The Journal of Southern History articles from November 2006

The Journal of Southern History archives from November 2006

The grape vine telegraph: rumors and confederate persistence.(Viewpoint essay)
November 1, 2006... IN JULY 1864 THE NEWS WAS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, GENERAL ULYSSES S. Grant, the "butcher" whose war of attrition had already cost thousands of lives, was dead. A Texas cavalryman serving in Louisiana shared the report with his father. The soldier...

Creating "the propaganda of history": southern editors and the origins of carpetbagger and scalawag.
November 1, 2006... ONE READS THE TRUER DEEPER FACTS OF RECONSTRUCTION WITH A GREAT despair," wrote W. E. B. Du Bois. "It is at once so simple and human, and yet so futile." (1) Du Bois's words from nearly three quarters of a century ago still resonate. How could...

The Hill-Burton Act and civil rights: expanding hospital care for black southerners, 1939-1960.
November 1, 2006... THE HOSPITAL SURVEY AND CONSTRUCTION ACT--COMMONLY KNOWN as the Hill-Burton Act or simply Hill-Burton in recognition of its Senate sponsors, Lister Hill (D-Ala.) and Harold H. Burton (R-Ohio)--was debated in Congress and passed into law in 1946...

Politics and the misadventures of Thomas Jefferson's modern reputation: a review essay.(Portrait of a Restless Mind)(Thomas Jefferson)(Jefferson's Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello)(Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800)("Negro President": Jefferson and the Slave Power)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Jefferson's Demons: Portrait of a Restless Mind. By Michael Knox Beran. (New York and other cities: Free Press, c. 2003. Pp. xxii, 265. $25.00, ISBN 0-7432-3279-8.) Thomas Jefferson. By R. B. Bernstein. (New York and other cities: Oxford...

British America, 1500-1800: Creating Colonies, Imagining an Empire.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... British America, 1500-1800: Creating Colonies, Imagining an Empire. By Steven Sarson. (London, Eng.: Hodder Arnold, 2005. Pp. xx, 332. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-340-76010-9.) In British America, 1500-1800: Creating Colonies, Imagining an...

Jekyll Island's Early Years: From Prehistory through Reconstruction.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Jekyll Island's Early Years: From Prehistory through Reconstruction. By June Hall McCash. Wormsloe Foundation Publications. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2005. Pp. xvi, 280. $39.95, ISBN 0-8203-2447-7.) In...

Searching for the Roanoke Colonies: An Interdisciplinary Collection.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Searching for the Roanoke Colonies: An Interdisciplinary Collection. Edited by E. Thomson Shields Jr. and Charles R. Ewen. (Raleigh: Office of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 214. Paper,...

The Cherokee Nation: A History.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... The Cherokee Nation: A History. By Robert J. Conley. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 265. $24.95, ISBN 0-8263-3234-X.) Robert J. Conley's The Cherokee Nation: A History is a synthetic survey chronicling the...

Choctaw Women in a Chaotic World: The Clash of Cultures in the Colonial Southeast.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Choctaw Women in a Chaotic World: The Clash of Cultures in the Colonial Southeast. By Michelene E. Pesantubbee. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 208. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-8263-3334-6; cloth, $39.95, ISBN...

Paradise Lost? The Environmental History of Florida.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Paradise Lost? The Environmental History of Florida. Edited by Jack E. Davis and Raymond Arsenault. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 420. $59.95, ISBN 0-8130-2826-4.) Since the advent of...

Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps. Edited by Alfred E. Lemmon, John T. Magill, and Jason R. Wiese, with John R. Hebert, consulting editor. Foreword by Mary Louise Christovich. (New Orleans: Historic New Orleans Collection, 2003....

Creeks and Southerners: Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Creeks and Southerners: Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier. By Andrew K. Frank. Indians of the Southeast. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2005. Pp. xvi, 192. $49.95, ISBN 0-80322016-2.) Andrew K. Frank's...

A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America. By James E. McWilliams. Arts and Traditions of the Table. (New York: Columbia University Press, c. 2005. Pp. [viii], 386. $29.95, ISBN 0-231-12992-0.) A Revolution in Eating:...

Traveling South: Travel Narratives and the Construction of American Identity.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Traveling South: Travel Narratives and the Construction of American Identity. By John D. Cox. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2005. Pp. [xii], 252. $39.95, ISBN 0-8203-2765-4.) In Traveling South: Travel Narratives...

The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf. By William C. Davis. (New York and other cities: Harcourt, Inc., 2005. Pp. xiv, 706. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 0-15-603259-7; cloth, $28.00, ISBN 0-15-100403-X.) The study...

Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution. By Alfred W. Blumrosen and Ruth G. Blumrosen. Introduction by Eleanor Holmes Norton. (Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks, Inc., c. 2005. Pp. xvi, 336. $24.95, ISBN...

The Day It Rained Militia: Huck's Defeat and the Revolution in the South Carolina Backcountry, May-July 1780.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... The Day It Rained Militia: Huck's Defeat and the Revolution in the South Carolina Backcountry, May-July 1780. By Michael C. Scoggins. (Charleston and London: The History Press, 2005. Pp. 316. $34.99, ISBN 1-59629-015-3.) In describing the...

The Guns of Independence: The Siege of Yorktown, 1781.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... The Guns of Independence: The Siege of Yorktown, 1781. By Jerome A. Greene. (New York: Savas Beatie, 2005. Pp xx, 507. $34.95, ISBN 1-932714-05-7.) This most recent work on the Yorktown campaign grew out of a National Park Service (NPS)...

Designing the Bayous: The Control of Water in the Atchafalaya Basin, 1800-1995.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Designing the Bayous: The Control of Water in the Atchafalaya Basin, 1800-1995. By Martin Reuss. Gulf Coast Studies. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 474. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 1-58544-375-1.) First published by...

Peter Cartwright, Legendary Frontier Preacher.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Peter Cartwright, Legendary Frontier Preacher. By Robert Bray. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2005. Pp. x, 314. $35.00, ISBN 0-252-02986-0.) From the American Revolution to the Civil War, Methodism grew from a blip...

Immigrant Women in the Settlement of Missouri.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Immigrant Women in the Settlement of Missouri. By Robyn Burnett and Ken Leubbering. Missouri Heritage Readers. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2005. Pp. xviii, 149. Paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-8262-1591-2.) As part of the...

Alexander Campbell: Adventurer in Freedom.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Alexander Campbell: Adventurer in Freedom. By Eva Jean Wrather. Edited by D. Duane Cummins. (Fort Worth, Tex.: Published for the Disciples of Christ Historical Society by Texas Christian University Press, c. 2005. Pp. xxxvi, 264. $25.00, ISBN...

Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society. By Eric Burin. Southern Dissent. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 223. $59.95, ISBN 0-8130-2841-8.) Eric Burin...

Sister Societies: Women's Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum America.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Sister Societies: Women's Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum America. By Beth A. Salerno. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, c. 2005. Pp. x, 233. $38.00, ISBN 0-87580-338-5.) In this short work, Beth A. Salerno reminds us of...

True Women and Westward Expansion.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... True Women and Westward Expansion. By Adrienne Caughfield. Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 178. $32.95, ISBN 1-58544-409-X.) The purpose of True...

George Caleb Bingham: Missouri's Famed Painter and Forgotten Politician.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... George Caleb Bingham: Missouri's Famed Painter and Forgotten Politician. By Paul C. Nagel. Missouri Heritage Readers. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2005. Pp. xx, 161. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8262-1574-2.) Today...

Creating the Land of the Sky: Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Creating the Land of the Sky: Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina. By Richard D. Starnes. Modern South. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2005. Pp. xvi, 240. $35.00, ISBN 0-8173-1462-8.) Richard D. Starnes presents here...

The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston. By Maurie D. McInnis. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 395. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2951-X.) To understand the supreme self-assurance of...

Poe.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Poe. By James M. Hutchisson. Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2005. Pp. xviii, 290. $30.00, ISBN 1-57806-721-9.) James M. Hutchisson's Poe is a difficult read--difficult because the...

Francis Lieber and the Culture of the Mind.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Francis Lieber and the Culture of the Mind. Edited by Charles R. Mack and Henry H. Lesesne. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press with the assistance of the University of South Carolina Bicentennial Commission, c. 2005. Pp. xviii, 196....

Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s. By Sarah Meet. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2005. Pp. x, 332. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8203-2737-9.) Sarah Meer's Uncle Tom Mania:...

The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion. By Peter S. Carmichael. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2005. Pp. xvi, 343. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2948-X.) In this...

Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America.(John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery' Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America. By Fergus M. Bordewich. (New York: HarperCollins, Amistad, c. 2005. Pp. xx, 540. $27.95, ISBN 0-06-052430-8.) John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed...

Robert Lewis Dabney: A Southern Presbyterian Life.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Robert Lewis Dabney: A Southern Presbyterian Life. By Sean Michael Lucas. American Reformed Biographies: A Series. (Phillipsburg, N.J.: P&R Publishing, c. 2005. Pp. 295. $24.95, ISBN 0-87552-663-2.) Sean Michael Lucas takes on a daunting...

