The Journal of Southern History articles from May 2009

The Journal of Southern History archives from May 2009

Independence Day dilemmas in the American South, 1848-1865.
May 1, 2009... ALONG WITH THE FOURTH OF JULY IN 1861 CAME A DILEMMA FOR THE members of the '76 Association in Charleston, South Carolina. Formed almost thirty years earlier with the purpose of organizing Independence Day celebrations, the association had...

University men, social science, and white supremacy in North Carolina.(Viewpoint essay)
May 1, 2009... IN NOVEMBER 1898, AS NORTH CAROLINA'S DEMOCRATS COMPLETED their violent campaign against African American Republicans and white Populists, a young Carolinian mischievously asked if white supremacy leaders were happier that the "Democrats won in...

The 1966 election in Georgia and the ambiguity of the white backlash.(Viewpoint essay)
May 1, 2009... It's the damnedest mess down there I have ever seen. Senator Richard B. Russell Jr. (D-Ga.), June 2, 1966 WHEN KEN MEHLMAN, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE REPUBLICAN National Committee, told the NAACP in 2005 that his party's use of the "southern...

Southern history in periodicals, 2008: a selected bibliography.(Bibliography)
May 1, 2009... THIS CLASSIFIED BIBLIOGRAPHY INCLUDES MOST SCHOLARLY ARTICLES in the field of southern history published in periodicals in 2008 except for descriptive or genealogical writings of primary interest to a restricted group of readers. If an article...

Annual report of the secretary-treasurer.(Report)
May 1, 2009... IT WAS VERY GOOD TO BRING OUR MEETING BACK TO NEW ORLEANS at long last, given the many challenges we've faced in doing so after Hurricane Katrina. We seem to have beaten another storm--this one economic--by holding our meeting in mid-October. I...

An extraordinary family and the burdens of slavery: a review essay.(The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family)(Critical essay)
May 1, 2009... The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. By Annette Gordon-Reed. (New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company, 2008. Pp. 798. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-393-06477-3.) ON SEPTEMBER 6, 1782, MANTRA WAYLES JEFFERSON DIED surrounded by...

Placing the South.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Placing the South. By Michael O'Brien. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. Pp. xii, 275. $50.00, ISBN 978-1-57806-934-7.) It is a bit daunting to review Placing the South, because the majority of this collection by Michael...

Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 1492-1715.(Indians of the Southeast)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 1492-1715. By Paul Kelton. Indians of the Southeast. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2007. Pp. xxii, 288. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8032-2756-9.) ...

The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624. Edited by Peter C. Mancall. (Chapel Hill: Published by University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, c. 2007. Pp. [xii], 596. Paper, $27.50,...

The Jamestown Project.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The Jamestown Project. By Karen Ordahl Kupperman. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. [x], 380. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02474-8.) Jamestown has long represented an ambiguous origin myth in the...

The River Where America Began: A Journey Along the James.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The River Where America Began: A Journey Along the James. By Bob Deans. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 319. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-7425-5172-5.) The River Where America Began: A...

The Episcopal Church in Virginia, 1607-2007.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The Episcopal Church in Virginia, 1607-2007. By Edward L. Bond and Joan R. Gundersen. (Richmond: Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, c. 2007. Pp. [iv], 195. $25.00 plus postage, ISBN 978-0-945015-28-4. Order from the diocese at 110 West Franklin...

The Church of England in North Carolina: Documents, 1742-1763.(Colonial Records of North Carolina )(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The Church of England in North Carolina: Documents, 1742-1763. Edited by Robert J. Cain and Jan-Michael Poff. Colonial Records of North Carolina (Second Series), Volume 11. (Raleigh: Office of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of...

The Economy of Early America: Historical Perspectives and New Directions.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The Economy of Early America: Historical Perspectives and New Directions. Edited by Cathy Matson. (University Park: Published by Pennsylvania State University Press in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, c. 2006. Pp. viii,...

The Potomac Canal: George Washington and the Waterway West.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The Potomac Canal: George Washington and the Waterway West. By Robert J. Kapsch. (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2007. Pp. 373. Paper, $40.00, ISBN 978-1-933202-18-1.) At first glance this large-format volume on the storied...

Dr. Alexander Hamilton and Provincial America: Expanding the Orbit of Scottish Culture.(Southern Biography Series)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Dr. Alexander Hamilton and Provincial America: Expanding the Orbit of Scottish Culture. By Elaine G. Breslaw. Southern Biography Series. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. Pp. [xvi], 348. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3278-4.) ...

