The Journal of Southern History back issues from May 2006:
The Seminoles, the "Bloodhound War," and Abolitionism, 1796-1865
May 01, 2006; ... ABOLITIONIST GEORGE W. CARLETON OBSERVED IN 1857 THAT IN SLAVEholding areas of the South, the bloodhound had become "a household word-a 'domestic institution.'" To support this criticism of slavery, he reprinted newspaper advertisements from several southern states featuring these dogs or their ...
Owen Whitfield and the Gospel of the Working Class in New Deal America, 1936-1946
May 01, 2006; ... WHEN IN APRIL 1932 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT spoke of "the forgotten man," he was not referring to an African American sharecropper named Owen Whitfield. ' However, by decade's end, Roosevelt would sit down with Whitfield in the White House to discuss the plight of southern ...
Confronting the Garrison State: South Carolina in the Early Cold War Era
May 01, 2006; ... IN 1950 THE HINTERLANDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA BECAME THE CROSSROADS of the Cold War. In January of that year, President Harry S. Truman, in response to public and private pressure, announced that he had ordered the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) to continue to develop "all forms of atomic weapons, ...
Southern History in Periodicals, 2005: A Selected Bibliography
May 01, 2006; ... THIS CLASSIFIED BIBLIOGRAPHY INCLUDES MOST SCHOLARLY ARTICLES IN the field of southern history published in periodicals in 2005 except for descriptive or genealogical writings of primary interest to a restricted group of readers. If an article was published in a year other than 2005, the ...
Annual Report of the Secretary-Treasuer
May 01, 2006; ... EVEN AS WE ENJOYED A SUCCESSFUL MEETING IN ATLANTA LAST November, there seemed to be a preoccupation with where our next meeting would be. The Fairmont Hotel in New Orleans had assured us only a week before we gathered in Atlanta that the damage it faced from Hurricane Katrina had been limited ...
Rhys Isaac and History's Uneasy Kingdom: A Review Essay
May 01, 2006; ... Rhys Isaac and History's Uneasy Kingdom: A Review Essay London Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation. By Rhys Isaac. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xxiv, 423. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-19-518908-6; cloth, $35.00, ISBN ...
Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America
May 01, 2006; ... Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America. By Virginia DeJohn Anderson. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 322. $37.50, ISBN 0-19-515860-1.) Virginia DeJohn Anderson here sets out to restore livestock to the history of early ...
The Courthouses of Early Virginia: An Architectural History
May 01, 2006; ... The Courthouses of Early Virginia: An Architectural History. By Carl R. Lounsbury. Colonial Williamsburg Studies in Chesapeake History and Culture. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2005. Pp. xxii, 430. $65.00, ISBN 0-8139-2301-8.) Carl R. Lounsbury's study ...
Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood
May 01, 2006; ... Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood. By Steven Mintz. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 445. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-674-01998-9; cloth, $29.50, ISBN 0-674-01508-8.) Steven Mintz has accomplished the formidable task of writing ...
Labor of Innocents: Forced Apprenticeship in North Carolina, 1715-1919
May 01, 2006; ... Labor of Innocents: Forced Apprenticeship in North Carolina, 1715-1919. By Karin L. Zipf. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 207. $42.95, ISBN 0-8071-3045-1.) Traditional apprenticeship agreements-the kind that Benjamin Franklin famously broke when he fled ...
A Fierce and Fractious Frontier: The Curious Development of Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1699-2000
May 01, 2006; ... A Fierce and Fractious Frontier: The Curious Development of Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1699-2000. Edited by Samuel C. Hyde Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 232. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-8071-2923-2; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8071-2908-9.) Part of a slowly ...
French, Cajun, Creole, Houma: A Primer on Francophone Louisiana
May 01, 2006; ... French, Cajun, Creole, Houma: A Primer on Francophone Louisiana. By Carl A. Brasseaux. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 159. $19.95, ISBN 0-8071-3036-2.) The diminutive size of this volume belies the wealth of information and insight contained in the ...
James Habersham: Loyalty, Politics, and Commerce in Colonial Georgia
May 01, 2006; ... James Habersham: Loyalty, Politics, and Commerce in Colonial Georgia. By Frank Lambert. Wormsloe Foundation Publications. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2005. Pp. x, 197. $34.95, ISBN 0-8203-2539-2.) Frank Lambert's masterful study of James Habersham ...
