The Journal of Southern History back issues from November 2006:
The Grape Vine Telegraph: Rumors and Confederate Persistence
Nov 01, 2006; ... IN JULY 1864 THE NEWS WAS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE. GENERAL ULYSSES S. Grant, the "butcher" whose war of attrition had already cost thousands of lives, was dead. A Texas cavalryman serving in Louisiana shared the report with his father. The soldier heard it from a friend who claimed that a captain ...
Creating "the Propaganda of History": Southern Editors and the Origins of Carpetbagger and Scalawag
Nov 01, 2006; ... ONE READS THE TRUER DEEPER FACTS OF RECONSTRUCTION WITH A GREAT despair," wrote W. E. B. Du Bois. "It is at once so simple and human, and yet so futile."1 Du Bois's words from nearly three quarters of a century ago still resonate. How could something so noble end in such anguish and injustice? ...
The Hill-Burton Act and Civil Rights: Expanding Hospital Care for Black Southerners, 1939-1960
Nov 01, 2006; ... THE HOSPITAL SURVEY AND CONSTRUCTION ACT-COMMONLY KNOWN as the Hill-Burton Act or simply Hill-Burton in recognition of its Senate sponsors, Lister Hill (D-Ala.) and Harold H. Burton (R-Ohio)-was debated in Congress and passed into law in 1946 at the height of the South's paradoxical status as ...
Politics and the Misadventures of Thomas Jefferson's Modern Reputation: A Review Essay
Nov 01, 2006; ... Politics and the Misadventures of Thomas Jefferson's Modern Reputation: A Review Essay Jefferson's Demons: Portrait of a Restless Mind. By Michael Knox Beran. (New York and other cities: Free Press, c. 2003. Pp. xxii, 265. $25.00, ISBN 0-7432-3279-8.) Thomas Jefferson. By R. B ....
British America, 1500-1800: Creating Colonies, Imagining an Empire
Nov 01, 2006; ... British America, 1500-1800: Creating Colonies, Imagining an Empire. By Steven Sarson. (London, Eng.: Hodder Arnold, 2005. Pp. xx, 332. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-340-76010-9.) In British America, 1500-1800: Creating Colonies, Imagining an Empire, Steven Sarson analyzes two major, interrelated ...
Jekyll Island's Early Years: From Prehistory through Reconstruction
Nov 01, 2006; ... Jekyll Island's Early Years: From Prehistory through Reconstruction. By June Hall McCash. Wormsloe Foundation Publications. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2005. Pp. xvi, 280. $39.95, ISBN 0-8203-2447-7.) In Jekyll Island's Early Years: From Prehistory through ...
Searching for the Roanoke Colonies: An Interdisciplinary Collection
Nov 01, 2006; ... Searching for the Roanoke Colonies: An Interdisciplinary Collection. Edited by E. Thomson Shields Jr. and Charles R. Ewen. (Raleigh: Office of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 214. Paper, $15.70, ISBN 0-86526-309-4. Order from Historical ...
The Cherokee Nation: A History
Nov 01, 2006; ... The Cherokee Nation: A History. By Robert J. Conley. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 265. $24.95, ISBN 0-8263-3234-X.) Robert J. Conley's The Cherokee Nation: A History is a synthetic survey chronicling the Cherokees from their pre-Columbian origins ...
Choctaw Women in a Chaotic World: The Clash of Cultures in the Colonial Southeast
Nov 01, 2006; ... Choctaw Women in a Chaotic World: The Clash of Cultures in the Colonial Southeast. By Michelene E. Pesantubbee. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 208. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-8263-3334-6; cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8263-3333-8.) In her narrative of the changing ...
Paradise Lost? The Environmental History of Florida
Nov 01, 2006; ... Paradise Lost? The Environmental History of Florida. Edited by Jack E. Davis and Raymond Arsenault. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 420. $59.95, ISBN 0-8130-2826-4.) Since the advent of environmental activism in the 1960s, environmental ...
Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps
Nov 01, 2006; ... Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps. Edited by Alfred E. Lemmon, John T. Magill, and Jason R. Wiese, with John R. Hebert, consulting editor. Foreword by Mary Louise Christovich. (New Orleans: Historic New Orleans Collection, 2003. Pp. xxii, 383. $95.00, ISBN ...
