The Journal of Southern History back issues from August 2007:
Redefining and Reassesssing the Colonial South
Aug 01, 2007; ... THE TITLE OF THIS FORUM INSTANTLY SUGGESTS A DEFINITIONAL PROBLEM, one that Carl Bridenbaugh encountered more than fifty years ago when he began to think about the Fleming Lectures he was asked to present at Louisiana State University in 1951. Bridenbaugh was a colonial historian, and the ...
Early Modern Southeastern North America and the Broader Atlantic and American Worlds
Aug 01, 2007; ... HISTORIANS OF NEITHER THE INDIGENOUS INHABITANTS OF THE MAINLAND of southeastern North America nor the colonies Europeans established there after 1560 have ever been comfortable working with the framework of the history of the South. The very idea of the South as a distinctive entity ...
How Do You Get from Jamestown to Santa Fe? A Colonial Sun Belt
Aug 01, 2007; ... LONG AGO, IN 1541, THE WESTERN AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE southern regions of the present-day United States were oh-so-briefly connected. That year, expeditions of two different Spanish explorers, one from the southwestern reaches of the continent, the other from the southeastern edges, came ...
Learning to Live with Nature: Colonial Historians and the Southern Environment
Aug 01, 2007; ... WHEN CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT GUIDED THREE SMALL SHIPS UP the James River in the spring of 1607, he and the hundred or so colonists on board had little reason to worry about the natural world. Virginia, they believed, was much like the Mediterranean coast, a notion based on the premise that ...
Colonial Southeastern Indian History
Aug 01, 2007; ... DESPITE GARY B. NASH'S 1974 INSISTENCE THAT DISCUSSIONS OF EARLY America include "red, white, and black," for the next fifteen years early American history and the history of American Indians during the colonial period remained, for the most part, separate literatures.1 A generation ago the ...
Race Matters in the Colonial South
Aug 01, 2007; ... WHEN EUROPEANS BEGAN COLONIZING THE SOUTHERN STRETCH OF NORTH America in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, they had been thinking and writing about Indians and Africans for at least a hundred years. As Europeans hungered for Indian lands and African labor, their ethnocentric notions ...
Law in the Colonial South
Aug 01, 2007; ... WHO GOVERNED? AND BY WHAT WARRANT DID GOVERNORS RULE? THE English who founded Jamestown in 1607, along with every other European who colonized the southern portions of North America, confronted those fundamental questions whenever founder and settler alike wrestled with ways of devising "Just ...
Esse Est Percipi: The Strange Case of Early American Economic History
Aug 01, 2007; ... TO START A REVIEW ESSAY IN EARLY MODERN ECONOMIC HISTORY WITH A phrase associated with Bishop George Berkeley, one ofthat era's foremost immaterialists, is both ironic and depressing. But this phrase, esse est percipi - to be is to be perceived - captures well the present predicament economic ...
Globalization, Creolization, and the Not-So-Peculiar Institution
Aug 01, 2007; ... IT HAS BECOME A CLICHÉ TO PROCLAIM THE NEED TO INTERNATIONALIZE the study of the United States. Well-funded conferences, special issues of prestigious journals, and countless panels at professional meetings have been devoted to discussions of how to overcome the selfperceived provincialism of ...
Religion and the Early South in an Age of Atlantic Empire
Aug 01, 2007; ... EARLY 1704: QUEEN ANNE'S WAR RAGES ON THE FRONTIERS OF EASTERN North America. Indian and European allies advance southward through the forest on unsuspecting enemy villages. A surprise raid-defenders are quickly overpowered. Homes and churches are torched, captives are burned at the stake while ...
Women, Gender, Families, and Households in the Southern Colonies
Aug 01, 2007; ... FAMILY, GENDER, AND HOUSEHOLD RELATIONSHIPS ASSUME CENTER STAGE in fictional portrayals of southern life from Absalom, Absalom to Steel Magnolias. By contrast, historians showed little interest in these topics until recently, and good work was especially wanting for the colonial era. Julia ...
Some Reflections on the South in the American Revolution
Aug 01, 2007; ... THE SUBJECT OF THE SOUTH IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION WAS ONCE freighted with emotion and controversy. Professional historians were hardly guilty of such partisanship, though relatively few of them have examined the Revolution in comprehensive regional terms - a notable exception being John R ....
