The Journal of Southern History articles from November 2005

The Journal of Southern History archives from November 2005

Courtship contests and the meaning of conflict in the folklore of slaves.
November 1, 2005... Brer Rabbit dancing and singing plum turned Miss Wolf's head.... Brer Rabbit he take the gal and go off home clipity, lipity. Poor old Brer Coon he take hisself off home, he so tired, he can scarcely hold hisself together....

Plain folk reconsidered: historiographical ambiguity in search of definition.(racism)
November 1, 2005... STUDENTS OF SOUTHERN HISTORY ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE TERMS PLANTER, plain folk, and poor white. Most will acknowledge an understanding of who enjoyed status as a planter and who was a poor white, but the characteristics of plain folk are neither...

Memphis, the Peabody, and the SHA: a fifty-year commemoration.(Southern Historical Association)
November 1, 2005... Introduction ONE OF THE LANDMARK EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF THE SOUTHERN Historical Association took place fifty years ago this month in Memphis. At the annual meeting at the Peabody Hotel in November 1955, the program for the Phi Alpha...

The Southern Historical Association and the quest for racial justice, 1954-1963.
November 1, 2005... IN NOVEMBER 1955, IN A NATION GRAPPLING WITH THE SUPREME COURT'S Brown v. Board of Education decision of the previous year, the Southern Historical Association (SHA) met in Memphis, not far from where a Mississippi jury had just exonerated the...

Comments.(John Hope Franklin)
November 1, 2005... NEVER, NEVER ON NOVEMBER 10, 1955, IN ALL OF THIS STIRRING, ALL the hell-raising that went on in this hall, could I ever have imagined that I would be sitting here at this table again fifty years later. It was all arranged differently than it...

Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century. By April Lee Hatfield. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c. 2004. Pp. [viii], 312. $39.95, ISBN 0-8122-3757-9.) In Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial...

Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma. By Camilla Townsend. American Portraits. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2004. Pp. xii, 223. Paper, $14.00, ISBN 0-8090-7738-8; cloth, $25.00, ISBN 0-8090-9530-0.) To the colonists at Jamestown and to...

Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal. By William M. S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton. (Charlottesville, Va.: Howell Press, c. 2003. Pp. 252. Paper, $40.00, ISBN 1-57427-140-7; cloth, $60.00, ISBN 1-57427-139-3. To order phone...

Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age. By Marcus Rediker. (Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, 2004. Pp. viii, 240. $16.00, ISBN 0-8070-5024-5.) Nearly twenty years ago, in his Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea:...

Forging America: Ironworkers, Adventurers, and the Industrious Revolution.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Forging America: Ironworkers, Adventurers, and the Industrious Revolution. By John Bezis-Selfa. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 279. $39.95, ISBN 0-8014-3993-0.) John Bezis-Selfa has produced a...

The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America. By Richard R. Beeman. Early American Studies. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c. 2004. Pp. x, 366. $31.95, ISBN 0-8122-3770-6.) Richard R. Beeman' s...

Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic. Edited by Jeffrey L. Pasley, Andrew W. Robertson, and David Waldstreicher. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp....

Forgotten Founder: The Life and Times of Charles Pinckney.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Forgotten Founder: The Life and Times of Charles Pinckney. By Marty D. Matthews. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xx, 186. $29.95, ISBN 1-57003-547-4.) If Charles Pinckney has been a "forgotten founder," it is...

Dear Brother: Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Dear Brother: Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark. Edited and with an introduction by James J. Holmberg. Foreword by James P. Ronda. (New Haven, Conn., and London: Published by Yale University Press in association with the Filson...

The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series.(The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series: 16 May-31 October 1803, vol. 5)(The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series:1 November 1803-31 March 1804, vol. 6)(The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series:10 July 18127 February 1813, vol. 5)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series. Volume 5: 16 May-31 October 1803. Edited by David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Ellen J. Barber, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Bradley J. Daigle. (Charlottesville and London: University Press...

Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War. By Melvin Patrick Ely. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. Pp. x, 640. $35.00, ISBN 0-679-44738-5.) In 1974 Ira Berlin depicted the Old...

Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861. By John Ernest. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 426. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-8078-5521-9; cloth, $59.95,...

Bridging Deep South Rivers: The Life and Legend of Horace King.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Bridging Deep South Rivers: The Life and Legend of Horace King. By John S. Lupold and Thomas L. French Jr. (Athens, Ga., and London: Published by the University of Georgia Press in cooperation with the Historic Chattahoochee Commission and the...

