Recently added articles from The Journal of Southern History:

Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South.(Book review)

Feb 01, 2008; Wennersten, John R. ... Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South. By Jack Temple Kirby. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xxii], 361. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3057-4.) Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South is a historical analysis of the ...

Democracy and its consequences in Antebellum America: a review essay.(Social Change in America: From the Revolution Through the Civil War, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln)(Book review)

Feb 01, 2008; Ford, Lacy K. ... Social Change in America: From the Revolution Through the Civil War. By Christopher Clark. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2006. Pp. [xiv], 349. $27.50, ISBN 978-1-56663-686-5.) The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln. By Sean Wilentz. (New York and London: W. W. Norton and ...

Reconsidering suffrage reform in the 1829-1830 Virginia constitutional convention.(Essay)

Feb 01, 2008; Curtis, Christopher M. ... JAMES MONROE CONVENED VIRGINIA'S FIRST CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION on a tellingly dour note. "All other republics have failed," he remarked. The landscapes of the once mighty Roman and Grecian republics were now dominated by the "ruins of ancient buildings," and the present inhabitants of ...

New world, real world: improvising English culture in seventeenth-century Virginia.

Feb 01, 2008; Carson, Gary ... CULTURE IS INDIVISIBLE FROM PLACE. SOME BELIEFS, CUSTOMS, AND practices can be transplanted from one location to another and come through more or less intact. Others are significantly altered by the alien conditions they encounter in their new surroundings. The four-hundredth anniversary ...

Was Marie white? The trajectory of a question in the United States.(Essay)

Feb 01, 2008; Painter, Nell Irvin ... MY TOPIC IS TAXONOMY: THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF CLASSIFYING living organisms, in this case human beings, into discrete categories. (1) My examples, verbal and visual, come from the realm of the imagination--from literature, science, and visual imagery as well as from scholarship--for ...

Hunting for Hides: Deerskins, Status, and Cultural Change in the Protohistoric Appalachians.(Book review)

Feb 01, 2008; Stine, Linda France ... Hunting for Hides: Deerskins, Status, and Cultural Change in the Protohistoric Appalachians. By Heather A. Lapham. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2005. Pp. [xiv], 184. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8173-5276-9; cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8173-1493-4.) Heather A ....

Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina.(Book review)

Feb 01, 2008; Massey, Gregory D. ... Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina. By S. Max Edelson. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. [xvi], 383. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-674-02303-1.) S. Max Edelson's Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina describes a plantation culture ...

Jamestown, the Buried Truth.(Book review)

Feb 01, 2008; Bernhard, Virginia ... Jamestown, the Buried Truth. By William M. Kelso. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. Pp. [xiv], 238. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8139-2563-9.) For many decades archaeologists believed that the original site of the 1607 fort at Jamestown had long since disappeared into ...

Caribbean and Southern: Transnational Perspectives on the U.S. South.(Book review)

Feb 01, 2008; Rucker, Walter C. ... Caribbean and Southern: Transnational Perspectives on the U.S. South. Edited by Helen A. Regis. Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings, No. 38. (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2006. Pp. [x], 154. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2832-4; cloth, $39.95, ISBN ...

The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America.(Book review)

Feb 01, 2008; Jennison, Watson W. ... The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America. By Walter C. Rucker. Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. [xiv], 288. $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-3109-1.) In The River Flows On: ...

Stono: Documenting and Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt.(Book review)

Feb 01, 2008; Little, Thomas J. ... Stono: Documenting and Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt. Edited by Mark M. Smith. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2005. Pp. [xviii], 134. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 1-57003-605-5; cloth, $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-604-7.) This book, a collection of primary and secondary ...

The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia.(Book review)

Feb 01, 2008; Hofstra, Warren R. ... The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia. By Christopher E. Hendricks. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Pp. xxii, 186. $36.00, ISBN 978-1-57233-543-1.) Christopher E. Hendricks's book is a good start on a big subject. That subject is not by necessity colonial, ...

A Secular Faith: Why Christianity Favors the Separation of Church and State.(Book review)

Feb 01, 2008; Hankins, Barry ... A Secular Faith: Why Christianity Favors the Separation of Church and State. By Darryl Hart. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2006. Pp. xiv, 273. $26.95, ISBN 978-1-56663-576-9.) Darryl Hart can be frustrating. Rarely, however, is he boring. In this book Hart wants to know "what ... ...

The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe.(In Jefferson's Shadow: The Architecture of Thomas R. Blackburn)(Book review)

Feb 01, 2008; Windsor-Liscombe, Rhodri ... The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe. By Michael W. Fazio and Patrick A. Snadon. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. xx, 769. $75.00, ISBN 0-8018-8104-8.) In Jefferson's Shadow: The Architecture of Thomas R. Blackburn. By Bryan Clark Green ....

The United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America.(Book review)

Feb 01, 2008; Starnes, Richard D. ... The United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America. By Jeff Biggers. (Emeryville, Calif.: Shoemaker and Hoard, c. 2006. Pp. [xviii], 238. $26.00, ISBN 978-1-59376-031-1.) In this wide-ranging and well-written ...

George Mason, Forgotten Founder.(Book review)

Feb 01, 2008; Middleton, Stephen ... George Mason, Forgotten Founder. By Jeff Broadwater. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xiv], 329. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3053-6.) During the Constitutional Convention of 1787, only about a dozen of its delegates actively participated in the debates ...

Emancipating New York: The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777-1827.(Book review)

Feb 01, 2008; Newman, Richard ... Emancipating New York: The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777-1827. By David N. Gellman. Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. [xiv], 297. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3174-9.) Slavery in New York has become a hot ...

The American Revolution and Righteous Community: Selected Sermons of Bishop Robert Smith.(Book review)

Feb 01, 2008; Kidd, Thomas S. ... The American Revolution and Righteous Community: Selected Sermons of Bishop Robert Smith. Edited by Charles Wilbanks. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. xxiv, 280. $49.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-665-1.) Charles Wilbanks provides a valuable edition of sermons ...

Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy.(Book review)

Feb 01, 2008; Cayton, Andrew ... Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy. By Francis D. Cogliano. Jeffersonian America. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. Pp. [xii], 276. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8139-2619-3.) Perhaps the best way to meet Thomas Jefferson is to look up the sweep of the Lawn toward ...

Race and Liberty in the New Nation: Emancipation in Virginia from the Revolution to Nat Turner's Rebellion.(Book review)

Feb 01, 2008; Irons, Charles ... Race and Liberty in the New Nation: Emancipation in Virginia from the Revolution to Nat Turner's Rebellion. By Eva Sheppard Wolf. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. [xxiv], 284. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3194-7.) Eva Sheppard Wolf traces white Virginians' ...