This Glorious Struggle: George Washington's Revolutionary War Letters.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... This Glorious Struggle: George Washington's Revolutionary War Letters. Edited by Edward G. Lengel. (New York: Smithsonian Books, 2007. Pp. [xvi], 304. $25.95, ISBN 978-0-06-125131-3.) This sampler of writings attributed to George Washington...

Rebellion in the Ranks: Mutinies of the American Revolution.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Rebellion in the Ranks: Mutinies of the American Revolution. By John A. Nagy. (Yardley, Pa.: Westholme Publishing, c. 2008. Pp. [xx], 386. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-59416-055-4.) Given the many hardships that American soldiers suffered during the...

The Age of Strict Construction: A History of the Growth of Federal Power, 1789-1861.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The Age of Strict Construction: A History of the Growth of Federal Power, 1789-1861. By Peter Zavodnyik. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, c. 2007. Pp. [x], 372. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8132-1504-4.) During the debates...

The Papers of George Washington: Presidential Series.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The Papers of George Washington: Presidential Series. Edited by Philander D. Chase, Theodore J. Crackel, and others. Volume 12: January-May 1793. edited by Christine Steinberg Patrick and John C. Pinheiro; Volume 13: 1 June-31 August 1793,...

The Letters of Pierce Butler, 1790-1794: Nation Building and Enterprise in the New American Republic.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The Letters of Pierce Butler, 1790-1794: Nation Building and Enterprise in the New American Republic. Edited by Terry W. Lipscomb. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. [lxviii], 370. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-689-7.) ...

For the People: American Populist Movements from the Revolution to the 1850s.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... For the People: American Populist Movements from the Revolution to the 1850s. By Ronald P. Formisano. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2008. Pp. [x], 315. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3172-4.) Between the Revolutionary and...

The Southern Debate over Slavery. Volume 2: Petitions to Southern County Courts, 1775-1867.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The Southern Debate over Slavery. Volume 2: Petitions to Southern County Courts, 1775-1867. Edited by Loren Schweninger. Race and Slavery Petitions Project. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2008. Pp. [xxiv], 397. $60.00,...

Freebooters and Smugglers: The Foreign Slave Trade in the United States after 1808.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Freebooters and Smugglers: The Foreign Slave Trade in the United States after 1808. By Ernest Obadele-Starks. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2007. Pp. x, 270. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-55728-858-5.) Ernest Obadele-Starks's...

Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion. Volume 1: A-N; Volume 2: O-Z and Primary Documents.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion. Volume 1: A-N; Volume 2: O-Z and Primary Documents. Edited by Junius P. Rodriguez. Greenwood Milestones in African American History. (Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 2007. Pp. lii,...

Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821-1860.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821-1860. By Paul F. Paskoff. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2007. Pp. [xx], 324. $48.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3268-5.) In Troubled Waters:...

Jewish Communities on the Ohio River: A History.(Ohio River Valley Series)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Jewish Communities on the Ohio River: A History. By Amy Hill Shevitz. Ohio River Valley Series. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2007. Pp. [xiv], 266. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2430-8.) Amy Hill Shevitz has chronicled the...

Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South.(John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South. By Anthony E. Kaye. John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. x, 365. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3103-8.)...

Texian Macabre: The Melancholy Tale of a Hanging in Early Houston.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Texian Macabre: The Melancholy Tale of a Hanging in Early Houston. By Stephen L. Hardin. Illustrated by Gary S. Zaboly. (Abilene, Tex.: State House Press, McMurry University, c. 2007. Pp. xix, 325. $24.95, ISBN 978-1-933337-20-3.) ...

Vaudechamp in New Orleans.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Vaudechamp in New Orleans. By William Keyse Rudolph. (New Orleans: Historic New Orleans Collection, 2007. Pp. [xii], 115. $25.00, ISBN 978-0-917860-51-5.) This elegantly designed, thoroughly researched, and thoughtfully written book...

The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath: Slavery and the Meaning of America.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath: Slavery and the Meaning of America. By Robert Pierce Forbes. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xii], 369. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3105-2.) By telling the story of the...

