The Journal of Southern History back issues from August 2003:
The novel as teacher: learning to be female in the early American South.
Aug 01, 2003; ... "BEGAN A VERY CLEVER NOVEL--EVELINA IT WAS CALL'D," FRANCES Baylor Hill recorded on a late October day in 1797. She had spent most of the previous week looking after a household of sick children, interspersing her nursing chores with sewing projects. She was ready for the diversion of a ...
Travel, ritual, and national identity: planters on the European tour, 1820-1860.
Aug 01, 2003; ... LATE IN THE WINTER OF 1845 FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND A NUMBER OF friends went sightseeing at Eaton Hall, the Liverpool residence of the Marquis of Westminster. In the queue Douglass noticed several of his fellow passengers from the Cunard liner Cambria, among them southerners, who had ...
Reading, intimacy, and the role of Uncle Remus in white southern social memory.
Aug 01, 2003; ... You see, my grandmother explained to me that when a black woman went into a white family's house as the cook and the baby sitter, this is the role of the mother .... [T]hat child is nurtured by whoever that person is, but somewhere that child learns to segregate himself, that he's better ....
Using the WPA ex-slave narratives to study the impact of the Great Depression.
Aug 01, 2003; ... FOR AT LEAST TWO GENERATIONS ACADEMICS HAVE BEEN REAPING THE benefits of the Works Progress Administration's (WPA) Federal Writers' Project. White-collar workers employed by this program during the 1930s summarized and indexed government records and newspaper articles, compiled local ...
A Companion to the American South.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... Edited by John B. Boles. Blackwell Companions to American History. (Malden, Mass., and Oxford, Eng.: Blackwell Publishers, 2002. Pp. xii, 524. $124.95, ISBN 0-631-21319-8.) "Southern history is thriving as a field of study," John B. Boles reminds us in the preface to this ...
Reading Southern History: Essays on Interpreters and Interpretations.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... Edited by Glenn Feldman. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 2001. Pp. xii, 376. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8173-1102-5; cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0-8173-1099-1.) An early measure of a student's commitment to the pursuit of history may be revealed in his or her ...
The South: A Concise History.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... Volumes I and II. By Jeanette Keith. (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, c. 2002. Pp. [xiv], 226; xii, 228. Paper, $20.85, ISBN 0-13-022056-6; paper, $20.85, ISBN 0-13-094198-0.) Jeanette Keith of Bloomsburg University has written an "intentionally short" history (p. xii) ...
We Can't Go Home Again: an Argument about Afrocentrism.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Clarence E.Walker. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp.[xxxvi], 172. $25.00, ISBN 0-19-509571-5.) African Americans in the twenty-first century continue to grapple with being the ultimate "Other" in a nation they were so integral in creating. Despite ...
Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Joyce E. Chaplin. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 411. $45.00, ISBN 0-674-00453-1.) Joyce E. Chaplin makes one of the most original contributions to the history of race since the classic studies by Winthrop D. Jordan and Edmund S ....
The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Southeast.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green. The Columbia Guides to American Indian History and Culture. (New York: Columbia University Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xxii], 325. $45.00, ISBN 0-231-11570-9.) In this volume Theda Perdue and Michael Green have succeeded admirably in producing what ...
The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... Edited by Robbie Ethridge and Charles Hudson. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2002. Pp. [x1], 369. $50.00, ISBN 1-57806-351-5.) The scholarly study of southeastern Indians has reached an exciting new level in the past decade. Anthropologists, historians, and other ...
Big Chief Elizabeth: the Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Giles Milton. (New York: Picador USA, 2001. Pp. x, 358. Paper, $14.00, ISBN 0-312-42018-8.) Titles can be misleading. Elizabeth I is but a minor character in this swashbuckling popular history. Sir Walter Raleigh (here spelled Ralegh) is the hero, and his efforts to colonize ...
The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Alan Gallay. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c. 2002. Pp. xviii, 444. $45.00, ISBN 0-300-08754-3.) Alan Gallay characterizes his book as a "geopolitical" study (p. 7), one in which nations competed for the control of labor--in particular, slave labor. Although ...