Gender Matters: Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Making of the New South.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Gender Matters: Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Making of the New South. By LeeAnn Whites. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, c. 2005. Pp. viii, 244. Paper $26.95, ISBN 1-1403-6312-6; cloth, $79.95, ISBN 1-4039-6311-8.) In this collection...

Robert E. Lee: Icon for a Nation.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Robert E. Lee: Icon for a Nation. By Brian Holden Reid. (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, c. 2005. Pp. 271. $27.95, ISBN 0-297-84699-X.) The title of this volume was misleading to this reviewer. I expected some sort of in-depth analysis by...

Fitz Lee: A Military Biography of Major General Fitzhugh Lee, C.S.A.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Fitz Lee: A Military Biography of Major General Fitzhugh Lee, C.S.A. By Edward G. Longacre. (Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2005. Pp. x, 277. $30.00, ISBN 0-306-81384-X.) Fitzhugh Lee was born to a distinguished Virginia family in 1835 as...

General James G. Blunt: Tarnished Glory.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... General James G. Blunt: Tarnished Glory. By Robert Collins. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, c. 2005. Pp. 239. $23.00, ISBN 978-1-58980-253-7.) Robert Collins's biography of James G. Blunt details the life of a Civil War general...

Lincoln's Tragic Admiral: The Life of Samuel Francis Du Pont.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Lincoln's Tragic Admiral: The Life of Samuel Francis Du Pont. By Kevin J. Weddle. A Nation Divided: New Studies in Civil War History. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 269. $34.95, ISBN 0-8139-2332-8.)...

Wild Rose: Rose O'Neale Greenhow, Civil War Spy.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Wild Rose: Rose O'Neale Greenhow, Civil War Spy. By Ann Blackman. (New York: Random House, 2005. Pp. xviii, 377. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8129-7045-4; cloth, $25.95, ISBN 1-4000-6118-0; e-book, $17.95, ISBN 1-58836-481-X.) Women who assumed...

Alexander Watkins Terrell: Civil War Soldier, Texas Lawmaker, American Diplomat.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Alexander Watkins Terrell: Civil War Soldier, Texas Lawmaker, American Diplomat. By Lewis L. Gould. Focus on American History Series. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 223. $29.95, ISBN 0-292-70297-3.) Lewis L. Gould, one...

The Boy General: The Life and Careers of Francis Channing Barlow.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... The Boy General: The Life and Careers of Francis Channing Barlow. By Richard F. Welch. (Madison and Teaneck, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c. 2003: paperback reprint, Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, c. 2005....

Fighting for Liberty and Right: The Civil War Diary of William Bluffton Miller, First Sergeant, Company K, Seventy-Fifth Indiana Volunteer Infantry.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Fighting for Liberty and Right: The Civil War Diary of William Bluffton Miller, First Sergeant, Company K, Seventy-fifth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Edited by Jeffrey L. Patrick and Robert J. Willey. Voices of the Civil War. (Knoxville:...

Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi. By Michael B. Ballard. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xviii, 490. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2893-9.) An oddity of Civil War...

The Voyage of the CSS Shenandoah: A Memorable Cruise.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... The Voyage of the CSS Shenandoah: A Memorable Cruise. By William C. Whittle Jr. Introduction and annotations by D. Alan Harris and Anne B. Harris. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2005. Pp xiv, 255. $45.00, ISBN 0-8173-1451-2.) ...

The Confederacy on Trial: The Piracy and Sequestration Cases of 1861.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... The Confederacy on Trial: The Piracy and Sequestration Cases of 1861. By Mark A. Weitz. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 219. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-7006-1386-2; cloth, $35.00,...

The Confederate Dirty War: Arson, Bombings, Assassination and Plots for Chemical and Germ Attacks on the Union.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... The Confederate Dirty War: Arson, Bombings, Assassination and Plots for Chemical and Germ Attacks on the Union. By Jane Singer. (Jefferson, N.C., and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2005. Pp. [x], 174. $35.00, ISBN...

McClellan's War: The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... McClellan's War: The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union. By Ethan S. Rafuse. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2005. Pp. xvi, 525. $35.00, ISBN 0-253-34532-4.) "George B. McClellan's actions during...

Tennessee's Radical Army: The State Guard and Its Role in Reconstruction, 1867-1869.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Tennessee's Radical Army: The State Guard and Its Role in Reconstruction, 1867-1869. By Ben H. Severance. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 327. $35.00, ISBN 1-57233-362-6.) In his detailed study of the Tennessee...

