The Journal of Southern History back issues from November 2007:
The Southern Ties of Helen Keller
Nov 01, 2007; ... THOUGH HELEN KELLER LEFT HER PARENTS' HOME IN TUSCUMBIA, Alabama, at the young age of eight, the culture, people, and sensory adventures of her native state were essential to her outlook throughout her life. The deaf-blind activist, author, and world traveler, born in 1880, considered Ivy Green, ...
Lewis Sperry Chafer and the Roots of Nondenominational Fundamentalism in the South
Nov 01, 2007; ... ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1935, SIXTY-FIVE MEMBERS OF THE FIRST Presbyterian Church of Memphis separated from their congregation and founded the nondenominational Evangelical Community Church. Many of those who left had previously served at First Presbyterian as elders, deacons, Sunday school ...
World War II Manufacturing and the Postwar Southern Economy
Nov 01, 2007; ... MANY SCHOLARS CONSIDER THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SOUTHERN economy after World War II to be a central element of the regional and economic history of the United States in the twentieth century. Even though several reasons have been posited for the region's changes, many observers believe that ...
Light on the Path: The Anthropology and History of the Southeastern Indians
Nov 01, 2007; ... Light on the Path: The Anthropology and History of the Southeastern Indians. Edited by Thomas J. Pluckhahn and Robbie Ethridge. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 283. Paper, $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8173-5287-5; cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8173-1500-9.) The publication ...
The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent
Nov 01, 2007; ... The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent. By Kathleen DuVaI. Early American Studies. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c. 2006. Pp. [x], 320. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-8122-1939-5; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8122-3918-8.) Kathleen DuVal offers ...
Jews and Gentiles in Early America, 1654-1800
Nov 01, 2007; ... Jews and Gentiles in Early America, 1654-1800. By William Pencak. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 321. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-472-11454-9.) William Pencak of Pennsylvania State University studies the intersection of anti-Semitism and acceptance of Jews in relation ...
Children of Perdition: Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America
Nov 01, 2007; ... Children of Perdition: Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America. By Tim Hashaw. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2006. Pp. viii, 182. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-88146-074-2; cloth, $35.00, ISBN 978-0-88146-013-3.) The Melungeons are one of those mysterious southern groups usually ...
Rape and Sexual Power in Early America
Nov 01, 2007; ... Rape and Sexual Power in Early America. By Sharon Block. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xvi, 276. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5761-8; cloth, $45.00, 978-0-8078-3045-1.) Although it might seem obvious that any man could potentially be a rapist and that ...
Proslavery and Sectional Thought in the Early South, 1740-1829: An Anthology
Nov 01, 2007; ... Proslavery and Sectional Thought in the Early South, 1740-1829: An Anthology. Edited by Jeffrey Robert Young. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 259. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-1-57003617-0; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-616-3.) Proslavery and Sectional ...
Lining Out the Word: Dr. Watts Hymn Singing in the Music of Black Americans/Sing Them Over Again to Me: Hymns and Hymnbooks in America
Nov 01, 2007; ... Lining Out the Word: Dr. Watts Hymn Singing in the Music of Black Americans. By William T. Dargan. Music of the African Diaspora. (Berkeley and other cities: University of California Press, c. 2006. Pp. xvi, 320. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-520-23448-2.) Sing Them Over Again to Me: Hymns and ...
Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington
Nov 01, 2007; ... Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington. By Peter R. Henriques. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 256. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-8139-2547-9.) Peter R. Henriques presents us with not a complete biography of George Washington but rather ten ...
George Washington's Enforcers: Policing the Continental Army
Nov 01, 2007; ... George Washington's Enforcers: Policing the Continental Army. By Harry M. Ward. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, c. 2006. Pp. xvi, 268. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8093-2688-4.) When he asked Congress for a "respectable army," George Washington had in mind an army on the European ...
James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights
Nov 01, 2007; ... James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights. By Richard Labunski. Pivotal Moments in American History. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 336. $28.00, ISBN 978-0-19-518105-0.) Political scientist and journalism professor Richard Labunski, who ...
Braided Relations, Entwined Lives: The Women of Charleston's Urban Slave Society
Nov 01, 2007; ... Braided Relations, Entwined Lives: The Women of Charleston's Urban Slave Society. By Cynthia M. Kennedy. Blacks in the Diaspora. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 311. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-253-34615-5.) This fine study demonstrates that gender ...