A Stranger and a Sojourner: Peter Caulder, Free Black Frontiersman in Antebellum Arkansas.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... A Stranger and a Sojourner: Peter Caulder, Free Black Frontiersman in Antebellum Arkansas. By Billy D. Higgins. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 349. $34.95, ISBN 1-55728-777-5.) In his noteworthy chronicle of...

The Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800-1861.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... The Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800-1861. By Jonathan Daniel Wells. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xviii, 321. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8078-5553-7; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2882-3.) The...

Halls of Honor: College Men in the Old South.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Halls of Honor: College Men in the Old South. By Robert F. Pace. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 152. $34.95, ISBN 0-8071-2982-8.) Bertram Wyatt-Brown's Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South...

Communities of Kinship: Antebellum Families and the Settlement of the Cotton Frontier.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Communities of Kinship: Antebellum Families and the Settlement of the Cotton Frontier. By Carolyn Earle Billingsley. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 215. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8203-2510-4; cloth, $49.95,...

Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South. Edited by Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2004. Pp. xx, 234. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8203-2616-X; cloth, $49.95,...

From Pity to Pride: Growing Up Deaf in the Old South.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... From Pity to Pride: Growing Up Deaf in the Old South. By Hannah Joyner. (Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xii, 210. $49.95, ISBN 1-56368-270-2.) Most people perhaps think deafness is severe hearing loss that...

Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. By Steven M. Stowe. Studies in Social Medicine. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xii, 373. $45.00, ISBN...

The Formation of the Primitive Baptist Movement.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... The Formation of the Primitive Baptist Movement. By Jeffrey Wayne Taylor. Studies in the Believers Church Tradition. (Kitchener, Ontario: Pandora Press, c. 2004. Pp. 225. $25.00, ISBN 1-894710-42-8.) A distinguished Primitive Baptist...

Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South. By Stephanie M. H. Camp. Gender and American Culture. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 206. Paper, $18.95, ISBN...

The Strange Career of Bilingual Education in Texas, 1836-1981.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... The Strange Career of Bilingual Education in Texas, 1836-1981. By Carlos Kevin Blanton. Fronteras Series. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. Pp. [x], 204. $29.95, ISBN 1-58544-310-7.) Carlos Kevin Blanton has sought to...

His Brother's Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838-64.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... His Brother's Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838-64. By Owen Lovejoy. Edited by William F. Moore and Jane Ann Moore. Foreword by Paul Simon. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2004. Pp. xxxviii, 432. $50.00, ISBN...

James Hamilton of South Carolina.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... James Hamilton of South Carolina. By Robert Tinkler. Southern Biography. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 294. $59.95, ISBN 0-8071-2936-4.) Unlike most leaders of the nullification crisis in South Carolina and...

Zeb Vance: North Carolina's Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Zeb Vance: North Carolina's Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader. By Gordon B. McKinney. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xviii, 477. $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2865-3.) Civil War scholars...

The Grand Old Man of Maine: Selected Letters of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865-1914.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... The Grand Old Man of Maine: Selected Letters of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865-1914. Edited by Jeremiah E. Goulka. Foreword by James M. McPherson. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp....

Confederate General R. S. Ewell: Robert E. Lee's Hesitant Commander.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Confederate General R. S. Ewell: Robert E. Lee's Hesitant Commander. By Paul D. Casdorph. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2004. Pp. xii, 474. $39.95, ISBN 0-8131-2305-4.) Paul D. Casdorph's Confederate General R. S. Ewell:...

The Struggle for the Life of the Republic: A Civil War Narrative by Brevet Major Charles Dana Miller, 76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... The Struggle for the Life of the Republic: A Civil War Narrative by Brevet Major Charles Dana Miller, 76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Edited by Steward Bennett and Barbara Tillery. (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, c. 2004....

Charlestonians in War: The Charleston Battalion.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Charlestonians in War: The Charleston Battalion. By W. Chris Phelps. Foreword by Joseph P. Riley Jr. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 2004. Pp. 299. $22.00, ISBN 1-58980-166-0.) The Charleston Battalion evolved from the city's...

Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America. By Jane E. Schultz. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 360. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2867-X.) This absorbing book recovers...

Phantom Pain: North Carolina's Artificial-Limbs Program for Confederate Veterans, Including an Index to Records in the North Carolina State Archives Related to Artificial Limbs for Confederate Veterans.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Phantom Pain: North Carolina's Artificial-Limbs Program for Confederate Veterans, Including an Index to Records in the North Carolina State Archives Related to Artificial Limbs for Confederate Veterans. By Ansley Herring Wegner. (Raleigh:...

