The Journal of Southern History back issues from November 2004:
The work ethic of the plain folk: labor and religion in the Old South.
Nov 01, 2004; ... FACED WITH THE PROSPECT OF IMMINENT DEPARTURE TO SERVE IN THE Confederate army, North Carolina farmer John Fletcher Flintoff instructed his family on life and faith in his diary entry of March 10, 1864: "I desire that you live on the premises I leave you and work the land to make your ...
Slaves, poor whites, and the underground economy of the rural Carolinas.
Nov 01, 2004; ... HISTORIANS HAVE PAID A GREAT DEAL OF ATTENTION OVER THE PAST TWO decades to the so-called slave, internal, or informal economy, studying slaves' independent activities as producers and consumers. In the rice-growing Lowcountry of South Carolina and Georgia, where the task system ...
For the love of place: paternalism and patronage in the Georgia lLowcountry, 1865-1898.
Nov 01, 2004; ... IN EARLY APRIL 1891 JOSEPH JONES, A RENOWNED PHYSICIAN AND THE youngest son of Rev. Charles Colcock Jones, made a pilgrimage from his residence in New Orleans to his childhood home in Liberty County, Georgia. (1) His return was motivated in part by nostalgia. Joseph had not seen the old ...
How Samuel E. Pittman validated Lee's "Lost Orders" prior to Antietam: a historical note.
Nov 01, 2004; ... WHAT WAS ARGUABLY THE MOST INCREDIBLE STRING OF COINCIDENCES that occurred during the American Civil War took place on the morning of September 13, 1862. The extraordinary events of that day began between 9:00 and 10:00 A.M. when Corporal Barton W. Mitchell of the 27th Indiana ...
Report of the SHA Committee on Women: results from a questionnaire sent to women members.
Nov 01, 2004; ... IN 2001 THE COMMITTEE ON WOMEN OF THE SHA UNDERTOOK A SURVEY of women in the SHA, in part to gather information about our female membership and in part to learn about the more gender-specific issues of discrimination and sexual harassment. (1) The questionnaire was mailed out in the spring ...
A Companion to Colonial America.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... A Companion to Colonial America. Edited by Daniel Vickers. Blackwell Companions to American History. (Malden, Mass., and other cities: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. Pp. xiv, 562. $99.95, ISBN 0-631-21011-3.) How can one grasp the totality of the colonial experience in North ...
Nation on the Move: Mobility in U.S. History.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Nation on the Move: Mobility in U.S. History. Edited by Cornelis A. van Minnen and Sylvia L. Hilton. (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2002. Pp. [vi], 176. $35.00, ISBN 90-5383-839-2.) For historians like me, who are American-born students of American history, it can be an ...
Another's Country: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Cultural Interactions in the Southern Colonies.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Another's Country: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Cultural Interactions in the Southern Colonies. Edited by J. W. Joseph and Martha Zierden. Foreword by Julia A. King. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 2002. Pp. xx, 282. Paper, $29.95, ISBN ...
Brabbling Women: Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Brabbling Women: Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia. By Terri L. Snyder. (Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 182. $34.95, ISBN 0-8014-4052-1.) The "brabbling women" referred to in the title of this compact monograph by Terri L. Snyder ...
Las Tejanas: 300 Years of History.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Las Tejanas: 300 Years of History. By Teresa Palomo Acosta and Ruthe Winegarten. Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 436. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-292-70527-1; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-292-74710-1.) Las ...
American Creed: Philanthropy and the Rise of Civil Society, 1700-1865.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... American Creed: Philanthropy and the Rise of Civil Society, 1700-1865. By Kathleen D. McCarthy. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 319. $35.00, ISBN 0-226-56198-4.) American Creed strikes me as a history growing out of the preoccupations of our ...
Common Whores, Vertuous Women, and Loveing Wives: Free Will Christian Women in Colonial Maryland.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Common Whores, Vertuous Women, and Loveing Wives: Free Will Christian Women in Colonial Maryland. By Debra Meyers. Religion in North America. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 249. $39.95, ISBN 0-253-34193-0.) Debra Meyers has undertaken ...