Southern Single Blessedness: Unmarried Women in the Urban South, 1800-1865
Nov 01, 2007; ... Southern Single Blessedness: Unmarried Women in the Urban South, 1800-1865. By Christine Jacobson Carter. Women in American History. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 220. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03011-6.) Continuing the scholarship on antebellum ...
African American Life in South Carolina's Upper Piedmont, 1780-1900
Nov 01, 2007; ... African American Life in South Carolina's Upper Piedmont, 1780-1900. By W. J. Megginson. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xx, 546. $59.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-626-2.) W. J. Megginson's exhaustively researched monograph tells the story of African American life in ...
Jefferson and the Press: Crucible of Liberty
Nov 01, 2007; ... Jefferson and the Press: Crucible of Liberty. By Jerry W. Knudson. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xviii, 221. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-607-1.) Undoubtedly, the American founders were ill prepared for the vitriol that poured from the partisan gazettes during ...
The Forgotten Expedition, 1804-1805: The Louisiana Purchase Journals of Dunbar and Hunter
Nov 01, 2007; ... The Forgotten Expedition, 1804-1805: The Louisiana Purchase Journals of Dunbar and Hunter. Edited by Trey Berry, Pam Beasley, and Jeanne Clements. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. xxxvi, 248. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8071-3165-7.) The bicentenary of the Louisiana ...
Don't Give Up the Ship: Myths of the War of 1812
Nov 01, 2007; ... Don't Give Up the Ship: Myths of the War of 1812. By Donald R. Hickey. Foreword by Donald E. Graves. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2006. Pp. xxx, 430. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-252-03179-3.) Don't Give Up the Ship: Myths of the War of 1812 is a detailed, exceedingly well ...
Death Rode the Rails: American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1828-1965
Nov 01, 2007; ... Death Rode the Rails: American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1828-1965. By Mark Aldrich. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2006. Pp. xviii, 446. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8018-8236-4.) Scholars have produced an interesting corpus of work that analyzes the nineteenth- and ...
Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Times to Ours
Nov 01, 2007; ... Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Times to Ours. By Matthew Mancini. American Intellectual Culture. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield, c. 2006. Pp. xviii, 253. Paper, $28.95, ISBN 978-0-7425-2344-9; cloth, $75.00, ISBN 978-0-7425-2343-2.) In ...
Gerstäcker's Louisiana: Fiction and Travel Sketches from Antebellum Times through Reconstruction
Nov 01, 2007; ... Gerstäcker's Louisiana: Fiction and Travel Sketches from Antebellum Times through Reconstruction. Edited and translated by Irene S. Di Maio. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 328. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8071-3146-6.) Friedrich Gerstacker, a nineteenth-century ...
José María de Jesús Carvajal: The Life and Times of a Mexican Revolutionary
Nov 01, 2007; ... José María de Jesús Carvajal: The Life and Times of a Mexican Revolutionary. By Joseph E. Chance. (San Antonio, Tex.: Trinity University Press, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 283. $35.00, ISBN 978-1-59534-020-7.) José María de Jésus Carvajal lived through extraordinary times. More than an observer, ...
My Likeness Taken: Daguerreian Portraits in America
Nov 01, 2007; ... My Likeness Taken: Daguerreian Portraits in America. By Joan L. Severa. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, c. 2005. Pp. xx, 303. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-87338-837-5.) The glimpse of a past moment that is conveyed by a daguerreotype has an intimacy unsurpassed by hardly any other ...
The Invincible Duff Green: Whig of the West
Nov 01, 2007; ... The Invincible Duff Green: Whig of the West. By W. Stephen Belko. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 483. $44.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1647-2.) Historians have long called for a comprehensive scholarly biography of Duff Green, the political operative who ...
Race Relations at the Margins: Slaves and Poor Whites in the Antebellum Southern Countryside
Nov 01, 2007; ... Race Relations at the Margins: Slaves and Poor Whites in the Antebellum Southern Countryside. By Jeff Forret. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 269. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3145-9.) In this fine study of the antebellum South, Jeff Forret takes aim at one of ...
