The Journal of Southern History articles from November 2002

The Journal of Southern History archives from November 2002

Rethinking the social role of the militia: community-building in Antebellum Kentucky.
November 1, 2002... IN REQUIEM FOR A NUN (1951) WILLIAM FAULKNER PERFORMS SOME literary backtracking when he introduces the earliest inhabitants of his fictional Jefferson, Mississippi, and explains the origin of the Yoknapatawpha County courthouse. His story, set...

The Dallas equal suffrage association, political style, and popular culture: grassroots strategies of the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1913-1919.
November 1, 2002... LONG FAMILIAR AS A MEANS FOR EXPRESSING SOCIAL VALUES AND FOR resisting them, popular culture has served political purposes as well. From the symbolic log cabins of the 1840 presidential race to present-day televised advertisements, parties and...

Quiet Eugenics: sterilization in North Carolina's institutions for the mentally retarded, 1945-1965.
November 1, 2002... FOR A READER ACCUSTOMED TO THE CONTEMPORARY LANGUAGE OF disability fights and to modern social welfare discourse, older professional writings about people with mental illness or mental retardation can be more than a little jarring. Consider,...

(Un)furl that banner: the response of white southerners to the Civil War Centennial of 1961-1965.
November 1, 2002... BY THE LATE 1950s THE AMERICAN SOUTH HAD REACHED ANOTHER crossroads in its eventful history. De jure segregation, a cornerstone of southern life in the first half of the twentieth century, was under attack. Powerful instruments of change such...

Jazz: a History of America's Music.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Geoffrey C. Ward, with a preface by Ken Burns. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, c. 2000. Pp. xii, 489. $65.00, ISBN 0-679-44551-X.) By the time this review is read most readers will have seen Ken Burns's ten-part documentary on the history of...

The Southern State of Mind.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Edited by Jan Nordby Gretlund. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 1999. Pp. [xx], 233. $29.95, ISBN 1-57003-312-9.) According to the historians and literary critics in this volume, "the southern state of mind" presents a...

Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By David T. Courtwright. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 277. $24.95, ISBN 0-674-000458-2.) The last decade has seen a flood of works dealing with particular plants (rhubarb, saffron, Jerusalem...

Juan Ponce de Leon and the Spanish Discovery of Puerto Rico and Florida.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Robert H. Fuson. (Blacksburg, Va.: McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company, 2000. Pp. xvi, 268. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-939923-82-3; cloth, $29.95, ISBN 0-939923-84-X.) Much remains unknown about the life of Juan Ponce de Leon, the...

A History of Appalachia.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Richard B. Drake. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2001. Pp. xii, 292. $29.95, ISBN 0-8131-2169-8.) Recent historical writing on the southern mountains has struggled with a common scholarly and popular perception that...

Mississippi Forests and Forestry.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By James E. Fickle. (Jackson: Published by the University Press of Mississippi for the Mississippi Forestry Foundation, c. 2001. Pp. xiv, 347. $35.00, ISBN 1-57806-308-6.) The South has received relatively little attention throughout the...

The Wreck of the Belle, the Ruin of La Salle.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Robert S. Weddle. Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University, No. 88. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. Pp. [xviii], 327. $29.95, ISBN 1-58544-121-X.) In 1869 Francis Parkman...

The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Edited by Kevin Berland, Jan Kirsten Gilliam, and Kenneth A. Lockridge. (Chapel Hill and London: Published by the University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, c. 2001. Pp. [xvi], 319....

All Our Relations: Blood Ties and Emotional Bonds among the Early South Carolina Gentry.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Lorri Glover. Gender Relations in the American Experience. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xviii], 206. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-6474-7.) Lorri Glover is riding the crest of a new wave of scholarly inquiry...

The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War, 1760s-1890s.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Bertram Wyatt-Brown. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xx], 412. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4912-X; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2596-4.) Historians of the South should be the last to deny a...

Journeys Through Paradise: Pioneering Naturalists in the Southeast.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Gail Fishman. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2000. Pp. [xx], 306. $24.95, ISBN 0-8130-1874-9.) Journeys Through Paradise contains brief biographical sketches of thirteen naturalists who trekked across the...

An Empire Divided: the American Revolution and the British Caribbean.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy. Early American Studies. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xviii], 357. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8122-3558-4; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8122-1732-2.) Why did the British West Indies...

George Washington Reconsidered.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Edited by Don Higginbotham. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001. Pp. [xii], 336. Paper, $18.50, ISBN 0-8139-2006-X; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8139-2005-1.) It is arguable that serious analysis of George Washington as...

