The Journal of Southern History articles from November 2000

The Journal of Southern History archives from November 2000

Black-on-White Rape and Retribution in Twentieth-Century Virginia: "Men, Even Negroes, Must Have Some Protection".
November 1, 2000... IN HARPER LEE'S 1960 NOVEL, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, TOM ROBINSON, a crippled black man, is accused in 1935 of trying to rape a poor white woman in Maycomb, Alabama. Narrated by Scout Finch, a nine-year-old white girl and the daughter of...

"Justice and the Highest Kind of Equality Require Discrimination": Citizenship, Dependency, and Conscription in the South, 1917-1919.
November 1, 2000... WORLD WAR I COMPLETED THE INTEGRATION OF THE SOUTH INTO THE American nation state. The United States, led by the first southern-born president since the Civil War, embarked upon a military undertaking of unprecedented magnitude that required...

Mississippi's School Equalization Program, 1945-1954: "A Last Gasp to Try to Maintain a Segregated Educational System".
November 1, 2000... A GENUINE ATTEMPT TO INTEGRATE MISSISSIPPI'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS DID not occur until 1970, sixteen years after the United States Supreme Court's pivotal 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. White resistance to school desegregation proved both...

Toward New Histories of the Civil Rights Era.
November 1, 2000... THE NOTED DIPLOMATIC HISTORIAN JOHN LEWIS GADDIS HAS OBSERVED that writing in the midst of a struggle can lead to a lack of scholarly detachment and an asymmetrical approach. Cold war scholars, according to Gaddis, reflected the contemporaneous...

The Cherokees and Their Chiefs: In the Wake of Empire.
November 1, 2000... The Cherokees and Their Chiefs: In the Wake of Empire. By Stanley W. Hoig. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 350. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 1-55728-528-4; cloth, $34.00, ISBN 11-55728-527-6.) In The Cherokees and Their...

Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southeastern Indians.
November 1, 2000... Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southeastern Indians. By Jerald T. Milanich. (Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, c. 1999. Pp. xiv, 210. $26.95, ISBN 1-56098-940-8.) Laboring in the Fields of the...

American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Social and Economic Histories.
November 1, 2000... American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Social and Economic Histories. By Daniel H. Usner Jr. Indians of the Southeast. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 1998. Pp. xvi, 189. $45.00, ISBN 0-8032-4556-4.) In...

My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone.
November 1, 2000... My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone. Edited by Neal O. Hammon. With an Introduction by Nelson L. Dawson. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 1999. Pp. xii, 176. Cloth, $19.00, ISBN 0-8131-2103-5.) ...

Empire's Nature: Mark Catesby's New World Vision.
November 1, 2000... Empire's Nature: Mark Catesby's New World Vision. Edited by Amy R. W. Meyers and Margaret Beck Pritchard. (Chapel Hill and London: Published by the University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and...

The History of Freemasonry in Virginia.
November 1, 2000... The History of Freemasonry in Virginia. By Richard A. Rutyna and Peter C. Stewart. (Lanham, Md.; New York; and Oxford: University Press of America, c. 1998. Pp. xii, 561. $30.00, ISBN 0-7618-1130-3.) This meticulous history of Virginia's...

The Papers of George Washington. Retirement Series [Vol.] 1: March-December 1797; [Vol.] 2: January-September 1798; [Vol.] 3: September 1798-April 1799; [Vol.] 4: April-December 1799.
November 1, 2000... The Papers of George Washington. Retirement Series. [Vol.] 1: March-December 1797; [Vol.] 2: January-September 1798; [Vol.] 3: September 1798-April 1799; [Vol.] 4: April-December 1799. Edited by Dorothy Twohig. (Charlottesville and London:...

George Washington: The Man Behind the Myths.
November 1, 2000... George Washington: The Man Behind the Myths. By William M. S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, c. 1999. Pp. xvi, 328. Paper, $24.95 ISBN 0-8139-1900-2.) This sumptuous...

Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770-1810.
November 1, 2000... Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770-1810. By Cynthia Lynn Lyerly. Religion in America Series. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 251. $45.00, ISBN 0-19-511429-9.) Historians of eighteenth-century southern...

Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718-1819.
November 1, 2000... Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718-1819. By Thomas N. Ingersoll. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c. 1999. Pp. xxv, 490. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 1-57233-024-4; cloth, $60.00, ISBN...

Arkansas, 1800-1860: Remote and Restless.
November 1, 2000... Arkansas, 1800-1860: Remote and Restless. By S. Charles Bolton. Histories of Arkansas. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 207. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 1-55728-519-5; cloth, $28.00, ISBN 1-5572-8518-7.) In this volume...

"Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction": Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782-1865.
November 1, 2000... "Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction": Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782-1865. By Midori Takagi. Carter G. Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1999. Pp. xii, 187. $37.50,...

Designs against Charleston: The Trial Record of the Denmark Vesey Slave Conspiracy of 1822.
November 1, 2000... Designs against Charleston: The Trial Record of the Denmark Vesey Slave Conspiracy of 1822. Edited by Edward A. Pearson. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 1999. Pp. xx, 387. $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2446-1.) ...