Politics and Culture of the Civil War Era: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Johannsen
Nov 01, 2007; ... Politics and Culture of the Civil War Era: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Johannsen. Edited by Daniel McDonough and Kenneth W. Noe. (Selinsgrove, Pa.: Susquehanna University Press, c. 2006. Pp. 346. $60.00, ISBN 978-1-57591-101-4.) This collection of original essays comes from students of ...
William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War
Nov 01, 2007; ... William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War. By Eric H. Walther. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xiv, 477. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3027-7.) Although invariably cited as one of the key southern radicals-often known as ...
Lincoln's Resolute Unionist: Hamilton Gamble, Dred Scott Dissenter and Missouri's Civil War Governor
Nov 01, 2007; ... Lincoln's Resolute Unionist: Hamilton Gamble, Dred Scott Dissenter and Missouri's Civil War Governor. By Dennis K. Boman. Southern Biography Series. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 263. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3164-0.) In Lincoln's Resolute Unionist: ...
Military Necessity: Civil-Military Relations in the Confederacy
Nov 01, 2007; ... Military Necessity: Civil-Military Relations in the Confederacy. By Paul D. Escott. In War and in Peace: U.S. Civil Military Relations. (Westport, Conn., and London: Praeger security International, 2006. Pp. xviii, 215. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-275-98313-0.) In this timely book Paul D. Escott ...
The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865
Nov 01, 2007; ... The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865. By Mark R. Wilson. Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2006. Pp. xiv, 306. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-8348-4.) Many believe that Civil War scholars have ...
A Separate Civil War: Communities in Conflict in the Mountain South
Nov 01, 2007; ... A Separate Civil War: Communities in Conflict in the Mountain South. By Jonathan Dean Sarris. A Nation Divided: New Studies in Civil War History. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 238. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-8139-2555-4; cloth, $55.00, ISBN ...
A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom
Nov 01, 2007; ... A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom. By David Williams. New Press People's History Series. (New York and London: The New Press, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 594. Paper, $24.95, 978-159558-125-9; cloth, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-59558-018-4.) This ambitious survey of ...
Invisible Southerners: Ethnicity in the Civil War
Nov 01, 2007; ... Invisible Southerners: Ethnicity in the Civil War. By Anne J. Bailey. Georgia Southern University Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt Lecture Series. (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2006. Pp. xvi, 95. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2757-0.) With deft strokes, Anne J. Bailey redraws ...
Bleeding Blue and Gray: Civil War Surgery and the Evolution of American Medicine
Nov 01, 2007; ... Bleeding Blue and Gray: Civil War Surgery and the Evolution of American Medicine. By Ira M. Rutkow. (New York: Random House, 2005. Pp. xx, 394. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-375-50315-3.) Ira M. Rutkow's research in primary sources, personal medical and surgical experience, and lively writing style ...
Distant Bugles, Distant Drums: The Union Response to the Confederate Invasion of New Mexico
Nov 01, 2007; ... Distant Bugles, Distant Drums: The Union Response to the Confederate Invasion of New Mexico. By Flint Whitlock. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, c. 2006. Pp. xxii, 293. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-87081-835-6.) For many years Civil War historians largely ignored the 1861-1862 struggle for ...
A Civil War Soldier of Christ and Country: The Selected Correspondence of John Rodgers Meigs, 1859-64
Nov 01, 2007; ... A Civil War Soldier of Christ and Country: The Selected Correspondence of John Rodgers Meigs, 1859-64. Edited by Mary A. Giunta. Foreword by Carol Bleser. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2006. Pp. xxiv, 310. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03076-5.) This book provides a ...
Our Trust Is in the God of Battles: The Civil War Letters of Robert Franklin Bunting, Chaplain, Terry's Texas Rangers, C.S.A.
Nov 01, 2007; ... Our Trust Is in the God of Battles: The Civil War Letters of Robert Franklin Bunting, Chaplain, Terry's Texas Rangers, C.S.A. Edited by Thomas W. Cutrer. Voices of the Civil War. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Pp. xxxiv, 436. $45.00, ISBN 978-1-57233-458-8.) Terry's ...
Three Years a Soldier: The Diary and Newspaper Correspondence of Private George Perkins, Sixth New York Independent Battery, 1861-1864/To Rescue My Native Land: The Civil War Letters of William T. Shepherd, First Illinois Light Artillery
Nov 01, 2007; ... Three Years a Soldier: The Diary and Newspaper Correspondence of Private George Perkins, Sixth New York Independent Battery, 1861-1864. Edited by Richard N. Griffin. Voices of the Civil War. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Pp. xxxvi, 412. $45.00, ISBN ...
