The Journal of Southern History articles from November 2007

The Journal of Southern History archives from November 2007

The southern ties of Helen Keller.(Biography)
November 1, 2007... THOUGH HELEN KELLER LEFT HER PARENTS' HOME IN TUSCUMBIA, Alabama, at the young age of eight, the culture, people, and sensory adventures of her native state were essential to her outlook throughout her life. The deaf-blind activist, author, and...

Lewis Sperry Chafer and the roots of nondenominational fundamentalism in the South.
November 1, 2007... ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1935, SIXTY-FIVE MEMBERS OF THE FIRST Presbyterian Church of Memphis separated from their congregation and founded the nondenominational Evangelical Community Church. Many of those who left had previously served at...

World War II manufacturing and the postwar southern economy.
November 1, 2007... MANY SCHOLARS CONSIDER THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SOUTHERN economy after World War II to be a central element of the regional and economic history of the United States in the twentieth century. Even though several reasons have been posited for...

Light on the Path: The Anthropology and History of the Southeastern Indians.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Light on the Path: The Anthropology and History of the Southeastern Indians. Edited by Thomas J. Pluckhahn and Robbie Ethridge. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 283. Paper, $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8173-5287-5; cloth,...

The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent.(The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent, Early American Studies)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent. By Kathleen DuVal. Early American Studies. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c. 2006. Pp. [x], 320. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-8122-1939-5; cloth, $45.00,...

Jews and Gentiles in Early America, 1654-1800.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Jews and Gentiles in Early America, 1654-1800. By William Pencak. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 321. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-472-11454-9.) William Pencak of Pennsylvania State University studies the intersection of...

Children of Perdition: Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Children of Perdition: Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America. By Tim Hashaw. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2006. Pp. viii, 182. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-88146-074-2; cloth, $35.00, ISBN 978-0-88146-013-3.) The Melungeons...

Rape and Sexual Power in Early America.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Rape and Sexual Power in Early America. By Sharon Block. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xvi, 276. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5761-8: cloth, $45.00, 978-0-8078-3045-1.) Although it might seem obvious that...

Proslavery and Sectional Thought in the Early South, 1740-1829: An Anthology.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Proslavery and Sectional Thought in the Early South, 1740-1829: An Anthology. Edited by Jeffrey Robert Young. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 259. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-617-0; cloth, $49.95, ISBN...

Lining Out the Word: Dr. Watts Hymn Singing in the Music of Black Americans.(Lining Out the Word: Dr. Watts Hymn Singing in the Music of Black Americans, Music of the African Diaspora; Sing Them Over Again to Me: Hymns and Hymnbooks in America, Religion and American Culture)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Lining Out the Word: Dr. Watts Hymn Singing in the Music of Black Americans. By William T. Dargan. Music of the African Diaspora. (Berkeley and other cities: University of California Press, c. 2006. Pp. xvi, 320. $45.00, ISBN...

Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington. By Peter R. Henriques. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 256. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-8139-2547-9.) Peter R. Henriques presents us with not a complete...

George Washington's Enforcers: Policing the Continental Army.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... George Washington's Enforcers: Policing the Continental Army. By Harry M. Ward. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, c. 2006. Pp. xvi, 268. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8093-2688-4.) When he asked Congress for a "respectable army," George...

James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights.(James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights: Pivotal Moments in American History)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights. By Richard Labunski. Pivotal Moments in American History. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 336. $28.00, ISBN 978-0-19-518105-0.) Political scientist...

Braided Relations, Entwined Lives: The Women of Charleston's Urban Slave Society.(Braided Relations, Entwined Lives: The Women of Charleston's Urban Slave Society, Blacks in the Diaspora)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Braided Relations, Entwined Lives: The Women of Charleston's Urban Slave Society. By Cynthia M. Kennedy. Blacks in the Diaspora. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 311. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-253-34615-5.)...