Disunion, War, Defeat, and Recovery in Alabama: The Journal of Augustus Benners, 1850-1885.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Disunion, War, Defeat, and Recovery in Alabama: The Journal of Augustus Benners, 1850-1885. Edited by Glenn and Virginia Linden. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2007. Pp. [xxii], 357. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-88146-056-8.) The rich and...

Texas Terror: The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Texas Terror: The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South. By Donald E. Reynolds. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. [xiv], 237. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3283-8.) On July 8, 1860, during...

The Limits of Sovereignty: Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The Limits of Sovereignty: Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War. By Daniel W. Hamilton. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. [viii], 231. $39.00, ISBN 978-0-226-31482-2.) The...

The Civil War and the Limits of Destruction.(A People at War: Civilians oral Soldiers in America's Civil War: 1854-1877)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The Civil War and the Limits of Destruction. By Mark E. Neely Jr. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press. 2007. Pp. [viii], 277. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02658-2.) A People at War: Civilians oral Soldiers in America's Civil...

Camp Chase and the Evolution of Union Prison Policy.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Camp Chase and the Evolution of Union Prison Policy. By Roger Pickenpaugh. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xiv], 175. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8173-1582-5.) As Roger Pickenpaugh notes, Camp Chase served many purposes in...

Diehard Rebels: The Confederate Culture of Invincibility.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Diehard Rebels: The Confederate Culture of Invincibility. By Jason Phillips. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xii], 257. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2836-2.) Historians have advanced so many differing...

Courage Under Fire: Profiles in Bravery from the Battlefields of the Civil War.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Courage Under Fire: Profiles in Bravery from the Battlefields of the Civil War. By Wiley Sword. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2007. Pp. [xvi], 318. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-312-36741-1.) Veteran author Wiley Sword examines courage in the Civil...

Women in the American Civil War.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Women in the American Civil War. Edited by Lisa Tendrich Frank. (2 vols.: Santa Barbara, Calif., and other cities: ABC-CLIO, c. 2008. Pp. xxviii, 631, plus bibliography and index. Two-volume set, $195.00, ISBN 978-1-85109-600-8.) Lisa...

Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters. By Elizabeth Brown Pryor. (New York: Viking, 2007. Pp. [xxvi], 658. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-670-03829-9.) Finding something new to say about Robert E. Lee is a difficult...

America's Joan of Arc: The Life of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... America's Joan of Arc: The Life of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson. By J. Matthew Gallman. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. [x], 262. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-19-516145-8.) America's Joan of Arc: The Life of Anna Elizabeth...

Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause.(Civil War America)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause. By Caroline E. Janney. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. c. 2008. Pp. [xiv], 290. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3176-2.) In...

Fenians, Freedmen, and Southern Whites: Race and Nationality in the Era of Reconstruction.(Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Fenians, Freedmen, and Southern Whites: Race and Nationality in the Era of Reconstruction. By Mitchell Shay. Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. [xiv], 218....

Biracial Unions on Galveston's Waterfront, 1865-1925.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Biracial Unions on Galveston's Waterfront, 1865-1925. By Clifford Farrington. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2007. Pp. [x], 253. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-87611-217-5.) Clifford Farrington's Biracial Unions on Galveston's...

For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865. By Robert H. Zieger. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2007. Pp. x, 276. $37.50, ISBN 978-0-8131-2460-5.) African Americans are more likely than any other racial or...

The St. Louis African American Community and the Exodusters.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The St. Louis African American Community and the Exodusters. By Bryan M. Jack. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xiv], 178. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1772-1.) The best parts of this book examine newspaper...

Roanoke, Virginia, 1882-1912: Magic City of the New South.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Roanoke, Virginia, 1882-1912: Magic City of the New South. By Rand Dotson. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. Pp. [xxii], 338. $42.00, ISBN 978-1-57233-592-9.) Too often, the label urban Appalachians evokes thoughts of urban...

Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier: Notorious Killings and Celebrated Trials.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier: Notorious Killings and Celebrated Trials. By Bill Neal. Foreword by Gordon Morris Bakken. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xx], 308. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-89672-579-9.) ...

Buffalo Soldiers in the West: A Black Soldiers Anthology.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Buffalo Soldiers in the West: A Black Soldiers Anthology. Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Michael N. Searles. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. Pp. [viii], 319. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-1-58544-620-9; cloth, $40.00, ISBN...

Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History. By Stephanie Y. Evans. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 275. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8130-3031-9.) Historian Stephanie Y. Evans...