The Making of the American South: A Short History, 1500-1877
Aug 01, 2007; ... The Making of the American South: A Short History, 1500-1877. By J. William Hams. Problems in American History. (Maiden, Mass., and other cities: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. Pp. xiv, 295. Paper, $34.95, ISBN 978-0-631-20964-5; cloth, $88.95, ISBN 978-0-631-20963-8.) As an undergraduate ...
Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World
Aug 01, 2007; ... Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World. Edited by Robert Appelbaum and John Wood Sweet. Early American Studies. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c. 2005. Pp. xvi, 368. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-1903-6; cloth, $59.95, ISBN ...
Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown
Aug 01, 2007; ... Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown. By Helen Rountree. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 292. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 978-0-81392596-7; cloth, $29.95, ISBN 0-8139-2323-9.) Helen Rountree has presented the ...
Cultures and Identities in Colonial British America
Aug 01, 2007; ... Cultures and Identities in Colonial British America. Edited by Robert Olwell and Alan Tully. Anglo-America in the Transatlantic World. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2006. Pp. xiii, 386. $50.00, ISBN 0-8018-8251-6.) In Cultures and Identities in Colonial British America, ...
From New Babylon to Eden: The Huguenots and Their Migration to Colonial South Carolina
Aug 01, 2007; ... From New Babylon to Eden: The Huguenots and Their Migration to Colonial South Carolina. By Bertrand Van Ruymbeke. The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xviii, 396. $49.95, ISBN 1-57003-583-0.) The French Huguenots, at ...
American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World
Aug 01, 2007; ... American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World. By Susan Scott Parrish. (Chapel Hill: Published by the University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, c. 2006. Pp. xx, 321. Paper, $22.50, ISBN ...
Camino del Norte: How a Series of Watering Holes, Fords, and Dirt Trails Evolved into Interstate 35 in Texas
Aug 01, 2007; ... Camino del Norte: How a Series of Watering Holes, Fords, and Dirt Trails Evolved into Interstate 35 in Texas. By Howard J. Erlichman. Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 284. $29.95, ...
The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America
Aug 01, 2007; ... The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America. By Colin G. Calloway. Pivotal Moments in American History. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xx, 219. $28.00, ISBN 978-0-19-530071-0.) A casual visitor to eighteenth-century North America ...
Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South
Aug 01, 2007; ... Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South. By Catherine Kerrison. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 265. $45.00, ISBN 0-8014-4344-X.) Catherine Kerrison examines the intellectual lives of southern white women within the context ...
Empire and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World
Aug 01, 2007; ... Empire and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World. Edited by Eliga H. Gould and Peter S. Onuf. Anglo-America in the Transatlantic World. (Baltimore, Md., and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2005. Pp. x, 381. $49.95, ISBN 0-8018-7912-4.) The editors of Empire and ...
Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring
Aug 01, 2007; ... Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring. By Alexander Rose. (New York: Bantam Dell, c. 2006. Pp. [xiv], 370. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 978-0-553-3829-4; cloth, $26.00, ISBN 978-0-553-80421-8.) In a lucidly written, lively book Alexander Rose updates Morton Pennypacker's ...
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Volume 32: 1 June 1800 to 16 February 1801
Aug 01, 2007; ... The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Volume 32: 1 June 1800 to 16 February 1801. Edited by Barbara B. Oberg and others. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford: Princeton University Press, c. 2005. Pp. xl, 677. $99.50, ISBN 0-691-12489-2.) When the present volume begins, Thomas Jefferson, vice president ...
The Dawn of Religious Freedom in South Carolina
Aug 01, 2007; ... The Dawn of Religious Freedom in South Carolina. Edited by James Lowell Underwood and W. Lewis Burke. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xviii, 222. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-621-7.) This informative, sometimes illuminating book deserves a wide readership. But its ...
The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy
Aug 01, 2007; ... The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy. By Bruce Ackerman. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 384. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-01866-4.) Bruce Ackerman, a distinguished and prolific ...
American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State
Aug 01, 2007; ... American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State. By Stephen Aron. A History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2006. Pp. xxiv, 301. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-253-34691-9.) From earliest times the strategic ...
