The Journal of Southern History articles from November 2001

The Journal of Southern History archives from November 2001

"On the pinnacle in Yankeeland": C. Vann as a [Southern] renaissance man.(history professor and author C. Vann Woodward)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2001... A DECADE AFTER ORIGINS OF THE NEW SOUTH APPEARED, UNIVERSITY of Georgia historian E. Merton Coulter heartily concurred with a friend's assessment that C. Vann Woodward's book had been written "to please Gunnar Myrdal, the Civil Rights advocates...

C. Vann Woodward and the burden of southern populism.(history professor and author)
November 1, 2001... IN THE SPRING OF 1939 C. VANN WOODWARD WAS BASKING IN THE GLOW of critical acclaim for his first book, Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel and casting about for a new subject. (1) He had already done some reconnaissance on a biography of Eugene V. Debs...

Gender and origins of the new south.(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2001... WE MIGHT FORGIVE OUR GRADUATE STUDENTS IF THEY REDUCE THE FACT-filled paragraphs and biting arguments in C. Vann Woodward's 542-page masterpiece, Origins of the New South, to three words: change versus continuity. Even though we understand that...

The political economy of the new south: retrospects and prospects.
November 1, 2001... A CONFERENCE TO EVALUATE AND ASSESS THE INFLUENCE OF C. VANN Woodward's Origins of the New South a half century after its publication is certainly remarkable. (1) Few historical studies have the staying power that would justify such a...

Origins of the New South and the Negro question.(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2001... NOT THE LEAST REMARKABLE FACT ABOUT C. VANN WOODWARD'S Origins of the New South is that, fifty years ago, Woodward knew better than to attempt what I have been asked to do: to discuss Afro-Americans as a subject apart from the subjects of land,...

Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782. By Ronald Hoffman in collaboration with Sally D. Mason. (Chapel Hill and London: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University...

Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782. By Virginia Bernhard. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 1999. Pp. xx, 316. $37.50, ISBN 0-8262-1227-1.) By combing through wills, deeds, and other minutiae--historians'...

Serving Two Masters: Moravian Brethren in Germany and North Carolina, 1727-1801. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Serving Two Masters: Moravian Brethren in Germany and North Carolina, 1727-1801. By Elisabeth W. Sommer. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2000. Pp. xviii, 234. $39.95, ISBN 0-8131-2139-6.) Eighteenth-century Moravian Brethren...

A Companion to the American Revolution. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... A Companion to the American Revolution. Edited by Jack P. Greene and J. R. Pole. Blackwell Companions to American History. (Malden, Mass., and Oxford, Eng.: Blackwell Publishers, Inc., 2000. Pp. xvi, 778. $125.00, ISBN 0-631-21058-X.) A...

John Laurens and the American Revolution. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... John Laurens and the American Revolution. By Gregory D. Massey. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2000. Pp. xxii, 327. $37.95, ISBN 1-57003-330-7.) John Laurens of South Carolina was a relatively minor but not insignificant...

Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood. By Peter S. Onuf. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2000. Pp. xiv, 250. $27.95, ISBN 0-8139-1930-4.) Two decades ago, Francois Furet destabilized conventional...

Religion and the New Republic: Faith in the Founding of America. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Religion and the New Republic: Faith in the Founding of America. Edited by James H. Hutson. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, lnc., c. 2000. Pp. viii, 212. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8476-9434-8; cloth, $70.00, ISBN...

The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828. By Saul Cornell. (Chapel Hill and London: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina...

The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series. Volume IV: 8 October 1802-15 May 1803. Edited by Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, Susan Holbrook Perdue, and Ellen J. Barber. (Charlottesville and London: University...

Encyclopedia of the War of 1812. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Encyclopedia of the War of 1812. Edited by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler. (Santa Barbara, Calif., and other cities: ABC-CLIO, c. 1997. Pp. xxxviii, 636. $95.00, ISBN 0-87436-968-1.) Given the recent anniversaries of the...

Rice Gold: James Hamilton Couper and Plantation Life on the Georgia Coast. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Rice Gold: James Hamilton Couper and Plantation Life on the Georgia Coast. By James E. Bagwell. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2000. Pp. xx, 193. $27.95, ISBN 0-86554-651-7.) James E. Bagwell chose a potentially intriguing subject...

Texas by Teran: The Diary Kept by General Manuel de Mier y Teran on His 1828 Inspection of Texas. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Texas by Teran: The Diary Kept by General Manuel de Mier y Teran on His 1828 Inspection of Texas. Edited by Jack Jackson. Translated by John Wheat. With Botanical Notes by Scooter Cheatham and Lynn Marshall. Jack and Doris Smothers Series in...