Creeks and Southerners: Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier
Nov 01, 2006; ... Creeks and Southerners: Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier. By Andrew K. Frank. Indians of the Southeast. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2005. Pp. xvi, 192. $49.95, ISBN 0-8032-2016-2.) Andrew K. Frank's Creeks and Southerners: Biculturalism on the Early ...
A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America
Nov 01, 2006; ... A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America. By James E. McWilliams. Arts and Traditions of the Table. (New York: Columbia University Press, c. 2005. Pp. [viii], 386. $29.95, ISBN 0-231-12992-0.) A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America casts a wide ...
Traveling South: Travel Narratives and the Construction of American Identity
Nov 01, 2006; ... Traveling South: Travel Narratives and the Construction of American Identity. By John D. Cox. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2005. Pp. [xii], 252. $39.95, ISBN 0-8203-2765-4.) In Traveling South: Travel Narratives and the Construction of American Identity, John ...
The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf
Nov 01, 2006; ... The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf. By William C. Davis. (New York and other cities: Harcourt, Inc., 2005. Pp. xiv, 706. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 0-15-603259-7; cloth, $28.00, ISBN 0-15-100403-X.) The study of piracy is an important subdiscipline of ...
Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution
Nov 01, 2006; ... Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution. By Alfred W. Blumrosen and Ruth G. Blumrosen. Introduction by Eleanor Holmes Norton. (Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks, Inc., c. 2005. Pp. xvi, 336. $24.95, ISBN 1-4022-0400-0.) In a series of recent studies, ...
The Day It Rained Militia: Huck's Defeat and the Revolution in the South Carolina Backcountry, May-July 1780
Nov 01, 2006; ... The Day It Rained Militia: Huck's Defeat and the Revolution in the South Carolina Backcountry, May-July 1780. By Michael C. Scoggins. (Charleston and London: The History Press, 2005. Pp. 316. $34.99, ISBN 1-59629-015-3.) In describing the events of the summer of 1780 in the Carolina ...
The Guns of Independence: The Siege of Yorktown, 1781
Nov 01, 2006; ... The Guns of Independence: The Siege of Yorktown, 1781. By Jerome A. Greene. (New York: Savas Beatie, 2005. Pp xx, 507. $34.95, ISBN 1-932714-05-7.) This most recent work on the Yorktown campaign grew out of a National Park Service (NPS) study prepared in the mid-1970s for the American ...
Designing the Bayous: The Control of Water in the Atchafalaya Basin, 1800-1995
Nov 01, 2006; ... Designing the Bayous: The Control of Water in the Atchafalaya Basin, 1800-1995. By Martin Reuss. Gulf Coast Studies. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 474. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 1-58544-375-1.) First published by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1998, ...
Peter Cartwright, Legendary Frontier Preacher
Nov 01, 2006; ... Peter Cartwright, Legendary Frontier Preacher. By Robert Bray. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2005. Pp. x, 314. $35.00, ISBN 0-252-02986-0.) From the American Revolution to the Civil War, Methodism grew from a blip on the American religious radar into its largest ...
Immigrant Women in the Settlement of Missouri
Nov 01, 2006; ... Immigrant Women in the Settlement of Missouri. By Robyn Burnett and Ken Leubbering. Missouri Heritage Readers. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2005. Pp. xviii, 149. Paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-8262-1591-2.) As part of the Missouri Heritage Readers series, this ...
Alexander Campbell: Adventurer in Freedom
Nov 01, 2006; ... Alexander Campbell: Adventurer in Freedom. By Eva Jean Wrather. Edited by D. Duane Cummins. (Fort Worth, Tex.: Published for the Disciples of Christ Historical Society by Texas Christian Univeristy Press, c. 2005. Pp. xxxvi, 264. $25.00, ISBN 0-87565-305-7.) This book is a labor of love, ...
Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society
Nov 01, 2006; ... Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society. By Eric Burin. Southern Dissent. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 223. $59.95, ISBN 0-8130-2841-8.) Eric Burin begins his examination of the American ...
Sister Societies: Women's Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum America
Nov 01, 2006; ... Sister Societies: Women's Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum America. By Beth A. Salerno. (DeKaIb: Northern Illinois University Press, c. 2005. Pp. x, 233. $38.00, ISBN 0-87580-338-5.) In this short work, Beth A. Salerno reminds us of the central role played by women in the ...
True Women and Westward Expansion
Nov 01, 2006; ... True Women and Westward Expansion. By Adrienne Caughfield. Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 178. $32.95, ISBN 1-58544-409-X.) The purpose of True Women and Westward Expansion, by Adrienne ...
