The Journal of Southern History articles from November 2008

The Journal of Southern History archives from November 2008

Thomas Jefferson, coercion, and the limits of harmonious union.(Report)
November 1, 2008... DURING THE WINTER OF 1860-1861, PRESIDENT JAMES BUCHANAN, facing what would prove to be the great crisis of the Union, argued, on the one hand, that secession was illegal and unconstitutional and, on the other, that the federal government had...

Southern academic ambitions meet German scholarship: the Leipzig Networks of Vanderbilt University's James H. Kirkland in the late nineteenth century.(Report)
November 1, 2008... IN THE EARLY TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY MANY U.S. CITIZENS ARE AWARE OF a few great U.S. universities that happen to be located in the South. Some of these institutions have been around for more than two centuries, and all of them have contributed to...

Jesse Helms's politics of pious incitement: race, conservatism, and southern realignment in the 1950s.(Report)
November 1, 2008... IN THE SOUTH, A REGION WHERE CULTURAL AND RACIAL CONSERVATISM coexisted with loyalty to the Democratic Party and wide support for liberal economic policies, Jesse Helms became a pivotal figure in constructing the new conservatism of the 1950s...

The Whig interpretation of history: a review essay.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848. By Daniel Walker Howe. Oxford History of the United States. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. [xx], 904. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-19-507894-7.) The Age...

Making an Atlantic World: Circles, Paths, and Stories from the Colonial South.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Making an Atlantic World: Circles, Paths, and Stories from the Colonial South. By James Taylor Carson. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. Pp. xx, 161. $36.00, ISBN 978-1-57233-479-3.) While studying for his Canadian...

1607: Jamestown and the New World.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... 1607: Jamestown and the New World. Compiled by Dennis Montgomery with the staff of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Principal photography by David M. Doody. (Williamsburg, Va.: Published by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in...

The Papers of Sir William Berkeley, 1605-1677.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... The Papers of Sir William Berkeley, 1605-1677. Edited by Warren M. Billings with the assistance of Maria Kimberly. (Richmond: Library of Virginia, c. 2007. Pp. [1], 682. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-88490-207-2.) Sir William Berkeley is among the...

The King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... The King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776. By Brendan McConville. (Chapel Hill: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xviii],...

Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the Illinois Country.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the Illinois Country. By Carl J. Ekberg. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xviii], 236. $38.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03208-0.) In three prior works Carl J. Ekberg, through...

Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family. By Claudio Saunt. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 300. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-19-517631-5.) Claudio Saunt's Black, White, and Indian:...

Signs, Cures, and Witchery: German Appalachian Folklore.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Signs, Cures, and Witchery: German Appalachian Folklore. By Gerald Milnes. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 245. $35.00, ISBN 978-1-57233-577-6.) Gerald Milnes seeks to restore the folkways of German speakers in...

The Nation's Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... The Nation's Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America. By Peter J. Kastor. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c. 2004. Pp. [xiv], 311. $38.00, ISBN 0-300-10119-8.) At first glance, Peter J. Kastor's The...

War and Society in the American Revolution: Mobilization and Home Fronts.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... War and Society in the American Revolution: Mobilization and Home Fronts. Edited by John Resch and Walter Sargent. Introduction by John Shy. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, c. 2007. Pp. viii, 318. Paper, $22.50, ISBN...

Middle Tennessee, 1775-1825: Progress and Popular Democracy on the Southwestern Frontier.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Middle Tennessee, 1775-1825: Progress and Popular Democracy on the Southwestern Frontier. By Kristofer Ray. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xxviii], 236. $41.00, ISBN 978-1-57233-597-4.) Middle Tennessee,...

Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison, and the Decline of Virginia.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison, and the Decline of Virginia. By Susan Dunn. (New York: Basic Books, c. 2007. Pp. [x], 310. $27.50, ISBN 978-0-465-01743-0.) Scholars have long agreed that Virginia steadily descended from the...

Conservatism and Southern Intellectuals, 1789-1861: Liberty, Tradition, and the Good Society.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Conservatism and Southern Intellectuals, 1789-1861: Liberty, Tradition, and the Good Society. By Adam L. Tate. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2005. Pp. [xii], 402. $49.95, ISBN 0-8262-1567-X.) The older portrait of...

A Companion to 19th-Century America.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... A Companion to 19th-Century America. Edited by William L. Barney. (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, c. 2006. Pp. [x], 414. Paper, $43.95, ISBN 978-1-4051-4982-2.) Historiography is essential to our discipline, yet often students, and...