Migrants Against Slavery: Virginians and the Nation.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Philip J. Schwarz. Carter G. Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001. Pp. xii, 250. $38.50, ISBN 0-8139-2008-6.) In Migrants Against Slavery Philip J. Schwarz examines...

Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Sally E. Hadden. Harvard Historical Studies, No. 138 (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 340. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-00470-1.) Even a cursory reading of antebellum slave narratives or the WPA interviews...

Highland Heritage: Scottish Americans in the American South.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Celeste Ray. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xxii], 256. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8078-4913-8; cloth, $29.95, ISBN 0-8078-2597-2.) In the last quarter of the twentieth century, the yearning of...

After the Backcountry: Rural Life in the Great Valley of Virginia, 1800-1900.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Edited by Kenneth E. Koons and Warren R. Hofstra. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000. Pp. [xxx], 314. $48.00, ISBN 1-57233-072-4.) The history of the Shenandoah Valley, like that of other regions in nineteenth- and...

A history of Banking in Antebellum America: Financial Markets and Economic Development in an Era of Nation-Building.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Howard Bodenhorn. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xxii, 260. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-521-66999-5; cloth, $64.95, ISBN 0-521-66285-0.) On the battlefields of business and economic history, combat over...

Homesteads Ungovernable: Families, Sex, Race, and the Law in Frontier Texas, 1823-1860.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Mark M. Carroll. Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. Pp. xx, 244. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-292-71228-6; cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-292-71227-8.) Southerners moving to...

America's Jubilee.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... By Andrew Burstein. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. Pp. xiv, 361. $30.00, ISBN 0-375-41033-3.) July 4, 1826, marked the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and it was also the day on which two of the...

A Line in the Sand: the Alamo in Blood and Memory.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Randy Roberts and James S. Olson. (New York and other cities: The Free Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xii], 356. $26.00, ISBN 0-684-83544-4.) The Alamo is no longer like Thermopylae in having no messenger. Instead, there are quite a few...

General William S. Harney: Prince of Dragoons.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By George Rollie Adams. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2000. Pp. xxx, 389. $50.00, ISBN 0-8032-1058-2.) Not much is known these days about General William S. Harney (1800-1889), but George Rollie Adams has corrected...

Paternalism in a Southern City: Race, Religion, and Gender in Augusta, Georgia.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Edited by Edward J. Cashin and Glenn T. Eskew. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xvi], 240. $50.00, ISBN 0-8203-2257-1.) This is a collection of five papers presented in June 1996 at the inaugural...

Adventism and the American Republic: the Public Involvement of a Major Apocalyptic Movement.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Douglas Morgan, with a foreword by Martin E. Marty. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 269. $32.00, ISBN 1-57233-111-9.) Should a university press publish a history of a denomination that comprises only...

Mistress of Manifest Destiny: a Biography of Jane McManus Storm Cazneau, 1807-1878.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Linda S. Hudson. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, c. 2001. Pp. viii, 306. $29.95, ISBN 0-87611-179-7.) Jane McManus Storm Cazneau was a shadowy figure on the margins of United States foreign policy in the mid-nineteenth...

The Papers of John C. Calhoun. Volume XXVI: 1848-1849.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Edited by Clyde N. Wilson and Shirley Bright Cook. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 578. $59.95, ISBN 1-57003-393-5.) The looming sectional crisis over slavery that would reach a climax in 1850 dominates the...

The Simms Reader: Selections from the Writings of William Gilmore Simms.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Edited by John Caldwell Guilds. Publications of the Southern Texts Society. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001. Pp. [xiv], 412. $42.50, ISBN 0-8139-2019-1.) Literary scholar John Guilds is a long-standing...

Americana: the Americas in the World, around 1850 (or `Seeing the Elephant' as the Theme for an Imaginary Western).(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By James Dunkerley. (London and New York: Verso, 2000. Pp. xxvi, 642. $45.00, ISBN 1-85984-753-6.) This fabulous but frustrating book is premised on the idea that far corners of the Atlantic world (the United States, Western Europe, and...

In the Hands of Strangers: Readings on Foreign and Domestic Slave Trading and the Crisis of the Union.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Robert Edgar Conrad. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xx], 516. $45.00, ISBN 0-271-02089-X.) Commerce in human beings is a subject that has drawn much attention from historians in the past few years....

The Peculiar Democracy: Southern Democrats in Peace and Civil War.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Wallace Hettle. (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xiv], 240. $50.00, ISBN 0-8203-2282-2.) In his combative first book, Wallace Hettle positions himself at a surprisingly lightly inhabited, very promising...

Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Charles B. Dew. A Nation Divided: New Studies in Civil War History. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001. Pp. [xii], 124. $22.95, ISBN 0-8139-2036-1.) Ever since the guns went silent in 1865; veterans,...

Southern Invincibility: a History of the Confederate Heart.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Wiley Sword. (New York: St. Martin's Press, c. 1999. Pp. xii, 432. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-312-26396-1; cloth, $27.95, ISBN 0-312-20366-7.) "I agree with you in believing that our army would be invincible if it could be properly organized...

The Civil War Chronicle: the Only Day-by-Day Portrait of America's Tragic Conflict As Told by Soldiers, Journalists, Politicians, Farmers, Nurses, Slaves, and Other Eyewitnesses.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Edited by J. Matthew Gallman, David Rubel, and Russell Shorto. Introduction by Eric Foner. (New York: Crown Publishers, 2000. Pp. 544. $39.95, ISBN 0-8129-3114-9.) As the flood of books on the Civil War continues unabated, with many...

Retreat to Victory? Confederate Strategy Reconsidered.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Robert G. Tanner. The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era, No. 2. (Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2001. Pp. [xxiv], 162. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8420-2882-X; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8420-2881-1.) Why did the South lose the Civil...

An Honorable Defeat: the Last Days of the Confederate Government.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By William C. Davis. (New York, San Diego, and London: Harcourt, 2001. Pp. [xvi], 496. $30.00, ISBN 0-15-100564-8.) With a fine book on the creation of the Confederate States of America already to his credit, William C. Davis has now...

The Slaveholding Republic: an Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Don E. Fehrenbacher. Completed and edited by Ward M. McAfee. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. [xiv], 466. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-514177-6.) Don E. Fehrenbacher's The Slaveholding Republic is a very fine history...

Ninety-Eight Days: a Geographer's View of the Vicksburg Campaign.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Warren E. Grabau. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000. Pp. xxviii, 687. $48.00, ISBN 1-57233-068-6.) Unlike its companion high point of 1863, namely Gettysburg, the Vicksburg campaign does not have a bulky historiographical...

Atlanta will Fall: Sherman, Joe Johnston, and the Yankee Heavy Battalions.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Stephen Davis. The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era, No. 3. (Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2001. Pp. [xiv], 215. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8420-2788-2; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8420-2787-4.) The Atlanta campaign was one of the...

Confederate Corsair: the Life of Lt. Charles W. "Savez" Read.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... By Robert A. Jones. (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2000. Pp. xii, 226. $24.95, ISBN 0-8117-1532-9.) Charles W. Read was born in Mississippi in 1840 and attended the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, where his classmates nicknamed him...

The Collapse of the Confederacy.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Edited by Mark Grimsley and Brooks D. Simpson. Key Issues of the Civil War Era. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2001. Pp. [x], 201. $47.50, ISBN 0-8032-2170-3.) "Nothing in his life became him, / Like the leaving it,"...

Homeward Bound: the Demobilization of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1865-66.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By William B. Holberton. (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2001. Pp. xvi, 208. $24.95, ISBN 0-8117-0788-1.) At the conclusion of the Civil War both armies faced still another arduous task--returning their fighting men to civilian life....

The Bell Irvin Wiley Reader.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Edited by Hill Jordan, James I. Robertson Jr., and J. H. Segars. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. [xii], 332. $65.00, ISBN 0-8071-2579-2.) A prolific author, an innovative researcher, and a master teacher, Bell...

Jefferson Davis's Generals.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Edited by Gabor S. Boritt. Gettysburg Civil War Institute Books. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. [xviii], 217. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-19-513921-6; cloth, $27.50, ISBN 0-19-512062-0.) In this volume, which consists of...

Lincoln at Home: Two Glimpses of Abraham Lincoln's Family Life.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... By David Herbert Donald. (New York and other cities: Simon & Schuster, 2000. Pp. 124. $30.00, ISBN 0-7432-0199-X.) This will be a short review of a slight book. More than a decade ago David Herbert Donald accepted an invitation by President...

Frederick W. Lander: the Great Natural American Soldier.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... By Gary L. Ecelbarger. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Pp. [xxviii], 347. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2580-6.) This ambitious biography restores the fame of a nearly forgotten Union general. Gary L. Ecelbarger has seemingly...

