN...

Peace and Freedom: The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements in the 1960s.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Peace and Freedom: The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements in the 1960s. By Simon Hall. Politics and Culture in Modern America. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c. 2005. Pp. [viii], 267. $45.00, ISBN 0-8122-3839-7.) This is...

The Zapruder Film: Reframing JFK's Assassination.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Zapruder Film: Reframing JFK's Assassination. By David R. Wrone. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 368. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1291-2.) Filmed by Abraham Zapruder, a Dallas dress manufacturer, as John F. Kennedy's...

The Battle for Alabama's Wilderness: Saving the Great Gymnasiums of Nature.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Battle for Alabama's Wilderness: Saving the Great Gymnasiums of Nature. By John N. Randolph. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 263. Paper, $26.95, ISBN 0-8173-5159-0.) In the study John N. Randolph asserts the...

Documents of the Coronado Expedition, 1539-1542: "They Were Not Familiar with His Majesty, nor Did They Wish to Be His Subjects".(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Documents of the Coronado Expedition, 1539-1542: "They Were Not Familiar with His Majesty, nor Did They Wish to Be His Subjects. " Edited, translated, and annotated by Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint. (Dallas: Southern Methodist...

A British Eyewitness at the Battle of New Orleans: The Memoir of Royal Navy Admiral Robert Aitchison, 1808-1827.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... A British Eyewitness at the Battle of New Orleans: The Memoir of Royal Navy Admiral Robert Aitchison, 1808-1827. Edited by Gene A. Smith. (New Orleans: Historic New Orleans Collection, 2004. Pp. x, 149. $15.95, ISBN 0-917860-50-0.) Robert...

Jessie Benton Fremont: Missouri's Trailblazer.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Jessie Benton Fremont: Missouri's Trailblazer. By Ilen Stone and Suzanna M. Grenz. (Columbia, Mo., and London: University of Missouri Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 122. $14.95, ISBN 0-8262-1628-5.) This concise biography of Jessie Benton Fremont is a...

A Journey through Texas: Or, a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... A Journey Through Texas: Or, a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier. By Frederick Law Olmsted. Edited by Randolph B. Campbell. The Library of Texas, no. 8. (Dallas, Texas: DeGolyer Library and William P. Clements Center for Southwest...

Shapers of the Great Debate on the Civil War: A Biographical Dictionary.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Shapers of the Great Debate on the Civil War: A Biographical Dictionary. By Dan Monroe and Bruce Tap. Shapers of the Great American Debates. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005. Pp. xxviii, 405. $75.00, ISBN 0-313-31745-3.) Shapers of the...

The Life and Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: An Annotated Bibliography.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Life and Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: An Annotated Bibliography. By Kenneth E. Hendrickson Jr. (Lanham, Md., Toronto, and Oxford, Eng.: Scarecrow Press Inc., 2005. Pp. xxvi, 590; xxiv, 591-1107; iv, 1109-1254.3 volumes, $300.00,...

Memories of Old Smoky: Early Experiences in the Great Smoky Mountains.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Memories of Old Smoky: Early Experiences in the Great Smoky Mountains. By Carlos C. Campbell. The Outdoor Tennessee Series (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 223. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 1-57233-3731.) In the tradition of...

S. Seymour Thomas, 1868-1956: A Texas Genius Rediscovered.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... S. Seymour Thomas, 1868-1956: A Texas Genius Rediscovered. By Cecilia Steinfeldt. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association in cooperation with the Center for Studies in Texas History at the University of Texas for the Witte Museum of San...

Texas Vision: The Barrett Collection: The Art of Texas and Switzerland.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Texas Vision: The Barrett Collection: The Art of Texas and Switzerland. Edited and with a foreword by Edmund P. Pillsbury. (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 2004. Pp. viii, 192. $60.00, ISBN 0-87074-494-1.) This volume accompanied...

The Cannon Centenary Conference: The Changing Nature of the Speakership.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Cannon Centenary Conference: The Changing Nature of the Speakership. [Edited by Walter J. Oleszek.] (Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 2004. Pp. vi, 248. $41.00, ISBN 0-16-073169-0; 108 Cong., 2 Sess., House...

The Association.(Historical News and Notices)
May 1, 2006... The 2005 Nominating Committee, consisting of J. William Harris, University of New Hampshire, chair; Anthony J. Badger, Cambridge University; Fred A. Bailey, Abilene Christian University; Steven Hahn, University of Pennsylvania; and Patricia A....

Obituary.(Obituary)
May 1, 2006... James A. Rawley, a widely respected historian of the Civil War era and American race relations and a biographer of Abraham Lincoln, died on November 29, 2005, in Lincoln, Nebraska, at the age of eighty-nine. A native of Terra Haute, Indiana,...