The Journal of Southern History back issues from August 2002:
The pleasures of resistance: enslaved women and body politics in the plantation South, 1830-1861.
Aug 01, 2002; ... AS A YOUNG WOMAN, NANCY WILLIAMS JOINED OTHER ENSLAVED PEOPLE and "cou'tin' couples" who would "slip 'way" to an "ole cabin" a few miles from the Virginia plantation where she lived. Deep in the woods, away from slaveholding eyes, they held secret parties, where they amused themselves ...
Religion, gender, and the lost cause in South Carolina's 1876 governor's race: "Hampton or Hell!".
Aug 01, 2002; ... GENERAL WADE HAMPTON, THE CONFEDERATE CAVALRY HERO, RODE again on October 7, 1876. Flanked by the paramilitary arm of the South Carolina Democratic Party--which was made up of local groups known as "rifle clubs"--Hampton entered the midlands town of Sumter, South Carolina, an important ...
The historical ideology of Mildred Lewis Rutherford: a confederate historian's New South creed.
Aug 01, 2002; ... "PATRIOTIC MEN AND WOMEN OF THE NORTH AS WELL AS OF THE SOUTH," Mildred Lewis Rutherford wrote in 1915, "are demanding true history, and our sectional differences will disappear when we succeed in getting down to the truth of history." Rutherford, the long-serving national historian of the ...
Before NASCAR: the corporate and civic promotion of automobile racing in the American South, 1903-1927.(National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing )
Aug 01, 2002; ... IN RECENT DECADES, HISTORIANS STUDYING THE SOUTH HAVE ANALYZED sport and leisure activities to illuminate an array of broader topics. For example, they have mined accounts of ball games and horse races for insights into such vital aspects of society as segregation, gender relations, honor, ...
To Make Our World Anew: a History of African Americans.(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2002; ... Edited by Robin D. G. Kelley and Earl Lewis. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, c. 2000. Pp. xviii, 670. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-513945-3.) Robin D. G. Kelley and Earl Lewis have provided us with what amounts to the first new interpretation of African American ...
One Drop of Blood: the American Misadventure of Race.
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Scott L. Malcomson. (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, c. 2000. Pp. viii, 584. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-374-52794-6; cloth, $30.00, ISBN 0-374-24079-5.) Fresh, fascinating, comprehensive, insightful, self-indulgent, and exhausting, Scott Malcomson's One Drop of Blood presents ...
Creolization in the Americas.
Aug 01, 2002; ... Edited by David Buisseret and Steven G. Reinhardt. Introduction by David Buisseret. The Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, No. 32. (College Station: Published by Texas A&M University Press for the University of Texas at Arlington, 2000. Pp. [xii], 145. Paper, $16.95, ISBN ...
Black Civil Rights in America.(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Kevern Verney. Introductions to History. (London and New York: Routledge, 2000. Pp. vi, 135. $16.95, ISBN 0-415-23888-9.) Kevern Verney's slender volume is part of Routledge's series "Introductions to History," the purpose of which is to inform undergraduates about ...
Damned Souls in a Tobacco Colony: Religion in Seventeenth-Century Virginia.(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Edward L. Bond. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2000. Pp. [xii], 330. $35.00, ISBN 0-86554-708-4.) In recent years colonial Virginia has been examined from almost every conceivable angle: slavery, tobacco culture, social structure, Indian relations, gender ...
Flowing Through Time: a History of the Lower Chattahoochee River.(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Lynn Willoughby. (Tuscaloosa and London: Published by the University of Alabama Press in cooperation with the Historic Chattahoochee Commission and the Columbus Museum, c. 1999. Pp. [xiv], 234. $29.95, ISBN 0-8173-0934-9.) Lynn Willoughby's excellent work uses archaeological ...
From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers.
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Allan Kulikoff. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xvi], 484. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8078-4882-4; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2569-7.) This "master narrative" (p. 6) of colonial American social history focuses on the "big economic and ...
Pious Traders in Medicine: A German Pharmaceutical Network in Eighteenth-Century North America.(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Renate Wilson. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, c. 2000. Pp. xiv, 258. $37.50, ISBN 0-271-02052-0.) The medical marketplace of early America was one of bewildering diversity. From the seventeenth century through at least the first decades of the ...
