The Journal of Southern History articles from May 2008

The Journal of Southern History archives from May 2008

Building a populist coalition in Texas, 1892-1896.
May 1, 2008... THAN A HALF CENTURY HAS PASSED SINCE C. VANN WOODWARD argued that the success of the People' s (or Populist) Party of the 1890s hinged on construction of three somewhat improbable coalitions of the dispossessed: southerners and westerners,...

Murder, North and South: violence in early-twentieth-century Chicago and New Orleans.
May 1, 2008... OBSERVERS OF AMERICAN REGIONALISM HAVE LONG KNOWN THAT THE South has suffered from high, often astronomically high, levels of violence. Late-eighteenth-century travelers marveled at the eye-gouging and nose-biting rituals at the core of...

Between memory and history: autobiographies of the civil rights movement and the writing of civil rights history.
May 1, 2008... IN 1988, AT A REUNION OF THE STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING Committee (SNCC), Joyce Ladner had this to say about scholarship on the civil rights movement: "It was not until a decade after leaving SNCC that I began to read some of the works on...

Southern history in periodicals, 2007: a selected bibliography.(Bibliography)
May 1, 2008... THIS CLASSIFIED BIBLIOGRAPHY INCLUDES MOST SCHOLARLY ARTICLES IN the field of southern history published in periodicals in 2007 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, 2008... OUR MEETING IN RICHMOND IN NOVEMBER WAS ONLY THE SECOND ONE the Association has held in what is arguably the South's most historically rich state capital, the first having been held in the John Marshall Hotel in 1965. The primary reason for...

I Wish I'd Been There: Twenty Historians Bring to Life Dramatic Events That Changed America.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... I Wish I'd Been There: Twenty Historians Bring to Life Dramatic Events That Changed America. Edited by Byron Hollinshead. (New York and other cities: Doubleday, 2006. Pp. [xii], 338. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-385-51619-8.) For I Wish I'd Been...

Constructing Floridians: Natives and Europeans in the Colonial Floridas, 1513-1783.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Constructing Floridians: Natives and Europeans in the Colonial Floridas, 1513-1783. By Daniel S. Murphree. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2006. Pp. [x], 188. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-3024-2.) Florida holds an...

The Deadly Politics of Giving: Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Deadly Politics of Giving: Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown. By Seth Mallios. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xiv], 150. Paper, $21.50, ISBN 978-0-8173-5336-0; cloth, $44.75, ISBN...

Practicing Ethnohistory: Mining Archives, Hearing Testimony, Constructing Narrative.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Practicing Ethnohistory: Mining Archives, Hearing Testimony, Constructing Narrative. By Patricia Galloway. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2006. Pp. [vi], 454. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8032-7115-9.) This book is a...

Unveiled Voices, Unvarnished Memories: The Cromwell Family in Slavery and Segregation.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Unveiled Voices, Unvarnished Memories: The Cromwell Family in Slavery and Segregation, 1692-1972. By Adelaide M. Cromwell. Introduction by Anthony Cromwell Hill. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xviii], 348....

The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia. By Michael A. McDonnell. (Chapel Hill: Published by the University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, c. 2007. Pp....

The Mind of Thomas Jefferson.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Mind of Thomas Jefferson. By Peter S. Onuf. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2007. Pp. x, 281. Paper, $19.50, ISBN 978-0-8139-2611-7; cloth, $49.50, ISBN 978-0-8139-2578-3.) The Founding Fathers are an old...

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Volume 33:17 February to 30 April 1801. Edited by Barbara B. Oberg and others. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford, Eng.: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xlviii, 751. $99.50, ISBN 978-0-691-12910-5.) February...

The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series. Volume 7:2 April-31 August 1804. Edited by David B. Mattern and others. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2005. Pp. [xxxviii], 714. $75.00, ISBN 0-8139-2353-0.)...

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series. Volume 2:16 November 1809 to 11 August 1810; Volume 3:12 August 1810 to 17 June 1811. Edited by J. Jefferson Looney and others. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford, Eng.: Princeton University Press,...