The Origins of African American Literature, 1680-1865.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Dickson D. Bruce Jr. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001. Pp. [xviii], 374. Paper, $19.50, ISBN 0-8139-2067-1; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8139-2066-3.) The writings of Wheatley, Equiano, Walker, Douglass, and other major authors figure prominently in ...
A Blessed Company: Parishes, Parsons, and Parishioners in Anglican Virginia, 1690-1776.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By John K. Nelson. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xiv], 477. $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2663-4.) For decades most scholars were convinced that the inhabitants of the Virginia colony revered gold more than God. The secular Chesapeake ...
Peace and War on the Anglo-Cherokee Frontier, 1756-63.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By John Oliphant. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xviii], 269. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2637-3.) This is a detailed analysis of Indian relations involving primarily the Cherokees and the colony of South Carolina. Frontier conflicts led to the Cherokee ...
Spiritual Merchants: Religion, Magic, and Commerce.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Carolyn Morrow Long. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001. Pp. xxx, 314. Paper, $19.00, ISBN 1-57233-110-0; cloth, $38.00, ISBN 1-57233-109-7.) From colonial times to the present, African American spirituality has been attacked, stereotyped, and misunderstood ....
Contesting Democracy: Substance and Structure in American Political History, 1775-2000.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... Edited by Byron E. Shafer and Anthony J. Badger. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2001. Pp. xii, 271. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-7006-1139-8; cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-1138-X.) This collection grows out of a debate over what some have called a crisis in political history ....
Dixie Looks Abroad: the South and U.S. Foreign Relations, 1789-1973.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Joseph A. Fry. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Pp. [xiv], 334. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2745-0.) The South's prominent role in the nation's political history has never failed to attract scholarly attention, but the same is not true for the South's role in ...
The Roots of Appalachian Christianity: The Life and Legacy of Elder Shubal Stearns.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By John Sparks. Religion in the South. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2001. Pp. xx, 327. $32.50, ISBN 0-8131-2223-6.) There has long been and continues to be a romantic conviction that Appalachia reflects America as it once was, more pure: Appalachian music is ...
John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By R. Kent Newmyer. Southern Biography Series. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. [xx], 511. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2701-9.) This study--the latest in a long line of Marshall biographies stretching back to the nineteenth century--builds upon a mass of ...
A Lady of the High Hills: Natalie Delage Sumter.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Thomas Tisdale. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xx], 188. $29.95, ISBN 1-57003-415-X.) Charting the extraordinary life of the displaced French aristocrat Natalie Delage Sumter (1782-1841 ), Tisdale' s biography follows its subject from her birth in ...
Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Margaret Humphreys. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. [xii], 196. $41.50, ISBN 0-8018-6637-5.) This study by physician and historian Margaret Humphreys treats a small fraction of the career of a disease endured by our primate ancestors some 50 ...
Notorious Woman: The Celebrated Case of Myra Clark Gaines.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Elizabeth Urban Alexander. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 301. $34.95, ISBN 0-8071-2698-5.) Myra Clark Gaines, the "notorious woman" who is the focal point of this saga, achieved her notoriety as the plaintiff in a series of lawsuits that ...
Listening to Nineteenth-Century America.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Mark M. Smith. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. xii, 372. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4982-0; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2657-X.) In this fascinating study Mark M. Smith analyzes how sound and the heard word contributed to the formation ...
Young Hickory: The Making of Andrew Jackson.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Hendrik Booraem.(Dallas, Tex.: Taylor Trade Publishing, c. 2001. Pp. [xviii], 318. $26.95, ISBN 0-87833-263-4.) Hendrik Booraem delivers what he promises: a book that "adds some context and depth to the standard version [of Andrew Jackson's early life] and enriches it with ...
Academy and College: The History of the Woman's College of Furman University.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Judith T. Bainbridge. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2001. Pp. [xiv], 290. $39.95, ISBN 0-86554-736-X.) Academy and College traces the story of the Woman's College of Furman University from its beginnings as the Greenville [South Carolina] Female Academy in 1819, ...
