The Journal of Southern History back issues from November 2005:
Courtship contests and the meaning of conflict in the folklore of slaves.
Nov 01, 2005; ... <Pre>Brer Rabbit dancing and singing plumturned Miss Wolf's head .... Brer Rabbithe take the gal and go off home clipity, lipity.Poor old Brer Coon he take hisself off home,he so tired, he can scarcely hold hisself together. </Pre> COURTSHIP," STEVEN STOWE HAS ...
Plain folk reconsidered: historiographical ambiguity in search of definition.(racism)
Nov 01, 2005; ... STUDENTS OF SOUTHERN HISTORY ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE TERMS PLANTER, plain folk, and poor white. Most will acknowledge an understanding of who enjoyed status as a planter and who was a poor white, but the characteristics of plain folk are neither as clearly defined nor as well understood ....
Memphis, the Peabody, and the SHA: a fifty-year commemoration.(Southern Historical Association)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Introduction ONE OF THE LANDMARK EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF THE SOUTHERN Historical Association took place fifty years ago this month in Memphis. At the annual meeting at the Peabody Hotel in November 1955, the program for the Phi Alpha Theta dinner consisted of three prominent ...
The Southern Historical Association and the quest for racial justice, 1954-1963.
Nov 01, 2005; ... IN NOVEMBER 1955, IN A NATION GRAPPLING WITH THE SUPREME COURT'S Brown v. Board of Education decision of the previous year, the Southern Historical Association (SHA) met in Memphis, not far from where a Mississippi jury had just exonerated the white killers of the black youth Emmett Till ....
Comments.(John Hope Franklin)
Nov 01, 2005; ... NEVER, NEVER ON NOVEMBER 10, 1955, IN ALL OF THIS STIRRING, ALL the hell-raising that went on in this hall, could I ever have imagined that I would be sitting here at this table again fifty years later. It was all arranged differently than it is now. They had dining tables, and this front ...
Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century. By April Lee Hatfield. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c. 2004. Pp. [viii], 312. $39.95, ISBN 0-8122-3757-9.) In Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century, April ...
Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma. By Camilla Townsend. American Portraits. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2004. Pp. xii, 223. Paper, $14.00, ISBN 0-8090-7738-8; cloth, $25.00, ISBN 0-8090-9530-0.) To the colonists at Jamestown and to generations of American historians, Pocahontas ...
Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal. By William M. S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton. (Charlottesville, Va.: Howell Press, c. 2003. Pp. 252. Paper, $40.00, ISBN 1-57427-140-7; cloth, $60.00, ISBN 1-57427-139-3. To order phone 1-800-868-4512.) As early as 1624, Captain ...
Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age. By Marcus Rediker. (Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, 2004. Pp. viii, 240. $16.00, ISBN 0-8070-5024-5.) Nearly twenty years ago, in his Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the ...
Forging America: Ironworkers, Adventurers, and the Industrious Revolution.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Forging America: Ironworkers, Adventurers, and the Industrious Revolution. By John Bezis-Selfa. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 279. $39.95, ISBN 0-8014-3993-0.) John Bezis-Selfa has produced a well-organized, meticulously researched, and ...
The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America. By Richard R. Beeman. Early American Studies. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c. 2004. Pp. x, 366. $31.95, ISBN 0-8122-3770-6.) Richard R. Beeman' s survey of American political culture in the ...
Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic. Edited by Jeffrey L. Pasley, Andrew W. Robertson, and David Waldstreicher. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. [xii], 435. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8078-55588; ...
Forgotten Founder: The Life and Times of Charles Pinckney.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Forgotten Founder: The Life and Times of Charles Pinckney. By Marty D. Matthews. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xx, 186. $29.95, ISBN 1-57003-547-4.) If Charles Pinckney has been a "forgotten founder," it is his own fault. Historians have always ...
Dear Brother: Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Dear Brother: Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark. Edited and with an introduction by James J. Holmberg. Foreword by James P. Ronda. (New Haven, Conn., and London: Published by Yale University Press in association with the Filson Historical Society, c. 2002. Pp. xxx, 322. Paper, ...
The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series.(The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series: 16 May-31 October 1803, vol. 5)(The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series:1 November 1803-31 March 1804, vol. 6)(The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series:10 July 18127 February 1813, vol. 5)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series. Volume 5: 16 May-31 October 1803. Edited by David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Ellen J. Barber, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Bradley J. Daigle. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, c. 2000. Pp. xxxviii, 643 ....
Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War. By Melvin Patrick Ely. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. Pp. x, 640. $35.00, ISBN 0-679-44738-5.) In 1974 Ira Berlin depicted the Old South's free blacks as "slaves without ...
Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861. By John Ernest. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 426. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-8078-5521-9; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2853-X.) William Wells ...
Bridging Deep South Rivers: The Life and Legend of Horace King.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Bridging Deep South Rivers: The Life and Legend of Horace King. By John S. Lupold and Thomas L. French Jr. (Athens, Ga., and London: Published by the University of Georgia Press in cooperation with the Historic Chattahoochee Commission and the Troup County Historical Society, c. 2004. Pp ....
A Stranger and a Sojourner: Peter Caulder, Free Black Frontiersman in Antebellum Arkansas.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... A Stranger and a Sojourner: Peter Caulder, Free Black Frontiersman in Antebellum Arkansas. By Billy D. Higgins. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 349. $34.95, ISBN 1-55728-777-5.) In his noteworthy chronicle of the life of Peter Caulder, a mulatto ...
The Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800-1861.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... The Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800-1861. By Jonathan Daniel Wells. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xviii, 321. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8078-5553-7; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2882-3.) The veritable cottage industry that has ...
Halls of Honor: College Men in the Old South.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Halls of Honor: College Men in the Old South. By Robert F. Pace. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 152. $34.95, ISBN 0-8071-2982-8.) Bertram Wyatt-Brown's Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South (New York, 1982) is not without its ...
Communities of Kinship: Antebellum Families and the Settlement of the Cotton Frontier.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Communities of Kinship: Antebellum Families and the Settlement of the Cotton Frontier. By Carolyn Earle Billingsley. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 215. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8203-2510-4; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8203-2509-0.) On first ...
Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South. Edited by Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2004. Pp. xx, 234. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8203-2616-X; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8203-2423-X.) The unrelenting ...
From Pity to Pride: Growing Up Deaf in the Old South.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... From Pity to Pride: Growing Up Deaf in the Old South. By Hannah Joyner. (Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xii, 210. $49.95, ISBN 1-56368-270-2.) Most people perhaps think deafness is severe hearing loss that significantly limits interpersonal ...
Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. By Steven M. Stowe. Studies in Social Medicine. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xii, 373. $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2885-8.) In ...
The Formation of the Primitive Baptist Movement.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... The Formation of the Primitive Baptist Movement. By Jeffrey Wayne Taylor. Studies in the Believers Church Tradition. (Kitchener, Ontario: Pandora Press, c. 2004. Pp. 225. $25.00, ISBN 1-894710-42-8.) A distinguished Primitive Baptist preacher of my acquaintance once remarked ...
Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South. By Stephanie M. H. Camp. Gender and American Culture. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 206. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-5534-0; cloth, $39.95, ISBN ...
The Strange Career of Bilingual Education in Texas, 1836-1981.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... The Strange Career of Bilingual Education in Texas, 1836-1981. By Carlos Kevin Blanton. Fronteras Series. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. Pp. [x], 204. $29.95, ISBN 1-58544-310-7.) Carlos Kevin Blanton has sought to emulate C. Vann Woodward's The Strange ...
His Brother's Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838-64.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... His Brother's Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838-64. By Owen Lovejoy. Edited by William F. Moore and Jane Ann Moore. Foreword by Paul Simon. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2004. Pp. xxxviii, 432. $50.00, ISBN 0-252-02919-4.) Remembered most often as the ...
James Hamilton of South Carolina.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... James Hamilton of South Carolina. By Robert Tinkler. Southern Biography. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 294. $59.95, ISBN 0-8071-2936-4.) Unlike most leaders of the nullification crisis in South Carolina and with the exception of a couple of ...
Zeb Vance: North Carolina's Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Zeb Vance: North Carolina's Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader. By Gordon B. McKinney. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xviii, 477. $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2865-3.) Civil War scholars have devoted volumes to how and why the ...
The Grand Old Man of Maine: Selected Letters of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865-1914.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... The Grand Old Man of Maine: Selected Letters of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865-1914. Edited by Jeremiah E. Goulka. Foreword by James M. McPherson. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xlviii, 335. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2864-5.) ...
Confederate General R. S. Ewell: Robert E. Lee's Hesitant Commander.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Confederate General R. S. Ewell: Robert E. Lee's Hesitant Commander. By Paul D. Casdorph. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2004. Pp. xii, 474. $39.95, ISBN 0-8131-2305-4.) Paul D. Casdorph's Confederate General R. S. Ewell: Robert E. Lee's Hesitant Commander confirms ...
The Struggle for the Life of the Republic: A Civil War Narrative by Brevet Major Charles Dana Miller, 76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... The Struggle for the Life of the Republic: A Civil War Narrative by Brevet Major Charles Dana Miller, 76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Edited by Steward Bennett and Barbara Tillery. (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xxiv, 301. $34.00, ISBN 0-87338-785-6.) ...