Southern Hero: Matthew Calbraith Butler, Confederate General, Hampton Red Shirt, and U.S. Senator.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Samuel J. Martin. (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, c. 2001. Pp. x, 388. $29.95, ISBN 0-8117-0899-3.) Walker Percy once noted that contemporary interest in the Civil War has one deleterious effect: "second-rate books about third-rate...

The Union That Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... By William C. Davis. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2001. Pp. xii, 284. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1088-X.) William C. Davis may be the most prolific Civil War historian of his generation. In fact, The Union That Shaped the Confederacy...

Lafayette of the South: Prince Camille de Polignac and the American Civil War.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Jeff Kinard. Texas A&M University Military History Series, No. 70. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 234. $34.95, ISBN 1-58544-103-1.) Throughout the United States, there are villages, towns, cities, and...

A Perfect Picture of Hell: Eyewitness Accounts by Civil War Prisoners from the 12th Iowa.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Edited by Ted Genoways and Hugh H. Genoways. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xviii], 337. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-87745-759-X; cloth, $42.95, ISBN 0-87745-758-1.) The 12th Iowa Infantry had the dubious distinction of...

The Blues in Gray: the Civil War Journal of William Daniel Dixon and the Republican Blues Daybook.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... The Blues in Gray: The Civil War Journal of William Daniel Dixon and the Republican Blues Daybook. Edited by Roger S. Durham. Voices of the Civil War. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000. Pp. xxii, 399. $46.00, ISBN 1-57233-101-1.)...

Gideon Lincecum's Sword: Civil War Letters from the Texas Home Front.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Edited by Jerry Bryan Lincecum, Edward Hake Phillips, and Peggy A. Redshaw. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xii], 378. $39.95, ISBN 1-57441-125-X.) Gideon Lincecum (1793-1874), a self-taught physician and naturalist...

Time Full of Trial: the Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, 1862-1867.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Patricia C. Click. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xxvi], 302. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4918-9; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2602-2.) Patricia C. Click patterned her examination of the Roanoke...

Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Frederick Cooper, Thomas C. Holt, and Rebecca J. Scott. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2000. Pp. xiv, 198. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-8078-4854-9; cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2541-7.) The authors of this slim...

Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes, 1862-1880.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By John C. Rodrigue. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. [xviii], 224. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8071-2728-0; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-2656-X.) In this impressive contribution to the history of Reconstruction, John...

An Absolute Massacre: the New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By James G. Hollandsworth Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. [xviii], 168. $28.95, ISBN 0-8071-2588-1.) On Monday, July 30, 1866, a large, enthusiastic crowd of "black men, women, and children dressed in their...

The Papers of Andrew Johnson. Volume XVI: May 1869-July 1875.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Edited by Paul H. Bergeron. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000. Pp. xxxii, 804. $60.00, ISBN 1-57233-091-0.) The quantity of Andrew Johnson's writings and confidential documents in this work noticeably exceeds that in past...

George Henry White: an Even Chance in the Race of Life.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Benjamin R. Justesen. Southern Biography Series. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. [xxvi], 471. $45.00, ISBN 0-8071-2586-5.) As the last African American to hold a seat in the U.S. Congress in the immediate...

Captain L. H. McNelly, Texas Ranger: the Life and Times of a Fighting Man.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Chuck Parsons and Marianne E. Hall Little. (Austin, Tex.: State House Press, 2001. Pp. [xviii], 366. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 1-880510-74-X; cloth, $34.95, ISBN 1-880510-73-1.) For the serious historian of the American Southwest, few tasks...

Educating the disfranchised and Disinherited: Samuel Chapman Armstrong and Hampton Institute, 1839-1893.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Robert Francis Engs. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999. Pp. xx, 207. $32.50, ISBN 1-57233-051-1.) The history of education is, in a sense, intellectual history from the bottom up. Its relative neglect by new social and...

Contempt and Pity: Social Policy and the Image of the Damaged Black Psyche, 1880-1996.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Daryl Michael Scott. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 1997. Pp. [xxii], 269. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8078-4635-X; cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2325-2.) In Contempt and Pity Daryl Michael Scott investigates the...

Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and the "Cornfield Journalist": the Tale of Joel Chandler Harris.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Walter M. Brasch. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2000. Pp. [xxviii], 399. $35.00, ISBN 0-86554-696-7.) At a July 4, 1908, memorial service for Joel Chandler Harris, Reverend James W. Lee declared that, unlike "outsiders" who have...

Richmond Pearson Hobson: Naval Hero of Magnolia Grove.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Harvey Rosenfeld. (Las Cruces, N.Mex.: Yucca Tree Press, 2001. Pp. [xii], 288. $25.00, ISBN 1-881325-48-2.) In June 1898 twenty-seven-year-old navy lieutenant Richmond Pearson Hobson led a daring mission to sink the American collier...

