The Journal of Southern History articles from November 2004

The Journal of Southern History archives from November 2004

The work ethic of the plain folk: labor and religion in the Old South.
November 1, 2004... FACED WITH THE PROSPECT OF IMMINENT DEPARTURE TO SERVE IN THE Confederate army, North Carolina farmer John Fletcher Flintoff instructed his family on life and faith in his diary entry of March 10, 1864: "I desire that you live on the premises I...

Slaves, poor whites, and the underground economy of the rural Carolinas.
November 1, 2004... HISTORIANS HAVE PAID A GREAT DEAL OF ATTENTION OVER THE PAST TWO decades to the so-called slave, internal, or informal economy, studying slaves' independent activities as producers and consumers. In the rice-growing Lowcountry of South Carolina...

For the love of place: paternalism and patronage in the Georgia lLowcountry, 1865-1898.
November 1, 2004... IN EARLY APRIL 1891 JOSEPH JONES, A RENOWNED PHYSICIAN AND THE youngest son of Rev. Charles Colcock Jones, made a pilgrimage from his residence in New Orleans to his childhood home in Liberty County, Georgia. (1) His return was motivated in...

How Samuel E. Pittman validated Lee's "Lost Orders" prior to Antietam: a historical note.
November 1, 2004... WHAT WAS ARGUABLY THE MOST INCREDIBLE STRING OF COINCIDENCES that occurred during the American Civil War took place on the morning of September 13, 1862. The extraordinary events of that day began between 9:00 and 10:00 A.M. when Corporal...

Report of the SHA Committee on Women: results from a questionnaire sent to women members.
November 1, 2004... IN 2001 THE COMMITTEE ON WOMEN OF THE SHA UNDERTOOK A SURVEY of women in the SHA, in part to gather information about our female membership and in part to learn about the more gender-specific issues of discrimination and sexual harassment. (1)...

A Companion to Colonial America.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... A Companion to Colonial America. Edited by Daniel Vickers. Blackwell Companions to American History. (Malden, Mass., and other cities: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. Pp. xiv, 562. $99.95, ISBN 0-631-21011-3.) How can one grasp the totality of...

Nation on the Move: Mobility in U.S. History.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Nation on the Move: Mobility in U.S. History. Edited by Cornelis A. van Minnen and Sylvia L. Hilton. (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2002. Pp. [vi], 176. $35.00, ISBN 90-5383-839-2.) For historians like me, who are American-born students...

Another's Country: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Cultural Interactions in the Southern Colonies.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Another's Country: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Cultural Interactions in the Southern Colonies. Edited by J. W. Joseph and Martha Zierden. Foreword by Julia A. King. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 2002....

Brabbling Women: Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Brabbling Women: Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia. By Terri L. Snyder. (Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 182. $34.95, ISBN 0-8014-4052-1.) The "brabbling women" referred to in the title of...

Las Tejanas: 300 Years of History.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Las Tejanas: 300 Years of History. By Teresa Palomo Acosta and Ruthe Winegarten. Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 436. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-292-70527-1;...

American Creed: Philanthropy and the Rise of Civil Society, 1700-1865.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... American Creed: Philanthropy and the Rise of Civil Society, 1700-1865. By Kathleen D. McCarthy. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 319. $35.00, ISBN 0-226-56198-4.) American Creed strikes me as a history...

Common Whores, Vertuous Women, and Loveing Wives: Free Will Christian Women in Colonial Maryland.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Common Whores, Vertuous Women, and Loveing Wives: Free Will Christian Women in Colonial Maryland. By Debra Meyers. Religion in North America. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 249. $39.95, ISBN...

Mordecai: an Early American Family.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Mordecai: An Early American Family. By Emily Bingham. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2003. Pp. xiv, 346. Paper, $14.00, ISBN 0-8090-7016-2; cloth, $26.00, ISBN 0-8090-2756-9.) The Mordecais have occupied Emily Bingham for over a decade, and few...

Jesuit Slaveholding in Maryland, 1717-1838.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Jesuit Slaveholding in Maryland, 1717-1838. By Thomas Murphy, SJ. Studies in African American History and Culture. (New York and London: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xxvi, 258. $80.00, ISBN 0-8153-4052-4.) That the Society of Jesus was a major...

The Making and Unmaking of a Revolutionary Family: the Tuckers of Virginia, 1752-1830.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... The Making and Unmaking of a Revolutionary Family: The Tuckers of Virginia, 1752-1830. By Phillip Hamilton. Jeffersonian America. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 250. $35.00, ISBN 0-8139-2164-3.) ...