No Pardons to Ask, nor Apologies to Make: The Journal of William Henry King, Gray's 28th Louisiana Infantry Regiment
Nov 01, 2007; ... No Pardons to Ask, nor Apologies to Make: The Journal of William Henry King, Gray's 28th Louisiana Infantry Regiment. Edited by Gary D. Joiner, Marilyn S. Joiner, and Clifton D. Cardin. Voices of the Civil War. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Pp. xxx, 322. $44.00, ISBN ...
Key Command: Ulysses S. Grant's District of Cairo
Nov 01, 2007; ... Key Command: Ulysses S. Grant's District of Cairo. By T. K. Kionka. Shades of Blue and Gray Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2006. Pp. xiv, 229. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1655-7.) In September 1861 the newly commissioned brigadier general Ulysses S. Grant took ...
The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views (Social, Political, Iconographic)
Nov 01, 2007; ... The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views (Social, Political, Iconographic). By Harold Holzer, Edna Greene Medford, and Frank J. Williams. With a foreword by John Hope Franklin. Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006 ....
Private Fleming at Chancellorsville: The Red Badge of Courage and the Civil War/The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: A Chaplain's Story
Nov 01, 2007; ... Private Fleming at Chancellorsville: The Red Badge of Courage and the Civil War. By Perry Lentz. Shades of Blue and Gray Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 359. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1654-0.) The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: A ...
Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg
Nov 01, 2007; ... Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg. By Timothy B. Smith. (New York: Savas Beatie, 2004. Pp. xviii, 502. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-1-932714-19-7; cloth, $34.95, ISBN 978-1-932714-00-5.) There are already a number of very excellent books dealing with the campaigning around ...
Gettysburg Requiem: The Life and Lost Causes of Confederate Colonel William C. Oates
Nov 01, 2007; ... Gettysburg Requiem: The Life and Lost Causes of Confederate Colonel William C. Oates. By Glenn W. LaFantasie. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xxxiv, 414. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-19-517458-8.) Since the fight on Little Round Top at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, ...
The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864
Nov 01, 2007; ... The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864. Edited by Gary W. Gallagher. Military Campaigns of the Civil War. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xxii, 392. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3005-5.) The ninth volume to appear in the Military Campaigns of the Civil War ...
The Officers of the CSS Shenandoah
Nov 01, 2007; ... The Officers of the CSS Shenandoah. By Angus Curry. Foreword by John David Smith. New Perspectives on the History of the South. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2006. Pp. xiv, 428. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8130-2943-6.) The defeat of the CSS Alabama in June 1864 ...
Vicksburg's Long Shadow: The Civil War Legacy of Race and Remembrance
Nov 01, 2007; ... Vicksburg's Long Shadow: The Civil War Legacy of Race and Remembrance. By Christopher Waldrep. American Crisis Series. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2005. Pp. xx, 344. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-7425-4868-8.) In Vicksburg's Long Shadow: The Civil War ...
Uncivil War: Five New Orleans Street Battles and the Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction
Nov 01, 2007; ... Uncivil War: Five New Orleans Street Battles and the Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction. By James K. Hogue. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 227. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3147-3.) James K. Hogue makes a fresh and compelling case for reinterpreting ...
Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom
Nov 01, 2007; ... Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom. By Heather Andrea Williams. The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2005. Pp. xvi, 304. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5821-9; cloth, ...
Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race: Mississippi after Reconstruction, 1877-1917
Nov 01, 2007; ... Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race: Mississippi after Reconstruction, 1877-1917. By Stephen Cresswell. Heritage of Mississippi. (Jackson: Published by the University Press of Mississippi for the Mississippi Historical Society, 2006. Pp. x, 283. $45.00, ISBN 978-1-57806-847-0.) Stephen ...
Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation
Nov 01, 2007; ... Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation. By Moon-Ho Jung. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 275. $48.95, ISBN 978-0-8018-8281-4.) This broadly conceived work expands historical studies of nineteenth-century Chinese immigration to ...