In the Name of the Father: Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... In the Name of the Father: Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation. By Francois Furstenberg. (New York: Penguin Press, 2006. Pp. [xii], 335. $27.95, ISBN 1-59420-092-0.) "'The earth belongs in usufruct to the living,'"...

Indian Agent: Peter Ellis Bean in Mexican Texas.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Indian Agent: Peter Ellis Bean in Mexican Texas. By Jack Jackson. Canseco-Keck History Series, No. 6. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. Pp. [xiv], 426. $35.00, ISBN 1-58544-444-8.) In this document-driven biography the...

Foreign Affairs and the Constitution in the Age of Fighting Sail.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Foreign Affairs and the Constitution in the Age of Fighting Sail. By William R. Casto. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xiv], 202. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-629-3.) Edmond Charles Genet's disastrous 1793 mission...

A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-1814.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mires and the Redstick War of 1813-1814. By Gregory A. Waselkov. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2006. Pp. [x], 414. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8173-1491-0.) Gregory A. Waselkov does not describe his fine new...

Andrew Jackson and the Politics of Martial Law: Nationalism, Civil Liberties, and Partisanship.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Andrew Jackson and the Politics of Martial Law: Nationalism, Civil Liberties, and Partisanship. By Matthew Warshauer. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Pp. x, 314. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-57233-548-6.) Nearly two hundred years...

Uriah Levy: Reformer of the Antebellum Navy.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Uriah Levy: Reformer of the Antebellum Navy. By Ira Dye. Foreword by James C. Bradford and Gene A. Smith. New Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2006. Pp....

Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life.(Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life. By Steven Deyle. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. [xii], 398. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-516040-6.) Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against...

The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade. By Gerald Home. (New York and London: New York University Press, c. 2007. Pp. [vi], 341. Paper, $24.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-3689-0; cloth, $75.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-3688-3.)...

Becoming Bourgeois: Merchant Culture in the South, 1820-1865.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Becoming Bourgeois: Merchant Culture in the South, 1820-1865. By Frank J. Byrne. New Directions in Southern History. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2006. Pp. x, 297. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2404-9.) In recent years greater...

An American Aristocracy: Southern Planters in Antebellum Philadelphia.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... An American Aristocracy: Southern Planters in Antebellum Philadelphia. By Daniel Kilbride. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xii], 216. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-656-9.) This book's title might lead one to think...

Princes of Cotton: Four Diaries of Young Men in the South, 1848-1860.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Princes of Cotton: Four Diaries of Young Men in the South, 1848-1860. Edited by Stephen Berry. Publications of the Southern Texts Society. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2007. Pp. xiv, 554. $44.95, ISBN...

Lynching in the West: 1850-1935.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Lynching in the West: 1850-1935. By Ken Gonzales-Day. A John Hope Franklin Center Book. (Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. [xiv], 299. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3794-2; cloth, $79.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3781-2.) ...

Evolution of a Missouri Asylum: Fulton State Hospital, 1851-2006.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Evolution of a Missouri Asylum: Fulton State Hospital, 1851-2006. By Richard L. Lael, Barbara Brazos, and Margot Ford McMillen. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xx], 252. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1689-2.) ...

Dred Scott and the Politics of Slavery.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Dred Scott and the Politics of Slavery. By Earl M. Maltz. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2007. Pp. [x], 182. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1503-2; cloth, $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1502-5.) ...

America's Fortress: A History of Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Florida.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... America's Fortress: A History of Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Florida. By Thomas Reid. Florida History and Culture. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 163. $24.95, ISBN 0-8130-3019-6.) Thomas...

Civil War Time: Temporality and Identity in America, 1861-1865.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Civil War Time: Temporality and Identity in America, 1861-1865. By Cheryl A. Wells. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 195. $39.95, ISBN 0-8203-2657-7.) Cheryl A. Wells has written a commendably short...

The View from the Ground: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The View from the Ground: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers. Edited by Aaron Sheehan-Dean. Afterword by Joseph T. Glatthaar. New Directions in Southern History. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2007. Pp. vi, 266. $40.00, ISBN...