Southern Single Blessedness: Unmarried Women in the Urban South, 1800-1865.(Southern Single Blessedness: Unmarried Women in the Urban South, 1800-1865, Women in American History)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Southern Single Blessedness: Unmarried Women in the Urban South, 1800-1865. By Christine Jacobson Carter. Women in American History. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 220. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03011-6.) ...

African American Life in South Carolina's Upper Piedmont, 1780-1900.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... African American Life in South Carolina's Upper Piedmont, 1780-1900. By W. J. Megginson. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xx, 546. $59.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-626-2.) W. J. Megginson's exhaustively researched...

Jefferson and the Press: Crucible of Liberty.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Jefferson and the Press: Crucible of Liberty. By Jerry W. Knudson. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xviii, 221. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-607-1.) Undoubtedly, the American founders were ill prepared for the...

The Forgotten Expedition, 1804-1805: The Louisiana Purchase Journals of Dunbar and Hunter.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Forgotten Expedition, 1804-1805: The Louisiana Purchase Journals of Dunbar and Hunter. Edited by Trey Berry, Pam Beasley, and Jeanne Clements. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. xxxvi, 248. $29.95, ISBN...

Don't Give Up the Ship!: Myths of the War of 1812.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Don't Give Up the Ship: Myths of the War of 1812. By Donald R. Hickey. Foreword by Donald E. Graves. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2006. Pp. xxx, 430. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-252-03179-3.) Don't Give Up the Ship: Myths of...

Death Rode the Rails: American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1828-1965.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Death Rode the Rails: American Railroad Accidents and Safety 1828-1965. By Mark Aldrich. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2006. Pp. xviii, 446. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8018-8236-4.) Scholars have produced an interesting corpus of...

Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Times to Ours.(Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Times to Ours, American Intellectual Culture)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Times to Ours. By Matthew Mancini. American Intellectual Culture. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield, c. 2006. Pp. xviii, 253. Paper, $28.95, ISBN 978-0-7425-2344-9:...

Gerstacker's Louisiana: Fiction and Travel Sketches from Antebellum Times through Reconstruction.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Gerstacker's Louisiana: Fiction and Travel Sketches from Antebellum Times through Reconstruction. Edited and translated by Irene S. Di Maio. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 328. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8071-3146-6.)...

Jose Maria de Jesus Carvajal: The Life and Times of a Mexican Revolutionary.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Jose Maria de Jesus Carvajal: The Life and Times of a Mexican Revolutionary. By Joseph E. Chance. (San Antonio, Tex.: Trinity University Press, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 283. $35.00, ISBN 978-1-59534-020-7.) Jose Maria de Jesus Carvajal lived...

My Likeness Taken: Daguerreian Portraits in America.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... My Likeness Taken: Daguerreian Portraits in America. By Joan L. Severa. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, c. 2005. Pp. xx, 303. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-87338-837-5.) The glimpse of a past moment that is conveyed by a daguerreotype has...

The Invincible Duff Green: Whig of the West.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Invincible Duff Green: Whig of the West. By W. Stephen Belko. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 483. $44.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1647-2.) Historians have long called for a comprehensive scholarly...

Race Relations at the Margins: Slaves and Poor Whites in the Antebellum Southern Countryside.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Race Relations at the Margins: Slaves and Poor Whites in the Antebellum Southern Countryside. By Jeff Forret. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 269. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3145-9.) In this fine study of the...

Politics and Culture of the Civil War Era: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Johannsen.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Politics and Culture of the Civil War Era: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Johannsen. Edited by Daniel McDonough and Kenneth W. Noe. (Selinsgrove, Pa.: Susquehanna University Press, c. 2006. Pp. 346. $60.00, ISBN 978-1-57591-101-4.) This...

William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War.(William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War: Civil War America)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War. By Eric H. Walther. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xiv, 477. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3027-7.) Although invariably cited as one of the...

