The Journal of Southern History back issues from May 2003:
The limits of interracial compromise: Louisiana, 1941.
May 01, 2003; ... There is no little divergence of opinion as to the extent of segregation and discrimination in the interpersonal sphere. The literature tends to emphasize "interesting" individual experiences, which may be exceptions. In eliciting opinions as to the extent of segregation and ...
The Early Modern Atlantic Economy.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... Edited by John J. McCusker and Kenneth Morgan. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 369. $59.95, ISBN 0-521-78249-X.) In recent decades no scholar has contributed more than Jacob M. Price to our understanding of trade patterns and commercial ...
Beloved Bethesda: a History of George Whitefield's Home for Boys, 1740-2000.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By Edward J. Cashin. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 278. $39.95, ISBN 0-86554-722-X.) According to Edward J. Cashin, George Whitefield "changed the religious character of colonial America more than any of his contemporaries" (p. vii). In conjunction with this ...
George Washington in and as Culture.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... Edited by Kevin L. Cope with William W. Pederson and Frank Williams. AMS Studies in the Eighteenth Century, No. 38. (New York: AMS Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xx], 324. $74.50, ISBN 0-404-63538-5.) I review this volume, which was published to commemorate the bicentennial of George ...
Jeffersonian America.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By Peter S. Onuf and Leonard J. Sadosky. Problems in American History. (Malden, Mass., and Oxford, Eng.: Blackwell Publishers, 2002. Pp. x, 270. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 1-55786-923-5; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 1-55786-922-7.) Peter S. Onuf and Leonard J. Sadosky are to be complimented for ...
Jefferson's Pillow: the Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By Roger Wilkins. (Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, c. 2001. Pp. 163. $23.00, ISBN 0-8070-0956-3.) Roger Wilkins is not a conventional academic, and Jefferson's Pillow is not a conventional scholarly book. Wilkins, who teaches history at George Mason University, came late to the ...
Crowds and Soldiers in Revolutionary North Carolina: the Culture of Violence in Riot and War.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By Wayne E. Lee. Foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller. Southern Dissent. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2001. Pp. xvi, 380. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2095-6.) The underlying thesis of this extensively argued study of how crowds and the ...
William Henry Drayton: South Carolina Revolutionary Patriot.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By Keith Krawczynski. Southern Biography Series. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. [xviii], 358. $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-2261-6.) Interpreting William Henry Drayton has never been easy. A loyalist in the late 1760s, Drayton would become one of South ...
The Federal Principle in American Politics, 1790-1833.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By Andrew C. Lenner. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, c. 2001. Pp. [xiv], 223. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-7425-2071-4; cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-8071-2070-6.) Andrew C. Lenner argues that disagreements over federalism had much more to do with party ...
Unitarianism in the Antebellum South: the Other Invisible Institution.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By John Allen Macaulay. Religion and American Culture. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xvi], 222. $32.95, ISBN 0-8173-1086-X.) The few scholars who associate Unitarianism with the antebellum South usually dismiss its churches as New England ...
The Irish in the South, 1815-1877.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By David T. Gleeson. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xiv], 278. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4968-5; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2639-1.) It has been sometimes said around Savannah that the town should erect a statue to General William T ....
The Levy Family and Monticello, 1834-1923: Saving Thomas Jefferson's House.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By Melvin I. Urofsky. Monticello Monograph Series. (Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2001. Pp. 256. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 1-882886-16-X; cloth, $26.95, ISBN 1-882886-15-1.) Monticello is one of our greatest national treasures, and it is hard to imagine that ...
Frontier Blood: the Saga of the Parker Family.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By Jo Ella Powell Exley. The Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University, No. 90. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 331. $29.95, ISBN 1-58544-136-8.) In Frontier Blood Jo Ella Powell Exley examines the westward ...
Taming Texas: Captain William T. Sadler's Lone Star Service.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By Stephen L. Moore. (Austin, Tex.: State House Press, 2000. Pp. 387. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 1-880510-69-3; cloth, $34.95, ISBN 1-880510-68-5.) Stephen L. Moore first presents William T. Sadler's journey to Texas and his establishment of the Fort Houston settlement near Palestine, ...
Her Act and Deed: Women's Lives in a Rural Southern County, 1837-1873.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2003; ... By Angela Boswell. Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, No. 3. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 190. $29.95, ISBN 1-58544-128-7.) Since most historians of nineteenth-century American women have focused upon the residents of towns and cities, Angela ...
A Rebel Wife in Texas: the Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... Edited by Erika L. Murr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. [xvi], 476. $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-2702-7.) "Lord," demanded Texas plantation mistress Elizabeth Scott ("Lizzie") Neblett in March 1864, "if I was made a woman why were such rebelious, such wicked ...