Charlestonians in War: The Charleston Battalion.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Charlestonians in War: The Charleston Battalion. By W. Chris Phelps. Foreword by Joseph P. Riley Jr. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 2004. Pp. 299. $22.00, ISBN 1-58980-166-0.) The Charleston Battalion evolved from the city's antebellum militia. With South Carolina's ...
Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America. By Jane E. Schultz. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 360. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2867-X.) This absorbing book recovers a largely unknown history of the ...
Phantom Pain: North Carolina's Artificial-Limbs Program for Confederate Veterans, Including an Index to Records in the North Carolina State Archives Related to Artificial Limbs for Confederate Veterans.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Phantom Pain: North Carolina's Artificial-Limbs Program for Confederate Veterans, Including an Index to Records in the North Carolina State Archives Related to Artificial Limbs for Confederate Veterans. By Ansley Herring Wegner. (Raleigh: Office of Archives and History, North Carolina ...
Black Flag over Dixie: Racial Atrocities and Reprisals in the Civil War.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Black Flag over Dixie: Racial Atrocities and Reprisals in the Civil War. Edited by Gregory J. W. Urwin. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 265. $45.00, ISBN 0-8093-2546-2.) Black Flag over Dixie: Racial Atrocities and Reprisals in the Civil War is ...
Reflections of a Civil War Historian: Essays on Leadership, Society, and the Art of War.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Reflections of a Civil War Historian: Essays on Leadership, Society, and the Art of War. By Herman Hattaway. Foreword by Frank E. Vandiver. Shades of Blue and Gray Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2004. Pp. xviii, 254. $44.95, ISBN 0-8262-1487-8.) ...
Faces of the Civil War: An Album of Union Soldiers and Their Stories.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Faces of the Civil War: An Album of Union Soldiers and Their Stories. By Ronald S. Coddington. With a foreword by Michael Fellman. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xxiv, 251. $29.95, ISBN 0-8018-7876-4.) Like many Civil War relic hunters, ...
A Faithful Heart: The Journals of Emmala Reed, 1865 and 1866.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... A Faithful Heart: The Journals of Emmala Reed, 1865 and 1866. Edited by Robert T. Oliver. Women's Diaries and Letters of the South. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xxxii, 335. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-545-8.) Emmala Reed, the daughter of a prominent judge ...
The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture. Edited by Alice Fahs and Joan Waugh. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. [x], 286. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-80785572-3; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2907-2.) The editors of this ...
The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836-1916.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836-1916. By William D. Carrigan. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 308. $35.00, ISBN 0-252-02951-8.) Most books about lynching have been general studies or have ...
The Slaughterhouse Cases: Regulation, Reconstruction, and the Fourteenth Amendment.(The Fourteenth Amendment and the Law of the Constitution)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... The Slaughterhouse Cases: Regulation, Reconstruction, and the Fourteenth Amendment. By Ronald M. Labbe and Jonathan Lurie. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 295. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-7006-1409-5; cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-1290-4.) The Fourteenth ...
Mark Twain.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Mark Twain. By Larzer Ziff. Lives and Legacies. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. [viii], 126. $17.95, ISBN 0-19-517019-9.) Larzer Ziff's book on Mark Twain appears in a series entitled Lives and Legacies. Other books in the series include David S. ...
Catarino Garza's Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Catarino Garza's Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border. By Elliott Young. American Encounters/Global Interactions. (Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 407. Paper, $23.95, ISBN 0-8223-3320-1; cloth, $84.95, ISBN 0-8223-3308-2.) In 1891 Catarino Garza ...
The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910-1920.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910-1920. By Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 673. $37.50, ISBN 0-8263-3483-0.) Although the controversial activities of the Texas ...
Racial Thinking in the United States: Uncompleted Independence.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Racial Thinking in the United States: Uncompleted Independence. Edited by Paul Spickard and G. Reginald Daniel. African American Intellectual Heritage. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, c. 2004. Pp. x, 361. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-268-04104-0; cloth, $50.00, ISBN ...
Creative Conflict in African American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Creative Conflict in African American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey. By Wilson Jeremiah Moses. (Cambridge, Eng., and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 308. Paper, $ 17.95, ISBN ...
Journey of Hope: The Back-to-Africa Movement in Arkansas in the Late 1800s.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Journey of Hope: The Back-to-Africa Movement in Arkansas in the Late 1800s. By Kenneth C. Barnes. The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 268. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-80785550-2; ...
