Recently added articles from The Journal of Southern History:
Rethinking the "unthinking decision": old questions and new problems in the history of slavery and race in the colonial South.(Essay)
Aug 01, 2009; ... IN RECENT DECADES, HISTORIANS OF EARLY NORTH AMERICA HAVE explored the emergence of the institution of black chattel slavery. They have also investigated ideas of heritable physical differences and inferiorities that justified and defended slavery--concepts that moderns have called race ....
Citizens More Than Soldiers: The Kentucky Militia and Society in the Early Republic.(Book review)
Aug 01, 2009; ... Citizens More Than Soldiers: The Kentucky Militia and Society in the Early Republic. By Harry S. Laver. Studies in War, Society, and the Military. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xii], 216. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8032-2970-9.) In this study of ...
The bulldozer revolution: suburbs and southern history since World War II.(Essay)
Aug 01, 2009; ... A GENERATION AGO, A STATE-OF-THE-FIELD FORUM ON SOUTHERN history would have included an entry on cities rather than suburbs. Ever since the World War II era, southern historians have followed the lead of V. O. Key Jr., who in 1949 predicted, "The growth of cities contains the seeds of ...
Commemorating seventy-five years of the Journal of Southern History.(Forum)
Aug 01, 2009 ... IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER 1934, WHEN THE SOUTHERN HISTORICAL Association was being formed, the historians involved resolved that the primary purpose of the organization would be "the promotion of interest and research in southern history ...." Those present agreed to establish a periodical, ...
Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic. Volume 2: The Coming of the Civil War, 1850-1861.(Book review)
Aug 01, 2009; ... Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic. Volume 2: The Coming of the Civil War, 1850-1861. By John Ashworth. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. [x], 683. Paper, $34.99, ISBN 978-0-521-71369-6; cloth, $126.00, ISBN 978-0-521-88592-8.) ...