The Adventures and Recollections of General Walter P. Lane, a San Jacinto Veteran, Containing Sketches of the Texian, Mexican, and Late Wars, with Several Indian Fights Thrown In.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Walter Paye Lane. Edited by Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. The Library of Texas, No. 6. (Dallas, Tex.: Published by Southern Methodist University for the DeGolyer Library, William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, 2000. Pp. 216. $55.00.) Walter Paye Lane's wonderfully long title ...
Maria von Blucher's Corpus Christi: Letters from the South Texas Frontier, 1849-1879.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Maria von Blucher. Edited and annotated by Bruce S. Cheeseman. Canseco-Keck History Series, No. 5. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. Pp. xxii, 292. $29.95, ISBN 1-58544-135-X.) In 1849 newly married Felix and Maria von Blucher migrated to the United States ....
Rhett: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-Eater.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By William C. Davis. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xvi], 702. $59.95, ISBN 1-57003-439-7.) William C. Davis's revealing portrait of Robert Barnwell Rhett, antebellum South Carolina's most insistent secessionist, far overshadows the only previously ...
Bathed in Blood: Hunting and Mastery in the Old South.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Nicolas W. Proctor. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2002. Pp. [xii], 220. Paper, $16.50, ISBN 0-8139-2091-4; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8139-2087-6.) In Bathed in Blood Nicolas W. Proctor explores the significance of hunting in the Old South, ...
The Making of a Modern City: Philanthropy, Civic Culture, and the Baltimore YMCA.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Jessica I. Elfenbein. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2001. Pp. [xiv], 179. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2435-8.) This slim book (118 pages of text) looks at the history of the Baltimore YMCA between 1852 and 1932. What was the role, Jessica I. Elfenbein ...
The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By John Stauffer. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. 367. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-00645-3.) In this imaginative work John Stauffer interprets the interracial alliance of four antislavery heroes: Gerrit Smith, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, and James ...
Lincoln and Davis: Imagining America, 1809-1865.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Brian R. Dirck. American Political Thought. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2001. Pp. [xiv], 326. $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-1137-1.) Although comparing Abraham Lincoln (the winner) to Jefferson Davis (the loser) is familiar historiographical territory, Brian R. Dirck ...
From Rail-Splitter to Icon: Lincoln's Image in Illustrated Periodicals, 1860-1865.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Gary L. Bunker. (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, c. 2001. Pp. x, 387. $55.00, ISBN 0-87338-701-5.) Gary L. Bunker, professor emeritus of psychology at Brigham Young University, has created an in-depth examination of the response of the pictorial press to ...
The American Civil War: an English View: the Writings of Field Marshal Viscount Wolseley.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... Edited and introduced by James A. Rawley. (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2002. Pp. [xxxviii], [228]. $26.95, ISBN 0-8117-0093-3.) This volume is a collection of disparate Civil War essays by a career soldier who rose ultimately to command the British army. Born in ...
Terrain of Freedom: American Art and the Civil War.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Eric Foner, Kirk Savage, Angela Miller, Steven Conn, Andrew Walker, and Margaret Rose Vendryes. Introduction by Andrew Walker and Clare Kunny. Museum Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, c. 2001. Pp. 104. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-86559-186-5.) This ...
Images from theStorm: 300 Civil War Images by the Author of Eye of the Storm & Prang's Civil War Pictures: The Complete Battle Chromos of Louis Prang.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... Images from the Storm: 300 Civil War Images by the Author of Eye of the Storm. Written and illustrated by Robert Knox Sneden. Edited by Charles F. Bryan Jr., James C. Kelly, and Nelson D. Lankford. (New York and other cities: The Free Press, c. 2001. Pp. xxii, 263. $50.00, ISBN ...
Slaves, Sailors, Citizens: African Americans in the Union Navy.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Steven J. Ramold. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, c. 2002. Pp. [x], 253. $32.00, ISBN 0-87580-286-9.) Thanks to the pioneering work of scholars like Leon F. Litwack and Eric Foner, we have long understood the important role free African Americans played in the ...