The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis. By Donald E. Collins. The American Crisis Series. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2005. Pp. x, 173. $22.95, ISBN 0-7425-4304-8.) In the waning days of...

Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865-1900.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865-1900. By Julius H. Bailey. History of African-American Religions Series. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 151....

Bones Hooks: Pioneer Negro Cowboy.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Bones Hooks: Pioneer Negro Cowboy. By Bruce G. Todd. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 2005. Pp. 221. $23.00, ISBN 978-1-58980-294-0.) Bruce G. Todd's Bones Hooks: Pioneer Negro Cowboy joins the expanding body of literature...

Torches of Light: Georgia Teachers and the Coming of the Modern South.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Torches of Light: Georgia Teachers and the Coming of the Modern South. By Ann Short Chirhart. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2005. Pp. xviii, 334. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8203-2669-0; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8203-2446-9.)...

Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans. By James B. Bennett. (Princeton and Oxford, Eng.: Princeton University Press, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 305. $39.50, ISBN 0-691-12148-6.) This is an enormously intelligent book about the...

Keeping the Circle: American Indian Identity in Eastern North Carolina, 1885-2004.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Keeping the Circle: American Indian Identity in Eastern North Carolina, 1885-2004. By Christopher Arris Oakley. Indians of the Southeast. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 191. $50.00, ISBN 0-8032-3574-7.) ...

Gospel Tracks through Texas: The Mission of Chapel Car Good Will.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Gospel Tracks through Texas: The Mission of Chapel Car Good Will. By Wilma Rugh Taylor. Norman Thomas Taylor, Research Editor. Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 219. $29.95, ISBN...

Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon. By Anthony Harkins. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp xii, 324. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-19-518950-7; cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-19-514631-X.) The figure of the...

Labor's Promised Land: Radical Visions of Gender, Race, and Religion in the South.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Labor's Promised Land: Radical Visions of Gender, Race, and Religion in the South. By Mark Fannin. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. Pp. xxiv, 355. $40.00, ISBN 1-57233-251-4.) Mark Fannin's study of the Brotherhood of Timber...

A Heart for Any Fate: The Biography of Richard Brevard Russell Sr.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... A Heart for Any Fate: The Biography of Richard Brevard Russell Sr. By Sally Russell. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2004. Pp. xxxviii, 336. $35.00, ISBN 0-86554-957-5.) This biography of Richard Brevard Russell (1861-1938), the...

William J. Spillman and the Birth of Agricultural Economics.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... William J. Spillman and the Birth of Agricultural Economics. By Laurie Winn Carlson. Missouri Biography Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2005. Pp. [x], 210. $39.95, ISBN 0-8265-1581-5.) This study of William...

Gateway to Justice: The Juvenile Court and Progressive Child Welfare in a Southern City.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Gateway to Justice: The Juvenile Court and Progressive Child Welfare in a Southern City. By Jennifer Trost. Studies in the Legal History of the South. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 209. Paper, $19.95,...

The Most Segregated City in America: City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920-1980.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... "The Most Segregated City in America": City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920-1980. By Charles E. Connerly. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 360. $45.00, ISBN 0-8139-2334-4.) Modern...

Theatre and Travel: Tours of the South.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Theatre and Travel: Tours of the South. Edited by Susan Kattwinkel. Theatre Symposium. (Tuscaloosa: Southeastern Theatre Conference and the University of Alabama Press, c. 2005. Pp. 128. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8173-5255-4.) This new volume...

Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Zora Neale Hurston and a History. of Southern Life. By Tiffany Ruby Patterson. Critical Perspectives on the Past. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 229. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 1-59213-290-1; cloth, 64.50, ISBN 1-59213-289-8.)...

Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida. By Gary R. Mormino. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, 2005. Pp. xviii, 457. $34.95, ISBN 0-8130-2818-3.) This long-awaited book examines...

Jewish Life in Small-Town America: A History.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Jewish Life in Small-Town America: A History. By Lee Shai Weissbach. (New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, c. 2005. Pp. x, 436. $45.00, ISBN 0-300-10671-8.) The story of Jews in America has largely played out within the...

Hugo Black of Alabama: How His Roots and Early Career Shaped the Great Champion of the Constitution.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Hugo Black of Alabama: How His Roots and Early Career Shaped the Great Champion of the Constitution. By Steve Suitts. (Montgomery: NewSouth Books, c. 2005. Pp. 640. $37.50, ISBN 1-58838-144-7.) Steve Suitts definitively covers not only the...