Mordecai: an Early American Family.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Mordecai: An Early American Family. By Emily Bingham. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2003. Pp. xiv, 346. Paper, $14.00, ISBN 0-8090-7016-2; cloth, $26.00, ISBN 0-8090-2756-9.) The Mordecais have occupied Emily Bingham for over a decade, and few can rival her intimate knowledge of ...
Jesuit Slaveholding in Maryland, 1717-1838.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Jesuit Slaveholding in Maryland, 1717-1838. By Thomas Murphy, SJ. Studies in African American History and Culture. (New York and London: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xxvi, 258. $80.00, ISBN 0-8153-4052-4.) That the Society of Jesus was a major slaveholder in the Americas is well known ...
The Making and Unmaking of a Revolutionary Family: the Tuckers of Virginia, 1752-1830.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... The Making and Unmaking of a Revolutionary Family: The Tuckers of Virginia, 1752-1830. By Phillip Hamilton. Jeffersonian America. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 250. $35.00, ISBN 0-8139-2164-3.) Phillip Hamilton has written a concise, ...
Ratifying the Republic: Antifederalists and Federalists in Constitutional Time.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Ratifying the Republic: Antifederalists and Federalists in Constitutional Time. By David J. Siemers. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, c. 2002. Pp. xx, 292. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8047-5103-X; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8047-4106-9.) In Ratifying the Republic, David J ....
Jefferson's Call for Nationhood: the First Inaugural Address.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Jefferson's Call for Nationhood: The First Inaugural Address. By Stephen Howard Browne. Library of Presidential Rhetoric. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 155. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 1-58544-252-6; cloth, $29.95, ISBN 1-58544-251-8.) Thomas Jefferson's ...
Rebels, Reformers, and Revolutionaries: Collected Essays and Second Thoughts.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Rebels, Reformers, and Revolutionaries: Collected Essays and Second Thoughts. By Douglas R. Egerton. Crosscurrents in African American History. (New York and London: Routledge, c. 2002. Pp. xiv, 254. $85.95, ISBN 0-415-93122-3.) Because Douglas R. Egerton has published numerous ...
The Planter's Prospect: Privilege and Slavery in Plantation Paintings.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... The Planter's Prospect: Privilege and Slavery in Plantation Paintings. By John Michael Vlach. The Richard Hampton Jenrette Series in Architecture and the Decorative Arts. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. xii, 216. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8078-5352-6; ...
African Voices in the African American Heritage.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... African Voices in the African American Heritage. By Betty M. Kuyk. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2003. Pp. xxx, 256. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-253-21576-5; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-253-34204-X.) Melville Herskovits's The Myth of the Negro Past (New York, ...
The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... The Claims of Kinfolk." African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South. By Dylan C. Penningroth. The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. x, 310. Paper, $19.95, ...
Slave to the Body: Black Bodies, White No-Bodies and the Regulative Dualism of Body-Politics in the Old South.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Slave to the Body: Black Bodies, White No-Bodies and the Regulative Dualism of Body-Politics in the Old South. By Lars Schroeder. American Culture Series. (Frankfurt am Main and other cities: Peter Lang, c. 2003. Pp. 491. Paper, $57.95, ISBN 0-8204-6026-5.) This book constitutes ...
Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808-1915.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1805-1915. By Mitch Kachun. (Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 339. $39.95, ISBN 1-55849-407-3.) With Festivals of Freedom, Mitch Kachun makes a ...
Baptist Faith in Action: the Private Writings of Maria Baker Taylor, 1813-1895.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Baptist Faith In Action: the Private Writings of Maria Baker Taylor, 1813-1895. By Kathryn Carlisle Schwartz. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xxx, 399. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-497-4.) For over three decades historians have expanded our understanding of ...
1816: America Rising.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... 1816: America Rising. By C. Edward Skeen. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 299. $35.00, ISBN 0-8131-2771-6.) 1816: America Rising attempts to refurbish the Era of Good Feelings through an intense examination of political events in a single calendar ...