The Early Black History Movement. Carter G. Woodson, and Lorenzo Johnston Greene.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The Early Black History Movement. Carter G. Woodson, and Lorenzo Johnston Greene. By Pero Gaglo Dagbovie. New Black Studies Series. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xviii], 258. Paper, $25.00, ISBN...

Lynching to Belong: Claiming Whiteness through Racial Violence.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Lynching to Belong: Claiming Whiteness through Racial Violence. By Cynthia Skove Nevels. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. Pp. [xiv], 189. $19.95, ISBN 978-1-58544-589-9.) In Lynching to Belong: Claiming Whiteness through...

On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century. By Sherrilyn A. Ifill. (Boston: Beacon Press, c. 2007. Pp. xx, 204. $25.95, ISBN 978-0-8070-0987-1.) In On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy...

Lynching Photographs.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Lynching Photographs. By Dora Apel and Shawn Michelle Smith. Defining Moments in American Photography. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, c. 2007. Pp. [vi], 101. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-520-25332-2; cloth,...

Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma: Stories from the WPA Narratives.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma: Stories from the WPA Narratives. Edited by Terri M. Baker and Connie Olive, Henshaw. Foreword by M. Susan Savage. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c. 2007. Pp. xx, 226. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3845-9.) ...

Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927. By Mary G. Rolinson. John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2007....

Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Melissa Walker and Rebecca Sharpless. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xiv], 294. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1629-8.) In a...

The Fire Spreads: Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The Fire Spreads: Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South. By Randall J. Stephens. (Cambridge. Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. [xiv], 393. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02672-8.) The twentieth century witnessed, as...

Women in the Church of God in Christ: Making a Sanctified World.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Women in the Church of God in Christ: Making a Sanctified World. By Anthea D. Butler. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 206. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5808-0; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3117-5.) ...

Holy Hills of the Ozarks: Religion and Tourism in Branson, Missouri.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Holy Hills of the Ozarks: Religion and Tourism in Branson, Missouri. By Aaron K. Ketchell. Lived Religions. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. [xxxviii], 300. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-8660-7.) This is one of those books...

Myrtle Beach: A History, 1900-1980.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Myrtle Beach: A History 1900-1980. By Barbara F. Stokes. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. xiv, 258. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-697-2.) This history of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, purports "to research, analyze,...

Ramblin' on My Mind: New Perspectives on the Blues.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Ramblin' on My Mind: New Perspectives on the Blues. Edited by David Evans. African American Music in Global Perspective. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2008. Pp. [viii], 430. Paper, $27.00, ISBN 978-0-252-07448-6: cloth,...

Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling Age.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling Age. By Susan K. Cahn. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. [viii], 384. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02452-6.) In Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling...

The Voice of Small-Town America: The Selected Writings of Robert Quillen, 1920-1948.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The Voice of Small-Town America: The Selected Writings of Robert Quillen, 1920-1948. Compiled and edited by John Hammond Moore. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2008. Pp. [xxii], 321. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-710-8.) Ever...

A Leader Among Sharecroppers, Migrants, and Farm Workers: H. L. Mitchell and Friends.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... A Leader Among Sharecroppers, Migrants', and Farm Workers: H. L. Mitchell and Friends. By Samuel Howard Mitchell. ([Calgary, Canada]: Published by the author, c. 2007. Pp. [xiv], 343. Paper, $29.00, ISBN 978-0-7795-0179-3. Order from Southern...

New Deal/New South: An Anthony J. Badger Reader.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... New Deal/New South: An Anthony J. Badger Reader. By Anthony J. Badger. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2007. Pp. [xxx], 270. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-1-55728-844-8; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-1-55728-843-1.) It is always...

Owsley County, Kentucky, and the Perpetuation of Poverty.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Owsley County, Kentucky; and the Perpetuation of Poverty. By John R. Butch Jr. Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, No. 18. (Jefferson, N.C., and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., c. 2008. Pp. xiv, 221. Paper, $35.00, ISBN...

The Electronic Front Porch: An Oral History of the Arrival of Modern Media in Rural Appalachia and the Melungeon Community.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The Electronic Front Porch: An Oral History of the Arrival of Modern Media in Rural Appalachia and the Melungeon Community. By Jacob J. Podber. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2007. Pp. [x], 166. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-88146-089-6.) The...