Alamance: The Holt Family and Industrialization in a North Carolina County, 1837-1900. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Alamance: The Holt Family and Industrialization in a North Carolina County, 1837-1900. By Bess Beatty. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 1999. Pp. xxii, 247. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8071-2449-4; cloth, $45.00, ISBN...

Angelina Grimke: Rhetoric, Identity, and the Radical Imagination. (Book Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Angelina Grimke: Rhetoric, Identity, and the Radical Imagination. By Stephen Howard Brown. Rhetoric and Public Affairs Series. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, c. 1999. Pp. [x], 201. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-87013-542-2; cloth,...

Parker Pillsbury: Radical Abolitionist, Male Feminist. (Book Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Parker Pillsbury: Radical Abolitionist, Male Feminist. By Stacey M. Robertson. (Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, c. 2000. Pp. xviii, 232. $35.00, ISBN 0-8014-3634-6.) Stacey M. Robertson, assistant professor of history...

Henry Clay the Lawyer. (Book Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Henry Clay the Lawyer. By Maurice G. Baxter. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2000. Pp. x, 141. $24.95, ISBN 0-8131-2147-7.) Much has been written and published about Henry Clay in the last several years. Especially after Robert...

Over the Threshold: Intimate Violence in Early America. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Over the Threshold: Intimate Violence in Early America. Edited by Christine Daniels and Michael V. Kennedy. (New York and London: Routledge, 1999. Pp. viii, 296. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-415-91805-7; cloth, $75.00, ISBN 0-415-91804-9.) Over...

A Separate Place: The Formation of Clarke County, Virginia. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... A Separate Place: The Formation of Clarke County, Virginia. By Warren R. Hofstra. (Madison, Wisc.: Madison House Publishers, c. 1999. Pp. xvi, 128. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-945612-70-2.) This is a reprint of a work originally published in 1986...

Gold Mining in North Carolina: A Bicentennial History. (Book Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Gold Mining in North Carolina: A Bicentennial History. Richard F. Knapp and Brent D. Glass. (Raleigh: Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, c. 1999. Pp. xiv. 192. Paper, $12.00 plus $3.00 shipping,...

Lyell in America: Transatlantic Geology, 1841-1853. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Lyell in America: Transatlantic Geology, 1841-1853. By Leonard G. Wilson. (Baltimore, Md., and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 1998. Pp. xiv, 429. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-5797-X.) Following his fine biography of the eminent...

The Leverett Letters: Correspondence of a South Carolina Family, 1851-1868. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... The Leverett Letters: Correspondence of a South Carolina Family, 1851-1868. Edited by Frances Wallace Taylor, Catherine Taylor Matthews, and J. Tracy Power. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2000. Pp. [x], 543. $49.95, ISBN...

Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa. (Book Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa. By Lamin Sanneh. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 291. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-00060-9.) The establishment of three colonies,...

The Gospel Working Up: Progress and the Pulpit in Nineteenth-Century Virginia. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... The Gospel Working Up: Progress and the Pulpit in Nineteenth-Century Virginia. By Beth Barton Schweiger. Religion in America Series. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 267. $49.95, ISBN 0-19-11195-8.) This is a...

A Question of Manhood: A Reader in U.S. Black Men's History and Masculinity. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... A Question of Manhood: A Reader in U.S. Black Men's History and Masculinity. Volume I: "Manhood Rights": The Construction of Black Male History and Manhood, 1750-1870. Edited by Darlene Clark Hine and Earnestine Jenkins. Blacks in the Diaspora....

Life at the Texas State Lunatic Asylum, 1857-1997. (Booke Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Life at the Texas State Lunatic Asylum, 1857-1997. By Sarah C. Sitton. The Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University, No. 82. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, c. 1999. Pp. xii, 190. $34.95, ISBN...

Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom. Edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller. Includes A Reading, Listening, and Learning Guide by Steven Frank and two audiotapes...

Stories with a Moral: Literature and Society in Nineteenth-Century Georgia. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Stories with a Moral: Literature and Society in Nineteenth-Century Georgia. By Michael E. Price. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2000. Pp. xii, 394. $45.00, ISBN 0-8203-2132-X.) Michael E. Price, a professor of...

Southern Unionist Pamphlets and the Civil War. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Southern Unionist Pamphlets and the Civil War. Edited by Jon L. Wakelyn. Shades of Blue and Gray Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 1999. Pp. xvi, 392. $39.95, ISBN 0-8262-1264-6.) This book is a companion to...