New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816.
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Claudio Saunt. Cambridge Studies in North American Indian History. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 298. Paper, $19.00, ISBN 0-521-66943-X; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-521-66043-2.) Claudio Saunt's A New Order of Things explores "a great ...
Lines in the Sand: Race and Class in Lowcountry Georgia, 1750-1860.(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Timothy James Lockley. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2001. Pp. xx, 280. $45.00, ISBN 0-8203-2228-8.) Unlike most works that analyze race relations under slavery in the South, this book does not collapse class distinctions among whites. In fact, it ...
Land and Allegiance in Revolutionary Georgia.(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Leslie Hall. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2001. Pp. xvi, 231. $45.00, ISBN 0-8203-2262-8.) Before Leslie Hall's new book, the last comprehensive scholarly look at the American Revolution in Georgia came out over two generations ago (Kenneth ...
Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida.
Aug 01, 2002; ... Edited by Jane G. Landers. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2000. Pp. [xii], 220. $49.95, ISBN 0-8130-1772-6.) Colonial Florida is not usually considered plantation country, despite its geographic, political, and economic connections to the ...
Christopher Gadsden and Henry Laurens: The Parallel Lives of Two American Patriots.(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Daniel J. McDonough. (Sellinsgrove, Pa.: Susquehanna University Press, c. 2000. Pp. 354. $49.50, ISBN 1-57591-039-X.) Among South Carolina's Revolutionary-era leaders, only Henry Laurens left a substantial collection of personal papers. At least partly for that reason, for ...
The Slave Power: the Free North and Southern Domination, 1780-1860.
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Leonard L. Richards. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Pp. [xii], 228 Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8071-2600-4; cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2537-7.) Leonard L. Richards acknowledges that several "well-known historians ... have given some credence to the Slave ...
Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees.(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2002; ... By John Sugden. American Indian Lives. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xviii], 350. $29.95, ISBN 0-8032-4288-3.) Blue Jacket, the Shawnee war chief who defeated two U.S. armies in the early 1790s, has become shrouded in mythology, including ...
Forging the Tortilla Curtain: Cultural Drift and Change along the United States-Mexico Border from the Spanish Era to the Present.(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Thomas Torrans. (Fort Worth, Tex.: TCU Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xiv], 424. $29.95, ISBN 0-87565-231-X.) This tour of United States-Mexico border relations from Spanish colonialism to California's Proposition 187 is an ambitious undertaking. Relying upon secondary sources and his ...
Free Speech, "The People's Darling Privilege": Struggles for Freedom of Expression in American History.
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Michael Kent Curtis. Constitutional Conflicts. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 520. $32.95, ISBN 0-8223-2529-2.) Professor Curtis reports in detail three national struggles for freedom of speech. They arose over the Sedition Act of 1798, the writings of ...
Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government.
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Catherine Allgor. Jeffersonian America. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2000. Pp. x, 299. $29.95, ISBN 0-8139-1998-3.) Without Dolley Madison, the government of the new nation might have fallen apart. Her social style "made republicanism, with its ...
The Old South Frontier: Cotton Plantations and the Formation of Arkansas Society, 1819-1861.(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Donald P. McNeilly. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000. Pp. [xii], 268. $34.95, ISBN 1-55728-619-1.) In this thoughtfully and meticulously researched piece of work, Donald P. McNeilly traces the development of Arkansas society in the antebellum era. Focusing on ...
Jackson's Way: Andrew Jackson and the People of the Western Waters.
Aug 01, 2002; ... By John Buchanan. (New York and other cities: John Wiley and Sons, c. 2001. Pp. [xiv], 434. $30.00, ISBN 0-471-28253-7.) Even though it held the key to American transcontinental expansion and set the tone of the nation's Indian policy, historians of the westward movement have ...
A Southern Practice: The Diary and Autobiography of Charles A. Hentz, M.D.
Aug 01, 2002; ... Edited by Steven M. Stowe. The Publications of the Southern Texts Society. (Charlottesville and London: Published by the University Press of Virginia for the Southern Texts Society, 2000. Pp. [xii], 646. $64.50, ISBN 0-8139-1881-2.) Charles Hentz's richly detailed manuscript ...