Black Flag over Dixie: Racial Atrocities and Reprisals in the Civil War.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Black Flag over Dixie: Racial Atrocities and Reprisals in the Civil War. Edited by Gregory J. W. Urwin. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 265. $45.00, ISBN 0-8093-2546-2.) Black Flag over Dixie: Racial...

Reflections of a Civil War Historian: Essays on Leadership, Society, and the Art of War.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Reflections of a Civil War Historian: Essays on Leadership, Society, and the Art of War. By Herman Hattaway. Foreword by Frank E. Vandiver. Shades of Blue and Gray Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2004. Pp. xviii,...

Faces of the Civil War: An Album of Union Soldiers and Their Stories.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Faces of the Civil War: An Album of Union Soldiers and Their Stories. By Ronald S. Coddington. With a foreword by Michael Fellman. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xxiv, 251. $29.95, ISBN 0-8018-7876-4.) ...

A Faithful Heart: The Journals of Emmala Reed, 1865 and 1866.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... A Faithful Heart: The Journals of Emmala Reed, 1865 and 1866. Edited by Robert T. Oliver. Women's Diaries and Letters of the South. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xxxii, 335. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-545-8.) Emmala...

The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture. Edited by Alice Fahs and Joan Waugh. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. [x], 286. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-80785572-3; cloth, $59.95, ISBN...

The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836-1916.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836-1916. By William D. Carrigan. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 308. $35.00, ISBN 0-252-02951-8.) Most books about...

The Slaughterhouse Cases: Regulation, Reconstruction, and the Fourteenth Amendment.(The Fourteenth Amendment and the Law of the Constitution)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... The Slaughterhouse Cases: Regulation, Reconstruction, and the Fourteenth Amendment. By Ronald M. Labbe and Jonathan Lurie. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 295. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-7006-1409-5; cloth, $34.95, ISBN...

Mark Twain.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Mark Twain. By Larzer Ziff. Lives and Legacies. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. [viii], 126. $17.95, ISBN 0-19-517019-9.) Larzer Ziff's book on Mark Twain appears in a series entitled Lives and Legacies....

Catarino Garza's Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Catarino Garza's Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border. By Elliott Young. American Encounters/Global Interactions. (Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 407. Paper, $23.95, ISBN 0-8223-3320-1; cloth, $84.95, ISBN...

The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910-1920.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910-1920. By Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 673. $37.50, ISBN 0-8263-3483-0.) Although the...

Racial Thinking in the United States: Uncompleted Independence.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Racial Thinking in the United States: Uncompleted Independence. Edited by Paul Spickard and G. Reginald Daniel. African American Intellectual Heritage. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, c. 2004. Pp. x, 361. Paper, $20.00, ISBN...

Creative Conflict in African American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Creative Conflict in African American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey. By Wilson Jeremiah Moses. (Cambridge, Eng., and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2004....

Journey of Hope: The Back-to-Africa Movement in Arkansas in the Late 1800s.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Journey of Hope: The Back-to-Africa Movement in Arkansas in the Late 1800s. By Kenneth C. Barnes. The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp....

The Delta Italians: Their Pursuit of "The Better Life" and Their Struggle Against Mosquitos, Floods, and Prejudice.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... The Delta Italians: Their Pursuit of "The Better Life" and Their Struggle Against Mosquitos, Floods, and Prejudice. By Paul V. Canonici. (Madison, Miss.: Calo Creative Designs, Inc., c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 240. $49.95, ISBN 0-9745589-0-7.) In...

Stein Mart: An American Story of Roots, Family, and Building a Greater Dream.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Stein Mart: An American Story of Roots, Family, and Building a Greater Dream. By David J. Ginzl. With a foreword by Eli N. Evans. (Tampa, Fla.: University of Tampa Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 172. $25.00, ISBN 1-879852-99-3.) Retailing is a...

The Florida Historical Society, 1856-2004.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... The Florida Historical Society, 1856-2004. By Jerrell H. Shofner. (Cocoa: Florida Historical Society Press, c. 2004. Pp. vi, 286. $25.00, ISBN 1-886104-13-1.) Since the founding of the nation's first historical society in the 1790s, such...

The Mosquito Wars: A History of Mosquito Control in Florida.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... The Mosquito Wars: A History of Mosquito Control in Florida. By Gordon Patterson. Foreword by Raymond Arsenault and Gary R. Mormino. Florida History and Culture Series. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2004. Pp....

Red Earth: Race and Agriculture in Oklahoma Territory.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Red Earth: Race and Agriculture in Oklahoma Territory. By Bonnie Lynn-Sherow. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2004. Pp. x, 186. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1324-2.) Bonnie Lynn-Sherow, an associate professor of history at Kansas State...

Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight: Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the First World War.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight: Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the First World War. By Jeanette Keith. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. x, 260. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8078-5562-6;...

African American Miners and Migrants: The Eastern Kentucky Social Club.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... African American Miners and Migrants: The Eastern Kentucky Social Club. By Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller. Afterword by William H. Turner. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 158. Paper, $20.00, ISBN...

Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age. By Kevin Boyle. (New York: Henry Holt and Company, c. 2004. Pp. [xvi], 415. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-8050-7933-5; cloth, $26.00, ISBN 0-8050-7145-8.) In the 1920s a...

Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston. By Valerie Boyd. (New York and other cities: Scribner, c. 2003. Pp. 527. $30.00, ISBN 0-684-84230-0.) Scholars awaiting this new life history, the first to appear since Robert E....

Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age. By Jerma A. Jackson. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 193. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-286-02; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-5530-8.) Jerma A....

An Alabama Songbook: Ballads, Folksongs, and Spirituals.(Strings of Life--Conversations with Old-Time Musicians from Virginia and North Carolina)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... An Alabama Songbook: Ballads, Folksongs, and Spirituals. Collected by Byron Arnold. Edited with an introduction by Robert W. Halli Jr. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2004. Pp. xxvi, 299. $49.95, ISBN 0-8173-1306-0.) Strings...

The Voice of Southern Labor: Radio, Music, and Textile Strikes, 1929-1934.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... The Voice of Southern Labor: Radio, Music, and Textile Strikes, 1929-1934. By Vincent J. Roscigno and William F. Danaher. Social Movements, Protest, and Contention. (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c. 2004. Pp. xxviii,...

Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly: Country Music's Struggle for Respectability, 1939-1954.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly: Country Music's Struggle for Respectability, 1939-1954. By Jeffrey J. Lange. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2004. Pp. xii, 313. Paper, $25.95, ISBN 0-8203-2623-2; cloth, $54.95,...

Harder than Hardscrabble: Oral Recollections of the Farming Life from the Edge of the Texas Hill Country.(Country Women Cope with Hard Times: A Collection of Oral Histories)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Harder than Hardscrabble: Oral Recollections of the Farming Life from the Edge of the Texas Hill Country. Edited by Thad Sitton. Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 297. Paper, $19.95,...

Noble Powell and the Episcopal Establishment in the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Noble Powell and the Episcopal Establishment in the Twentieth Century. By David Hein. Studies in Anglican History. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2001. Pp. xiv, 182. $29.95, ISBN 0-252-02643-8.) With this slender,...

Lone Star Stalag: German Prisoners of War at Camp Hearne.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Lone Star Stalag: German Prisoners of War at Camp Hearne. By Michael R. Waters et al. Foreword by Willi Nellessen. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 268. $29.95, ISBN 1-58544-318-2.) Michael R. Waters, a Texas...

The Battle for the Black Ballot: Smith v. Allwright and the Defeat of the Texas All-White Primary.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... The Battle for the Black Ballot: Smith v. Allwright and the Defeat of the Texas All-White Primary. By Charles L. Zelden. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2004. Pp. x, 156. Paper, $12.95, ISBN...

History of Missouri. Volume VI: 1953 to 2003.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... History of Missouri. Volume VI: 1953 to 2003. By Lawrence H. Larsen. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 212. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8262-1546-7; cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8262-1546-7.) Missouri, as Lawrence H. Larsen notes,...

Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform. By Derrick Bell. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. [x], 230. $25.00, ISBN 0-19-517272-8.) Citizens across the nation...

JFK, LBJ, and the Democratic Party.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... JFK, LBJ, and the Democratic Party. By Sean J. Savage. SUNY Series on the Presidency: Contemporary Issues. (New York: State University of New York Press, c. 2004. Pp. x, 429. $35.00, ISBN 0-7914-6169-6.) The story of the transformation of...

The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women's Struggles against Urban Inequality.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women's Struggle Against Urban Inequality. By Rhonda Y. Williams. Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp....

Watching Jim Crow: The Struggles Over Mississippi TV, 1955-1969.(Changing Channels: The Civil Rights Case that Transformed Television)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Watching Jim Crow: The Struggles Over Mississippi TV, 1955-1969. By Steven D. Classen. (Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 275. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-8223-3341-4; cloth, $74.95, ISBN 0-8223-3329-5.) Changing...

Long Dark Road: Bill King and Murder in Jasper, Texas.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Long Dark Road: Bill King and Murder in Jasper, Texas. By Ricardo C. Ainslie. (Austin: University of Texas Press, c. 2004. Pp. xviii, 236. $24.95, ISBN 0-292-70574-3.) In Long Dark Road: Bill King and Murder in Jasper, Texas, Ricardo C....