Lincoln's Resolute Unionist: Hamilton Gamble, Dred Scott Dissenter and Missouri's Civil War Governor.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Lincoln's Resolute Unionist: Hamilton Gamble, Dred Scott Dissenter and Missouri's Civil War Governor. By Dennis K. Boman. Southern Biography Series. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 263. $45.00, ISBN...

Military Necessity: Civil-Military Relations in the Confederacy.(Military Necessity: Civil-Military Relations in the Confederacy (In War and in Peace: U.S. Civil Military Relations))(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Military Necessity: Civil-Military Relations in the Confederacy. By Paul D. Escott. In War and in Peace: U.S. Civil Military Relations. (Westport, Conn., and London: Praeger Security International, 2006. Pp. xviii, 215. $49.95, ISBN...

The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865.(The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865, Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865. By Mark R. Wilson. Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2006. Pp. xiv, 306. $45.00, ISBN...

A Separate Civil War: Communities in Conflict in the Mountain South.(A Nation Divided: New Studies in Civil War History)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... A Separate Civil War: Communities in Conflict in the Mountain South. By Jonathan Dean Sarris. A Nation Divided: New Studies in Civil War History. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 238. Paper, $22.50, ISBN...

A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom. By David Williams. New Press People's History Series. (New York and London: The New Press, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 594. Paper, $24.95, 978-1-59558-125-9; cloth, $29.95, ISBN...

Invisible Southerners: Ethnicity in the Civil War.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Invisible Southerners: Ethnicity in the Civil War. By Anne J. Bailey. Georgia Southern University Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt Lecture Series. (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2006. Pp. xvi, 95. $24.95, ISBN...

Bleeding Blue and Gray: Civil War Surgery and the Evolution of American Medicine.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Bleeding Blue and Gray: Civil War Surgery and the Evolution of American Medicine. By Ira M. Rutkow. (New York: Random House, 2005. Pp. xx, 394. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-375-50315-3.) Ira M. Rutkow's research in primary sources, personal medical...

Distant Bugles, Distant Drums: The Union Response to the Confederate Invasion of New Mexico.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Distant Bugles, Distant Drums: The Union Response to the Confederate Invasion of New Mexico. By Flint Whitlock. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, c. 2006. Pp. xxii, 293. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-87081-835-6.) For many years Civil War...

A Civil War Soldier of Christ and Country: The Selected Correspondence of John Rodgers Meigs, 1859-64.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... A Civil War Soldier of Christ and Country: The Selected Correspondence of John Rodgers Meigs, 1859-64. Edited by Mary A. Giunta. Foreword by Carol Bleser. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2006. Pp. xxiv, 310. $60.00, ISBN...

Our Trust Is in the God of Battles: The Civil War Letters of Robert Franklin Bunting, Chaplain, Terry's Texas Rangers, C.S.A.(Our Trust Is in the God of Battles: The Civil War Letters of Robert Franklin Bunting, Chaplain, Terry's Texas Rangers, C.S.A., Voices of the Civil War)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Our Trust Is in the God of Battles: The Civil War Letters of Robert Franklin Bunting, Chaplain, Terry's Texas Rangers, C.S.A. Edited by Thomas W. Cutrer. Voices of the Civil War. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Pp. xxxiv, 436....

Three Years a Soldier: The Diary and Newspaper Correspondence of Private George Perkins, Sixth New York Independent Battery, 1861-1864.(To Rescue My Native Land: The Civil War Letters of William T. Shepherd, First Illinois Light Artillery)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Three Years a Soldier: The Diary and Newspaper Correspondence of Private George Perkins, Sixth New York Independent Battery, 1861-1864. Edited by Richard N. Griffin. Voices of the Civil War. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Pp....

No Pardons to Ask, nor Apologies to Make: The Journal of William Henry King, Gray's 28th Louisiana Infantry Regiment.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... No Pardons to Ask, nor Apologies to Make: The Journal of William Henry King, Gray's 28th Louisiana Infantry Regiment. Edited by Gary D. Joiner, Marilyn S. Joiner, and Clifton D. Cardin. Voices of the Civil War. (Knoxville: University of...