The History of the American Indians
May 01, 2006; ... The History of the American Indians. By James Adair. Edited and with an introduction and annotations by Kathryn E. Holland Braund. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 589. $65.00, ISBN 0-8173-1393-1.) The community of southeastern scholars owes a debt of gratitude ...
Hope's Promise: Religion and Acculturation in the Southern Backcountry
May 01, 2006; ... Hope's Promise: Religion and Acculturation in the Southern Backcountry. By S. Scott Rohrer. Religion and American Culture. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2005. Pp. xxxvi, 266. $42.50, ISBN 0-8173-1435-0.) This monograph offers a fresh perspective on Moravian Church history ...
Jefferson and Education
May 01, 2006; ... Jefferson and Education. By Jennings L. Wagoner Jr. Preface by William G. Bowen. Monticello Monograph. ([Charlottesville]: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2004. Distributed by University of North Carolina Press. Pp. 168. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 1-882886-24-0.) Jennings L. Wagoner Jr.'s ...
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series. Volume 1: 4 March to 15 November 1809
May 01, 2006; ... The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series. Volume 1: 4 March to 15 November 1809. Edited by J. Jefferson Looney. (Princeton, NJ., and Oxford, Eng.: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. [1], 729. $99.50, ISBN 0-691-12121-4.) The inaugural volume of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: ...
When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes
May 01, 2006; ... When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes. By Jay Feldman. (New York and other cities: Free Press, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 307. $27.00, ISBN 0-7432-4278-5.) The author has taken the series of earthquakes in late 1811 and the spring of 1812 ...
Along the Maysville Road: The Early American Republic in the Trans-Appalachian West
May 01, 2006; ... Along the Maysville Road: The Early American Republic in the Trans-Appalachian West. By Craig Thompson Friend. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 378. $42.00, ISBN 1-57233-315-4.) Craig Thompson Friend has written "the biography of a road-the life of the ...
Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850
May 01, 2006; ... Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850. By Andrés Reséndez. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 309. Paper, $23.99, ISBN 0-521-54319-3; cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-521-83555-0.) Changing National Identities at the ...
Head Masters: Phrenology, Secular Education, and Nineteenth-Century Social Thought
May 01, 2006; ... Head Masters: Phrenology, Secular Education, and Nineteenth-Century Social Thought. By Stephen Tomlinson. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2005. Pp. xviii, 437. $47.50, ISBN 0-8173-1439-3.) This aptly titled book tackles an important subject: the influence of phrenology on ...
Walking by Faith: The Diary of Angelina Grimké, 1828-1835
May 01, 2006; ... Walking by Faith: The Diary of Angelina Grimké, 1828-1835. Edited by Charles Wilbanks. Women's Diaries and Letters of the South. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xxviii, 245. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-511-3.) Accounts about Angelina Grimké's public life proliferate, ...
No Taint of Compromise: Crusaders in Antislavery Politics
May 01, 2006; ... No Taint of Compromise: Crusaders in Antislavery Politics. By Frederick J. Blue. Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 301. $54.95, ISBN 0-8071-2976-3.) This book is a welcome addition to the historiography of ...
Slavery and the American South
May 01, 2006; ... Slavery and the American South. Edited by Winthrop D. Jordan. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2003. Pp. xx, 234. $48.00, ISBN 1-57806-581-X.) Held at the University of Mississippi in 2000, the Twenty-fifth Porter L. Fortune, Jr. Symposium on History offered six accomplished ...
Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
May 01, 2006; ... Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom. By Tiya Miles. American Crossroads. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, c. 2005. Pp. xx, 306. $34.95, ISBN 0-520-24132-0.) At the turn of the nineteenth century, while Cherokee ...
Holy Boldness: Women Preachers' Autobiographies and the Sanctified Self
May 01, 2006; ... Holy Boldness: Women Preachers' Autobiographies and the Sanctified Self. By Susie C. Stanley. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c. 2002. Pp. xxxvi, 268. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 1-57233-310-3; cloth, $35.00, ISBN 1-57233-199-2.) Susie C. Stanley examines thirty-four American Wesleyan ...
Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, 1840-1900
May 01, 2006; ... Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, 1840-1900. Edited by Kevin E. O'Donnell and Helen Hollingsworth. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 385. $42.00, ISBN 1-57233-278-6.) This collection of travel writings offers interesting firsthand ...
John Barleycorn Must Die: The War Against Drink in Arkansas
May 01, 2006; ... John Barleycorn Must Die: The War Against Drink in Arkansas. By Ben F. Johnson III. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2005. Pp. x, 99. $19.95, ISBN 1-55728-787-2.) Ben F. Johnson Ill's latest book is written for two audiences, the classroom and the public. It is engaging, ...
Great Necessities: The Life, Times, and Writing of Anna Ella Carroll, 1815-1894
May 01, 2006; ... Great Necessities: The Life, Times, and Writing of Anna Ella Carroll, 1815-1894. By C. Kay Larson. (New York: Xlibris Corporation, c. 2004. Pp. 693. Paper, $26.64, ISBN 1-4134-2748-0; cloth, $35.09, ISBN 1-4134-2749-9.) Though an astute propagandist, critic, historian, and political ...
The Pearl: A Failed Slave Escape on the Potomac
May 01, 2006; ... The Pearl: A Failed Slave Escape on the Potomac. By Josephine F. Pacheco. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 307. $29.95, ISBN 0-8078-2918-8.) Josephine F. Pacheco's book brings to light the dramatic story of the Pearl, a ship that carried ...
Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861-1865/A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868
May 01, 2006; ... Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861-1865. By Armstead L. Robinson. Carter G. Woodson Institute Series. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2005. Pp. xx, 352. $34.95, ISBN 0-8139-2309-3.) A Shattered Nation: The ...
From Property to Person: Slavery and the Confiscation Acts, 1861-1862
May 01, 2006; ... From Property to Person: Slavery and the Confiscation Acts, 1861-1862. By Silvana R. Siddali. Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 298. $44.95, ISBN 0-8071-3042-7.) Silvana R. Siddali tells the story ...
With Fire and Sword: Arkansas, 1861-1874
May 01, 2006; ... With Fire and Sword: Arkansas, 1861-1874. By Thomas A. DeBlack. Histories of Arkansas. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 263. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 1-55728-740-6; cloth, $34.95, ISBN 1-55728739-2.) During the past two decades a number of studies have appeared on ...
Virginia's Civil War
May 01, 2006; ... Virginia's Civil War. Edited by Peter Wallenstein and Bertram Wyatt-Brown. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 303. $35.00, ISBN 0-8139-2315-8.) This volume originated with papers delivered in 2002 at the University of Richmond, the Virginia ...
Mountaineers in Gray: The Nineteenth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment, C.S.A.
May 01, 2006; ... Mountaineers in Gray: The Nineteenth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment, C.S.A. By John D. Fowler. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 282. $34.00, ISBN 1-57233-314-6.) In recent years scholars have begun to examine Civil War units, particularly on the army ...
The Confederates of Chappell Hill, Texas: Prosperity, Civil War, and Decline
May 01, 2006; ... The Confederates of Chappell Hill, Texas: Prosperity, Civil War, and Decline. By Stephen Chicoine. (Jefferson, N.C., and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., c. 2005. Pp. viii, 260. $45.00, ISBN 0-7864-1982-2.) Stephen Chicoine draws upon a wealth of primary sources from the local ...
Alexandria Goes to War: Beyond Robert E. Lee
May 01, 2006; ... Alexandria Goes to War: Beyond Robert E. Lee. By George G. Kundahl. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 387. $45.00, ISBN 1-57233-320-0.) Can a community be explained through the stories of individuals? The author of this collection of biographies tries to do just ...
The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Forgotten History: Immigrants, Women, and African Americans in the Civil War's Defining Battle
May 01, 2006; ... The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Forgotten History: Immigrants, Women, and African Americans in the Civil War's Defining Battle. By Margaret S. Creighton. (New York: Basic Books, c. 2005. Pp. xxviii, 321. $26.00, ISBN 0-465-01456-9.) By 1863 war had taken its toll, and both sides ...
