The Journal of Southern History back issues from August 2005:
Were African American slaveholders benevolent or exploitative? A quantitative approach.
Aug 01, 2005; ... THE OWNERSHIP OF AFRICAN AMERICAN SLAVES BY OTHER AFRICAN Americans was surely one of the most peculiar features of the peculiar institution. Yet, in the antebellum South free black people did indeed own enslaved black people. Why that was so has been a matter of dispute. Most historians ...
Power, perception, and interracial sex: former slaves recall a multiracial south.
Aug 01, 2005; ... MY FATHER'S NAME WUZ ROBERT STEWART. HE WUZ A WHITE MAN. My mother wuz named Ann. She wuz part Indian. Her father wuz a Choctaw Indian and her mother a black woman--a slave." (1) This is how Charley Stewart, a former slave, described his lineage. Stewart was not alone in claiming parents ...
Removing the mask of nationality: unionism, racism, and federal military occupation in North Carolina, 1862-1865.
Aug 01, 2005; ... As DAWN CAST ITS SHIMMERING LIGHT OVER THE SLEEPY LITTLE PORT OF Beaufort, North Carolina, on the soggy morning of March 26, 1862, local residents awoke to find their world had changed overnight. They had drifted off to sleep the night before as residents of a quiet Confederate ...
Miscegenation and competing definitions of race in twentieth-century Louisiana.(Marcus Bruce's works)
Aug 01, 2005; ... MARCUS BRUCE CHRISTIAN, AN AUTHOR AND PROFESSOR AT DILLARD University, observed in the mid-nineteen-fifties that while New Orleans might be known for "gumbo, jambalaya, lagniappe, poor boy sandwiches, pralines, Mardi Gras and Creoles," it also has "another claim to distinction which has ...
A Population History of the United States.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... A Population History of the United States. By Herbert S. Klein. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 300. Paper, $22.00, ISBN 0-521-78810-2; cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-521-78268-6.) It has been twenty years since the last narrative surveys of ...
Slavery in the Development of the Americas.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Slavery in the Development of the Americas. Edited by David Eltis, Frank D. Lewis, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 372. $75.00, ISBN 0-521-83277-2.) No economic historian has contributed more to the field over the ...
The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670-1763.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670-1763. By Steven C. Hahn. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. Pp. x, 392. $59.95, ISBN 0-8032-2414-1.) Steven C. Hahn' s The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670-1763 theorizes that the Creek Nation was more or less an artificial ...
A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America. By Nancy Shoemaker. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 211. $29.95, ISBN 0-19-516792-9.) In seeking to reverse the presumption that conflict and difference ...
This Remote Part of the World: Regional Formation in Lower Cape Fear, North Carolina, 1725-1775.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... This Remote Part of the World: Regional Formation in Lower Cape Fear, North Carolina, 1725-1775. By Bradford J. Wood. The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xx, 344. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-540-7.) Bradford J ....
The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley. By Warren R. Hofstra. Creating the North American Landscape. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xviii, 410. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 0-8018-8271-0; cloth, $49.95, ISBN ...
Spreading the Gospel in Colonial Virginia: Sermons and Devotional Writings.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Spreading the Gospel in Colonial Virginia: Sermons and Devotional Writings. Introduction and notes by Edward L. Bond. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Published by Lexington Books in association with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia, c. 2004. Pp. xviii, 571 ....
Language and Political Meaning in Revolutionary America.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Language and Political Meaning in Revolutionary America. By John Howe. (Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 281. $39.95, ISBN 1-55849-422-7.) The complex and prolonged struggle that constituted the American Revolution was, more than any other ...
The Final Victims: Foreign Slave Trade to North America, 1783-1810.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... The Final Victims: Foreign Slave Trade to North America, 1783-1810. By James A. McMillin. The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. [xiv], 207. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-546-6.) James A. McMillin's The Final Victims: ...