Key Command: Ulysses S. Grant's District of Cairo.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Key Command: Ulysses S. Grant's District of Cairo. By T. K. Kionka. Shades of Blue and Gray Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2006. Pp. xiv, 229. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1655-7.) In September 1861 the newly...

The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views (Social, Political, Iconographic).(The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War))(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views (Social, Political, Iconographic). By Harold Holzer, Edna Greene Medford, and Frank J. Williams. With a foreword by John Hope Franklin. Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War....

Private Fleming at Chancellorsville: The Red Badge of Courage and the Civil War.(The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: A Chaplain's Story)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Private Fleming at Chancellorsville: The Red Badge of Courage and the Civil War. By Perry Lentz. Shades of Blue and Gray Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 359. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1654-0.) ...

Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg. By Timothy B. Smith. (New York: Savas Beatie, 2004. Pp. xviii, 502. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-1-932714-19-7; cloth, $34.95, ISBN 978-1-932714-00-5.) There are already a number of very excellent...

Gettysburg Requiem: The Life and Lost Causes of Confederate Colonel William C. Oates.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Gettysburg Requiem: The Life and Lost Causes of Confederate Colonel William C. Oates. By Glenn W. LaFantasie. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xxxiv, 414. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-19-517458-8.) Since the fight on...

The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864.(Military Campaigns of the Civil War, vol. 9)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864. Edited by Gary W. Gallagher. Military Campaigns of the Civil War. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xxii, 392. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3005-5.) The ninth volume to appear...

The Officers of the CSS Shenandoah.(The Officers of the CSS Shenandoah: New Perspectives on the History of the South)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Officers of the CSS Shenandoah. By Angus Curry. Foreword by John David Smith. New Perspectives on the History of the South. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2006. Pp. xiv, 428. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8130-2943-6.)...

Vicksburg's Long Shadow: The Civil War Legacy of Race and Remembrance.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Vicksburg's Long Shadow: The Civil War Legacy of Race and Remembrance. By Christopher Waldrep. American Crisis Series. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2005. Pp. xx, 344. $26.95, ISBN...

Uncivil War: Five New Orleans Street Battles and the Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Uncivil War: Five New Orleans Street Battles and the Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction. By James K. Hogue. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 227. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3147-3.) James K. Hogue makes a...

Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom. By Heather Andrea Williams. The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2005. Pp. xvi,...

Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race: Mississippi after Reconstruction, 1877-1917.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race: Mississippi after Reconstruction, 1877-1917. By Stephen Cresswell. Heritage of Mississippi. (Jackson: Published by the University Press of Mississippi for the Mississippi Historical Society, 2006. Pp. x, 283....

Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation. By Moon-Ho Jung. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 275. $48.95, ISBN 978-0-8018-8281-4.) This broadly conceived work expands historical studies...

Crossing the Rio Grande: An Immigrant's Life in the 1880s.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Crossing the Rio Grande: An Immigrant's Life in the 1880s. By Luis G. Gomez. Edited by Guadalupe Valdez Jr. and Thomas H. Kreneck. Gulf Coast Studies. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 106. $23.00, ISBN...

A Common Humanity: Kansas Populism and the Battle for Justice and Equality, 1854-1903.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... A Common Humanity: Kansas Populism and the Battle for Justice and Equality, 1854-1903. By O. Gene Clanton. (Manhattan, Kans.: Sunflower University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 328. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-89745-276-2.) O. Gene Clanton has provided...

Mayor Crump Don't Like It: Machine Politics in Memphis.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Mayor Crump Don't Like It: Machine Politics in Memphis. By G. Wayne Dowdy. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006. Pp. xii, 159. $38.00, ISBN 978-1-57806-859-3.) In this slim volume G. Wayne Dowdy, a senior librarian and archivist...

Reading Southern Poverty between the Wars, 1918-1939.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Reading Southern Poverty between the Wars, 1918-1939. Edited by Richard Godden and Martin Crawford. (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2006. Pp. xvi, 247. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2708-2.) This strong collection of essays...