Crime, Sexual Violence, and Clemency: Florida's Pardon Board and Penal System in the Progressive Era.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Vivien M. L. Miller. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2000. Pp. xiv, 366. $49.95, ISBN 0-8130-1808-0.) Since the publication of Edward L. Ayers's Vengeance and Justice: Crime and Punishment in the...

All That Fits a Woman: Training Southern Baptist Women for Charity and Mission, 1907-1926.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... By T. Laine Scales. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2000. Pp. [xxxii], 287. $32.50, ISBN 0-86554-668-1.) Recent statements by denominational leaders that women should withdraw from public life are reiterations of a conservatism that...

Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Keith Wailoo. Studies in Social Medicine. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xii], 338. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8078-4896-4; cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2584-0.) Examining the history of a rare blood...

Black Newspapers and America's War for Democracy, 1914-1920.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... By William G. Jordan. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xii], 241. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4936-7; cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2622-7.) William G. Jordan's study of the African American press...

A Bluestocking in Charleston: the Life and Career of Laura Bragg.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Louise Anderson Allen. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xviii], 303. $34.95, ISBN 1-57003-370-6.) A welcome addition to the sparse literature on women in the museum field, Louise Anderson Allen's well-written...

The Life and Photography of Doris Ulmann.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Philip Walker Jacobs. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2001. Pp. xxiv, 325. $40.00, ISBN 0-8131-2175-2.) As its title suggests, this is a chronologically arranged presentation of the facts of Doris Ulmann's life (1882-1934)...

Race against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez since 1930.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Jack E. Davis. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. [xvi], 351. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2585-7.) Race against Time runs counter to most contemporary trends in scholarship about race. Instead of discussing how people...

The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Kari Frederickson. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xiv], 311. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4910-3; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2594-8.) In The Dixiecrat Revolt Kari Frederickson has produced a fine...

My Farm on the Mississippi: the Story of a German in Missouri, 1945-1948.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... By Heinrich Hauser. Translated with an introduction by Curt A. Poulton. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xii], 168. $24.95, ISBN 0-8262-1332-4.) Heinrich Hauser was a German writer who produced both fiction...

Tulane: the Emergence of a Modern University, 1945-1980.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Clarence L. Mohr and Joseph E. Gordon. (Baton Rouge: Louisana State University Press, 2001. Pp. [xxviii], 504. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2553-9.) This excellent volume is part of the emergence of a new university history. Where previous...

The Press and Race: Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Edited by David R. Davies. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2001. Pp. viii, 302. $30.00, ISBN 1-57806-342-6.) This anthology of essays covers a spectrum of newspaper editors in civil rights--era Mississippi, ranging from...

The Reins of Power: Racial Change and Challenge in a Southern County.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Clinton McCarty. (Tallahassee, Fla.: Sentry Press, c. 1999. Pp. xvi, 374. $34.95, ISBN 1-889574-06-6.) In the time-honored tradition of other white southern journalists, Clinton McCarty writes about the peculiarities of southern race...

Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Diane McWhorter. (New York and other cities: Simon and Schuster, c. 2001. Pp. 701. Paper, $17.00, ISBN 0-7432-1772-1; cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-684-80747-5.) This book is a memoir and family history entwined with the history of a city and...

Deep In Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Constance Curry, Joan C. Browning, Dorothy Dawson Burlage, Penny Patch, Theresa Del Pozzo, Sue Thrasher, Elaine DeLott Baker, Emmie Schrader Adams, and Casey Hayden. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xvi],...

Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Carol Polsgrove. (New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company, 2001. Pp. xxii, 296. $26.95, ISBN 0-393-02013-4.) In Divided Minds Carol Polsgrove asks how leading black and white intellectuals responded to the developing civil rights...

Fight against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Clive Webb. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2001. Pp. xx, 305. $50.00, ISBN 0-8203-2268-7.) In a 1973 article on "Southern Jewry and the Desegregation Crisis, 1954-1968," historian Leonard Dinnerstein argued...

Faces of Freedom Summer.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Bobs M. Tusa. Photographs by Herbert Randall. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 2001. Pp. [x], 132. $39.95, ISBN 0-8173-1056-8.) In June 1999 the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) commemorated the...

The Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... By Tali Mendelberg. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford: Princeton University Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xvi], 307. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-691-07071-7; cloth, $52.00, ISBN 0-691-07070-9.) Social scientist Tali Mendelberg states the simple fact...