George Caleb Bingham: Missouri's Famed Painter and Forgotten Politician
Nov 01, 2006; ... George Caleb Bingham: Missouri's Famed Painter and Forgotten Politician. By Paul C. Nagel. Missouri Heritage Readers. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2005. Pp. xx, 161. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8262-1574-2.) Today George Caleb Bingham is remembered as one of America's ...
Creating the Land of the Sky: Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina
Nov 01, 2006; ... Creating the Land of the Sky: Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina. By Richard D. Starnes. Modern South. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2005. Pp. xvi, 240. $35.00, ISBN 0-8173-1462-8.) Richard D. Starnes presents here a social and economic history of the tourism ...
The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston
Nov 01, 2006; ... The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston. By Maurie D. McInnis. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 395. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2951-X.) To understand the supreme self-assurance of Charlestonians on the eve of secession, contends Maurie D ....
Poe
Nov 01, 2006; ... Poe. By James M. Hutchisson. Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2005. Pp. xviii, 290. $30.00, ISBN 1-57806-721-9.) James M. Hutchisson's Poe is a difficult read-difficult because the biography tells the heart-wrenching story of the ...
Francis Lieber and the Culture of the Mind
Nov 01, 2006; ... Francis Lieber and the Culture of the Mind. Edited by Charles R. Mack and Henry H. Lesesne. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press with the assistance of the University of South Carolina Bicentennial Commission, c. 2005. Pp. xviii, 196. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-535-0.) Francis Lieber ...
Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s
Nov 01, 2006; ... Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s. By Sarah Meer. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2005. Pp. x, 332. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8203-2737-9.) Sarah Meer's Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy and Transatlantic Culture in the ...
The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion
Nov 01, 2006; ... The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion. By Peter S. Carmichael. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2005. Pp. xvi, 343. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2948-X.) In this "generational study" Peter S. Carmichael traces the lives ...
Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America/John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
Nov 01, 2006; ... Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America. By Fergus M. Bordewich. (New York: HarperCollins, Amistad, c. 2005. Pp. xx, 540. $27.95, ISBN 0-06-052430-8.) John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil ...
Robert Lewis Dabney: A Southern Presbyterian Life
Nov 01, 2006; ... Robert Lewis Dabney: A Southern Presbyterian Life. By Sean Michael Lucas. American Reformed Biographies: A Series. (Phillipsburg, N.J.: P&R Publishing, c. 2005. Pp. 295. $24.95, ISBN 0-87552-663-2.) Sean Michael Lucas takes on a daunting task: the rehabilitation of Robert L. Dabney ...
Gender Matters: Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Making of the New South
Nov 01, 2006; ... Gender Matters: Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Making of the New South. By LeeAnn Whites. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, c. 2005. Pp. viii, 244. Paper $26.95, ISBN 1-1403-6312-6; cloth, $79.95, ISBN 1-4039-6311-8.) In this collection of essays, LeeAnn Whites leaves little room to ...
Robert E. Lee: Icon for a Nation
Nov 01, 2006; ... Robert E. Lee: Icon for a Nation. By Brian Holden Reid. (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, c. 2005. Pp. 271. $27.95, ISBN 0-297-84699-X.) The title of this volume was misleading to this reviewer. I expected some sort of in-depth analysis by a British historian of why Robert E. Lee still ...
Fitz Lee: A Military Biography of Major General Fitzhugh Lee, C.S.A.
Nov 01, 2006; ... Fitz Lee: A Military Biography of Major General Fitzhugh Lee, C.S.A. By Edward G. Longacre. (Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2005. Pp. x, 277. $30.00, ISBN 0-306-81384-X.) Fitzhugh Lee was born to a distinguished Virginia family in 1835 as the nephew of Robert E. Lee and grandson of ...
General James G. Blunt: Tarnished Glory
Nov 01, 2006; ... General James G. Blunt: Tarnished Glory. By Robert Collins. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, c. 2005. Pp. 239. $23.00, ISBN 978-1-58980-253-7.) Robert Collins's biography of James G. Blunt details the life of a Civil War general who stands as an excellent example of a leader who ...
Lincoln's Tragic Admiral: The Life of Samuel Francis Du Pont
Nov 01, 2006; ... Lincoln's Tragic Admiral: The Life of Samuel Francis Du Pont. By Kevin J. Weddle. A Nation Divided: New Studies in Civil War History. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 269. $34.95, ISBN 0-8139-2332-8.) With this engaging and well-written biography, ...