Bluegrass Confederate: The Headquarters Diary of Edward O. Guerrant. (Book Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Bluegrass Confederate: The Headquarters Diary of Edward O. Guerrant. Edited by William C. Davis and Meredith L. Swentor. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 716. $49.95, ISBN 0-80712411-7.) "Wars of men are...

The Papers of Jefferson Davis. (Book Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... The Papers of Jefferson Davis. Volume X: October 1863--August 1864. Edited by Lynda Lasswell Crist, Kenneth H. Williams, and Peggy L. Dillard. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. Pp. liv, 739. $95.00, ISBN 0-8071-2412-5.) ...

Wilson's Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It. (Book Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Wilson's Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It. By William Garrett Piston and Richard W. Hatcher III. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2000. Pp. xx, 408. $37.50,...

Covered with Glory: The 26th North Carolina Infantry at Gettysburg. (Book Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Covered with Glory: The 26th North Carolina Infantry at Gettysburg. By Rod Gragg. (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, c. 2000. Pp. xvi, 304. $27.50, ISBN 0-06-017445-5.) The battle of Gettysburg exacted a high toll from General Robert E....

Quest for a Star: The Civil War Letters and Diaries of Colonel Francis T. Sherman of the 88th Illinois. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Quest for a Star: The Civil War Letters and Diaries of Colonel Francis T. Sherman of the 88th Illinois. Edited, with commentary, by C. Knight Aldrich. Voices of the Civil War. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c. 1999. Pp. xxii, 213....

Third Alabama! The Civil War Memoir of Brigadier General Cullen Andrews Battle, CSA. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Third Alabama! The Civil War Memoir of Brigadier General Cullen Andrews Battle, CSA. Edited by Brandon H. Beck. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 2000. Pp. xx, 180. $29.95, ISBN 0-8173-1001-0.) Publishers seeking to...

The Union Must Stand: The Civil War Diary of John Quincy Adams Campbell, Fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... The Union Must Stand: The Civil War Diary of John Quincy Adams Campbell, Fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry. Edited by Mark Grimsley and Todd D. Miller. Voices of the Civil War. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c. 2000. Pp. xxiv, 267....

This Cruel War: The Civil War Letters of Grant and Malinda Taylor, 1862-1865. (Book Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... This Cruel War: The Civil War Letters of Grant and Malinda Taylor, 1862--1865. Edited by Ann K. Blomquist and Robert A. Taylor. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2000. Pp. xxii, 348. $32.95, ISBN 0-86554654-1.) Editors Blomquist and...

A Black Patriot and a White Priest: Andre Cailloux and Claude Paschal Maistre in Civil War New Orleans. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... A Black Patriot and a White Priest: Andre Cailloux and Claude Paschal Maistre in Civil War New Orleans. By Stephen J. Ochs. Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Pp....

Freedom's Women: Black Women and Families in Civil War Era Mississippi. (Book Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Freedom's Women: Black Women and Families in Civil War Era Mississippi. By Noralee Frankel. Blacks in the Diaspora. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 1999. Pp. xviii, 270. $35.00, ISBN 0-253-33495-0.) Noralee...

The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina in the Civil War. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina in the Civil War. By John C. Inscoe and Gordon B. McKinney. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2000. Pp. xii, 368. $39.95, ISBN...

Civil War Arkansas: Beyond Battles and Leaders. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Civil War Arkansas: Beyond Battles and Leaders. Edited by Anne J. Bailey and Daniel E. Sutherland. The Civil War in the West. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 304. Paper, $22.00, ISBN 1-55728-565-9; cloth, $34.00,...

A Higher Duty: Desertation among Georgia Troops during the Civil War. (Book Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... A Higher Duty: Desertion among Georgia Troops during the Civil War. By Mark A. Weitz. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2000. Pp. x, 227. $30.00, ISBN 0-8032-4791-5.) With this book, Mark Weitz joins those historians who...

Brush Men and Vigilantes: Civil War Dissent in Texas. (Book Reveiws).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Brush Men and Vigilantes: Civil War Dissent in Texas. By David Pickering and Judy Falls. Foreword by Richard B. McCaslin. Sam Raybum Series on Rural Life. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, c. 2000. Pp. xxvi, 223. $24.95, ISBN...

Abrahm Lincoln: A Constitutional Biography. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Abraham Lincoln: A Constitutional Biography. By George Anastaplo. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 1999. Pp. x, 371. $35.00, ISBN 0-8476-9431-3.) None of the titles under review claims to be a...

Lincoln of Kentucky. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Lincoln of Kentucky. By Lowell H. Harrison. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2000. Pp. x, 305. $22.00, ISBN 0-8131-2156-6.) None of the titles under review claims to be a comprehensive biography of Abraham Lincoln. Instead, each...