A Soldier to the Last: Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler in Blue and Gray.(Major General Isaac Ridgeway Trimble: Biography of a Baltimore Confederate)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... A Soldier to the Last: Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler in Blue and Gray. By Edward G. Longacre. (Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, Inc., 2007. Pp. xvi, 288. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-57488-591-0.) Major General Isaac Ridgeway Trimble: Biography of a...

Long Road to Liberty: The Odyssey of a German Regiment in the Yankee Army: The 15th Missouri Volunteer Infantry.(books about the American Civil War)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Long Road to Liberty: The Odyssey of a German Regiment in the Yankee Army: The 15th Missouri Volunteer Infantry. By Donald Allendorf. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xxxii], 342. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-87338-871-9.) ...

Defend This Old Town: Williamsburg during the Civil War.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Defend This Old Town: Williamsburg during the Civil War. By Carol Kettenburg Dubbs. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Pp. [xviii], 406. $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-2780-9.) An increasingly important genre of Civil War history is...

Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible of War.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible of War. By A. Wilson Greene. A Nation Divided: New Studies in Civil War History. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2006. Pp. [xii], 363. $34.95, ISBN...

Sherman's Mississippi Campaign.(Mississippi's Civil War: A Narrative History)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Sherman's Mississippi Campaign. By Buck T. Foster. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xiv], 215. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8173-1519-1.) Mississippi's Civil War: A Narrative History. By Ben Wynne. State Narratives of the...

Huts and History: The Historical Archaeology of Military Encampment during the American Civil War.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Huts and History: The Historical Archaeology of Military Encampment During the American Civil War. Edited by Clarence R. Geier, David G. Orr, and Matthew B. Reeves. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2006. Pp. xviii,...

Lincoln Emancipated: The President and the Politics of Race.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Lincoln Emancipated: The President and the Politics of Race. Edited by Brian R. Dirck. Foreword by Allen C. Guelzo. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, c. 2007. Pp. xiv, 189. $32.00, ISBN 978-0-87580-359-3.) "Was Lincoln a...

Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North. By Jennifer L. Weber. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. [xviii], 286. $28.00, ISBN 978-0-19-530668-2.) Jennifer L. Weber is convinced that the...

The Doom of Reconstruction: The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Doom of Reconstruction: The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era. By Andrew L. Slap. Reconstructing America Series. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. Pp. [xxvi], 306. $70.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-2709-9.) Hard as it might be to...

The Freedmen's Bureau: Reconstructing the American South after the Civil War.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Freedmen's Bureau: Reconstructing the American South after the Civil War. By Paul A. Cimbala. An Anvil Original. (Malabar, Fla.: Krieger Publishing Company, 2005. Pp. [xii], 206. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 1-57524-094-7.) The Freedmen's...

Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend. By Scott Reynolds Nelson. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. [x], 214. $25.00, ISBN 978-0-19-530010-9.) Folklorists at the Library of...

A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau. By Carolyn Morrow Long. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, c. 2006. Pp. [xl], 294. $34.95, ISBN 0-8130-2974-0.) In 1978, as Carolyn Morrow Long stood before...

The Dance of Freedom: Texas African Americans during Reconstruction.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Dance of Freedom: Texas African Americans during Reconstruction. By Barry A. Crouch. Edited by Larry Madaras. Foreword by Arnoldo De Leon. Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture, No. 19. (Austin: University of...

Beyond Redemption: Texas Democrats after Reconstruction.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Beyond Redemption: Texas Democrats after Reconstruction. By Patrick G. Williams. Red River Valley Books, No. 1. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 234. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-58544-573-8.) When historians are asked...

Amarillo: The Story of a Western Town.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Amarillo: The Story of a Western Town. By Paul H. Carlson. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xvi], 283. $28.95, ISBN 978-0-89672-587-4.) Where is Amarillo? Its longitude and latitude are easy to calculate, but...

Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas. Edited by Gregg Cantrell and Elizabeth Hayes Turner. Foreword by W. Fitzhugh Brundage. Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007....

The Conspiracy of the Good: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Community in Two American Cities, 1875-2000.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Conspiracy of the Good: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Community in Two American Cities, 1875-2000. By Michael E. James. History of Schools and Schooling. (New York and other cities: Peter Lang, c. 2005. Pp. [xx], 385. Paper, $32.95,...