The Papers of William Woods Holden. Volume I: 1841-1868.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2003; ... Edited by Horace W. Raper and Thornton W. Mitchell. (Raleigh: Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 2000. Pp. 1, 457. $40.00, ISBN 0-86526-292-6.) No North Carolina political figure invoked a wider spectrum of political opinions in ...
No Cross, No Crown: Black Nuns in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By Sister Mary Bernard Deggs. Edited by Virginia Meacham Gould and Charles E. Nolan. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xxxviii], 226. $44.95, ISBN 0-253-33630-9.) "We are not to be played with ...." declared Sister Mary Bernard Deggs in the ...
The Waterman's Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By David S. Cecelski. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. xx, 304. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4972-3; cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2643-X.) Recent studies by historians such as W. Jeffrey Bolster, Marcus Rediker, and Julius Scott have opened ...
Death of an Overseer: Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation South.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By Michael Wayne. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 257. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-19-514004-4; cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-19-514003-6.) Michael Wayne has created an unusual text, not quite what some readers may be expecting when they pick up this book the ...
Voices from the Gathering Storm: the Coming of the American Civil War.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By Glenn M. Linden. (Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2001. Pp. xxxii, 236. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8420-2999-0; cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-8420-2998-2.) David M. Potter warned historians long ago about the fallacy of reading history backward. It is the historian's task, according to ...
The Longest Night: a Military History of the Civil War.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By David J. Eicher. Foreword by James M. McPherson. Maps by Lee Vande Visse. (New York and other cities: Simon and Schuster, c. 2001. Pp. 990. $40.00, ISBN 0-684-84944-5.) In his foreword to David J. Eicher's new book, James M. McPherson writes that it is "almost unique among ...
The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By William W. Freehling. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xvi], 238. $25.00, ISBN 0-19-513027-8.) William W. Freehling shifts the focus of debate over why the South lost the Civil War onto two particular groups of southerners: white people who ...
Lee and His Army in Confederate History.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By Gary W. Gallagher. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. xviii, 295. $29.95, ISBN 0-8078-2631-6.) Gary W. Gallagher has written extensively about Robert E. Lee, and this collection of essays concentrates on his assessment ...
Lee in the Shadow of Washington.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By Richard B. McCaslin. Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. [xii], 260. $29.95, ISBN 0-8071-2696-9.) Richard B. McCaslin builds a strong case for understanding how profoundly Robert E. Lee was ...
Civil War High Commands.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By John H. Eicher and David J. Eicher. Foreword by John Y. Simon. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001. Pp. [xxvi], 1009. $59.95, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.) Collectors of Civil War reference books will certainly want to add this useful volume to their shelves ....
Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and Their Wives.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... Edited by Carol K. Bleser and Lesley J. Gordon. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. [xxiv], 292. $27.50, ISBN 0-19-511509-0.) Carol K. Bleser and Lesley J. Gordon, the editors of this excellent book, set as their goal to "understand more deeply ...
A Short History of the Civil War at Sea.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2003; ... By Spencer C. Tucker. The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era, No. 5. (Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2002. Pp. [xiv], 188. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8420-2868-4; cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-8420-2867-6.) This is a "niche book": a well-written, interesting, and brief account ...
Northern Naval Superiority and the Economics of the American Civil War.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By David G. Surdam. Studies in Maritime History. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xxiv], 286. $34.95, ISBN 1-57003-407-9.) This is an important book for scholars of the Confederacy. Its pages of charts and graphs depicting David G. Surdam's economic ...
While God Is Marching On: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2003; ... By Steven E. Woodworth. Modern War Studies. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2001. Pp. xii, 394. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1099-5.) The Civil War stirs the American imagination like few other national events. As a democracy, America holds self-creation in special regard, and ...
Making and Remaking Pennsylvania's Civil War.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... Edited by William Blair and William Pencak. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xx], 332. $35.00, ISBN 0-271-02079-2.) Editors William Blair and William Pencak have selected ten essays to suggest new ways to explore Pennsylvania's history and its ...
The Business of Captivity: Elmira and Its Civil War Prison.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2003; ... By Michael P. Gray. (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xvi], 228. $35.00, ISBN 0-87338-708-2.) Michael P. Gray's The Business of Captivity offers a detailed history of the Union prison at Elmira, New York, focusing on the interconnections between ...
When the Texans Came: Missing Records from the Civil War in the Southwest, 1861-1862.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2003; ... By John P. Wilson. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 364. $39.95, ISBN 0-8263-2290-5.) It was not until the last half of the twentieth century that any serious scholarship appeared on the disastrous 1861-62 Confederate attempt to create an empire in ...