Ratifying the Republic: Antifederalists and Federalists in Constitutional Time.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Ratifying the Republic: Antifederalists and Federalists in Constitutional Time. By David J. Siemers. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, c. 2002. Pp. xx, 292. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8047-5103-X; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8047-4106-9.) ...

Jefferson's Call for Nationhood: the First Inaugural Address.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Jefferson's Call for Nationhood: The First Inaugural Address. By Stephen Howard Browne. Library of Presidential Rhetoric. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 155. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 1-58544-252-6; cloth, $29.95, ISBN...

Rebels, Reformers, and Revolutionaries: Collected Essays and Second Thoughts.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Rebels, Reformers, and Revolutionaries: Collected Essays and Second Thoughts. By Douglas R. Egerton. Crosscurrents in African American History. (New York and London: Routledge, c. 2002. Pp. xiv, 254. $85.95, ISBN 0-415-93122-3.) Because...

The Planter's Prospect: Privilege and Slavery in Plantation Paintings.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... The Planter's Prospect: Privilege and Slavery in Plantation Paintings. By John Michael Vlach. The Richard Hampton Jenrette Series in Architecture and the Decorative Arts. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp....

African Voices in the African American Heritage.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... African Voices in the African American Heritage. By Betty M. Kuyk. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2003. Pp. xxx, 256. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-253-21576-5; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-253-34204-X.) Melville Herskovits's...

The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... The Claims of Kinfolk." African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South. By Dylan C. Penningroth. The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North...

Slave to the Body: Black Bodies, White No-Bodies and the Regulative Dualism of Body-Politics in the Old South.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Slave to the Body: Black Bodies, White No-Bodies and the Regulative Dualism of Body-Politics in the Old South. By Lars Schroeder. American Culture Series. (Frankfurt am Main and other cities: Peter Lang, c. 2003. Pp. 491. Paper, $57.95, ISBN...

Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808-1915.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1805-1915. By Mitch Kachun. (Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 339. $39.95, ISBN 1-55849-407-3.) With Festivals...

Baptist Faith in Action: the Private Writings of Maria Baker Taylor, 1813-1895.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Baptist Faith In Action: the Private Writings of Maria Baker Taylor, 1813-1895. By Kathryn Carlisle Schwartz. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xxx, 399. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-497-4.) For over three decades...

1816: America Rising.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... 1816: America Rising. By C. Edward Skeen. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 299. $35.00, ISBN 0-8131-2771-6.) 1816: America Rising attempts to refurbish the Era of Good Feelings through an intense examination of...

The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic. By Richard S. Newman. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 256. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-80784998-7; cloth, $45.00, ISBN...

The Great Catastrophe of My Life: Divorce in the Old Dominion.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... The Great Catastrophe of My Life: Divorce in the Old Dominion. By Thomas E. Buckley, SJ. Studies in Legal History. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. xiv, 346. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5380-1 ; cloth,...

A History of Household Government in America.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... A History of Household Government in America. By Carole Shammas. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 232. Paper, $19.50, ISBN 0-8139-2126-0; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-81392125-2.) In this ambitious and...

The Unboxing of Henry Brown.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... The Unboxing of Henry Brown. By Jeffrey Ruggles. (Richmond: The Library of Virginia, 2003. Pp. xvi, 232. $25.00, ISBN 0-88490-200-5.) Among the more familiar images of the abolition movement is that of Henry Box Brown emerging from a...

Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought. By Dean E. Robinson. (Cambridge and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 171. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-521-62627-7; cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-521-62326-X.) Black Nationalism in...

Civil War America: Making a Nation, 1848-1877.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Civil War America: Making a Nation, 1848-1877. By Robert Cook. Longman History of the United States. (London and other cities: Longman, an imprint of Pearson Education, 2003. Pp. xx, 382. Paper, $26.00, ISBN 0-58238107-X.) Robert Cook's...

The Papers of John C. Calhoun.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... The Papers of John C. Calhoun. Volume XXVII: 1849-1850. With Supplement. Edited by Clyde N. Wilson and Shirley Bright Cook. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 575. $59.95, ISBN 1-57003-493-1.) Troubling...

Lincoln.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Lincoln. By Richard J. Carwardine. Profiles in Power. (Harlow, Scotland, and London: Pearson Longman, 2003. Pp. xviii, 352. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-582-03279-2.) In 1984 a contestant on the television game show Press Your Luck stunned the...