The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic. By Richard S. Newman. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 256. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-80784998-7; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2671-5.) This book contrasts ...
The Great Catastrophe of My Life: Divorce in the Old Dominion.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... The Great Catastrophe of My Life: Divorce in the Old Dominion. By Thomas E. Buckley, SJ. Studies in Legal History. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. xiv, 346. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5380-1 ; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2712-6.) When ...
A History of Household Government in America.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... A History of Household Government in America. By Carole Shammas. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 232. Paper, $19.50, ISBN 0-8139-2126-0; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-81392125-2.) In this ambitious and wide-ranging book, Carole Shammas ...
The Unboxing of Henry Brown.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... The Unboxing of Henry Brown. By Jeffrey Ruggles. (Richmond: The Library of Virginia, 2003. Pp. xvi, 232. $25.00, ISBN 0-88490-200-5.) Among the more familiar images of the abolition movement is that of Henry Box Brown emerging from a shipping crate after a harrowing ...
Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought. By Dean E. Robinson. (Cambridge and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 171. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-521-62627-7; cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-521-62326-X.) Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought examines ...
Civil War America: Making a Nation, 1848-1877.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Civil War America: Making a Nation, 1848-1877. By Robert Cook. Longman History of the United States. (London and other cities: Longman, an imprint of Pearson Education, 2003. Pp. xx, 382. Paper, $26.00, ISBN 0-58238107-X.) Robert Cook's contribution to Longman's History of the ...
The Papers of John C. Calhoun.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... The Papers of John C. Calhoun. Volume XXVII: 1849-1850. With Supplement. Edited by Clyde N. Wilson and Shirley Bright Cook. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 575. $59.95, ISBN 1-57003-493-1.) Troubling personal and political issues cast a gloomy ...
Lincoln.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Lincoln. By Richard J. Carwardine. Profiles in Power. (Harlow, Scotland, and London: Pearson Longman, 2003. Pp. xviii, 352. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-582-03279-2.) In 1984 a contestant on the television game show Press Your Luck stunned the audience and seemingly defied the laws of ...
Lincoln Reshapes the Presidency.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Lincoln Reshapes the Presidency. Edited by Charles M. Hubbard. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 236. $29.95, ISBN 0-86554817-X.) These collected essays are based on papers presented at the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum's 2001 Lincoln Symposium. They ...
Legal Cases of the Civil War.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Legal Cases of the Civil War. By Robert Bruce Murray. (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 324. $29.95, ISBN 0-81170059-3.) Robert Bruce Murray, a former attorney, closely examines a number of United States Supreme Court cases culled from his sample of 185 ...
In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... In the Presence of Mine Enemies." War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863. By Edward L. Ayers. The Valley of the Shadow Project. (New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company, 2003. Pp. xxiv, 471. $27.95, ISBN 0-393-05786-0.) This impressive book deserves attention as much for ...
Gettysburg.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Gettysburg. By Stephen W. Sears. (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003. Pp. xvi, 623. $30.00, ISBN 0-395-86761-4.) In Gettysburg, Stephen W. Sears fully maintains the high standards for scholarship and vibrant literary style he set in his earlier works on the ...
When Sherman Marched North from the Sea: Resistance on the Confederate Home Front.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... When Sherman Marched North from the Sea: Resistance on the Confederate Home Front. By Jacqueline Glass Campbell. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 177. $27.50, ISBN 0-8078-2809-2.) In recent years, Civil War ...
A Hard Trip: a History of the 15th Mississippi Infantry. C.S.A.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... A Hard Trip: A History of the 15th Mississippi Infantry, C.S.A. By Ben Wynne. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2003. Pp. xxvi, 194. $35.00, ISBN 0-86554-806-4.) Civil War regimental histories are usually about as interesting as watching paint dry and about as frustrating as ...