American Machiavelli: Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... American Machiavelli: Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy. By John Lamberton Harper. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 347. $30.00, ISBN 0-521-83485-6.) In this book, John Lamberton Harper juxtaposes the strategic ...
Wilderness Journey: The Life of William Clark.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Wilderness Journey: The Life of William Clark. By William E. Foley. Missouri Biography Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 326. $29.95, ISBN 0-8262-1533-5.) Finally, nearly forty years after Richard Dillon's authoritative biography of ...
Community Diaries: Arkansas Newspapering, 1819-2002.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Community Diaries: Arkansas Newspapering, 1819-2002. By Michael B. Dougan. (Little Rock, Ark.: August House Publishers, Inc., c. 2003. Pp. 416. $34.95, ISBN 0-87483-722-7.) In addition to being a history of Arkansas newspapers, Michael B. Dougan's Community Diaries: Arkansas ...
Religious Pioneers: Building the Faith in the Archdiocese of New Orleans.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Religious Pioneers: Building the Faith in the Archdiocese of New Orleans. Edited by Dorothy Dawes and Charles Nolan. (New Orleans: Archdiocese of New Orleans, 2004. Pp. xxvi, 398. $30.00, LCCN 2003098891.) Religious Pioneers: Building the Faith in the Archdiocese of New Orleans ...
A Jackson Man: Amos Kendall and the Rise of American Democracy.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... A Jackson Man: Amos Kendall and the Rise of American Democracy. By Donald B. Cole. Southern Biography Series. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 332. $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-2930-5.) Donald B. Cole has written a fascinating study of Amos Kendall. ...
Joseph Mills White: Anti-Jacksonian Floridian.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Joseph Mills White: Anti-Jacksonian Floridian. By Ernest F. Dibble. (Cocoa: Florida Historical Society Press, c. 2003. Pp. [viii], 210. $23.95, ISBN 1-886104-07-7.) Ernest F. Dibble's biography of Joseph Mills White reveals White's importance in shaping early Florida. Like the ...
Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827-1863.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827-1863. By Maureen Konkle. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xii, 367. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5492-1; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2822-X.) This is a ...
Living in the Land of Death: The Choctaw Nation, 1830-1860.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Living in the Land of Death: The Choctaw Nation, 1830-1860. By Donna L. Akers. Native American Series. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xxviii, 202. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-87013-684-4.) Donna L. Akers has produced a highly idiosyncratic and personal ...
The Seminole Wars: America's Longest Indian Conflict.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... The Seminole Wars: America's Longest Indian Conflict. By John Missall and Mary Lou Missall. Foreword by Raymond Arsenault and Gary R. Mormino. Florida History and Culture. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2004. Pp. xxii, 255. $29.95, ISBN 0-81302715-2.) ...
Almonte's Texas: Juan N. Almonte's 1834 Inspection, Secret Report, and Role in the 1836 Campaign.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Almonte's Texas: Juan N. Almonte's 1834 Inspection, Secret Report and Role in the 1836 Campaign. Edited by Jack Jackson. Translated by John Wheat. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, c. 2003. Pp. x, 503. $39.95, ISBN 0-87611-191-6.) This book offers a treasure of riches ...
Sacrificed at the Alamo: Tragedy and Triumph in the Texas Revolution.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Sacrificed at the Alamo: Tragedy and Triumph in the Texas Revolution. By Richard Bruce Winders. Military History of Texas. (Abilene, Tex.: State House Press, McMurry University, c. 2004. Pp. 167. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 1-880510-81-2; cloth, $24.95, ISBN 1-880510-80-4.) Do we need ...
Correspondence of James K. Polk. Volume X: July-December 1845.(Correspondence of James K. Polk: July-December 1845, vol. 10)(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Correspondence of James K. Polk. Volume X: July-December 1845. Edited by Wayne Cutler, James L. Rogers II, Brian E. Crowson, and Cynthia J. Rogers. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. Pp. xxviii, 551. $55.00, ISBN 1-57233-304-9.) This latest installment of ...