A Talent for Living: Josephine Pinckney and the Charleston Literary Tradition.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... A Talent for Living: Josephine Pinckney and the Charleston Literary Tradition. By Barbara L. Bellows. Southern Literary Studies. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. xviii, 301. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3163-3.) Barbara...

Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918-1945.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918-1945. By Anthony J. Stanonis. (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2006. Pp. xvi, 317. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2822-5; cloth, $59.95, ISBN...

Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History. By Anne Mitchell Whisnant. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xxvi, 434. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3037-6.) National park histories have multiplied over the past...

Lucy Somerville Howorth: New Deal Lawyer, Politician, and Feminist from the South.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Lucy Somerville Howorth: New Deal Lawyer, Politician, and Feminist from the South. By Dorothy S. Shawhan and Martha H. Swain. With a foreword by Anne Firor Scott. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. xx, 234. $42.95, ISBN...

A Commonwealth of Hope: The New Deal Response to Crisis.(Backlash: The Killing of the New Deal)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... A Commonwealth of Hope: The New Deal Response to Crisis. By Alan Lawson. The American Moment. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2006. Pp. xviii, 280. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8018-8407-8; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-8406-1.)...

Handling Serpents: Pastor Jimmy Morrow's Narrative History of His Appalachian Jesus' Name Tradition.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Handling Serpents: Pastor Jimmy Morrow's Narrative History of His Appalachian Jesus' Name Tradition. By Jimmy Morrow with Ralph W. Hood Jr., editor. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2005. Pp. xliv, 210. Paper, $19.00, ISBN...

Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920-1950.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920-1950. By John van Willigen and Anne van Willigen. Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History Series. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2006. Pp. xx, 260. $35.00, ISBN...

Southern Farmers and Their Stories: Memory and Meaning in Oral History.(Southern Farmers and Their Stories: Memory and Meaning in Oral History, New Directions in Southern History)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Southern Farmers and Their Stories: Memory and Meaning in Oral History. By Melissa Walker. New Directions in Southern History. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2006. Pp. xiv, 324. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2409-4.) Storytelling,...

Song for My Fathers: A New Orleans Story in Black and White.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Song for My Fathers: A New Orleans Story in Black and White. By Tom Sancton. (New York: Other Press, c. 2006. Pp. [vi], 305. $24.95, ISBN 978-1-59051-243-2.) Although it was presumably as a music historian that I was approached to write...

The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South.(The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South, Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South. By Matthew D. Lassiter. Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford: Princeton University Press, c. 2006. Pp. xviii, 387. $35.00, ISBN...

Martin Luther King Jr.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Martin Luther King Jr. By John A. Kirk. Profiles in Power. (New York and other cities: Pearson/Longman, 2005. Pp. xiv, 230. Paper, $20.60, ISBN 978-0-582-41431-0.) Professor John A. Kirk's biography of Martin Luther King Jr. is part of...

Floridian of His Century: The Courage of Governor LeRoy Collins.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Floridian of His Century: The Courage of Governor LeRoy Collins. By Martin A. Dyckman. Foreword by Gary R. Mormino and Raymond Arsenault. The Florida History and Culture Series. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c....

Challenging U.S. Apartheid: Atlanta and Black Struggles for Human Rights, 1960-1977.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Challenging U.S. Apartheid: Atlanta and Black Struggles for Human Rights, 1960-1977. By Winston A. Grady-Willis. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. xxiv, 288. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3791-1; cloth, $79.95, ISBN...

South Carolina at the Brink: Robert McNair and the Politics of Civil Rights.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... South Carolina at the Brink: Robert McNair and the Politics of Civil Rights. By Philip G. Grose. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xxii, 360. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-624-8.) In South Carolina at the Brink: Robert...

Justice in Mississippi: The Murder Trial of Edgar Ray Killen.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Justice in Mississippi: The Murder Trial of Edgar Ray Killen. By Howard Ball. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2006. Pp. xvi, 254. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1461-5.) For forty-one years the state of Mississippi charged no one for the...