Pavie in the Borderlands: the Journey of Theodore Pavie to Louisiana and Texas, 1829-1830, Including Portions of His Souvenirs atlantiques.(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Betje Black Klier. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Pp. xviii, 280. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8071-2530-X; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-2414-1.) In 1829 seventeen-year-old Theodore Pavie left his native France to visit relatives in Natchitoches, Louisiana. He ...
Voyage to North America, 1844-45: Prince Carl of Solms's Texas Diary of People, Places, and Events.(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2002; ... Translation from German and notes by Wolfram M. Von-Maszewski. Introduction by Theodore Gish. (Denton: German-Texan Heritage Society and University of North Texas Press, c. 2000. Pp. x, 244. $32.50, ISBN 1-57441-124-1.) In 1842 twenty-one members of the German nobility formed a ...
Long Gray Lines: the Southern Military School Tradition, 1839-1915.
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Rod Andrew Jr. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [x], 169. $29.95, ISBN 0-8078-2610-3.) This slim book is at once two things. First, Rod Andrew Jr. provides a history of southern military education from antebellum times until World War ...
Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless: The WPA Interviews with Former Slaves Living in Indiana.
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Ronald L. Baker. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2000. Pp. xx, 341. $29.95, ISBN 0-253-33803-4.) The intent of Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless is to make "available for the first time in a single volume all the WPA interviews with former slaves ...
Double Character: Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom.
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Ariela J. Gross. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford, Eng.: Princeton University Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xii], 263. $39.50, ISBN 0-691-05957-8.) Historians have long noted the dual nature of slaves' legal status, but most of the literature describing this peculiarity of slave law has ...
Before the New Deal: Social Welfare in the South, 1830-1930.
Aug 01, 2002; ... Edited by Elna C. Green. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 1999. Pp. xxvi, 222. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-8203-2114-1; cloth, $36.00, ISBN 0-8203-2091-9.) Before the New Deal is a useful addition to the field of social welfare history and general scholarship ...
American City, Southern Place: a Cultural History of Antebellum Richmond.
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Gregg D. Kimball. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xxvi], 345. $35.00, ISBN 0-8203-2234-2.) Life in antebellum Richmond, state capital and regional commercial center, was defined by contradictions. Skillfully mining a wealth of diaries, ...
Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars.
Aug 01, 2002; ... Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars. By Catherine Clinton. (New York and other cities: Simon and Schuster, c. 2000. Pp. 302. $26.00, ISBN 0-684-84414-1.) Fanny Kemble's Journals. Edited with an introduction by Catherine Clinton. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, ...
High Church Baptists in the South: the Origin, Nature, and Influence of Landmarkism.
Aug 01, 2002; ... By James E. Tull. Edited and with a foreword and preface by Morris Ashcraft. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2000. Pp. [xviii], 182. $35.00, ISBN 0-86554-705-X.) Arno Press published James E. Tull's seminal 1960 Columbia University dissertation in 1980 (A History of ...
Chaplain to the Confederacy: Basil Manly and Baptist Life in the Old South.(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2002; ... By A. James Fuller. Southern Biography Series. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Pp. [xx], 343. $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-2576-8.) Basil Manly has long merited a full biography such as James Fuller's. Manly's wide-ranging interests and experiences intersected with ...
The Preacher's Tale: The Civil War Journal of Rev. Francis Springer, Chaplain, U.S. Army of the Frontier.(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2002; ... Edited by William Furry. The Civil War in the West. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2001. Pp. xxiv, 182. $34.95, ISBN 1-55728-703-1.) Civil War-era diaries, memoirs, and collections of letters and manuscripts abound in libraries; most of them were written by ...
Widows by the thousand: the Civil War Letters of Theophilus and Harriet Perry, 1862-1864.
Aug 01, 2002; ... Edited by M. Jane Johansson. The Civil War in the West. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000. Pp. xxiv, 333. $34.95, ISBN 1-55728-621-3.) In this volume, editor M. Jane Johansson brings to life the experiences of two young people whom the American Civil War ...