Chained to the Rock of Adversity: To Be Free, Black and Female in the Old South.
November 1, 2000... Chained to the Rock of Adversity: To Be Free, Black and Female in the Old South. Edited by Virginia Meacham Gould. Southern Voices from the Past: Women's Letters, Diaries, and Writings. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c....

Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia.
November 1, 2000... Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia. By Art Rosenbaum and Margo Newmark Rosenbaum. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 1998. Pp. xviii, 190. $24.95, ISBN 0-8203-1934-1.)...

Constructing Townscapes: Space and Society in Antebellum Tennessee.
November 1, 2000... Constructing Townscapes: Space and Society in Antebellum Tennessee. By Lisa C. Tolbert. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 1999. Pp. xx, 294. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4768-2; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2466-6.)...

Our Fathers' Fields: A Southern Story.
November 1, 2000... Our Fathers' Fields: A Southern Story. By James Everett Kibler. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c.1998. Pp. xii, 444. $29.95, ISBN 1-57003-214-9.) James Everett Kibler was inspired to tell the story of the Hardy family--one...

North Carolina Women Making History.
November 1, 2000... North Carolina Women Making History. By Margaret Supplee Smith and Emily Herring Wilson. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c.1999. Pp. xx, 382. $29.95, ISBN 0-8078-2463-1.) This book grew out of a museum exhibit...

American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and Culture, 1830-1998.
November 1, 2000... American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and Culture, 1830-1998. By Ted Ownby. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 1999. Pp. [xvi], 228. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4806-9; cloth, $45.00, ISBN...

Government in the Sunshine State: Florida Since Statehood.
November 1, 2000... Government in the Sunshine State: Florida Since Statehood. By David R. Colburn and Lance deHaven-Smith. Florida History and Culture Series. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 1999. Pp. xvi, 167. $19.95, ISBN...

Beechers, Stowes, and Yankee Strangers: The Transformation of Florida.
November 1, 2000... Beechers, Stowes, and Yankee Strangers: The Transformation of Florida. By John T. Foster Jr. and Sarah Whitmer Foster. The Florida History and Culture Series. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 1999, Pp. xxii, 158....

For God and Race: The Religious and Political Leadership of AMEZ Bishop James Walker Hood.
November 1, 2000... For God and Race: The Religious and Political Leadership of AMEZ Bishop James Walker Hood. By Sandy Dwayne Martin. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 1999. Pp. xxiv, 248. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-261-0.) In this readable and...

Jefferson Davis: Unconquerable Heart.
November 1, 2000... Jefferson Davis: Unconquerable Heart. By Felicity Allen. Shades of Blue and Gray Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 1999. Pp. xxii, 809. $34.95, ISBN 0-8262-1219-0.) Only an intrepid biographer would undertake a...

War to the Knife: Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1861.
November 1, 2000... War to the Knife: Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1861. By Thomas Goodrich. (Mechanicsburg, Penn.: Stackpole Books, c. 1998. Pp. [viii], 296. $29.95, ISBN 0-8117-1921-9.) John Ritchie moved his family to the fledgling town of Topeka, Kansas...

Religion and the American Civil War.
November 1, 2000... Religion and the American Civil War. Edited by Randall M. Miller, Harry S. Stout, and Charles Reagan Wilson. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 422. Paper, $24.00, ISBN 0-19-512129-5; cloth, $55.00, ISBN...

Civil War Generals in Defeat.
November 1, 2000... Civil War Generals in Defeat. Edited by Steven E. Woodworth. Modern War Studies. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 1999, Pp. viii, 240. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0943-1.) The purpose of this collection of seven articles is to determine...

Conceived in Liberty: Joshua Chamberlain, William Oates, and the American Civil War.
November 1, 2000... Conceived in Liberty: Joshua Chamberlain, William Oates, and the American Civil War. By Mark Perry. (New York: Viking, c. 1997. Pp. xii, 500. $31.95, ISBN 0-670-86225-8.) Mark Perry's interest in the Civil War was fired in boyhood when he...

Secret Yankees: The Union Circle in Confederate Atlanta.
November 1, 2000... Secret Yankees: The Union Circle in Confederate Atlanta. By Thomas G. Dyer. War/Society/Culture. (Baltimore, Md., and London. The Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 1999. Pp. xiv, 383. $29.95, ISBN 0-8018-6116-0.) Thomas G. Dyer believes...

800 Paces to Hell: Andersonville. A Compilation of Known Facts and Persistent Rumors.
November 1, 2000... 800 Paces to Hell: Andersonville. A Compilation of Known Facts and Persistent Rumors. By John Lynn. (Fredericksburg, Va.: Sergeant Kirkland's Museum and Historical Society, c. 1999. Pp. [x], 378. $35.00, ISBN 1-887901-19-1.) The history of...

To Die in Chicago: Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas, 1862-1865.
November 1, 2000... To Die in Chicago: Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas, 1862-1865. By George Levy. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 1999. Pp. 446. $29.95, ISBN 1-56554-331-9.) The history of Civil War prisons, as many scholars have lamented, is...

Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla.
November 1, 2000... Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla. By Albert Castel and Thomas Goodrich. (Mechanicsburg, Penn.: Stackpole Books, c. 1998. Pp. x, 170. Cloth, $24.95, ISBN 0-8117-1506-X.) Professional writer Thomas...