Masterful Women: Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Masterful Women: Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War. By Kirsten E. Wood. Gender and American Culture. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 281. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5528-6; cloth, $49.95, ISBN ...
Gardens and Historic Plants of the Antebellum South.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Gardens and Historic Plants of the Antebellum South. By James R. Cothran. (Columbia and London: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 321. $49.00, ISBN 1-57003-501-6.) James R. Cothran's Gardens and Historic Plants of the Antebellum South discusses plants, gardens, ...
A Bachelor's Life in Antebellum Mississippi: The Diary of Dr. Elijah Millington Walker, 1849-1852.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... A Bachelor's Life in Antebellum Mississippi: The Diary of Dr. Elijah Millington Walker, 1849-1852. Edited by Lynette Boney Wrenn. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. Pp. xxxviii, 343. $34.00 ISBN 1-57233-283-2.) This volume is welcome as a revealing slice of ...
Winfield Scott and the Profession of Arms.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Winfield Scott and the Profession of Arms. By Allan Peskin. (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 328. $49.00, ISBN 0-87338-774-0.) Allan Peskin is a highly respected historian whose many books and articles on the Gilded Age are standards in the ...
Kentucky's Last Cavalier: General William Preston, 1816-1887.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Kentucky's Last Cavalier: General William Preston, 1816-1887. By Peter J. Sehlinger. (Frankfort: Kentucky Historical Society, c. 2004. Pp. xx, 309. $33.95, ISBN 0-916968-33-2.) Born in 1816 to an aristocratic family near Louisville, Kentucky, William Preston's life was shaped by ...
Time Longer Than Rope: A Century of African American Activism, 1850-1950.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Time Longer Than Rope: A Century of African American Activism, 1850-1950. Edited by Charles M. Payne and Adam Green. (New York and London: New York University Press, c. 2003. Pp. viii, 584. Paper, $24.00, ISBN 0-8147-6703-6; cloth $70.00, ISBN 0-8147-6702-8.) This collection ...
Without Regard to Race: The Other Martin Robison Delany.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Without Regard to Race: The Other Martin Robison Delany. By Tunde Adeleke. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2003. Pp. xxxiv, 274. $42.00, ISBN 1-57806-598-4.) Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) is remembered as an abolitionist who, during the 1850s, advocated black ...
Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom.(Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories)(Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero)(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom. By Catherine Clinton. (New York and Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2004. Pp. xiv, 272. $27.95, ISBN 0-316-14492-4.) Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories. By Jean M. Humez. Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography. (Madison: University ...
The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation.(Slavery in the American Mountain South)(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation. By Wilma A. Dunaway. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 368. Paper, $28.00, ISBN 0-521-01216-3; cloth, $80.00, ISBN 0-521-81276-3.) Slavery in the American Mountain South. By Wilma A ....
Lincoln's War: The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander in Chief.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Lincoln's War: The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander in Chief. By Geoffrey Perret. (New York: Random House, 2004. Pp. xviii, 470. $35.00, ISBN 0-375-50738-8.) Geoffrey Perret has turned to the Civil War in this comprehensive study entitled Lincoln's War: ...
"We are Lincoln Men": Abraham Lincoln and His Friends.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... "We are Lincoln Men": Abraham Lincoln and His Friends. By David Herbert Donald. (New York and other cities: Simon and Schuster, c. 2003. Pp. xviii, 269. $25.00, ISBN 0-7432-5468-6.) According to David Herbert Donald, an award-winning historian and noted Lincoln biographer, ...
Freedom, Union, and Power: Lincoln and His Party during the Civil War.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Freedom, Union, and Power: Lincoln and His Party during the Civil War. By Michael S. Green. The North's Civil War. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 398. $65.00, ISBN 0-8232-2275-6.) This is a thoroughly researched and well-written account of the Republican ...