Crossing the Rio Grande: An Immigrant's Life in the 1880s
Nov 01, 2007; ... Crossing the Rio Grande: An Immigrant's Life in the 1880s. By Luis G. Gómez. Edited by Guadalupe Valdez Jr. and Thomas H. Kreneck. Gulf Coast Studies. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 106. $23.00, ISBN 978-1-58544-514-1.) Crossing the Rio Grande: An ...
A Common Humanity: Kansas Populism and the Battle for Justice and Equality, 1854-1903
Nov 01, 2007; ... A Common Humanity: Kansas Populism and the Battle for Justice and Equality, 1854-1903. By O. Gene Clanton. (Manhattan, Kans.: Sunflower University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 328. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-89745-276-2.) O. Gene Clanton has provided historians with several books rich in archival ...
Mayor Crump Don't Like It: Machine Politics in Memphis
Nov 01, 2007; ... Mayor Crump Don't Like It: Machine Politics in Memphis. By G. Wayne. Dowdy. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006. Pp. xii, 159. $38.00, ISBN 978-1-57806-859-3.) In this slim volume G. Wayne Dowdy, a senior librarian and archivist at the Memphis Public Library and Information ...
Reading Southern Poverty between the Wars, 1918-1939
Nov 01, 2007; ... Reading Southern Poverty between the Wars, 1918-1939. Edited by Richard Godden and Martin Crawford. (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2006. Pp. xvi, 247. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2708-2.) This strong collection of essays resulted from an American Studies colloquium at ...
A Talent for Living: Josephine Pinckney and the Charleston Literary Tradition
Nov 01, 2007; ... A Talent for Living: Josephine Pinckney and the Charleston Literary Tradition. By Barbara L. Bellows. Southern Literary Studies. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. xviii, 301. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3163-3.) Barbara L. Bellows has rendered an engrossing albeit ...
Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918-1945
Nov 01, 2007; ... Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918-1945. By Anthony J. Stanonis. (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2006. Pp. xvi, 317. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2822-5; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2817-1.) As New Orleans rehabilitates ...
Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History
Nov 01, 2007; ... Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History. By Anne Mitchell Whisnant. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xxvi, 434. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3037-6.) National park histories have multiplied over the past few decades, perhaps indicative of the growing ...
Lucy Somerville Howorth: New Deal Lawyer, Politician, and Feminist from the South
Nov 01, 2007; ... Lucy Somerville Howorth: New Deal Lawyer, Politician, and Feminist from the South. By Dorothy S. Shawhan and Martha H. Swain. With a foreword by Anne Firor Scott. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. xx, 234. $42.95, ISBN 978-0-8071-3133-6.) This impeccably ...
A Commonwealth of Hope: The New Deal Response to Crisis/Backlash: The Killing of the New Deal
Nov 01, 2007; ... A Commonwealth of Hope: The New Deal Response to Crisis. By Alan Lawson. The American Moment. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2006. Pp. xviii, 280. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8018-8407-8; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-8406-1.) Backlash: The Killing of the New Deal. By ...
Handling Serpents: Pastor Jimmy Morrow's Narrative History of His Appalachian Jesus' Name Tradition
Nov 01, 2007; ... Handling Serpents: Pastor Jimmy Morrow's Narrative History of His Appalachian Jesus' Name Tradition. By Jimmy Morrow with Ralph W. Hood Jr., editor. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2005. Pp. xliv, 210. Paper, $19.00, ISBN 978-0-86554-848-0.) Jimmy Morrow is a pastor of a church in ...
Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920-1950
Nov 01, 2007; ... Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920-1950. By John van Willigen and Anne van Willigen. Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History Series. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2006. Pp. xx, 260. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2387-5.) Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family ...
Southern Farmers and Their Stories: Memory and Meaning in Oral History
Nov 01, 2007; ... Southern Farmers and Their Stories: Memory and Meaning in Oral History. By Melissa Walker. New Directions in Southern History. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2006. Pp. xiv, 324. $45.00, ISBN 9780-8131-2409-4.) Storytelling, history, and memory share an intimate ...
Song for My Fathers: A New Orleans Story in Black and White
Nov 01, 2007; ... Song for My Fathers: A New Orleans Story in Black and White. By Tom Sancton. (New York: Other Press, c. 2006. Pp. [vi], 305. $24.95, ISBN 978-1-59051-243-2.) Although it was presumably as a music historian that I was approached to write this review, Song for My Fathers: A New Orleans ...