Charleston Reborn: A Southern City, Its Navy Yard and World War II.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Charleston Reborn: A Southern City, Its Navy Yard and World War II. By Fritz P. Hamer. (Charleston and London: History Press, 2005. Pp. 188. Paper, $24.99, ISBN 1-59629-020-X.) Considering the importance of World War II in shaping the...

Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution. By Robert J. Cottrol, Raymond T. Diamond, and Leland B. Ware. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 292. Paper,...

Strom: The Complicated Personal and Political Life of Strom Thurmond.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Strom: The Complicated Personal and Political Life of Strom Thurmond. By Jack Bass and Marilyn W. Thompson. (New York: Public Affairs, 2005. Pp. xvi, 415. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 1-58648-392-7; cloth, $27.50, ISBN 1-58648-297-1.) The...

Dewey and Elvis: The Life and Times of a Rock 'n' Roll Deejay.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Dewey and Elvis: The Life and Times of a Rock 'n' Roll Deejay. By Louis Cantor. Music in American Life. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2005. Pp. x, 287. $34.95, ISBN 0-252-02981-X.) Dewey Phillips might best be...

Claiming Citizenship: Mexican Americans in Victoria, Texas.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Claiming Citizenship: Mexican Americans in Victoria, Texas. By Anthony Quiroz. Fronteras Series. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. Pp. xxvi, 166. $32.95, ISBN 1-58544-410-3.) Anthony Quiroz's history of Mexican Americans...

"Don't Sleep with Stevens!" The J. P. Stevens Campaign and the Struggle to Organize the South, 1963-80.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... "Don't Sleep with Stevens!" The J. P. Stevens Campaign and the Struggle to Organize the South, 1963-80. By Timothy J. Minchin. New Perspectives on the History of the South. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2005....

Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws that Changed America.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America. By Nick Kotz. (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, c. 2005. Pp. xxii, 522. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-618-64183-3; cloth, $25.00, ISBN...

Religion in the Contemporary South: Changes, Continuities, and Contexts.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Religion in the Contemporary South: Changes, Continuities, and Contexts. Edited by Corrie E. Norman and Don S. Armentrout. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. Pp. xxiv, 332. $21.95, ISBN 1-57233-361-8.) In Religion in the...

School Resegregation: Must the South Turn Back?(Book review)
November 1, 2006... School Resegregation: Must the South Turn Back? Edited by John Charles Boger and Gary Orfield. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 380. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8078-5613-4; cloth, 59.95, ISBN...

Under the Workers' Caps: From Champion Mill to Blue Ridge Paper.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Under the Workers' Caps: From Champion Mill to Blue Ridge Paper. By George Loveland. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 201. $29.00, ISBN 1-57233-365-0.) In Under the Workers' Caps: From Champion Mill to Blue Ridge...

Florida 2000: A Sourcebook on the Contested Presidential Election.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Florida 2000: A Sourcebook on the Contested Presidential Election. Edited by Mark Whitman. (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 349. $65.00, ISBN 1-58826-204-9.) Mention Bush v. Gore (2000) to almost anyone of...

Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Times to the Present.(Book Notes)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Times to the Present. Millennial Edition. Vol. 1, Part A: Population; Vol. 2, Part B: Work and Welfare; Vol. 3, Part C: Economic Structure and Performance; Vol. 4, Part D: Economic Sectors;...

Between Contacts and Colonies: Archaeological Perspectives on the Protohistoric Southeast.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Between Contacts and Colonies: Archaeological Perspectives on the Protohistoric Southeast. Edited by Cameron B. Wesson and Mark A. Rees. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 2002. Pp. x, 270. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-8173-1167-X;...

Encyclopedia of Appalachia.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Encyclopedia of Appalachia. Edited by Rudy Abramson and Jean Haskell. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Pp. xxviii, 1832. $79.95, ISBN 1-57233-456-8.) This extremely useful reference book has been ten years in the making:...

Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History. Edited by Ann Laura Stoler. (Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. xx, 544. Paper, $26.95, ISBN 0-8223-3724-X; cloth, $99.00, ISBN 0-8223-3737-1.)...

Race Work: The Rise of Civil Rights in the Urban West.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Race Work: The Rise of Civil Rights in the Urban West. By Matthew C. Whitaker. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2005. Pp. xvi, 382. $35.00, ISBN 0-8032-4821-0.) Through westward migration and consistent hard work, the...

Atlas of Race, Ancestry, and Religion in 21st-Century Florida.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Atlas of Race, Ancestry, and Religion in 21st-Century Florida. By Morton B. Winsberg. Urban Cartography by Jeff Ueland. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2006. Pp. [x], 124. $29.95, ISBN 0-8130-2929-5.) Largely a...