Crossing the Border: A Free Black Community in Canada.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Crossing the Border: A Free Black Community in Canada. By Sharon A. Roger Hepburn. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2007. Pp. [x], 252. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03183-0.) Sharon A. Roger Hepburn's Crossing the Border: A...

Why Not Every Man? African Americans and Civil Disobedience in the Quest for the Dream.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Why Not Every Man? African Americans and Civil Disobedience in the Quest for the Dream. By George Hendrick and Willene Hendrick. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, c. 2005. Pp. [viii], 246. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 1-56663-645-0; cloth, $24.95, ISBN...

"Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe": Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... "Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe": Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia. By Daina Ramey Berry. Women in American History. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xviii], 224. $40.00, ISBN...

Uplifting the People: Three Centuries of Black Baptists in Alabama.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Uplifting the People: Three Centuries of Black Baptists in Alabama. By Wilson Fallin Jr. Religion and American Culture. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 332. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-81731569-6.) Recent years have...

Andrew Jackson and the Constitution: The Rise and Fall of Generational Regimes.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Andrew Jackson and the Constitution: The Rise and Fall of Generational Regimes. By Gerard N. Magliocca. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2007. Pp. [xiv], 186. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1509-4.) This is a book about constitutional...

Old Hickory's Nephew: The Political and Private Struggles of Andrew Jackson Donelson.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Old Hickory's Nephew: The Political and Private Struggles of Andrew Jackson Donelson. By Mark R. Cheathem. Southern Biography Series. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. [xvi], 371. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3238-8.) As...

Origins of the Dred Scott Case: Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837-1857.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Origins of the Dred Scott Case: Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837-1857. By Austin Allen. Studies in the Legal History of the South. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xii], 274. Paper,...

Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America. By Thomas G. Mitchell. (Westport, Conn., and London: Praeger, c. 2007. Pp. vi, 289. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-275-99168-5.) This volume recounts decades of ebb and flow in the struggle...

White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001. By Michael Phillips. (Austin: University of Texas Press, c. 2006. Pp. xxxii, 267. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-292-71274-X; cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-29270968-4.) Michael Phillips...

The Two Lives of Sally Miller: A Case of Mistaken Racial Identity in Antebellum New Orleans.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... The Two Lives of Sally Miller: A Case of Mistaken Racial Identity in Antebellum New Orleans. By Carol Wilson. (New Brunswick, N.J., and London: Rutgers University Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xii], 158. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 978-0-8135-4058-0; cloth,...

A Gallant Little Army: The Mexico City Campaign.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... A Gallant Little Army: The Mexico City Campaign. By Timothy D. Johnson. Modern War Studies. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2007. Pp. x, 365. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1541-4.) The United States' war with Mexico, 1846-1848, is one...

Cortina: Defending the Mexican Name in Texas.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Cortina: Defending the Mexican Name in Texas. By Jerry Thompson. Fronteras Series, No. 6. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. Pp. [x], 332. $32.50, ISBN 978-1-58544-592-9.) Jerry Thompson has performed a difficult feat:...

The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War. By Clarissa W. Confer. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c. 2007. Pp. xii, 199. $24.95, ISBN 9780-8061-3803-9.) The outbreak of the Civil War placed the Cherokee Nation in a terrible predicament....

Irish Americans in the Confederate Army.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Irish Americans in the Confederate Army. By Sean Michael O'Brien. Foreword by Kelly J. O'Grady. (Jefferson, N.C., and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers, c. 2007. Pp. [viii], 256. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-2998-1.) Sean Michael...

Lincoln's Man in Liverpool: Consul Dudley and the Legal Battle to Stop Confederate Warships.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Lincoln's Man in Liverpool: Consul Dudley and the Legal Battle to Stop Confederate Warships. By Coy F. Cross II. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, c. 2007. Pp. x, 180. $28.95, ISBN 978-0-87580-373-9.) Coy F. Cross II examines...

Civil War Weather in Virginia.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Civil War Weather in Virginia. By Robert K. Krick. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xii], 178. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8173-1577-1.) Weather often plays a dramatic role in warfare, a fact long acknowledged by military...

Men of Fire: Grant, Forrest, and the Campaign That Decided the Civil War.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Men of Fire: Grant, Forrest, and the Campaign That Decided the Civil War. By Jack Hurst. (New York: Basic Books, c. 2007. Pp. [xx], 442. $27,95, ISBN 978-0-465-03184-9.) Jack Hurst's Men of Fire: Grant, Forrest, and the Campaign That...