Lincoln Reshapes the Presidency.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Lincoln Reshapes the Presidency. Edited by Charles M. Hubbard. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 236. $29.95, ISBN 0-86554817-X.) These collected essays are based on papers presented at the Abraham Lincoln Library and...

Legal Cases of the Civil War.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Legal Cases of the Civil War. By Robert Bruce Murray. (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 324. $29.95, ISBN 0-81170059-3.) Robert Bruce Murray, a former attorney, closely examines a number of United States Supreme Court...

In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... In the Presence of Mine Enemies." War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863. By Edward L. Ayers. The Valley of the Shadow Project. (New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company, 2003. Pp. xxiv, 471. $27.95, ISBN 0-393-05786-0.) This...

Gettysburg.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Gettysburg. By Stephen W. Sears. (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003. Pp. xvi, 623. $30.00, ISBN 0-395-86761-4.) In Gettysburg, Stephen W. Sears fully maintains the high standards for scholarship and vibrant literary style...

When Sherman Marched North from the Sea: Resistance on the Confederate Home Front.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... When Sherman Marched North from the Sea: Resistance on the Confederate Home Front. By Jacqueline Glass Campbell. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 177. $27.50, ISBN 0-8078-2809-2.)...

A Hard Trip: a History of the 15th Mississippi Infantry. C.S.A.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... A Hard Trip: A History of the 15th Mississippi Infantry, C.S.A. By Ben Wynne. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2003. Pp. xxvi, 194. $35.00, ISBN 0-86554-806-4.) Civil War regimental histories are usually about as interesting as...

The Army of Northern Virginia: Lee's Army in the American Civil War, 1861-1865.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... The Army of Northern Virginia: Lee's Army in the American Civil War, 1861-1865. By Philip Katcher. The Great Armies. (New York and London: Fitzroy Dearborn, c. 2003. Pp. 352. $95.00, ISBN 1-57958-331-8.) The Army of Northern Virginia (ANV)...

All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South. By Stephen W. Berry II. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 286. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-19-517628-6; cloth, $26.00, ISBN 0-19-514567-4.) Stephen...

The Confederate Belle.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... The Confederate Belle. By Giselle Roberts. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 245. $32.50, ISBN 0-8262-1464-9.) Giselle Roberts, Research Associate in the Department of History at La Trobe University,...

Beneath a Northern Sky: a Short History of the Gettysburg Campaign.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Beneath a Northern Sky: A Short History of the Gettysburg Campaign. By Steven E. Woodworth. The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era, no. 12. (Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2003. Pp. xvi, 241. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8420-2933-8;...

The Moving Appeal: Mr. McClanahan, Mrs. Dill, and the Civil War's Great Newspaper Run.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... The Moving Appeal: Mr. McClanahan, Mrs. Dill, and the Civil War's Great Newspaper Run. By B. G. Ellis. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2003. Pp. xlviii, 677. $45.00, ISBN 0-86554-764-5.) The saga of the Memphis Daily Appeal, a daily...

Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: the True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy. By Elizabeth R. Varon. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 317. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-514228-4.) ...

Bright and Gloomy Days: the Civil War Correspondence of Captain Charles Frederic Bahnson, a Moravian Confederate.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Bright and Gloomy Days: The Civil War Correspondence of Captain Charles Frederic Bahnson, a Moravian Confederate. Edited by Sarah Bahnson Chapman. Voices of the Civil War. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. Pp. lxii, 250. $37.00,...

Love amid the Turmoil: the Civil War Letters of William and Mary Vermilion.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Love amid the Turmoil: The Civil War Letters of William and Mary Vermilion. Edited by Donald C. Elder III. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 391. $39.95, ISBN 0-87745-849-9.) William and Mary Vermilion produced a...

The Trial: the Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... The Trial: The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators. Edited by Edward Steers Jr. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2003. Pp. cvi, 421. $55.00, ISBN 0-8131-2277-5.) This book does not make exciting...

Black Congressmen During Reconstruction: A Documentary Sourcebook.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Black Congressmen during Reconstruction: A Documentary Sourcebook. Edited by Stephen Middleton. Foreword by John David Smith. (Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 2002. Pp. xx, 444. $94.95, ISBN 0-313-32281-3.) Looking back over...