The Clinton Riddle: Perspectives on the Forty-second President.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... The Clinton Riddle: Perspectives on the Forty-second President. Edited by Todd G. Shields, Jeannie M. Whayne, and Donald R. Kelley. Foreword by David H. Pryor. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 310. Paper, $24.95,...

My Odyssey through History: Memoirs of War and Academe.(Recovering the Past: A Historian's Memoir)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... My Odyssey through History: Memoirs of War and Academe. By Charles P. Roland. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xx, 132. $29.95, ISBN 0-8071-2853-8.) Recovering the Past: A Historian's Memoir. By Forrest...

Writing Biography: Historians and Their Craft.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Writing Biography: Historians and Their Craft. Edited by Lloyd E. Ambrosius. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 166. $45.00, ISBN 0-8032-1066-3.) This collection of six essays in which prominent historians...

Clio's Southern Sisters: Interviews with Leaders of the Southern Association for Women Historians.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Clio's Southern Sisters: Interviews with Leaders of the Southern Association for Women Historians. Edited by Constance B. Schulz and Elizabeth Hayes Turner. Southern Women. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2004. Pp. xviii,...

Oxford University Press has released significantly revised editions of two indispensable reference works.(Book Notes)(Black Women in America, 2d ed.)(Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, 2d ed.)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Oxford University Press has released significantly revised editions of two indispensable reference works. The first is Black Women in America. Second Edition. Edited by Darlene Clark Hine and others. (New York and other cities: Oxford...

The Appalachians (documentary, 3 DVDs).(Book Notes)(Video Recording Review)
November 1, 2005... The Appalachians (documentary, 3 DVDs). Written and produced by Phylis Geller. Executive producer Mari-Lynn C. Evans. (Presented by Nashville Public Television. Distributed by American Public Television, Boston, Mass., 2005. 3 hours. $44.95.)...

Historic Indian Towns in Alabama, 1540-1838.(Book Notes)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Historic Indian Towns in Alabama, 1540-1838. By Amos J. Wright Jr. Foreword by Vernon J. Knight Jr. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 2003. Pp. xxii., 239. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8173-1252-8; cloth, $55.00, ISBN...

Black Church Beginnings: The Long Hidden Realities of the First Years.(Book Notes)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Black Church Beginnings: The Long Hidden Realities of the First Years. By Henry H. Mitchell. (Grand Rapids, Mich., and Cambridge, Eng.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, c. 2004. Pp. xviii, 197. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-8028-2785-3.) This...

Mary Telfair: The Life and Legacy of a Nineteenth-Century Woman.(Book Notes)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Mary Telfair: The Life and Legacy of a Nineteenth-Century Woman. By Charles J. Johnson Jr. (Savannah: Frederic C. Beil, 2002. Pp. xx, 523. $35.00, ISBN 1-929490-12-7.) Her name survives in Savannah's Telfair Museum of Art, but the benefactress...

All Right Let Them Come: The Civil War Diary of an East Tennessee Confederate.(A Confederate Yankee: The Journal of Edward William Drummond, a Confederate Soldier from Maine)("Fear Was Not in Him": The Civil War Letters of Major General Francis C. Barlow, U.S.A.)(In the Saddle with the Texans: Day by Day with Parsons's Cavalry Brigade, 1862-1865)(Voices from Company D: Diaries by the Greensboro Guards, Fifth Alabama Infantry Regiment Army of Northern Virginia)(Memoirs of a Dutch Mudsill: The "War Memories" of John Henry Otto, Captain, Company D, 21st Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry)(A Legacy of Valor: The Memoirs and Letters of Captain Henry Newton Comey, 2nd Massachusetts Infantry)(Southern Sons, Northern Soldiers: The Civil War Letters of the Remley Brothers, 22nd Iowa Infantry)(Soldier, Surgeon, Scholar: The Memoirs of William Henry Corbusier, 1844-1930)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... All Right Let Them Come: The Civil War Diary of an East Tennessee Confederate. Edited by Charles Swift Northen III. Voices of the Civil War. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 115. $24.95, ISBN 1-57233-233-6.) A...

Rebel Reefers: The Organization and Midshipmen of the Confederate States Naval Academy.(Book Notes)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Rebel Reefers: The Organization and Midshipmen of the Confederate States Naval Academy. By James Lee Conrad. (Cambridge, Mass., and New York: Da Capo Press, c. 2003. Pp. x, 214. $29.99, ISBN 0-306-81237-1.) The stories of the Confederate...