Radicalism in the South Since Reconstruction.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Radicalism in the South Since Reconstruction. Edited by Chris Green, Rachel Rubin, and James Smethurst. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. viii, 274. $69.95, ISBN 978-1-4039-7409-9.) This collection of essays makes a valuable addition...

Henry Watterson and the New South: The Politics of Empire, Free Trade, and Globalization.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Henry Watterson and the New South: The Politics of Empire, Free Trade, and Globalization. By Daniel S. Margolies. Topics in Kentucky History. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 340. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2417-9.) ...

Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South. By Matthew Hild. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 327. $42.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2897-3.) ...

Righteous Indignation: Religion and the Populist Revolution.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Righteous Indignation: Religion and the Populist Revolution. By Joe Creech. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2006. Pp. xxx, 232. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978-0-252-07315-1; cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-25203074-1.) When...

The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890-1950.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890-1950. By Francille Rusan Wilson. Carter G. Woodson Institute Series. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2006. Pp. [xvi], 356....

A Common Thread: Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in the Textile Industry.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... A Common Thread: Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in the Textile Industry. By Beth English. Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xii], 236. $39.95, ISBN...

Rethinking Zion: How the Print Media Placed Fundamentalism in the South.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Rethinking Zion: How the Print Media Placed Fundamentalism in the South. By Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Pp. [xxvi], 177. $36.00, ISBN 1-57233-493-2.) In this intriguing study Mary Beth Swetnam...

Southern Journeys: Tourism, History, and Culture in the Modern South.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Southern Journeys: Tourism, History, and Culture in the Modern South. Edited by Richard D. Starnes. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 2003. Pp. [x], 310. Paper, $26.95, ISBN 0-8173-5009-8; cloth, $57.50, ISBN 0-8173-1297-8.)...

Julius Rosenwald: The Man Who Built Sears, Roebuck and Advanced the Cause of Black Education in the American South.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Julius Rosenwald: The Man Who Built Sears, Roebuck and Advanced the Cause of Black Education in the American South. By Peter M. Ascoli. Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2006. Pp....

The Rosenwald Schools of the American South.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Rosenwald Schools of the American South. By Mary S. Hoffschwelle. Foreword by John David Smith. New Perspectives on the History of the South. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2006. Pp. xx, 401. $39.95, ISBN...

Poverty and Progress in the U.S. South since 1920.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Poverty and Progress in the U.S. South Since 1920. Edited by Suzanne W. Jones and Mark Newman. European Contributions to American Studies. (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2006. Pp. 207. 35.95 [euro], ISBN 90-8659-048-9.) The contributors...

Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975. By Susannah Walker. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2007. Pp. [xiv], 250. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2433-9.) Susannah Walker's new book, Style and Status:...

Foundations for Excellence: 75 Years of Duke Medicine.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Foundations for Excellence: 75 Years of Duke Medicine. By Walter E. Campbell. Edited by Maura High. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Medical Center Library, c. 2006. Pp. xviii, 462. $39.95, ISBN 0-9672946-4-9.) From the beginning of his...

"Everybody Was Black down There": Race and Industrial Change in the Alabama Coalfields.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... "Everybody Was Black Down There": Race and Industrial Change in the Alabama Coalfields. By Robert H. Woodrum. Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 304....

Alternative Oklahoma: Contrarian Views of the Sooner State.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Alternative Oklahoma: Contrarian Views of the Sooner State. Edited by Davis D. Joyce. Foreword by Fred R. Harris. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c. 2007. Pp. xx, 249. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3819-0.) Davis D. Joyce's...

Looting Spiro Mounds: An American King Tut's Tomb.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Looting Spiro Mounds: An American King Tut's Tomb. By David La Vere. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c. 2007. Pp. [x], 255. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3813-8.) In Looting Spiro Mounds: An American King Tut's Tomb, David La Vere...

A Florida Fiddler: The Life and Times of Richard Seaman.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... A Florida Fiddler: The Life and Times of Richard Seaman. By Gregory Hansen. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2007. Pp. x, 254. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8173-1553-5.) Richard Seaman was an acclaimed fiddler who continued to perform...