Act of Justice: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Act of Justice: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War. By Burrus M. Carnahan. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2007. Pp. [x], 202. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2463-6.) Such eminent historians as John Hope Franklin...

Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory. By Christian B. Keller. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007. Pp. [xiv], 222. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-2650-4.) When on May 2, 1863, General Thomas J....

Earthen Walls, Iron Men: Fort DeRussy, Louisiana, and the Defense of Red River.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Earthen Walls, Iron Men: Fort DeRussy, Louisiana, and the Defense of Red River. By Steven M. Mayeux. Foreword by Edwin C. Bearss. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 370. $45.00, ISBN 978-157233-576-9.) Laid out and...

Trench Warfare under Grant and Lee: Field Fortifications in the Overland Campaign.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Trench Warfare under Grant and Lee: Field Fortifications in the Overland Campaign. By Earl J. Hess. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xx], 313. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-80783154-0.) This study...

The Horrid Pit: The Battle of the Crater, the Civil War's Cruelest Mission.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... The Horrid Pit: The Battle of the Crater, the Civil War's Cruelest Mission. By Alan Axelrod. (New York: Carroll and Graf Publishers, 2007. Pp. [xii], 284. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-7867-1811-5.) The final year of the Civil War in Virginia has...

Lincoln Revisited: New Insights from the Lincoln Forum.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Lincoln Revisited: New Insights from the Lincoln Forum. Edited by John Y. Simon, Harold Holzer, and Dawn Vogel. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007. Pp. [xvi], 369. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-8232-2736-5.) Given the wealth of literature...

A Higher Purpose: Profiles in Presidential Courage.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... A Higher Purpose: Profiles in Presidential Courage. By Thomas J. Whalen. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2007. Pp. xvi, 254. $26.00, ISBN 978-1-56663-630-8.) Frequently, presidents of the United States are called on to make tough decisions, ones...

The Making of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park: A Devil, Two Rivers, and a Dream.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... The Making of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park: A Devil, Two Rivers, and a Dream. By Teresa S. Moyer and Paul A. Shackel. American Association for State and Local History Book Series. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield...

"Take Up the Black Man's Burden": Kansas City's African American Communities, 1865-1939.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... "Take Up the Black Man's Burden": Kansas City's African American Communities, 1865-1939. By Charles E. Coulter. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 345. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1649-6.) This fine urban...

Records of the Moravians in North Carolina. vol. 13: 1867-1876.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Records of the Moravians in North Carolina. Volume 13: 1867-1876. Edited by C. Daniel Crews and Lisa D. Bailey. (Raleigh: Office of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 2006. Pp. [xvi], [6767]-7330. $25.00,...

To Save My Race from Abuse: The Life of Samuel Robert Cassius.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... To Save My Race from Abuse: The Life of Samuel Robert Cassius. By Edward J. Robinson. Religion and American Culture. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2007. Pp. xii, 212. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8173-1555-9.) This biography explores...

African American Environmental Thought: Foundations.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... African American Environmental Thought: Foundations. By Kimberly K. Smith. American Political Thought. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2007. Pp. [xii], 257. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1516-2.) Kimberly K. Smith has tackled a thorny...

Charles Goodnight: Father of the Texas Panhandle.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Charles Goodnight: Father of the Texas Panhandle. By William T. Hagan. Oklahoma Western Biographies. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c. 2007. Pp. xiv, 147. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3882-4; cloth, $26.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3827-5.)...

Tascosa: Its Life and Gaudy Times.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Tascosa: Its Life and Gaudy Times. By Frederick Nolan. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xx], 361. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-89672-604-8.) Tascosa, Texas, endured for less than fifty years, and it was only ever a small town: it...

Sutton E. Griggs and the Struggle against White Supremacy.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Sutton E. Griggs and the Struggle against White Supremacy. By Finnie D. Coleman. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. Pp. [xxiv], 166. $35.00, ISBN 978-1-57233-480-9.) Finnie D. Coleman's study of the early-twentieth-century...

William Montgomery Brown (1855-1937): The Southern Episcopal Bishop Who Became a Communist.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... William Montgomery Brown (1855-1937): The Southern Episcopal Bishop Who Became a Communist. By Ronald M. Carden. Preface by John B. Boles. (Lewiston, N.Y., and other cities: Edwin Mellen Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xii], 268. $109.95, ISBN...