The Civil War Era: An Anthology of Sources
May 01, 2006; ... The Civil War Era: An Anthology of Sources. Edited by Lyde Cullen Sizer and Jim Cullen. (Maiden, Mass., and other cities: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Pp. xxviii, 434. Paper, $34.95, ISBN 1-4051-0691-3; cloth, $73.95, ISBN 1-4051-0690-5.) Lyde Cullen Sizer and Jim Cullen have produced a ...
The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words
May 01, 2006; ... The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words. By Ronald C. White Jr. (New York: Random House, 2005. Pp. xxiv, 448. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-8129-7046-2; cloth, $26.95, ISBN 1-4000-6119-9.) This is a difficult book to classify. Though it contains passages of narrative, it ...
Commander of All Lincoln's Armies: A Life of General Henry W. Halleck
May 01, 2006; ... Commander of All Lincoln's Armies: A Life of General Henry W. Halleck. By John F. Marszalek. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 324. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-01493-6.) John F. Marszalek has provided a most welcome addition to the literature ...
The Alabama, British Neutrality, and the American Civil War
May 01, 2006; ... The Alabama, British Neutrality, and the American Civil War. By Frank J. Merli. Edited by David M. Fahey. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xxii, 225. $29.95, ISBN 0-253-34473-5.) Frank J. Merli, recognized as one of the most knowledgeable scholars on ...
Texas after the Civil War: The Struggle of Reconstruction
May 01, 2006; ... Texas after the Civil War: The Struggle of Reconstruction. By Carl H. Moneyhon. Texas A&M Southwestern Studies. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. Pp. [x], 237. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 1-58544-362-X; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 1-58544-361-1.) In a recent issue of Harper's ...
Lee's Last Stand: Sailor's Creek, Virginia, 1865
May 01, 2006; ... Lee's Last Stand: Sailor's Creek, Virginia, 1865. By Derek Smith. (Shippensburg, Pa.: White Mane Books, c. 2002. Pp. xiv, 262. $29.95, ISBN 1-57249-251-1.) Derek Smith retells the story of Robert E. Lee's retreat from Petersburg to Appomattox Court House, with an emphasis on the battle ...
Civil War and Revolution on the Rio Grande Frontier: A Narrative and Photographic History
May 01, 2006; ... Civil War and Revolution on the Rio Grande Frontier: A Narrative and Photographic History. By Jerry Thompson and Lawrence T. Jones III. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, c. 2004. Pp. [x], 174. $39.95, ISBN 0-87611-201-7.) This slender and attractive volume joins text and ...
Lincoln's Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion after the Civil War
May 01, 2006; ... Lincoln's Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion after the Civil War. By Elizabeth D. Leonard. (New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company, c. 2004. Pp. xviii, 373. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-393-32677-2; cloth, $25.95, ISBN 0-393-04868-3.) Elizabeth D. Leonard has chosen the title of her ...
The House I Live In: Race in the American Century
May 01, 2006; ... The House I Live In: Race in the American Century. By Robert J. Norrell. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xx. 379. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-507345-2.) In a season when Huey Newton's widow and former Black Panther associates are peddling a hot sauce called "Burn ...
Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era
May 01, 2006; ... Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era. By Paul Harvey. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2005. Pp. xviii, 338. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2901-3.) Paul Harvey's title reveals an overarching ...
Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow
May 01, 2006; ... Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow. By Thad Sitton and James H. Conrad. Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. Pp. [viii], 248. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-292-70642-1; cloth, $50.00, ISBN ...
Waltz the Hall: The American Play Party
May 01, 2006; ... Waltz the Hall: The American Play Party. By Alan L. Spurgeon. American Made Music Series. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2005. Pp. viii, 238. $45.00, ISBN 1-57806-742-1.) For musicologists, ethnomusicologists, and folklorists interested in late-nineteenth- and ...
A. J. Tomlinson: Plainfolk Modernist
May 01, 2006; ... A. J. Tomlinson: Plainfolk Modernist. By R. G. Robins. Religion in America. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 316. $45.00, ISBN 0-19-516591-8.) R. G. Robins has written an intriguing, insightful, and thoroughly researched revisionist interpretation of the radical holiness ...