Children for the Union: The War Spirit on the Northern Home Front.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Children for the Union: The War Spirit on the Northern Home Front. By James Marten. American Childhoods. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2004. Pp. [xii], 209. $26.00, ISBN 1-56663-563-2.) In Children for the Union: The War Spirit on the Northern Home Front, James Marten elaborates the ...
Devil's Game: The Civil War Intrigues of Charles A. Dunham.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Devil's Game: The Civil War Intrigues of Charles A. Dunham. By Carman Cumming. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2004. Pp. [xviii], 305. $35.00, ISBN 0-252-02890-2.) The stories that appeared in Civil War newspapers were generally slanted to reflect the ...
Confederate Women.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Confederate Women. Edited by Mauriel Phillips Joslyn. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 2004. Pp. 174. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 1-58980-186-5; First published in 1996 as Valor and Lace: Roles of Confederate Women 1861-1865 by Southern Heritage Press.) The appealing cover of ...
Audacity Personified: The Generalship of Robert E. Lee.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Audacity Personified: The Generalship of Robert E. Lee. Edited by Peter S. Carmichael. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xxiv, 174. $24.95, ISBN 0-8071-2929-1.) Seventy years ago, Douglas Southall Freeman completed a four-volume study of Robert E. Lee (R ....
Days of Glory: The Army of the Cumberland, 1861-1865.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Days of Glory: The Army of the Cumberland, 1861-1865. By Larry J. Daniel. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 490. $44.95, ISBN 0-8071-2931-3.) Of the three major Union armies participating in the American Civil War, the Army of the Cumberland is ...
The Ongoing Civil War: New Versions of Old Stories.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... The Ongoing Civil War: New Versions of Old Stories. Edited with an introduction by Herman Hattaway and Ethan S. Rafuse. Shades of Blue and Gray. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2004. Pp. [xii], 164. $32.50, ISBN 0-8262-1524-6.) Style and content have been ...
Two Germans in the Civil War: The Diary of John Daeuble and the Letters of Gottfried Rentschler, 6th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Two Germans in the Civil War: The Diary of John Daeuble and the Letters of Gottfried Rentschler, 6th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. Edited and translated by Joseph R. Reinhart. Voices of the Civil War. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. Pp. xxxviii, 243. $32.00, ISBN ...
Walker's Texas Division, C.S.A.: Greyhounds of the Trans-Mississippi.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Walker's Texas Division, C.S.A.: Greyhounds of the Trans-Mississippi. By Richard Lowe. Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 339. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2933-X.) Richard Lowe's study examines the ...
Brothers One and All: Esprit de Corps in a Civil War Regiment.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Brothers One and All: Esprit de Corps in a Civil War Regiment. By Mark H. Dunkelman. Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 344. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2978-X.) The Civil War continues to afford ...
Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War. By Michael J. Bennett. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xviii, 337. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2870-X.) The American Civil War was overwhelmingly a land war. Millions of men were ...
Iron from the Deep: The Discovery and Recovery of the USS Monitor.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Iron from the Deep: The Discovery and Recovery of the USS Monitor. By Robert E. Sheridan. (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 261. $34.95, ISBN 1-55750-413-X.) Robert E. Sheridan's boyhood passion for the USS Monitor was realized when he participated in the ...
Brigadier General Tyree H. Bell, C.S.A.: Forrest's Fighting Lieutenant.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Brigadier General Tyree H. Bell, C.S.A.: Forrest's Fighting Lieutenant. By Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 346. $45.00, ISBN 1-57233-309-X.) This is military biography at its best by a master of the genre. Since publishing ...
The Correspondence of Sarah Morgan and Francis Warrington Dawson, with Selected Editorials Written by Sarah Morgan for the Charleston News and Courier.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... The Correspondence of Sarah Morgan and Francis Warrington Dawson, with Selected Editorials Written by Sarah Morgan for the Charleston News and Courier. Edited by Giselle Roberts. Publications of the Southern Texts Society. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2004. Pp ....