A Prussian Observes the American Civil War: The Military Studies of Justus Scheibert.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2003; ... Translated and edited by Frederic Trautmann. Shades of Blue and Gray Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xviii], 250. $34.95, ISBN 0-8262-1348-0.) In the mid-nineteenth century, professionalizing armies instituted the practice of sending ...
The Mosby Myth: A Confederate Hero in Life and Legend.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2003; ... By Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill. The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era, No. 4. (Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2002. Pp. xxxvi, 231. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8420-2929-X; cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-8420-2928-1.) Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill examine the public memory ...
The Final Fury: Palmito Ranch, the Last Battle of the Civil War.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2003; ... By Philip Thomas Tucker. (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2001. Pp. x, 196. $26.95, ISBN 0-8117-0652-4.) Until the appearance of this book, the battle of Palmito Ranch spawned little interest, except among Texans or teachers of Civil War history. For those Texans who long ...
Rally on the High Ground: The National Park Service Symposium on the Civil War, Ford's Theatre, May 8 and 9, 2000.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... Edited by Robert K. Sutton. (Fort Washington, Pa.: Eastern National, c. 2001. Pp. xvi, 103. Paper, $6.95, ISBN 1-888213-72-8.) It is an article of our professional faith that all people are historians. And all professional historians are ultimately public historians, in the ...
The Day Dixie Died: Southern Occupation, 1865-1866.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By Thomas and Debra Goodrich. (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2001. Pp. viii, 312. $26.95, ISBN 0-8117-0487-4.) In 1990 Ken Burns's documentary The Civil War strengthened the already brisk book trade in studies of the Civil War. Like Burns's documentary, however, most of ...
The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By Heather Cox Richardson. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. [xviii], 312. $39.95, ISBN 0-674-00637-2.) The Death of Reconstruction is an important book on a big topic. It offers a full-scale reinterpretation of the great betrayal of the Civil ...
Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform: 1880-1930.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By Patricia A. Schechter. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xx], 386. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4963-0; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2633-2.) In this detailed and carefully constructed study, Patricia A. Schechter investigates the life of ...
Traps: African American Men on Gender and Sexuality.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2003; ... Edited by Rudolph P. Byrd and Beverly Guy-Sheftall. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xxii], 378. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-253-21448-3; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-253-33901-4.) Any wide-ranging discussion of gender and black sexuality is welcome ...
Feeding the Wolf: John B. Rayner and the Politics of Race, 1850-1918.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By Gregg Cantrell. (Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, c. 2001. Pp. [x], 149. Paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-88295-961-1.) Gregg Cantrell has revised the second half of his award-winning earlier work, Kenneth and John B. Rayner and the Limits of Southern Dissent (Urbana, Ill., 1993), and ...
The Conquest of Labor: Daniel Pratt and Southern Industrialization.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By Curtis J. Evans. Southern Biography Series. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. [xvi], 337. $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-2695-0.) Daniel Pratt (1799-1873), the transplanted New Englander who became antebellum Alabama's leading industrialist, was touted by ...
The Life of Selina Campbell: A Fellow Soldier in the Cause of Restoration.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2003; ... By Loretta M. Long. Religion and American Culture. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 2001. Pp. [x], 235. $34.95, ISBN 0-8173-1059-2.) Loretta M. Long, an assistant professor of history at Abilene Christian University, has published this groundbreaking book ...
Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By Matthew Frye Jacobson. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 338. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-06371-6.) In calling race a "social fabrication" (p.ix), Matthew Frye Jacobson applies a conventional wisdom. But, unlike some other scholars, Jacobson takes ...
Homelands: Southern Jewish Identity in Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By Leonard Rogoff. Judaic Studies Series. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 2001. Pp. x, 398. $39.95, ISBN 0-8173-1055-X.) This fine study of Jewish life in Durham and Chapel Hill places that community squarely within both American Jewish and southern ...
Regarding Ellen Glasgow: Essays for Contemporary Readers.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2003; ... Edited by Welford Dunaway Taylor and George C. Longest. (Richmond: The Library of Virginia, 2001. Pp. xxii, 202. $25.00, ISBN 0-88490-188-2.) Regarding Ellen Glasgow is a collection of essays that will appeal to both scholars and general readers. Fourteen essays, seven ...
Contesting the New South Order: The 1914-1915 Strike at Atlanta's Fulton Mills.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By Clifford M. Kuhn. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xiv], 302. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4973-1; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2644-8.) A decade ago, Gary M Fink's The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Strike of 1914-1915 (Ithaca, N.Y., 1993) provided a ...
Blood in Their Eyes: The Elaine Race Massacres of 1919.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By Grif Stockley. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2001. Pp. xxxii, 264. $29.95, ISBN 1-55728-717-1.) After a period of relative dormancy, there has recently been a new florescence of interest in the Elaine, Arkansas, racial massacres of October 1919. In 1988 ...