The Atlanta Riot: Race, Class, and Violence in a New South City
May 01, 2006; ... The Atlanta Riot: Race, Class, and Violence in a New South City. By Gregory Mixon. Foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller. Southern Dissent. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2005. Pp. xvi, 197. $59.95, ISBN 0-8130-2787-X.) As historians ...
Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare
May 01, 2006; ... Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare. By Johanna Schoen. Gender and American Culture. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2005. Pp. xviii, 331. Paper, 19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5585-5; cloth, $59.95, ISBN ...
Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America
May 01, 2006; ... Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America. By Douglas Flamming. The George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, c. 2005. Pp. xviii, 467. $29.95, ISBN 0-520-23919-9.) Douglas Flamming's ...
White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP
May 01, 2006; ... White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP. By Kenneth Robert Janken. (New York: New Press, c. 2003. Pp. xviii, 477. $29.95, ISBN 1-56584-773-3.) Kenneth Robert Janken's detailed and provocative account of Walter White provides an intimate glimpse of both the activist and the ...
Picturing Faith: Photography and the Great Depression
May 01, 2006; ... Picturing Faith: Photography and the Great Depression. By Colleen McDannell. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c. 2004. Pp [x], 319. $45.00, ISBN 0-300-10430-8.) Scholars researching the 1930s and early 1940s depend heavily on the photographs from the Farm Security ...
Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal
May 01, 2006; ... Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal. By Keith J. Volanto. Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 194. $35.00, ISBN 1-58544-402-2.) As a first reaction, one might question the need for another book on New Deal cotton programs, ...
Thad Snow: A Life of Social Reform in the Missouri Bootheel
May 01, 2006; ... Thad Snow: A Life of Social Reform in the Missouri Bootheel. By Bonnie Stepenoff. Missouri Biography Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2003. Pp. xviii, 182. $37.50, ISBN 0-8262-1496-7.) People who know of Thad Snow remember him either for his unique ...
Country Music Goes to War
May 01, 2006; ... Country Music Goes to War. Edited by Charles K. Wolfe and James E. Akenson. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2005. Pp. viii, 250. $35.00, ISBN 0-8131-2308-9.) Country Music Goes to War explores how war has been portrayed in country music, how war has shaped country music ...
Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America
May 01, 2006; ... Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America. By Nick Salvatore. (New York and Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2005. Pp. xii, 419. $27.95, ISBN 0-316-16037-7.) In The Souls of Black Folk W. E. B. Du Bois called the black preacher "the ...
Black Workers' Struggle for Equality in Birmingham
May 01, 2006; ... Black Workers' Struggle for Equality in Birmingham. Edited by Horace Huntley and David Montgomery. Afterword by Odessa Woolfolk. The Working Class in American History. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 244. $35.00, ISBN 0-252-02952-6.) This collection ...
Fighting Against the Odds: A History of Southern Labor Since World War II
May 01, 2006; ... Fighting Against the Odds: A History of Southern Labor Since World War II. By Timothy J. Minchin. Foreword by John David Smith. New Perspectives on the History of the South. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 232. $59.95, ISBN ...
The White South and the Red Menace: Segregationists, Anticommunism, and Massive Resistance, 1945-1965
May 01, 2006; ... The White South and the Red Menace: Segregationists, Anticommunism, and Massive Resistance, 1945-1965. By George Lewis. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2004. Pp. x, 228. $59.95, ISBN 0-8130-2753-5.) In this monograph George Lewis elucidates the use and ...
Yellow Dogs and Republicans: Allan Shivers and Texas Two-Party Politics
May 01, 2006; ... Yellow Dogs and Republicans: Allan Shivers and Texas Two-Party Politics. By Ricky F. Dobbs. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 194. $32.95, ISBN 1-58544-4073.) Ricky F. Dobbs believes that Allan Shivers, Texas's governor from 1949 to 1957, was an important ...
From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy
May 01, 2006; ... From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy. Edited by Peter F. Lau. Constitutional Conflicts. (Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, c. 2004. Pp. x, 406. Paper, $25.95, ISBN 0-8223-3449-6; cloth, $94.95, ISBN 0-8223-3475-5.) A ...