Slavery, Southern Culture, and Education in Little Dixie, Missouri, 1820-1860
Aug 01, 2007; ... Slavery, Southern Culture, and Education in Little Dixie, Missouri, 1820-1860. By Jeffrey C. Stone. Studies in African American History and Culture. (New York and London: Routledge, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 107. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-415-97772-2.) The river counties in central Missouri became the ...
Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil, 1824-1854
Aug 01, 2007; ... Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil, 1824-1854. By Jonathan H. Earle. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 282. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-8078-5555-3; cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-2888-2.) Historians of the American Civil War ...
The Papers of John Marshall. Volume XII: Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions, January 1831-July 1835. With Addendum: June 1783-January 1829
Aug 01, 2007; ... The Papers of John Marshall. Volume XII: Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions, January 1831-July 1835. With Addendum: June 1783-January 1829. Edited by Charles F. Hobson and Joan S. Lovelace. (Chapel Hill: Published by the University of North Carolina Press in association with ...
Mark Twain: A Life
Aug 01, 2007; ... Mark Twain: A Life. By Ron Powers. (New York and other cities: Free Press, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 722. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 0-7432-4901-1; cloth, $35.00, ISBN 978-0-7432-4899-0; e-book, $9.99, ISBN 0-7432-7475-X.) In 1966 Justin Kaplan provided a perceptive portrait of Mark Twain, but his ...
Berea College: An Illustrated History
Aug 01, 2007; ... Berea College: An Illustrated History. By Shannon H. Wilson. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 246. $35.00, ISBN 978-08131-2379-0.) This volume appears in conjunction with the sesquicentennial of a remarkable educational endeavor. Conceding that all colleges and ...
Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War
Aug 01, 2007; ... Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War. By Nicholas Onuf and Peter Onuf. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 362. $45.00, ISBN 0-8139-2502-9.) Nations, nation making, and nationalism have been at the center of ...
The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
Aug 01, 2007; ... The Civil War as a Theological Crisis. By Mark A. Noll. Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 199. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3012-7.) Historians often find the Civil War era a high point for "civil ...
Richmond's Wartime Hospitals
Aug 01, 2007; ... Richmond's Wartime Hospitals. By Rebecca Barbour Calcutt. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 2005. Pp. 224. $22.00, ISBN 978-1-58980297-1.) This concise study of eighty-five military hospitals that served Confederate soldiers in the capital city is a welcome addition to a growing ...
The Yankee Invasion of Texas
Aug 01, 2007; ... The Yankee Invasion of Texas. By Stephen A. Townsend. Canseco-Keck History. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. Pp. [xii], 189. $25.00, ISBN 1-58544-487-1.) Union forces made four attempts to invade Texas during the Civil War. The Yankee Invasion of Texas covers the ...
Fort Pillow, a Civil War Massacre, and Public Memory
Aug 01, 2007; ... Fort Pillow, a Civil War Massacre, and Public Memory. By John Cimprich. Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 193. $29.95, ISBN 0-8071-3110-5.) The title encapsulates the three goals of this concise ...
Banners South: A Northern Community at War
Aug 01, 2007; ... Banners South: A Northern Community at War. By Edmund J. Raus Jr. Civil War in the North. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 333. $39.00, ISBN 978-0-87338-842-9.) Edmund J. Raus Jr. served as a historian at the Manassas, Gettysburg, and ...
"Whip the Rebellion": Ulysses S. Grant's Rise to Command
Aug 01, 2007; ... "Whip the Rebellion": Ulysses S. Grant's Rise to Command. By George Walsh. (New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2005. Pp. 480. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-7653-0527-5; cloth, $25.95, ISBN 0-765-30526-7.) George Walsh, a journalist and former editor at Macmillan Publishers, has written a sweeping ...
John M. Schofield and the Politics of Generalship
Aug 01, 2007; ... John M. Schofield and the Politics of Generalship. By Donald B. Connelly. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xvi, 471. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3007-0.) In nineteenth-century America, U.S. Army officers commonly advised "that the path to ...