The Delta Italians: Their Pursuit of "The Better Life" and Their Struggle Against Mosquitos, Floods, and Prejudice.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... The Delta Italians: Their Pursuit of "The Better Life" and Their Struggle Against Mosquitos, Floods, and Prejudice. By Paul V. Canonici. (Madison, Miss.: Calo Creative Designs, Inc., c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 240. $49.95, ISBN 0-9745589-0-7.) In this ambitious work, Paul V. Canonici ...
Stein Mart: An American Story of Roots, Family, and Building a Greater Dream.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Stein Mart: An American Story of Roots, Family, and Building a Greater Dream. By David J. Ginzl. With a foreword by Eli N. Evans. (Tampa, Fla.: University of Tampa Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 172. $25.00, ISBN 1-879852-99-3.) Retailing is a risky business. Fortitude and perseverance ...
The Florida Historical Society, 1856-2004.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... The Florida Historical Society, 1856-2004. By Jerrell H. Shofner. (Cocoa: Florida Historical Society Press, c. 2004. Pp. vi, 286. $25.00, ISBN 1-886104-13-1.) Since the founding of the nation's first historical society in the 1790s, such institutions have collected and preserved ...
The Mosquito Wars: A History of Mosquito Control in Florida.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... The Mosquito Wars: A History of Mosquito Control in Florida. By Gordon Patterson. Foreword by Raymond Arsenault and Gary R. Mormino. Florida History and Culture Series. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2004. Pp. xviii, 263. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2720-9.) ...
Red Earth: Race and Agriculture in Oklahoma Territory.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Red Earth: Race and Agriculture in Oklahoma Territory. By Bonnie Lynn-Sherow. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2004. Pp. x, 186. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1324-2.) Bonnie Lynn-Sherow, an associate professor of history at Kansas State University, has produced a remarkable and ...
Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight: Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the First World War.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight: Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the First World War. By Jeanette Keith. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. x, 260. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8078-5562-6; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2897-1.) ...
African American Miners and Migrants: The Eastern Kentucky Social Club.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... African American Miners and Migrants: The Eastern Kentucky Social Club. By Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller. Afterword by William H. Turner. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 158. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-252-07164-6; cloth, $35.00, ISBN ...
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age. By Kevin Boyle. (New York: Henry Holt and Company, c. 2004. Pp. [xvi], 415. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-8050-7933-5; cloth, $26.00, ISBN 0-8050-7145-8.) In the 1920s a young African American migrant fresh from ...
Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston. By Valerie Boyd. (New York and other cities: Scribner, c. 2003. Pp. 527. $30.00, ISBN 0-684-84230-0.) Scholars awaiting this new life history, the first to appear since Robert E. Hemenway's fine Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary ...
Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age. By Jerma A. Jackson. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 193. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-286-02; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-5530-8.) Jerma A. Jackson offers a concise account of the ...
An Alabama Songbook: Ballads, Folksongs, and Spirituals.(Strings of Life--Conversations with Old-Time Musicians from Virginia and North Carolina)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... An Alabama Songbook: Ballads, Folksongs, and Spirituals. Collected by Byron Arnold. Edited with an introduction by Robert W. Halli Jr. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2004. Pp. xxvi, 299. $49.95, ISBN 0-8173-1306-0.) Strings of Life--Conversations with Old-Time ...
The Voice of Southern Labor: Radio, Music, and Textile Strikes, 1929-1934.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... The Voice of Southern Labor: Radio, Music, and Textile Strikes, 1929-1934. By Vincent J. Roscigno and William F. Danaher. Social Movements, Protest, and Contention. (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c. 2004. Pp. xxviii, 177. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8166-4016-5; cloth, ...
Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly: Country Music's Struggle for Respectability, 1939-1954.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly: Country Music's Struggle for Respectability, 1939-1954. By Jeffrey J. Lange. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2004. Pp. xii, 313. Paper, $25.95, ISBN 0-8203-2623-2; cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0-8203-2622-4.) Present-day ...
Harder than Hardscrabble: Oral Recollections of the Farming Life from the Edge of the Texas Hill Country.(Country Women Cope with Hard Times: A Collection of Oral Histories)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Harder than Hardscrabble: Oral Recollections of the Farming Life from the Edge of the Texas Hill Country. Edited by Thad Sitton. Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 297. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-292-70238-8; cloth, $29.95, ISBN ...
Noble Powell and the Episcopal Establishment in the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Noble Powell and the Episcopal Establishment in the Twentieth Century. By David Hein. Studies in Anglican History. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2001. Pp. xiv, 182. $29.95, ISBN 0-252-02643-8.) With this slender, distinctive, engagingly written biography, ...