The Sage of Tawawa: Reverdy Cassius Ransom, 1861-1959.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... The Sage of Tawawa: Reverdy Cassius Ransom, 1861-1959. By Annetta L. Gomez-Jefferson. (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, c. 2002. Pp. xvi, 325. $42.00, ISBN 0-87338-748-1.) Historian Gayraud S. Wilmore once remarked that...

The Roman Years of a South Carolina Artist: Caroline Carson's Letters Home, 1872-1892.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... The Roman Years of a South Carolina Artist: Caroline Carson's Letters Home, 1872-1892. Edited and with an introduction by William H. Pease and Jane H. Pease. Women's Diaries and Letters of the South. (Columbia: University of South Carolina...

Monuments to the Lost Cause: Women, Art, and the Landscapes of Southern Memory.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Monuments to the Lost Cause: Women, Art, and the Landscapes of Southern Memory. Edited by Cynthia Mills and Pamela H. Simpson. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. Pp. xxx, 265. $45.00, ISBN 1-57233-272-7.) An excellent...

Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Memory, 1880-1945.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Memory, 1880-1945. By Julie Des Jardins. Gender and American Culture. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 380. Paper,...

Peabody College: From a Frontier Academy to the Frontiers of Teaching and Learning.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Peabody College: From a Frontier Academy to the Frontiers of Teaching and Learning. By Paul K. Conkin. (Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 447. $49.95, ISBN 0-8265-1425-1.) The name of George Foster Peabody is...

Portraits of a Generation: Early Pentecostal Leaders.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Portraits of a Generation: Early Pentecostal Leaders. Edited by James R. Goff Jr. and Grant Wacker. Afterword by David Edwin Harrell Jr. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 430. $34.95, ISBN 1-55728-731-7.) This...

The Invisible Empire: the Ku Klux Klan in Florida.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... The Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida. By Michael Newton. Foreword by Raymond Arsenault and Gary R. Mormino. The Florida History and Culture Series. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2001. Pp. xvi, 260....

Goldberger's War: the Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Goldberger's War." The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader. By Alan M. Kraut. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2003. Pp. xvi, 313. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-8090-1637-0; cloth, $25.00, ISBN 0-374-13537-1.) The Progressive movement was at its...

Backfire: How the Ku Klux Klan Helped the Civil Rights Movement.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Backfire: How the Ku Klux Klan Helped the Civil Rights Movement. By David Chalmers. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2003. Pp. viii, 207. $24.95, ISBN 0-7425-2310-1.) David Chalmers's Hooded...

American Congo: the African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta. By Nan Elizabeth Woodruff. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. [vi], 282. $39.95, ISBN 0-674-01047-7.) Nan Elizabeth Woodruff has produced a...

Making Race, Making Power: North Carolina's Road to Disfranchisement.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Making Race, Making Power: North Carolina's Road to Disfranchisement. By Kent Redding. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2003. Pp. x, 180. $34.95, ISBN 0-252-02808-2.) Historians who have examined the disfranchisement...

Renaissance in Charleston: Art and Life in the Carolina Low Country, 1900-1940.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Renaissance in Charleston: Art and Life in the Carolina Low Country, 1900-1940. Edited by James M. Hutchisson and Harlan Greene. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 259. $34.95, ISBN 0-8203-2518-X.) ...

The Light Crust Doughboys Are on the Air: Celebrating Seventy Years of Texas Music.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... The Light Crust Doughboys Are on the Air: Celebrating Seventy Years of Texas Music. By John Mark Dempsey. Foreword by Art Greenhaw. Evelyn Oppenheimer Series, no. 2. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, c. 2002. Pp. x, 294. $29.95, ISBN...

Black Victory: the Rise and Fall of the White Primary in Texas.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Black Victory: The Rise and Fall of the White Primary in Texas. By Darlene Clark Hine. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 1979, 2003. Pp. xii, 283. $34.95, ISBN 0-8262-1462-2.) The white primary of the Progressive era...

The Bootlegger's Other Daughter.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... The Bootlegger's Other Daughter. By Mary Cimarolli. Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, no. 4. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 170. $24.95, ISBN 1-58544-260-7.) Mary Cimarolli's memoir of growing up in northeast...

Songs of Life and Grace.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Songs of Life and Grace. By Linda Scott DeRosier. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2003. Pp. xxxii, 228. $26.00, ISBN 0-8131-2276-7.) Songs of Life and Grace is the successor to Linda Scott DeRosier's acclaimed memoir, Creeker:...

Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women's Political Activism.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women's Political Activism. By Joyce A. Hanson. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 248. $32.50, ISBN 0-8262-1451-7.) The last full-length biography of Mary McLeod Bethune was...

That Man: an Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt. By Robert H. Jackson. Edited and with an introduction by John Q. Barrett. Foreword by William E. Leuchtenburg. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xxx, 290....

Nazis and Good Neighbors: the United States Campaign against the Germans of Latin America in World War II.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign against the Germans of Latin America in Worm War II. By Max Paul Friedman. (Cambridge and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 359. $30.00, ISBN 0-521-82246-7.) This...

Eyes Off the Prize: the United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955. By Carol Anderson. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 302. Paper, $22.99, ISBN 0-521-53158-6; cloth,...

Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years. Edited by Patricia Sullivan. (New York and London: Routledge, 2003. Pp. vii, 442. $29.95, ISBN 0-415-94516-X.) Virginia Foster Durr was brought up to move easily...

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: a Radical Democratic Vision.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision. By Barbara Ransby. Gender and American Culture. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xxii, 470. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2778-9.) ...

When Good Men Do Nothing: the Assassination of Albert Patterson.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... When Good Men Do Nothing: The Assassination of Albert Patterson. By Alan Grady. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 296. $29.95, ISBN 0-8173-1141-6.) In June 1954, Albert Patterson was shot to death in the...

A Victory of Sorts: Desegregation in a Southern Community.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... A Victory of Sorts: Desegregation in a Southern Community. By Winfred E. Pitts. (Lanham, Md., New York, and Oxford: University Press of America, Inc., c. 2003. Pp. xxiv, 218. Paper, $43.00, ISBN 0-7618-2533-9.) The redress of ancient...

An Act of State: the Execution of Martin Luther King.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King. By William F. Pepper. (London and New York: Verso, 2003. Pp. x, 334. $25.00, ISBN 1-85984695-5.) An Act of State is unabashedly a work of advocacy rather than of conventional history....

The Militia and the Right to Arms, or, How the Second Amendment Fell Silent.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... The Militia and the Right to Arms, or, How the Second Amendment Fell Silent. By H. Richard Uviller and William G. Merkel. Constitutional Conflicts. (Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, c. 2002. Pp. xii, 338. Paper, $19.95, ISBN...

The Brothers' Vietnam War: Black Power, Manhood, and the Military Experience.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... The Brothers' Vietnam War: Black Power, Manhood, and the Military Experience. By Herman Graham III. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2003. Pp. [x], 179. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2646-6.) In The Brothers' Vietnam...

The Fracture of Good Order: Christian Antiliberalism and the Challenge to American Politics.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... The Fracture of Good Order: Christian Antiliberalism and the Challenge to American Politics. By Jason C. Bivins. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 218. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-80785468-9; cloth,...

Jimmy Carter's Economy: Policy in an Age of Limits.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Jimmy Carter's Economy: Policy in an Age of Limits. By W. Carl Biven. The Luther Hartwell Hodges Series on Business, Society, and the State. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. xvi, 346. $45.00, ISBN...

The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South. By Leon Fink with research assistance from Alvis E. Dunn. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2003. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-5447-6; cloth, $37.50,...

Representations of Slavery: Race and Ideology in Southern Plantation Museums.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Representations of Slavery: Race and Ideology in Southern Plantation Museums. By Jennifer Eichstedt and Stephen Small. (Washington, D.C., and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, c. 2002. Pp. xii, 300. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 1-58834-096-1;...

Sacred Song in America: Religion, Music, and Public Culture.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Sacred Song in America: Religion, Music, and Public Culture. By Stephen A. Marini. Public Expressions of Religion in America. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 395. $34.95, ISBN 0-25202800-7.) Not...

Mississippi: a Documentary History.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Mississippi: A Documentary History. By Bradley G. Bond. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 339. $45.00, ISBN 1-57806541-0.) Bradley G. Bond put together Mississippi: A Documentary. History for use in the college...

Gone to Texas: a History of the Lone Star State.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State. By Randolph B. Campbell. (Oxford and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 500. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-19-523843-0; cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-19-513842-2.) During the 1830s and...

Buildings of Louisiana.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Buildings of Louisiana. By Karen Kingsley. Buildings of the United States. (Oxford and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 524. $65.00, ISBN 0-19-515999-3.) Buildings of Louisiana is the eighth in an ambitious series of...