The Southern Journey of a Civil War Marine: The Illustrated Note-Book of Henry O. Gusley
Aug 01, 2007; ... The Southern Journey of a Civil War Marine: The Illustrated Note-Book of Henry O. Gusley. Edited and annotated by Edward T. Gotham Jr. Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. Pp. x, 213. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-292-71283-6.) From May 1862 ...
A Civil War Soldier's Diary: Valentine C. Randolph, 39th Illinois Regiment
Aug 01, 2007; ... A Civil War Soldier's Diary: Valentine C. Randolph, 39th Illinois Regiment. Edited by David D. Roe. With commentary and annotations by Stephen R. Wise. (DeKaIb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 280. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-87580-343-1.) According to WorldCat, the online ...
A Maryland Bride in the Deep South: The Civil War Diary of Priscilla Bond
Aug 01, 2007; ... A Maryland Bride in the Deep South: The Civil War Diary of Priscilla Bond. Edited, with an introduction, by Kimberly Harrison. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 2006. Pp. xviii, 384. $45.00, ISBN 0-80713143-1.) In January 1861 a young bride prepared for "the greatest trial" of ...
Dixie Betrayed: How The South Really Lost the Civil War
Aug 01, 2007; ... Dixie Betrayed: How The South Really Lost the Civil War. By David J. Eicher. (New York and Boston: Little, Brown and Company, c. 2006. Pp. x, 338. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-316-73905-4.) David J. Eicher has written a lively survey of political conflict in the Confederacy aimed at a general ...
Black Cadet in a White Bastion: Charles Young at West Point
Aug 01, 2007; ... Black Cadet in a White Bastion: Charles Young at West Point. By Brian G. Shellum. Foreword by Vincent K. Brooks. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2006. Pp. xxii, 175. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 978-0-8032-9315-1.) Brian G. Shellum offers a straightforward biography that ...
Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898
Aug 01, 2007; ... Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898. By Edward J. Blum. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. Pp. xxi, 356. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 978-0-8071-3052-7; cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-8071-2905-4.) This is an important and troubling book ....
South Carolina Scalawags
Aug 01, 2007; ... South Carolina Scalawags. By Hyman Rubin III. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xxx, 192. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-57003625-5.) In this study Hyman Rubin III finds that established interpretations of the scalawags-white southerners who supported the Republican Party ...
The Education of Booker T. Washington: American Democracy and the Idea of Race Relations
Aug 01, 2007; ... The Education of Booker T. Washington: American Democracy and the Idea of Race Relations. By Michael Rudolph West. (New York: Columbia University Press, c. 2006. Pp. xiv, 281. $29.50, ISBN 0-231-13048-1.) Michael Rudolph West has written an interesting but unconvincing book. His argument ...
Up from the Mudsills of Hell: The Farmers' Alliance, Populism, and Progressive Agriculture in Tennessee, 1870-1915
Aug 01, 2007; ... Up from the Mudsills of Hell: The Farmers' Alliance, Populism, and Progressive Agriculture in Tennessee, 1870-1915. By Connie L. Lester. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2006. Pp. xiv, 321. $44.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2762-4.) Of all the southern states that ...
The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory
Aug 01, 2007; ... The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory. By W. Fitzhugh Brundage. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 418. $27.95, ISBN 0-674-01876-1.) Somehow W. Fitzhugh Brundage has managed to write a fine and important book on the power of ...
War Dance at Fort Marion: Plains Indian War Prisoners
Aug 01, 2007; ... War Dance at Fort Marion: Plains Indian War Prisoners. By Brad D. Lookingbill. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c. 2006. Pp. xiv, 290. $29.95, ISBN 0-8061-3739-8.) At the close of the Red River War on the southern High Plains in 1875, government officials decided to imprison some ...
Carnival of Blood: Dueling, Lynching, and Murder in South Carolina, 1880-1920
Aug 01, 2007; ... Carnival of Blood: Dueling, Lynching, and Murder in South Carolina, 1880-1920. By John Hammond Moore. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xiv], 250. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-620-0.) On February 3, 1903, the Columbia (S.C.) State bore the headline "HUMAN LIFE IS ...
A Time of Paradox: America since 1890
Aug 01, 2007; ... A Time of Paradox: America since 1890. By Glen Jeansonne and David Luhrssen (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2006. Pp. xxxiv, 539. Paper, $32.95, ISBN 978-0-74253377-6; cloth, $90.00, ISBN 978-0-7425-3376-9.) Paradox is historians' trump card ....