Ross Sterling, Texan: A Memoir by the Founder of Humble Oil and Refining Company.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Ross Sterling, Texan: A Memoir by the Founder of Humble Oil and Refining Company. By Ross S. Sterling and Ed Kilman. Edited and revised by Don Carleton. Foreword by Dolph Briscoe Jr. (Austin: Published by the University of Texas Press for the...

The Marines of Montford Point: America's First Black Marines.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Marines of Montford Point: America's First Black Marines. By Melton A. McLaurin. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xii], 202. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3097-0.) An important collection of interviews with...

Civil Rights and Politics at Hampton Institute: The Legacy of Alonzo G. Moron.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Civil Rights and Politics at Hampton Institute: The Legacy of Alonzo G. Moron. By Hoda M. Zaki. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 187. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03110-6.) Hampton Institute in Virginia is...

Baroness of Hobcaw: The Life of Belle W. Baruch.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Baroness of Hobcaw: The Life of Belle W. Baruch. By Mary E. Miller. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [x], 212. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-655-2.) This book tells the story of Belle W. Baruch (1899-1964), the eldest...

Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta. By Riche Richardson. New Southern Studies. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xiv], 296. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-82032890-4; cloth, $49.95,...

Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis That Shocked the Nation.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis That Shocked the Nation. By Elizabeth Jacoway. (New York and other cities: Free Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 477. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-7432-9719-6.) The Second Reconstruction began in earnest with the...

The JFK Assassination Debates: Lone Gunman versus Conspiracy.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The JFK Assassination Debates: Lone Gunman versus Conspiracy. By Michael L. Kurtz. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2006. Pp. xvi, 280. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1474-5.) For those still fascinated by the now tiresome question of who...

The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement. By Richard M. Valelly. American Politics and Political Economy. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, c. 2004. Pp. [xviii], 330. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-226-84530-3:...

LBJ's American Promise: The 1965 Voting Rights Address.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... LBJ's American Promise: The 1965 Voting Rights Address. By Garth E. Pauley. Library of Presidential Rhetoric. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. Pp. [x], 180. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 978-1-58544-581-3, cloth, $29.95, ISBN...

In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution. By Joseph Crespino. Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford, Eng.: Princeton University Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xx], 360....

Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. By Jere Nash and Andy Taggart. Foreword by John Grisham. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006. Pp. xviii, 403. $32.00, ISBN 978-1-57806-907-1.) Jere Nash and Andy...

The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature: An Anthology.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature: An Anthology. Edited by William L. Andrews. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xii], 314. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5665-9; cloth, $42.50, ISBN...

Alabama Folk Pottery.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Alabama Folk Pottery. By Joey Brackner. (Tuscaloosa: Published by the University of Alabama Press in cooperation with the Birmingham Museum of Art, c. 2006. Pp. xx, 311. $69.95, ISBN 978-0-8173-1509-2.) John A. Burrison has written that...

Critical Regionalism: Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Critical Regionalism: Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape. By Douglas Reichert Powell. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xiv], 260. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5794-6; cloth, $59.95, ISBN...

Globalization and the American South.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Globalization and the American South. Edited by James C. Cobb and William Stueck. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2005. Pp. [xviii], 229. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8203-2648-8; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8203-2647-X.) "The...

Book Notes.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Dictionary of Virginia Biography. Volume 3: Caperton-Daniels. Edited by Sara B. Bearss and others. (Richmond: Library of Virginia, 2006. Pp. [xxii], 698. $49.95, ISBN 0-88490-206-4.) The third volume of this meticulously edited reference work...

Announcements.
May 1, 2008... The University of North Texas will become the new home of the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), which furthers the appreciation, understanding, and teaching of the unique history of the state. The TSHA was founded on March 2, 1897--the...

Libraries and archives.
May 1, 2008... The Georgia Historical Society announces eleven archival collections that are now available for research: W. Edwin Mires collection of Atlantic Coastline Railroad photographs, 1930; Henry Shepard letter to Tirrman Walker, 1824; National Society...