Southern Evangelicals and the Coming of the Civil War.(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Edward R. Crowther. Studies in American Religion, Vol. 73. (Lewiston, N.Y.; Queenston, Ontario; and Lampeter, Wales: The Edward Mellen Press, c. 2000. Pp. vi, 286. $99.95, ISBN 0-7734-7658-X.) A quarter century has passed since the publication of Donald G. Mathews' s Religion ...
Jefferson Davis, American.
Aug 01, 2002; ... By William J. Cooper Jr. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. Pp. [xvi], 757. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-375-72542-3; cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-394-56916-4.) Concluding that Jefferson Davis has generally not been kindly treated by historians, William 1. Cooper Jr. has joined the lengthy ...
Records of the Moravians in North Carolina.(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2002; ... Volume XII: 1856-1866. Edited by C. Daniel Crews and Lisa D. Bailey. (Raleigh: Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 2000. Pp. xvi, [556]. $40.00, ISBN 0-86526-290-X.) This is the latest volume in a valuable, decades-long series of ...
The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865.
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Alice Fahs. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xiv], 410. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2581-6.) Although anyone familiar with the popular press of the 1860s is painfully aware that the Civil War was not "the unwritten war," ...
Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War.
Aug 01, 2002; ... By R. J. M. Blackett. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. [xvi], 273. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8071-2645-4; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-2595-4.) Is there no end to books on why Britain failed to intervene in the American Civil War, as the South hoped it would? ...
Burnside's Bridge: The Climactic Struggle of the 2nd and 20th Georgia at Antietam Creek.(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Phillip Thomas Tucker. (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2000. Pp. x, 198. $24.95, ISBN 0-8117-0199-9.) Burnside's Bridge over Antietam Creek is perhaps the best-known landmark on a Civil War battlefield not located in the immediate vicinity of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania ....
Cracker Cavaliers: the 2nd Georgia Cavalry under Wheeler and Forrest.(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2002; ... By John Randolph Poole. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2000. Pp. xx, 297. $34.95, ISBN 0-86554-697-5.) The Second Georgia Cavalry Regiment participated in many of the most important campaigns of the Civil War's western theater. From the summer of 1862 at Murfreesboro to ...
The Jewish Confederates.
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Robert N. Rosen. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2000. Pp. xxxvi, 517. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-363-3.) I approached this book with some trepidation. "Here we go again," I thought, "another filiopietistic treatise on American Jews." How wrong I was! Although ...
The Civil War in Kentucky: Battle for the Bluegrass State.
Aug 01, 2002; ... Edited by Kent Masterson Brown. (Mason City, Iowa: Savas Publishing Company, 2000. Pp. viii, 320. $29.95, ISBN 1-882810-47-3.) "Kentucky played an unusual if not unique role in the Civil War," writes Charles P. Roland in his essay in this volume (p. 23). Unfortunately, that role ...
Race and Reunion: the Civil War in American Memory.
Aug 01, 2002; ... By David W. Blight. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. [xii], 512. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-00332-2.) David W. Blight's book has accomplished for Paul H. Buck's Pulitzer Prize-winning Road to Reunion (Boston, 1937) what Kenneth M. Stampp's Peculiar ...
Tampa in Civil War and Reconstruction.(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Canter Brown Jr. (Tampa, Fla.: University of Tampa Press, 2000. Pp. x, 246. $25.00, ISBN 1-879852-68-3.) Modern Tampa, Florida, is a booming city that encapsulates the New South's urban ethos. However, this Gulf Coast community traveled a long and very arduous path to reach ...
Sir Henry Morton Stanley, Confederate.(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2002; ... Edited with an introduction by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Pp. [xvi], 173. $28.95, ISBN 0-8071-2587-3.) Many years ago, while working on another Civil War project, Nathaniel Hughes came across a copy of The Autobiography of ...
Thinking Confederates: Academia and the Idea of Progress in the New South.(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Dan R. Frost. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 207. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 1-57233-098-8, cloth, $40.00, ISBN 1-57233-104-6.) By entitling his study of academic leaders in the postbellum South Thinking Confederates, Dan Frost confronts the popular ...
Teaching Equality: Black Schools in the Age of Jim Crow.
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Adam Fairclough. Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures, No. 43. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2001. Pp. x, 110. $24.95, ISBN 0-8203-2272-5.) Adam Fairclough's brief (sixty-seven pages of text) new book is a useful contribution to debates about ...