Selling the Old-Time Religion: American Fundamentalists and Mass Culture, 1920-1940.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2003; ... By Douglas Carl Abrams. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xvi], 168. $35.00, ISBN 0-8203-2294-6.) Historians and other scholars have amply documented the paradoxical propensity of religious fundamentalists to adopt and adapt the tools of ...
The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative Thought.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By Paul V. Murphy. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xiv], 351. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4960-X; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2630-8.) The Southern Agrarians continue to fascinate. They do so as a group, as in Mark G. Malvasi's The ...
Sites of Southern Memory: The Autobiographies of Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, and Pauli Murray.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2003; ... By Darlene O'Dell. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001. Pp. [xvi], 189. Paper, $18.50, ISBN 0-8139-2072-8; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8139-2071-X.) Born near the turn of the twentieth century, Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, and Pauli Murray all ...
Wright Patman: Populism, Liberalism, and the American Dream.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By Nancy Beck Young. (Dallas, Tex.: Southern Methodist University Press, 2000. Pp. [xxii], 428. $34.95, ISBN 0-87074-453-4.) Wright Patman served in the U.S. House of Representatives for forty-seven years, and although he often loudly championed controversial causes, he never ...
A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2003; ... By James H. Madison. (New York and Basingstoke, Eng.: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xiv, 204. $24.95, ISBN 0-312-23902-5.) Indiana University professor James H. Madison recounts the 1930 lynching of Tom Shipp and Abe Smith in Marion, Indiana. The two young black men--along with James ...
South Carolina and the New Deal.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2003; ... By Jack Irby Hayes Jr. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xvi], 290. $34.95, ISBN 1-57003-399-4.) State histories help explain national movements. Though their significance reaches beyond the borders of the state they study, their focus on variety and ...
The Second Great Emancipation: The Mechanical Cotton Picker, Black Migration, and How They Shaped the Modern South.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2003; ... By Donald Holley. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 284. $36.00, ISBN 1-55728-606-X.) The mechanization of cotton production in the Arkansas and Mississippi Delta, according to Donald Holley, was part of the "Second Great Emancipation," which "freed the ...
The Second Wave: Southern Industrialization from the 1940s to the 1970s.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... Edited by Philip Scranton. Economy and Society in the Modern South. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xvi], 310. $50.00, ISBN 0-8203-2218-0.) Henry Grady's vision of a New South rested on the belief that regional industrialization would ...
The Big Lie: Hale Boggs, Lucille May Grace, and Leander Perez in 1951.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By Garry Boulard. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 2001. Pp. 285. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 1-56554-868-X.) Garry Boulard, a freelance journalist with an obvious relish for the pungency of Louisiana politics, has produced an entertaining and informative narrative of a ...
Ralph Emerson McGill: Voice of the Southern Conscience.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2003; ... By Leonard Ray Teel. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001. Pp. xx, 559. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 1-57233-135-6; cloth, $50.00, ISBN 1-57233-133-X.) Winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1959 for condemning racial violence, Ralph Emerson McGill served as reporter, editor, and ...
The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission: Civil Rights and States' Rights.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By Yasuhiro Katagiri. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2001. Pp. [xxxvi], 348. $40.00, ISBN 1-57806-388-4.) The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission is an agency that intrigues both scholars and casual observers of the civil rights movement. Interest in the ...
An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By William Doyle. (New York and other cities: Doubleday, 2001. Pp. xii, 383. $26.00, ISBN 0-385-49969-8.) In 1962, nearly a century after Appomattox, the University of Mississippi continued to provide sanctuary for an unvanquished Old South. With its Greek columns, antebellum ...
Media, Culture, and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... Edited by Brian Ward. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2001. Pp. [x], 312. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2074-3.) In his introduction Brian Ward observes that scholars of black protest have tended to fix on such "conventionally understood political ...
African-American Mayors: Race, Politics, and the American City.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... Edited by David R. Colburn and Jeffrey S. Adler. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2001. Pp. Ix], 266. $32.50, ISBN 0-252-02634-9.) "All these Black politicians--they're Black until they're elected," blasted Atlanta city council member Hosea Williams in ...
The Great Divide: Religious and Cultural Conflict in American Party Politics.(Book Review)
May 01, 2003; ... By Geoffrey Layman. Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the Twenty-first Century. (New York: Columbia University Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xvi], 435. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-231-12059-1; cloth, $45.50, ISBN 0-231-12058-3.) Political scientists have been almost immune ...
Democracy Heading South: National Politics in the Shadow of Dixie.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2003; ... By Augustus B. Cochran III. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2001. Pp. x, 307. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1089-8.) Augustus B. Cochran III introduces Democracy Heading South as being "both about the South and not about the South." "But the real point of this book," he ...