Gunsmoke Over the Atlantic: First Naval Actions of the Civil War.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Jack D. Coombe. (New York and other cities: Bantam Books, c. 2002. Pp. [xx], 268. $23.95, ISBN 0-553-80162-7.) Jack D. Coombe is the author of two previous books on Civil War naval activities, Thunder Along the Mississippi (New York, 1998) and Gunfire Around the Gulf (New ...
Union Soldiers and the Northern Home Front: Wartime Experiences, Postwar Adjustments.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... Edited by Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller. The North's Civil War Series. (New York: Fordbam University Press, 2002. Pp. [xviii], 508. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 0-8232-2146-6; cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-8232-2145-8.) Continued fascination with the Civil War is based on the intrigue ...
Railroads in the Civil War: The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By John E. Clark Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. [xviii], 275. $34.95, ISBN 0-8071-2726-4.) It is a familiar concept that our Civil War was the first war in history to make extensive use of railroads. Union and Confederate armies alike were ...
Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Kenneth W. Noe. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2001. Pp. xxiv, 494. $35.00, ISBN 0-8131-2209-0.) Recently, Civil War historians have begun to emphasize the late summer and fall of 1862, rather than the summer of 1863, as the major turning point of the conflict ....
Struggle for the Heartland: The Campaigns from Fort Henry to Corinth.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Stephen D. Engle. Great Campaigns of the Civil War. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xxiv], 251. $34.95, ISBN 0-8032-1818-4.) By February 1862 the Confederacy had reason to believe that the war was well in hand. Rebel forces had demonstrated ...
Civil War in the Southwest: Recollections of the Sibley Brigade.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... Edited and with an introduction by Jerry Thompson. Foreword by Donald S. Frazier. Canseco-Keck History Series, No. 4. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. Pp. [xxvi], 195. $24.95, ISBN 1-58544-131-7.) The Confederate invasion of New Mexico in 1861-62 has been a ...
The War Hits Home: The Civil War in Southeastern Virginia.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Brian Steel Wills. A Nation Divided: New Studies in Civil War History. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001. Pp. [xvi], 345. $34.95, ISBN 0-8139-2027-2.) Brian Steel Wills turns a spotlight on a neglected theater of the Civil War, the region ...
Mobile, 1865: Last Stand of the Confederacy.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Sean Michael O'Brien. (Westport, Conn., and London: Praeger, 2001. Pp. xii, 270. $26.95, ISBN 0-275-97334-4.) Evaluating a book is always difficult when the author does not include a foreword or introduction of any kind to state his purpose. That is the case with this volume, ...
Elmira: Death Camp of the North.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Michael Horigan. (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2002. Pp. x, 246. $26.95, ISBN 0-8117-1432-2.) Elmira, New York, was a prosperous community of 8,800 located west of Binghamton with good access to canal and rail service. At the beginning of the Civil War, Elmira was ...
The Half Not Told: The Civil War in a Frontier Town & Civil War St. Louis.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Preston Filbert.(Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2001. Pp. [xiv], 209. $26.95, ISBN 0-8117-1536-1.) Civil War St. Louis. By Louis S. Gerteis. Modern War Studies. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2001. Pp. [xii], 410. $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-1 124-X.) ...
Minister to the Cherokees: A Civil War Autobiography.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By James Anderson Slover. Edited by Barbara Cloud. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xxxiv], 212. $47.50, ISBN 0-8032-4283-2.) This autobiography of a Southern Baptist minister provides an interesting glimpse of the lives of ordinary people in the ...
The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy: The Death of Stonewall Jackson and Other Chapters on the Army of Northern Virginia.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Robert K. Krick. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Pp.[xiv],274. $34.95, ISBN 0-8071-2747-7.) Robert K. Krick has compiled a book of his essays (some previously published) on the best and the worst individuals who commanded various units in the Army of ...
Repairing the "March of Mars": The Civil War Diaries of John Samuel Apperson, Hospital Steward in the Stonewall Brigade, 1861-1865.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... Edited by John Herbert Roper. Transcribed by Jason Clayman, Peter Gretz, and John Herbert Roper. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2001. Pp. [xvi], 654. $39.95, ISBN 0-86554-779-3.) John Herbert Roper has done a valuable service for Civil War historians in bringing this ...