Only One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal.(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2002; ... By David E. Bernstein. Constitutional Conflicts. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001. Pp. [xiv], 191. $39.95, ISBN 0-8223-2583-7.) "As we enter the twenty-first century," David E. Bernstein intones, "worldwide appreciation for the benefits of voluntary, peaceable market ...
To Die For: the Paradox of American Patriotism.
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Cecilia Elizabeth O'Leary. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, c. 1999. Pp. [xiv], 365. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-691-07052-0; cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-691-01686-0.) Southern historians usually take for granted that the Civil War never really ended, especially when it comes to ...
Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908.
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Michael Perman. The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xvi], 397. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8078-4909-X; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2593-X.) In his landmark study, The Shaping of Southern ...
Culture in the American Southwest: The Earth, the Sky, the People.
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Keith L. Bryant Jr. Tarleton State University Southwestern Studies in the Humanities, No. 12. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. Pp. [xii], 379. $34.95, ISBN 0-89096-948-5.) Keith L. Bryant Jr.'s data-packed overview of culture in the American Southwest--a ...
Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality.
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Bruce Nelson. Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford, Eng.: Princeton University Press, c. 2001. Pp. xliv, 388. $39.50, ISBN 0-691-01732-8.) Bruce Nelson's ambitious volume on the relationship between organized labor and the struggle ...
Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality.
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Eric Arnesen. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. 332. $39.95, ISBN 0-674-00319-5.) Although the grueling struggle by African Americans for jobs and civil rights within America's railroad unions began soon after the Civil War, the post-World War ...
Spindletop Boom Days.(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Paul N. Spellman. Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series, No. 9. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 266. $29.95, ISBN 0-89096-946-9.) On January 10, 1901, Captain Anthony F. Lucas brought in a gigantic gusher and discovered the fabulous Spindletop ...
Castles in the Sand: The Life and Times of Carl Graham Fisher.(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Mark S. Foster. The Florida History and Culture Series. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2000. Pp. [xviii], 349. $24.95, ISBN 0-8130-1809-9.) A native of Indiana, Carl Graham Fisher (1874-1939) contributed to the development of several major ...
Buncombe Bob: The Life and Times of Robert Rice Reynolds.
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Julian M. Pleasants. The James Sprunt Studies in History and Political Science, Vol. 63. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xiv], 357. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-5064-0.) When Robert Rice Reynolds died in 1963, his hometown newspaper noted ...
The Reverend Mark Matthews: An Activist in the Progressive Era.(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Dale E. Soden. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, c. 2001. Pp. xvi, 274. $30.00, ISBN 0-295-98021-4.) In 1902 a church in America's northwesternmost city called a new pastor from the small-town South and from its "southern" sister denomination. Mark Matthews ...
The Communist Party in Maryland, 1919-57.(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Vernon L. Pedersen. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xii], 253. $29.95, ISBN 0-252-02321-8.) This minutely detailed volume, by an American historian who teaches in Bulgaria, is one of only three state studies of the U.S. Communist Party ever ...
Allen Tate: Orphan of the South.
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Thomas A. Underwood. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford, Eng.: Princeton University Press, c. 2000. Pp. viii, 447. $35.00, ISBN 0-691-06950-6.) Twenty years ago Michael O'Brien (The Idea of the American South, 1920-1941 [Baltimore, 1979]) and Daniel J. Singal (The War Within ...
Sir Walter and Mr. Jones: Walter Hagen, Bobby Jones, and the Rise of American Golf.(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2002; ... By Stephen R. Lowe. (Chelsea, Mich.: Sleeping Bear Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xxviii], 387. $35.00, ISBN 1-58536-009-0.) Walter Hagen and Robert Tyre Jones shared little more than an extraordinary talent for the game of golf, yet in the 1920s they gave the United States its first ...
Southern Workers and the Search for Community: Spartanburg County, South Carolina.
Aug 01, 2002; ... By G. C. Waldrep III. The Working Class in American History. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xiv], 272. Paper, $20.95, ISBN 0-252-06901-3; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-252-02587-3.) Textile mills employed large numbers of white southerners, and these ...