This Georgia Rising: Education, Civil Rights, and the Polities of Change in Georgia in the 1940s.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... This Georgia Rising: Education, Civil Rights, and the Polities of Change in Georgia in the 1940s. By Patrick Novotny. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2007. Pp. [x], 351. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-88146-088-9.) In This Georgia Rising:...

Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America. By David M. P. Freund. Historical Studies of Urban America. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 514. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-226-26275-8.) ...

Kenneth L. Teegarden: The Man, the Church, the Time.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Kenneth L. Teegarden: The Man, the Church, the Time. By D. Duane Cummins. (Fort Worth: Published by TCU Press for the Disciples of Christ Historical Society, c. 2007. Pp. xiv, 240. $20.00, ISBN 978-0-87565-339-6.) D. Duane Cummins labels...

Stand Up for Alabama: Governor George Wallace.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Stand Up for Alabama: Governor George Wallace. By Jeff Frederick. The Modern South. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2007. Pp. xiv, 489. $47.50. ISBN 978-0-8173-1574-0.) Stand Up for Alabama: Governor George Wallace is the...

Higher Education and the Civil Rights Movement: White Supremacy, Black Southerners, and College Campuses.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Higher Education and the Civil Rights Movement: White Supremacy, Black Southerners, and College Campuses. Edited by Peter Wallenstein. Southern Dissent. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2008. Pp. [xvi], 298....

Little Rock on Trial: Cooper v. Aaron and School Desegregation.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Little Rock on Trial: Cooper v. Aaron and School Desegregation. By Tony A. Freyer. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2007. Pp. [xii], 276. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1536-0; cloth, $35.00,...

No Direction Home: The American Family and the Fear of National Decline, 1968-1980.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... No Direction Home: The American Family and the Fear of National Decline, 1968-1980. By Natasha Zaretsky. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xiv], 320. Paper, $22.50. ISBN 978-0-8078-5797-7; cloth, $59.95, ISBN...

Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal Surface Coal Mining on Southern West Virginia Communities, 1970-2004.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal Surface Coal Mining on Southern West Virginia Communities, 1970-2004. By Shirley Stewart Burns. West Virginia and Appalachia, Vol. 5. (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press,...

Rosalynn Carter: Equal Partner in the White House.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Rosalynn Carter: Equal Partner in the White House. By Scott Kaufman. Modern First Ladies. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2007. Pp. xiv, 206. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1544-5.) A position with no job description and no...

Claytie: The Roller-Coaster Life of a Texas Wildcatter.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Claytie: The Roller-Coaster Life of a Texas Wildcatter: By Mike Cochran. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. Pp. [x], 435, $24.95, ISBN 978-1-58544-634-6.) The raucous, rough-and-tumble world of Texas politics has produced...

How Choctaws Invented Civilization and Why Choctaws Will Conquer the World.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... How Choctaws Invented Civilization and Why Choctaws Will Conquer the World. By D. L. Birchfield. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 366. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8263-3231-8.) This extraordinary book of wit and frank...

Southern Culture: An Introduction.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Southern Culture: An Introduction. By John Beck, Wendy Frandsen, and Aaron Randall. (Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, c. 2007. Pp. xxx, 533. $45.00, ISBN 978-1-59460-124-8.) In this survey of southern culture, John Beck, Wendy...

Race in the American South: From Slavery to Civil Rights.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Race in the American South: From Slavery to Civil Rights. By David Brown and Clive Webb. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c. 2007. Pp. [viii], 392. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-7486-1375-5; cloth, $75.00, ISBN 978-0-7486-1376-2.) In...

Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race, and Power in American History.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race, and Power in American History. Edited by Manisha Sinha and Penny Von Eschen. (New York: Columbia University Press, c. 2007. Pp. xii, 335. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-231-14110-9.) Contested Democracy: Freedom,...

The Empire State of the South: Georgia History in Documents and Essays.(Book Notes)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... The Empire State of the South: Georgia History in Documents and Essays. Edited by Christopher C. Meyers. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2008. Pp. [xxxvi], 360. Paper, $28.00, ISBN 978-0-88146-111-4; cloth, $50.00, ISBN...

Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave.(Book Notes)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave. Edited by William L. Andrews and Regina E. Mason. (New York: Oxford University Press. 2008. Pp. [xxii], 145. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 978-0-19-534332-8; cloth, $74.00, ISBN 978-0-19-534331-1.) "If it were...