Writing Southern Politics: Contemporary Interpretations and Future Directions.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Writing Southern Politics: Contemporary Interpretations and Future Directions. Edited by Robert P. Steed and Laurence W. Moreland. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2006. Pp. xiv, 314. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2382-0.) The...

The New Politics of the Old South: An Introduction to Southern Politics, Third Edition.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The New Politics of the Old South: An Introduction to Southern Politics, Third Edition. Edited by Charles S. Bullock III and Mark J. Rozell. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2007. Pp. vi, 341. Paper,...

Inside the Carnival: Unmasking Louisiana Politics.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Inside the Carnival: Unmasking Louisiana Politics. By Wayne Parent. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 177. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 978-0-8071-3198-5; cloth, $26.95, ISBN 978-0-8071-2938-8.) In his previous work...

Grassroots Music in the Upper Cumberland.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Grassroots Music in the Upper Cumberland. Edited by William Lynwood Montell. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Pp. xxiv, 311. $24.95, ISBN 978-1-57233-545-5.) This study examines roots-based music in eight south-central...

Being-in-Christ and Putting Death in Its Place: An Anthropologist's Account of Christian Performance in Spanish America and the American South.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Being-in-Christ and Putting Death in Its Place: An Anthropologist's Account of Christian Performance in Spanish America and the American South. By Miles Richardson. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. xxii, 414. Paper,...

My Century in History: Memoirs.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... My Century in History: Memoirs. By Thomas D. Clark. Foreword by Charles P. Roland. Introduction by James C. Klotter. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2006. Pp. xx, 393. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8131-2400-1; leather, $100.00, ISBN...

Leavin' a Testimony: Portraits from Rural Texas.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Leavin' a Testimony: Portraits from Rural Texas. By Patsy Cravens. Foreword by John B. Boles. Afterword by Bob Patten. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. Pp. xxiv, 303. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-292-71305-5.) Patsy Cravens's Leavin' a...

The Human Hambone.(Book Notes)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
November 1, 2007... The Human Hambone, VHS. Directed by Mark Morgan. Produced by Cameron Burr and Ed Bedrosian. (Brooklyn, N.Y.: First Run/Icarus Films, 2005. $225.00, 29 minutes.) The Human Hambone draws from two African American oral traditions. The first lies...

Soil Exhaustion as a Factor in the Agricultural History of Virginia and Maryland, 1606-1860.(Book Notes)(southern history)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Soil Exhaustion as a Factor in the Agricultural History of Virginia and Maryland, 1606-1860. By Avery Odelle Craven. New introduction by Louis A. Ferleger. Southern Classics Series. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp....

Agent of Empire: William Walker and the Imperial Self in American Literature.(Book Notes)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Agent of Empire: William Walker and the Imperial Self in American Literature. By Brady Harrison. (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2004. Pp. x, 238. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2544-6.) In Agent of Empire: William Walker and the...

Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, and Prairie Grove: A Battlefield Guide, with a Section on Wire Road.(Book Notes)(Sherman's 1864 Trail of Battle to Atlanta)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, and Prairie Grove: A Battlefield Guide, with a Section on Wire Road. By Earl J. Hess, Richard W. Hatcher III, William Garrett Piston, and William L. Shea. Cartography by Christopher L. Brest. This Hallowed Ground:...

Antietam: The Lost Order.(Book Notes)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Antietam: The Lost Order. By Donald R. Jermann. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 2006. Pp. 320. $24.95, ISBN 978-1-58980-366-4.) In Antietam: The Lost Order, Donald R. Jermann sets out to narrate the battle of Antietam and, within that...

Eunice: A Tale of Reconstruction Times in South Carolina.(Book Notes)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Eunice: A Tale of Reconstruction Times in South Carolina. By William James Rivers. Edited by Tara Courtney McKinney. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xxii, 253. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-640-8.) Seldom does the title...