Inside the White House in War Times: Memoirs and Reports of Lincoln's Secretary. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Inside the White House in War Times: Memoirs and Reports of Lincoln's Secretary. By William O. Stoddard. Edited by Michael Burlingame. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2000. Pp. xxii, 226. Paper, $25.00, ISBN...

The Human Tradition in the Civil War and Reconstruction. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... The Human Tradition in the Civil War and Reconstruction. Edited by Steven E. Woodworth. The Human Tradition in America, No. 4. (Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2000. Pp. xvi, 239. Paper, $18.95, IBSN 0-8420-2727-0; cloth, $55.00, IBSN...

Ben Tillman amd the Reconstruction of White Supremacy. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction White of Supremacy. By Stephen Kantrowitz. The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2000. Pp. [x], 422. Paper, $19.95, ISBN...

White Women's Rights: The Radical Origins of Feminism in the United States. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States. By Louise Michele Newman. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 261. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-19-512466-9; cloth, $52.00, ISBN 0-19-508692-9.) In...

Episcopalians and Race: Civil War to Civil Rights. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Episcopalians and Race: Civil War to Civil Rights. By Gardiner H. Shattuck Jr. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2000. Pp. xvi, 298. $32.50, ISBN 0-8131-2149-3.) Gardiner Shattuck Jr. has written an invigorating counterpoint to...

Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the New South. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the New South. By William O. Thomas. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 1999. Pp. xxii, 318. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8011-2504-0; cloth, $47.50, ISBN 0-8071-2367-6.) ...

Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and The American Negro. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and The American Negro. By John David Smith. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2000. Pp. xviii, 386. $34.95, ISBN 0-8203-2130-3.) John David Smith has written a disturbing book...

Five Sisters: The Langhornes of Virginia. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Five Sisters: The Langhornes of Virginia. By James Fox. (New York: Simon and Schuster, c. 2000. Pp. 496. $30.00, ISBN 0-684-80812-9.) In this book James Fox follows the careers of his female Langhorne ancestors--whom he describes as the...

Bossism and Reform in a Southern City: Lexington, Kentucky, 1880-1940. (Book Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Bossism and Reform in a Southern City: Lexington, Kentucky, 1880-1940. By James Duane Bolin. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2000. Pp. xviii, 202. $24.95, ISBN 0-8131-2150-7.) In this study of William Frederick "Billy" Klair, a...

Radical Education in the Rural South: Commonwealth College, 1922-1940. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Radical Education in the Rural South: Commonwealth College, 1922-1940. By William H. Cobb. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c. 2000. Pp. 263. $34.95, ISBN 0-8143-2773-7.) For most of its history, the socialist left in the United...

Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South. By Janet Irons. The Working Class in American History. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2000. Pp. x, 262. $45.00, ISBN 0-252-02527-X.) An...

The GI Generation: A Memoir. (Book Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... The GI Generation: A Memoir. By Frank F. Mathias. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2000. Pp. xlv, 267. $25.00, ISBN 0-8131-2157-4.) A historian's memoir might be expected to locate the events of memory within the context of...

As Long As They Don't Move Next Door: Segregation and Racial Conflict in American Neighborhoods. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... As Long As They Don't Move Next Door: Segregation and Racial Conflict in American Neighborhoods. By Stephen Grant Meyer. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2000. Pp. x, 343. $29.95, ISBN 0-8476-9700-2.) Stephen Grant...

Black Unionism in the Industrial South. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Black Unionism in the Industrial South. By Ernest Obadele-Starks. Texas A&M Southwestern Studies, No. 11. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. Pp. xxii, 183. $29.95, ISBN 0-89096-912-4.) This book fills an important gap in...

It Is Union and Liberty: Alabama Coal Miners and the UMW. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... It Is Union and Liberty: Alabama Coal Miners and the UMW. Edited by Edwin L. Brown and Colin J. Davis. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 1999. Pp. [xii], 184. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8173-1000-2; cloth, $39.95, ISBN...

Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle. By Michael Keith Honey. The George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California...

Not All Okies Are White: The Lives of Black Cotton Pickers in Arizona. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Not All Okies Are White: The Lives of Black Cotton Pickers in Arizona. By Geta LeSeur. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2000. Pp. xviii, 247. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8262-1271-9.) Geta LeSeur's book is surely the most...

Claude Pepper and Ed Ball: Politics, Purpose, and Power. (Book Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Claude Pepper and Ed Ball: Politics, Purpose, and Power. By Tracy E. Danese. The Florida History and Culture Series. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2000. Pp. xiv, 300. $34.95, ISBN 0-8130-1744-0.) Few...

Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s. By Pete Daniel. (Chapel Hill and London: Published by the University of North Carolina Press for the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C., c. 2000. Pp. xiv, 378. Paper,...

Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power. By Timothy B. Tyson. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 1999. Pp. viii, 402. $29.95, ISBN 0-8078-2502-6.) Writing about the civil rights...

The Last Crusade: Martin Luther King, Jr., the FBI, and the Poor People's Campaign. (Book Reviews).
November 1, 2001... The Last Crusade: Martin Luther King, Jr., the FBI, and the Poor People's Campaign. By Gerald D. McKnight. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, c. 1998. Pp. viii, 192. $25.00, ISBN 0-8133-3384-9.) Martin Luther King Jr., the gifted and...

Bridging the Gap: Continuing the Florida NAACP Legacy of Harry T. Moore, 1952-1966. (Book Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Bridging the Gap: Continuing the Florida NAACP Legacy of Harry T. Moore, 1952-1966. By Robert W. Saunders Sr. (Tampa, Fla.: University of Tampa Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 304, $29.95, ISBN 1-879852-66-7.) Students of the civil rights movement of...

False Witness: The Real Story of Jim Garrison's Investigation and Oliver Stone's Film JFK. (Book Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... False Witness: The Real Story of Jim Garrison's Investigation and Oliver Stone's Film JFK. By Patricia Lambert. (New York: M. Evans and Company, Inc., c. 1998. Pp. xviii, 352. $24.95, ISBN 0-87131-879-2.) Is it the Big Lie or the engaging...

Lady Bird Johnson: Our Environmental First Lady. (Book Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Lady Bird Johnson: Our Environmental First Lady. By Lewis L. Gould. Modern First Ladies. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 1988, 1999. Pp. xii, 162. $25.00, ISBN 0-7006-0992-X.) This first entry in the Modern First Ladies series...

Redefining Southern Culture: Mind and Identity in the Modern South. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Redefining Southern Culture: Mind and Identity in the Modern South. By James C. Cobb. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 1999. Pp. xii, 251. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8203-2139-7; cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-8203-2111-7.) In...

The Presidency of George Bush. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... The Presidency of George Bush. By John Robert Greene. American Presidency Series. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2000. Pp. xiii, 245. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0993-8.) This clearly written, matter-of-fact account of the Bush...

The Gentleman from Georgia: The Biography of Newt Gingrich. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... The Gentleman from Georgia: The Biography of Newt Gingrich. By Mel Steely. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2000. Pp. [x], 431. $29.95, ISBN 0-86554-671-1.) Author Mel Steely is a longtime academic colleague, advisor, and friend to...

Men Like That: A Southern Queer History. (Book Reviews).
November 1, 2001... Men Like That: A Southern Queer History. By John Howard (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, c. 1999. Pp. xxiv, 395. $27.50, ISBN 0-226-35471-7.) In 1967 Bobbie Gentry's hit song "Ode to Billy Joe" captured the imagination of...

Proximity to Death. (Book Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Proximity to Death. By William S. McFeely. (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. Pp. 206. $23.95, ISBN 0-393-04819-5.) Expect "neither sociological analysis nor a comprehensive history of the death penalty," William McFeely...

Region, Race, and Cities: Interpreting the Urban South. (Book Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Region, Race, and Cities: Interpreting the Urban South. By David Goldfield. (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, c. 1997. Pp. [x], 309. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8071-2244-0; cloth, $37.50, ISBN 0-8071-2189-4.) Rarely do...

A Requiem for the American Village. (Book Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... A Requiem for the American Village. By Paul K. Conkin. American Intellectual Culture. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2000. Pp. xvi, 207. $30.00, ISBN 0-8476-9736-3.) Paul Conkin, one of the few...

Book notes.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... A Life is More than a Moment: The Desegregation of Little Rock's Central High. By Will Counts. Introduction by Will Campbell. (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, c. 1999. Pp. xx, 76. $29.95, ISBN 0-253-33637-6.) When Will Counts...

Historical news and notices.
November 1, 2001... THE ASSOCIATION Vice President Jacquelyn Dowd Hall has appointed the following to serve on the Membership Committee for 2002: Marjorie Julian Spruill, University of Southern Mississippi, chair; Bruce Baker, University of North Carolina at...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
November 1, 2001... In the first sentence of the last paragraph of Caryn Cosse Bell's review of Walter Johnson's Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market, published in the August 2001 issue of the Journal (LXVII, p. 650), the word "refines" should...