Wild Rose: Rose O'Neale Greenhow, Civil War Spy
Nov 01, 2006; ... Wild Rose: Rose O'Neale Greenhow, Civil War Spy. By Ann Blackman. (New York: Random House, 2005. Pp. xviii, 377. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8129-7045-4; cloth, $25.95, ISBN 1-4000-6118-0; e-book, $17.95, ISBN 1-58836-481-X.) Women who assumed daring roles in the Civil War are receiving ...
Alexander Watkins Terrell: Civil War Soldier, Texas Lawmaker, American Diplomat
Nov 01, 2006; ... Alexander Watkins Terrell: Civil War Soldier, Texas Lawmaker, American Diplomat. By Lewis L. Gould. Focus on American History Series. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 223. $29.95, ISBN 0-292-70297-3.) Lewis L. Gould, one of the nation's preeminent political historians, ...
The Boy General: The Life and Careers of Francis Channing Barlow
Nov 01, 2006; ... The Boy General: The Life and Careers of Francis Channing Barlow. By Richard F. Welch. (Madison and Teaneck, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c. 2003; paperback reprint, Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, c. 2005. Pp. 301. Paper, $24.95, ISBN ...
Fighting for Liberty and Right: The Civil War Diary of William Bluffton Miller, First Sergeant, Company K, Seventy-fifth Indiana Volunteer Infantry
Nov 01, 2006; ... Fighting for Liberty and Right: The Civil War Diary of William Bluffton Miller, First Sergeant, Company K, Seventy-fifth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Edited by Jeffrey L. Patrick and Robert J. Willey. Voices of the Civil War. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 422. $42.00, ...
Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi
Nov 01, 2006; ... Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi. By Michael B. Ballard. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xviii, 490. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2893-9.) An oddity of Civil War military history is that one of the campaigns deemed to ...
The Voyage of the CSS Shenandoah: A Memorable Cruise
Nov 01, 2006; ... The Voyage of the CSS Shenandoah: A Memorable Cruise. By William C. Whittle Jr. Introduction and annotations by D. Alan Harris and Anne B. Harris. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2005. Pp xiv, 255. $45.00, ISBN 0-8173-1451-2.) Of all the ships that served during the Civil ...
The Confederacy on Trial: The Piracy and Sequestration Cases of 1861
Nov 01, 2006; ... The Confederacy on Trial: The Piracy and Sequestration Cases of 1861. By Mark A. Weitz. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 219. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-7006-1386-2; cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-1385-4.) In this work Mark A. Weitz ...
The Confederate Dirty War: Arson, Bombings, Assassination and Plots for Chemical and Germ Attacks on the Union
Nov 01, 2006; ... The Confederate Dirty War: Arson, Bombings, Assassination and Plots for Chemical and Germ Attacks on the Union. By Jane Singer. (Jefferson, N.C., and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2005. Pp. [x], 174. $35.00, ISBN 0-7864-1973-3.) Terrorist cells plan to cripple New ...
McClellan's War: The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union
Nov 01, 2006; ... McClellan's War: The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union. By Ethan S. Rafuse. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2005. Pp. xvi, 525. $35.00, ISBN 0-253-34532-4.) "George B. McClellan's actions during the era of sectional conflict, both good and ...
Tennessee's Radical Army: The State Guard and Its Role in Reconstruction, 1867-1869
Nov 01, 2006; ... Tennessee's Radical Army: The State Guard and Its Role in Reconstruction, 1867-1869. By Ben H. Severance. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 327. $35.00, ISBN 1-57233-362-6.) In his detailed study of the Tennessee State Guard, Ben H. Severance fills in the ...
The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis
Nov 01, 2006; ... The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis. By Donald E. Collins. The American Crisis Series. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2005. Pp. x, 173. $22.95, ISBN 0-7425-4304-8.) In the waning days of the Civil War, Confederate president ...
Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865-1900
Nov 01, 2006; ... Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865-1900. By Julius H. Bailey. History of African-American Religions Series. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 151. $59.95, ISBN 0-8130-2842-6.) This work fills a ...