At the Heart of Texas: One Hundred Years of the Texas State Historical Association, 1897-1997.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... At the Heart of Texas: One Hundred Years of the Texas State Historical Association, 1897-1997. By Richard B. McCaslin. Foreword by J. P. Bryan. Illustrated and with captions and sidebars by Janice Pinney. (Austin: Texas State Historical...

The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines. By Paul A. Kramer. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xiv], 538. Paper, $26.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5653-6; cloth, $69.95, ISBN...

Gary Hollow: A History of the Largest Coal Mining Operation in the World.(Coalwood: A History of the West Virginia Mining Communities of Coalwood, Caretta and Six)(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Gary Hollow: A History of the Largest Coal Mining Operation in the World. By Alex P. Schust. (Harwood, Md.: Two Mule Publishing Company, c. 2005. Pp. vi, 474. $65.00, ISBN 0-9767517-0-4.) Coalwood: A History of the West Virginia Mining...

Eliza Calvert Hall: Kentucky Author and Suffragist.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Eliza Calvert Hall: Kentucky Author and Suffragist. By Lynn E. Niedermeier. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2007. Pp. [x], 284. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2470-4.) Lynn E. Niedermeier's Eliza Calvert Hall: Kentucky Author and...

Christian Sisterhood, Race Relations, and the YWCA, 1906-46.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Christian Sisterhood, Race Relations, and the YWCA, 1906-46. By Nancy Marie Robertson. Women in American History. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xx], 276. $45.00, ISBN 978-0252-03193-9.) Christian...

Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, the Extension Service, and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, the Extension Service, and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas. By Debra A. Reid. Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, No. 14. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. Pp. [xxxii], 295. $39.95,...

Lone Star Lawmen: The Second Century of the Texas Rangers.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Lone Star Lawmen: The Second Century of the Texas Rangers. By Robert M. Utley. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. [xvi], 400. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-19-515444-3.) Scholars who have followed revisionist...

Amy Ashwood Garvey: Pan-Africanist, Feminist and Mrs. Marcus Garvey No. 1; Or, A Tale of Two Amies.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Amy Ashwood Garvey: Pan-Africanist, Feminist and Mrs. Marcus Garvey No. 1; Or, A Tale of Two Amies. By Tony Martin. The New Marcus Garvey Library, No. 4. (Dover, Mass.: Majority Press, 2007. Pp. 450. $40.00, ISBN 0-912469-06-4.) Tony...

Inherit the Land: Jim Crow Meets Miss Maggie's Will.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Inherit the Land: Jim Crow Meets Miss Maggie's Will. By Gene Stowe. Illustrated by Carl A. Sergio. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006. Pp. xii, 309. $35.00, ISBN 1-57806-864-9.) Gene Stowe has done a tremendous service for...

Willie Wells: "El Diablo" of the Negro Leagues.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Willie Wells: "El Diablo" of the Negro Leagues. By Bob Luke. Foreword by Monte Irvin. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 192. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-292-71751-0; cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-292-71674-2.) Until the 1970s,...

A Hard Journey: The Life of Don West.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... A Hard Journey: The Life of Don West. By James J. Lorence. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xx], 308. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-252-03231-8.) A Hard Journey: The Life of Don West is the biography of a union...

This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal. By Sarah T. Phillips. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. [xii], 289. Paper, $23.99, ISBN 978-0-521-61796-3; cloth, $79.00, ISBN...

Building Louisiana: The Legacy of the Public Works Administration.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Building Louisiana: The Legacy of the Public Works Administration. By Robert D. Leighninger Jr. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. Pp. xxx, 298. $50.00, ISBN 978-1-57806-945-3.) Robert D. Leighninger Jr., a faculty associate...

The South's Tolerable Alien: Roman Catholics in Alabama and Georgia, 1945-1970.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... The South's Tolerable Alien: Roman Catholics in Alabama and Georgia, 1945-1970. By Andrew S. Moore. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. [xiv], 210. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3212-8.) This text breaks new ground in...

Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America. By Peniel E. Joseph. (New York: Henry Holt and Company, c. 2006. Pp. [xvi], 399. Paper, $17.00, ISBN 978-0-8050-8335-4; cloth, $27.50, ISBN 978-0-8050-7539-7.) ...

There When We Needed Him: Wiley Austin Branton, Civil Rights Warrior.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... There When We Needed Him: Wiley Austin Branton, Civil Rights Warrior. By Judith Kilpatrick. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2007. Pp. x, 221. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-55728-848-6.) Wiley Austin Branton is an often overlooked...