High Mountains Rising: Appalachia in Time and Place.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... High Mountains Rising: Appalachia in Time and Place. Edited by Richard A. Straw and H. Tyler Blethen. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2004. Pp. x, 240. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-252-0716-X; cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-252-02916-X.) Thirty-five years ago a confluence ...
Perilous Voyages: Czech and English Immigrants to Texas in the 1870s.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Perilous Voyages: Czech and English Immigrants to Texas in the 1870s. By Lawrence H. Konecny and Clinton Machann. Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 183. $29.95, ISBN 1-58544-317-4.) ...
Mythic Galveston: Reinventing America's Third Coast.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Mythic Galveston: Reinventing America's Third Coast. By Susan Wiley Hardwick. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Pp. 200. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-6887-4.) Susan Wiley Hardwick, a geographer, examines Galveston, Texas, for a variety of reasons. She suggests ...
The Disfranchisement Myth: Poor Whites and Suffrage Restriction in Alabama.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... The Disfranchisement Myth: Poor Whites and Suffrage Restriction in Alabama. By Glenn Feldman. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 311. $39.95, ISBN 0-8203-2651-1.) Glenn Feldman argues that historians have perpetuated a myth that poor whites ...
Inside Alabama: A Personal History of My State.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Inside Alabama: A Personal History of My State. By Harvey H. Jackson III. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2004. Pp. xviii, 325. $26.95, ISBN 0-8173-5068-3.) Harvey H. Jackson III wrote a book he was not "supposed to write" (p. ix). Instead of the short, popular ...
This Business of Relief: Confronting Poverty in a Southern City, 1740-1940.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... This Business of Relief: Confronting Poverty in a Southern City, 1740-1940. By Elna C. Green. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 356. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8203-2552-X; cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0-8203-2451-5.) In 1935 President Franklin D ....
The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon. By Robert D. Johnston. Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America. (Princeton and Oxford, Eng.: Princeton University Press, c. 2003. Pp. xxiv, 394. $37.50, ISBN ...
Minnie Fisher Cunningham: A Suffragist's Life in Politics.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Minnie Fisher Cunningham: A Suffragist's Life in Politics. By Judith N. McArthur and Harold L. Smith. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 266. $45.00, ISBN 0-19-512215-1.) Judith N. McArthur and Harold L. Smith have written a well-researched ...
Weathering the Storm: Inside Winslow Homer's Gulf Stream.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Weathering the Storm: Inside Winslow Homer's Gulf Stream. By Peter H. Wood. Mercer University Lamar Lectures. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 128. $24.95, ISBN 0-8203-2625-9.) The subject of Peter H. Wood's Weathering the Storm: Inside ...
Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. By Daylanne K. English. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 267. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5531-6; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2868-8.) The title of this ...
The Texas Post Office Murals: Art for the People.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... The Texas Post Office Murals: Art for the People. By Philip Parisi. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 181. $50.00, ISBN 1-58544-231-3.) If every state had a guide to its New Deal post-office and courthouse murals as well conceived and executed as this ...
Carl Vinson: Patriarch of the Armed Forces.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Carl Vinson: Patriarch of the Armed Forces. By James F. Cook. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2004. Pp. xxxiv, 390. $35.00, ISBN 0-86554-754-8.) Carl Vinson occupies a prominent place in the history of the United States Congress during the twentieth century. A native of ...
Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story. of Justice Wiley Rutledge. By John M. Ferren. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 577. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2866-1.) Wiley Blount Rutledge Jr., the son of a Baptist preacher from ...
White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960. By Lisa Lindquist Dorr. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. viii, 327. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5514-6; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2841-6.) In the past ten years a new ...
Luther P. Jackson and a Life for Civil Rights.(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2005; ... Luther P. Jackson and a Life for Civil Rights. By Michael Dennis. Foreword by John David Smith. New Perspectives on the History of the South. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 254. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8130-2919-8; cloth, $55.00, ISBN ...