Bones Hooks: Pioneer Negro Cowboy
Nov 01, 2006; ... Bones Hooks: Pioneer Negro Cowboy. By Bruce G. Todd. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 2005. Pp. 221. $23.00, ISBN 978-1-58980-294-0.) Bruce G. Todd's Bones Hooks: Pioneer Negro Cowboy joins the expanding body of literature revealing the important role that blacks played in the ...
Torches of Light: Georgia Teachers and the Coming of the Modern South
Nov 01, 2006; ... Torches of Light: Georgia Teachers and the Coming of the Modern South. By Ann Short Chirhart. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2005. Pp. xviii, 334. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8203-2669-0; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8203-2446-9.) The southern rural schoolteacher hardly ...
Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans
Nov 01, 2006; ... Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans. By James B. Bennett. (Princeton and Oxford, Eng.: Princeton University Press, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 305. $39.50, ISBN 0-691-12148-6.) This is an enormously intelligent book about the confrontations and negotiations within Methodist and ...
Keeping the Circle: American Indian Identity in Eastern North Carolina, 1885-2004
Nov 01, 2006; ... Keeping the Circle: American Indian Identity in Eastern North Carolina, 1885-2004. By Christopher Arris Oakley. Indians of the Southeast. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 191. $50.00, ISBN 0-8032-3574-7.) Keeping the Circle: American Indian Identity in ...
Gospel Tracks through Texas: The Mission of Chapel Car Good Will
Nov 01, 2006; ... Gospel Tracks through Texas: The Mission of Chapel Car Good Will. By Wilma Rugh Taylor. Norman Thomas Taylor, Research Editor. Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 219. $29.95, ISBN 1-58544-434-0.) Wilma Rugh Taylor ...
Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon
Nov 01, 2006; ... Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon. By Anthony Harkins. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp xii, 324. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-19-518950-7; cloth, $65.00, ISBN O-19-514631-X.) The figure of the hillbilly has been a fixture of American popular culture ...
Labor's Promised Land: Radical Visions of Gender, Race, and Religion in the South
Nov 01, 2006; ... Labor's Promised Land: Radical Visions of Gender, Race, and Religion in the South. By Mark Fannin. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. Pp. xxiv, 355. $40.00, ISBN 1-57233-251-4.) Mark Fannin's study of the Brotherhood of Timber Workers (BTW) and the Southern Tenant Farmers ...
A Heart for Any Fate: The Biography of Richard Brevard Russell Sr.
Nov 01, 2006; ... A Heart for Any Fate: The Biography of Richard Brevard Russell Sr. By Sally Russell. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2004. Pp. xxxviii, 336. $35.00, ISBN 0-86554-957-5.) This biography of Richard Brevard Russell (1861-1938), the father of the famous United States senator and his ...
William J. Spillman and the Birth of Agricultural Economics
Nov 01, 2006; ... William J. Spillman and the Birth of Agricultural Economics. By Laurie Winn Carlson. Missouri Biography Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2005. Pp. [x], 210. $39.95, ISBN 0-8265-1581-5.) This study of William J. Spillman (1863-1931) is a top-down history of a ...
Gateway to Justice: The Juvenile Court and Progressive Child Welfare in a Southern City
Nov 01, 2006; ... Gateway to Justice: The Juvenile Court and Progressive Child Welfare in a Southern City. By Jennifer Trost. Studies in the Legal History of the South. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 209. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8203-2671-2; cloth, $49.95, ISBN ...
"The Most Segregated City in America": City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920-1980
Nov 01, 2006; ... "The Most Segregated City in America": City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920-1980. By Charles E. Connerly. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 360. $45.00, ISBN 0-8139-2334-4.) Modern Birmingham's inscription in public memory as "the ...
Theatre and Travel: Tours of the South
Nov 01, 2006; ... Theatre and Travel: Tours of the South. Edited by Susan Kattwinkel. Theatre Symposium. (Tuscaloosa: Southeastern Theatre Conference and the University of Alabama Press, c. 2005. Pp. 128. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8173-5255-4.) This new volume in the Theatre Symposium series, published by the ...
Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life
Nov 01, 2006; ... Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life. By Tiffany Ruby Patterson. Critical Perspectives on the Past. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 229. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 1-59213-290-1; cloth, 64.50, ISBN 1-59213-289-8.) Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), often ...
Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida
Nov 01, 2006; ... Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida. By Gary R. Mormino. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, 2005. Pp. xviii, 457. $34.95, ISBN 0-8130-2818-3.) This long-awaited book examines numerous facets of Florida's evolution since 1940 ....