The Army of Northern Virginia: Lee's Army in the American Civil War, 1861-1865.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... The Army of Northern Virginia: Lee's Army in the American Civil War, 1861-1865. By Philip Katcher. The Great Armies. (New York and London: Fitzroy Dearborn, c. 2003. Pp. 352. $95.00, ISBN 1-57958-331-8.) The Army of Northern Virginia (ANV) is one of the most studied in all of ...
All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South. By Stephen W. Berry II. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 286. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-19-517628-6; cloth, $26.00, ISBN 0-19-514567-4.) Stephen W. Berry's ambitious book explores the ...
The Confederate Belle.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... The Confederate Belle. By Giselle Roberts. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 245. $32.50, ISBN 0-8262-1464-9.) Giselle Roberts, Research Associate in the Department of History at La Trobe University, seeks to make two important contributions ...
Beneath a Northern Sky: a Short History of the Gettysburg Campaign.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Beneath a Northern Sky: A Short History of the Gettysburg Campaign. By Steven E. Woodworth. The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era, no. 12. (Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2003. Pp. xvi, 241. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8420-2933-8; cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-8420-2932-X.) ...
The Moving Appeal: Mr. McClanahan, Mrs. Dill, and the Civil War's Great Newspaper Run.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... The Moving Appeal: Mr. McClanahan, Mrs. Dill, and the Civil War's Great Newspaper Run. By B. G. Ellis. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2003. Pp. xlviii, 677. $45.00, ISBN 0-86554-764-5.) The saga of the Memphis Daily Appeal, a daily newspaper published in Memphis, ...
Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: the True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy. By Elizabeth R. Varon. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 317. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-514228-4.) Elizabeth Van Lew's true story was not that ...
Bright and Gloomy Days: the Civil War Correspondence of Captain Charles Frederic Bahnson, a Moravian Confederate.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Bright and Gloomy Days: The Civil War Correspondence of Captain Charles Frederic Bahnson, a Moravian Confederate. Edited by Sarah Bahnson Chapman. Voices of the Civil War. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. Pp. lxii, 250. $37.00, ISBN 1-57233-226-3.) Shortly after ...
Love amid the Turmoil: the Civil War Letters of William and Mary Vermilion.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Love amid the Turmoil: The Civil War Letters of William and Mary Vermilion. Edited by Donald C. Elder III. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 391. $39.95, ISBN 0-87745-849-9.) William and Mary Vermilion produced a remarkable collection of Civil War letters ...
The Trial: the Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... The Trial: The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators. Edited by Edward Steers Jr. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2003. Pp. cvi, 421. $55.00, ISBN 0-8131-2277-5.) This book does not make exciting reading. Only Lincoln assassination ...
Black Congressmen During Reconstruction: A Documentary Sourcebook.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Black Congressmen during Reconstruction: A Documentary Sourcebook. Edited by Stephen Middleton. Foreword by John David Smith. (Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 2002. Pp. xx, 444. $94.95, ISBN 0-313-32281-3.) Looking back over the first two and a half centuries of ...
The Sage of Tawawa: Reverdy Cassius Ransom, 1861-1959.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... The Sage of Tawawa: Reverdy Cassius Ransom, 1861-1959. By Annetta L. Gomez-Jefferson. (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, c. 2002. Pp. xvi, 325. $42.00, ISBN 0-87338-748-1.) Historian Gayraud S. Wilmore once remarked that Reverdy Cassius Ransom was one of only ...
The Roman Years of a South Carolina Artist: Caroline Carson's Letters Home, 1872-1892.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... The Roman Years of a South Carolina Artist: Caroline Carson's Letters Home, 1872-1892. Edited and with an introduction by William H. Pease and Jane H. Pease. Women's Diaries and Letters of the South. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xxxii, 275. $39.95, ISBN ...
Monuments to the Lost Cause: Women, Art, and the Landscapes of Southern Memory.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Monuments to the Lost Cause: Women, Art, and the Landscapes of Southern Memory. Edited by Cynthia Mills and Pamela H. Simpson. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. Pp. xxx, 265. $45.00, ISBN 1-57233-272-7.) An excellent introduction by Cynthia Mills sets the stage ...
Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Memory, 1880-1945.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Memory, 1880-1945. By Julie Des Jardins. Gender and American Culture. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 380. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5475-1; cloth, $45.00, ISBN ...
Peabody College: From a Frontier Academy to the Frontiers of Teaching and Learning.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Peabody College: From a Frontier Academy to the Frontiers of Teaching and Learning. By Paul K. Conkin. (Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 447. $49.95, ISBN 0-8265-1425-1.) The name of George Foster Peabody is generally familiar to historians of ...
Portraits of a Generation: Early Pentecostal Leaders.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Portraits of a Generation: Early Pentecostal Leaders. Edited by James R. Goff Jr. and Grant Wacker. Afterword by David Edwin Harrell Jr. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 430. $34.95, ISBN 1-55728-731-7.) This intriguing volume consists of twenty ...
The Invisible Empire: the Ku Klux Klan in Florida.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... The Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida. By Michael Newton. Foreword by Raymond Arsenault and Gary R. Mormino. The Florida History and Culture Series. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2001. Pp. xvi, 260. $24.95, ISBN 0-8130-2120-0.) This ...
Goldberger's War: the Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Goldberger's War." The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader. By Alan M. Kraut. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2003. Pp. xvi, 313. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-8090-1637-0; cloth, $25.00, ISBN 0-374-13537-1.) The Progressive movement was at its zenith in the spring of 1914 when the ...
Backfire: How the Ku Klux Klan Helped the Civil Rights Movement.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Backfire: How the Ku Klux Klan Helped the Civil Rights Movement. By David Chalmers. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2003. Pp. viii, 207. $24.95, ISBN 0-7425-2310-1.) David Chalmers's Hooded Americanism is still a standard history of ...
American Congo: the African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta. By Nan Elizabeth Woodruff. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. [vi], 282. $39.95, ISBN 0-674-01047-7.) Nan Elizabeth Woodruff has produced a masterful account of life in the ...
Making Race, Making Power: North Carolina's Road to Disfranchisement.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Making Race, Making Power: North Carolina's Road to Disfranchisement. By Kent Redding. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2003. Pp. x, 180. $34.95, ISBN 0-252-02808-2.) Historians who have examined the disfranchisement campaigns in the South around 1900 have, ...
Renaissance in Charleston: Art and Life in the Carolina Low Country, 1900-1940.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Renaissance in Charleston: Art and Life in the Carolina Low Country, 1900-1940. Edited by James M. Hutchisson and Harlan Greene. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 259. $34.95, ISBN 0-8203-2518-X.) Augmenting Martha Severens's "definitive" ...
The Light Crust Doughboys Are on the Air: Celebrating Seventy Years of Texas Music.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... The Light Crust Doughboys Are on the Air: Celebrating Seventy Years of Texas Music. By John Mark Dempsey. Foreword by Art Greenhaw. Evelyn Oppenheimer Series, no. 2. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, c. 2002. Pp. x, 294. $29.95, ISBN 1-57441-151-9.) Anyone who wonders ...
Black Victory: the Rise and Fall of the White Primary in Texas.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Black Victory: The Rise and Fall of the White Primary in Texas. By Darlene Clark Hine. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 1979, 2003. Pp. xii, 283. $34.95, ISBN 0-8262-1462-2.) The white primary of the Progressive era was the most effective of the southern ...
The Bootlegger's Other Daughter.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... The Bootlegger's Other Daughter. By Mary Cimarolli. Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, no. 4. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 170. $24.95, ISBN 1-58544-260-7.) Mary Cimarolli's memoir of growing up in northeast Texas could be called "farm life noir." ...
Songs of Life and Grace.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Songs of Life and Grace. By Linda Scott DeRosier. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2003. Pp. xxxii, 228. $26.00, ISBN 0-8131-2276-7.) Songs of Life and Grace is the successor to Linda Scott DeRosier's acclaimed memoir, Creeker: A Woman's Journey (Lexington, Ky., ...