Beyond Little Rock: The Origins and Legacies of the Central High Crisis.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Beyond Little Rock: The Origins and Legacies of the Central High Crisis. By John A. Kirk. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 213. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-1-55728-851-6; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-1-55728-850-9.) A...

Richard B. Russell: Southern Nationalism and American Foreign Policy.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Richard B. Russell: Southern Nationalism and American Foreign Policy. By Jeff Woods. Biographies in American Foreign Policy. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2007. Pp. [xxii], 173. $66.00, ISBN...

The First Modern Campaign: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... The First Modern Campaign: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960. By Gary A. Donaldson. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2007. Pp. [x], 199. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-7425-4800-8; cloth, $70.00,...

Free at Last to Vote: The Alabama Origins of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Free at Last to Vote: The Alabama Origins of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. By Brian K. Landsberg. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2007. Pp. [xiv], 264. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1510-0.) The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 and 1868 were...

Breaking Through: John B. McLendon, Basketball Legend and Civil Rights Pioneer.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Breaking Through: John B. McLendon, Basketball Legend and Civil Rights Pioneer. By Milton S. Katz. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2007. Pp. xxii, 256. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-55728-847-9.) In this thoroughly readable biography...

The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights. By Simon Wendt. New Perspectives on the History of the South. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, 2007. Pp. [xiv], 279. $39.95, ISBN...

Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle. By Laurie B. Green. John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xiv], 415. Paper,...

From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice. By Thomas F. Jackson. Politics and Culture in Modern America. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c. 2007. Pp. [viii], 459. $39.95,...

Beloved Women: The Political Lives of LaDonna Harris and Wilma Mankiller.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Beloved Women: The Political Lives of LaDonna Harris and Wilma Mankiller. By Sarah Eppler Janda. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, c. 2007. Pp. x, 232. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-87580-372-2.) Sarah Eppler Janda interprets the lives of...

How the South Joined the Gambling Nation: The Politics of State Policy Innovation.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... How the South Joined the Gambling Nation: The Politics of State Policy Innovation. By Michael Nelson and John Lyman Mason. Foreword by Theodore J. Lowi. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. [xvi], 263. $35.00, ISBN...

Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Property on the Postslavery Plantation.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Property on the Postslavery Plantation. By Jessica Adams. New Directions in Southern Studies. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xiv], 226. Paper, $22.50, ISBN...

Ordering the Facade: Photography and Contemporary Southern Women's Writing.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Ordering the Facade: Photography and Contemporary Southern Women's Writing. By Katherine Henninger. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xxii], 232. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5805-9; cloth, $59.95, ISBN...

The Warrior's Path: Reflections along an Ancient Route.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... The Warrior's Path: Reflections along an Ancient Route. By Casey Clabough. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. Pp. [xii], 188. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-1-57233-602-5.) It is difficult to know what to make of this peculiar little...

Deep Time and the Texas High Plains: History and Geology.(Book Notes)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Deep Time and the Texas High Plains: History and Geology. By Paul H. Carlson. Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, c. 2005. Pp. [xviii], 141. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-89672-553-9; cloth,...

Going to Texas: Five Centuries of Texas Maps.(Book Notes)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Going to Texas: Five Centuries of Texas Maps. Presented by the Center for Texas Studies at TCU. (Fort Worth, Tex.: TCU Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xii], 120. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-87565-344-0.) This handsome coffee-table book contains sixty-four color...

This Strange Story: Jewish and Christian Interpretation of the Curse of Canaan from Antiquity to 1865.(Book Notes)(Book review)
November 1, 2008... This Strange Story: Jewish and Christian Interpretation of the Curse of Canaan from Antiquity to 1865. By Stacy Davis. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: University Press of America, Inc., c. 2008. Pp. xiv, 233. Paper, $34.00, ISBN...

Fighting for Honor: The History of African Martial Arts Traditions in the Atlantic World.(Book Notes)(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Fighting for Honor: The History of African Martial Arts Traditions in the Atlantic World. By T. J. Desch Obi. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2008. Pp. [xviii], 346. $49.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-718-4.) T. J. Desch Obi has traced...

The Battle of Camden: A Documentary History.(Book Notes)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2008... The Battle of Camden: A Documentary History. By Jim Piecuch. (Charleston, S.C., and London: History Press, 2006. Pp. 159. Paper, $24.99, ISBN 1-59629-144-3.) By 1780 the British army had shifted its strategic focus to subjugating Britain's...