American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century: How It Flourished and What It Cost
Aug 01, 2007; ... American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century: How It Flourished and What It Cost. By Bruce L. Gardner. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 388. Paper, $27.95, ISBN 978-0-67400748-8; cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-674-00748-4.) Bruce L. Gardner's American ...
The Tennessee-Virginia Tri-Cities: Urbanization in Appalachia, 1900-1950
Aug 01, 2007; ... The Tennessee-Virginia Tri-Cities: Urbanization in Appalachia, 1900-1950. By Tom Lee. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 342. $42.00, ISBN 1-57233-334-0.) It is exceedingly rare for anyone to mention urbanization and Appalachia in the same breath. Tom Lee's history ...
American Outback: The Oklahoma Panhandle in the Twentieth Century
Aug 01, 2007; ... American Outback: The Oklahoma Panhandle in the Twentieth Century. By Richard Lowitt. Plains Histories. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, c. 2006. Pp. xxii, 137. $21.95, ISBN 0-89672-558-8.) While several states have geographic "panhandles," Oklahoma's westernmost section remains an ...
Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Birth of Modern America
Aug 01, 2007; ... Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Birth of Modern America. Edited by Michele K. Gillespie and Randal L. Hall. Making the Modem South. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 2006. Pp. x, 224. $42.95, ISBN 0-8071-3130-X.) At first glance, the title of this edited volume of nine essays ...
Crusader in the Cold War: A Biography of Fr. John F. Cronin, S.S. (1908-1994)
Aug 01, 2007; ... Crusader in the Cold War: A Biography of Fr. John F. Cronin, S.S. (1908-1994). By John T. Donovan. (New York and other cities: Peter Lang, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 245. $67.95, ISBN 978-0-8204-7413-7.) Few historians are familiar with John F. Cronin. Yet he played a role in critical ...
"Work or Fight!" Race, Gender, and the Draft in World War One
Aug 01, 2007; ... "Work or Fight!" Race, Gender, and the Draft in World War One. By Gerald E. Shenk. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. x, 194. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 1-4039-6177-8; cloth, $85.00, ISBN 1-4039-6175-1.) The Civil War was not the only American military conflict that was a rich man's war ...
A Black Physician's Struggle for Civil Rights: Edward C. Mazique, M.D.
Aug 01, 2007; ... A Black Physician's Struggle for Civil Rights: Edward C. Mazique, M.D. By Florence Ridlon. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. Pp. xxiv, 391. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8263-3339-9.) Drawing primarily on oral interviews, Florence Ridlon's biography of Edward C. Mazique takes the ...
"The Ticket to Freedom": The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration
Aug 01, 2007; ... "The Ticket to Freedom": The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration. By Manfred Berg. Foreword by John David Smith. New Perspectives on the History of the South. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2005. Pp. xx, 352. $29.95, ISBN ...
Barnstorming to Heaven: Syd Pollock and His Great Black Teams
Aug 01, 2007; ... Barnstorming to Heaven: Syd Pollock and His Great Black Teams. By Alan J. Pollock. Edited by James A. Riley. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 407. $35.00, ISBN 0-8173-1495-4.) Syd Pollock' s lengthy career as a promoter embodies the heyday of black professional ...
Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race
Aug 01, 2007; ... Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race. By Jennifer Ritterhouse. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xiv, 306. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5684-0; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3016-1.) Jennifer Ritterhouse contends that of ...
None Can Have Richer Memories: Polk County, Florida, 1940-2000
Aug 01, 2007; ... None Can Have Richer Memories: Polk County, Florida, 1940-2000. By Canter Brown Jr. (Tampa, Fla.: Published by the University of Tampa Press for the Polk County Historical Association, 2005. Pp. xiv, 368. $39.95, ISBN 1-879852-36-5.) It is no easy task to write a history covering the ...
Lost Delta Found: Rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941-1942
Aug 01, 2007; ... Lost Delta Found: Rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941-1942. Edited by Robert Gordon and Bruce Nemerov. (Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 343. $29.95, ISBN 0-8265-1485-5.) In 1941 and 1942 three African American ...