All's for the Best: The Civil War Reminiscences and Letters of Daniel W. Sawtelle, Eighth Maine Volunteer Infantry.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2003; ... Edited with an introduction by Peter H. Buckingham. Voices of the Civil War. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001. Pp. xxxii, 361. $34.00, ISBN 1-57233-136-4.) The typical classroom synthesis of the American Civil War jets from "turning point" to "decisive moment," ...
The Black Regulars, 1866-1898.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By William A. Dobak and Thomas D. Phillips. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c. 2001. Pp. xviii, 360. $34.95, ISBN 0-8061-3340-6.) Although black men have participated in every American war since colonial times, it was not until the post-Civil War era that the question of ...
The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... Edited by Gary W. Gallagher and Alan T. Nolan. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2000. Pp. [viii], 231. $29.95, ISBN 0-253-33822-0.) French historian and cultural critic Ernest Renan once wrote that nations and cultures are fashioned as much from what ...
Highbrows, Hillbillies, and Hellfire: Public Entertainment in Atlanta, 1880-1930.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Steve Goodson. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xiv], 253. $35.00, ISBN 0-8203-2319-5.) Atlanta became a true city during the fifty years from 1880 to 1930. Rapid economic and demographic growth was not, however, achieved smoothly or ...
The Great Kanawha Navigation.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Emory L. Kemp. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c. 2000. Pp. xii, 300. $45.00, ISBN 0-8229-4112-0.) Historians of technology and public works will appreciate The Great Kanawha Navigation, a detailed study of two massive dammings of the hundred-mile-long river in ...
Oil in Texas: The Gusher Age, 1895-1945.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Diana Davids Olien and Roger M. Olien. Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series, No. 3. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. Pp. [xii], 307. $39.95, ISBN 0-292-76056-6.) Diana Davids Olien and Roger M. Olien's latest book provides an overview of the development ...
The Last Days of Big Grassy Fork.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Hunter James. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2002. Pp. 214. $29.95, ISBN 0-8131-2215-5.) Journalist Hunter James has written a lively memoir sketching his family's long history on a farm near Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and his own challenging efforts in ...
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Philip Dray. (New York: Random House, 2002. Pp. [xiv], 528. $35.00, ISBN 0-375-50324-2.) During the past quarter century the scholarship on lynching has exploded. Two decades ago the best extant scholarly study of lynching remained Arthur Raper's The Tragedy of Lynching ...
The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Matthew Pratt Guterl. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. [xii], 234. $49.95, ISBN 0-674-00615-1.) Rather than a fully conceived monograph, Matthew Pratt Guterl's book consists of four linked meditative essays that consider the shifting dynamics ...
W.E.B. Du Bois and Race: Essays Celebrating the Centennial Publication of The Souls of Black Folk.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... Edited by Chester J. Fontenot Jr. and Mary Alice Morgan, with Sarah Gardner. Voices of the African Diaspora. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2001. Pp. [x], 198. $35.00, ISBN 0-86554-727-0.) W.E.B. Du Bois and Race is the first publication in a new book series, "Voices of ...
First to Fly: North Carolina and the Beginnings of Aviation.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Thomas C. Parramore. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xvi], 372. $29.95, ISBN 0-8078-2676-6.) As the site of the Wright brothers' historic first flights in a powered airplane at Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903, North Carolina will be ...
Once Upon a Time in Texas: A Liberal in the Lone Star State.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By David Richards. Focus on American History Series. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. Pp. [xx], 275. $39.95, ISBN 0-292-77118-5.) David Richards was not only present at the creation of modern political Texas, he had a good deal to do with it. He and a few other lawyers ...
The Modern Presidency and Civil Rights: Rhetoric on Race from Roosevelt to Nixon.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2003; ... By Garth E. Pauley. Presidential Rhetoric Series, No. 3. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. Pp. [viii], 259. $39.95, ISBN 1-58544-107-4.) This book focuses on four significant civil rights speeches by Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson in an ...