The Journal of Southern History back issues from May 2008:
Murder, North and South: Violence in Early-Twentieth-Century Chicago and New Orleans
May 01, 2008; ... OBSERVERS OF AMERICAN REGIONALISM HAVE LONG KNOWN THAT THE South has suffered from high, often astronomically high, levels of violence. Late-eighteenth-century travelers marveled at the eyegouging and nose-biting rituals at the core of rough-and-tumble fighting in the region, and reports of ...
Building a Populist Coalition in Texas, 1892-1896
May 01, 2008; ... MORE THAN A HALF CENTURY HAS PASSED SINCE C. VANN WOODWARD argued that the success of the People's (or Populist) Party of the 1890s hinged on construction of three somewhat improbable coalitions of the dispossessed: southerners and westerners, farmers and laborers, and blacks and poor whites in ...
The Deadly Politics of Giving: Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown
May 01, 2008; ... The Deadly Politics of Giving: Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown. By Seth Mallios. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xiv], 150. Paper, $21.50, ISBN 978-0-8173-5336-0; cloth, $44.75, ISBN 978-0-8173-1516-0.) Published in time for the ...
Practicing Ethnohistory: Mining Archives, Hearing Testimony, Constructing Narrative
May 01, 2008; ... Practicing Ethnohistory: Mining Archives, Hearing Testimony, Constructing Narrative. By Patricia Galloway. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2006. Pp. [vi], 454. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8032-7115-9.) This book is a collection of Patricia Galloway's writing spanning ...
I Wish I'd Been There: Twenty Historians Bring to Life Dramatic Events That Changed America
May 01, 2008; ... I Wish I'd Been There: Twenty Historians Bring to Life Dramatic Events That Changed America. Edited by Byron Hollinshead. (New York and other cities: Doubleday, 2006. Pp. [xii], 338. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-385-51619-8.) For I Wish I'd Been There: Twenty Historians Bring to Life Dramatic ...
Between Memory and History: Autobiographies of the Civil Rights Movement and the Writing of Civil Rights History
May 01, 2008; ... IN 1988, AT A REUNION OF THE STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING Committee (SNCC), Joyce Ladner had this to say about scholarship on the civil rights movement: "It was not until a decade after leaving SNCC that I began to read some of the works on the movement, maybe even a little longer than a ...
Annual Report of the Secretary-Treasurer
May 01, 2008; ... OUR MEETING IN RICHMOND IN NOVEMBER WAS ONLY THE SECOND ONE the Association has held in what is arguably the South's most historically rich state capital, the first having been held in the John Marshall Hotel in 1965. The primary reason for this infrequency was the lack of available hotel rooms ...
Constructing Floridians: Natives and Europeans in the Colonial Floridas, 1513-1783
May 01, 2008; ... Constructing Floridians: Natives and Europeans in the Colonial Floridas, 1513-1783. By Daniel S. Murphree. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2006. Pp. [x], 188. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-3024-2.) Florida holds an important place in the long history of identity and ...
Unveiled Voices, Unvarnished Memories: The Cromwell Family in Slavery and Segregation, 1692-1972
May 01, 2008; ... Unveiled Voices, Unvarnished Memories: The Cromwell Family in Slavery and Segregation, 1692-1972. By Adelaide M. Cromwell. Introduction by Anthony Cromwell Hill. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xviii], 348. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1676-2.) This ...
The Mind of Thomas Jefferson
May 01, 2008; ... The Mind of Thomas Jefferson. By Peter S. Onuf. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2007. Pp. x, 281. Paper, $19.50, ISBN 978-0-8139-2611-7; cloth, $49.50, ISBN 978-0-8139-2578-3.) The Founding Fathers are an old subject currently enjoying a remarkable revival, ...
The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia
May 01, 2008; ... The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia. By Michael A. McDonnell. (Chapel Hill: Published by the University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, c. 2007. Pp. [xx], 544. $45.00, ISBN ...
Southern History in Periodicals, 2007: A Selected Bibliography
May 01, 2008; ... THIS CLASSIFIED BIBLIOGRAPHY INCLUDES MOST SCHOLARLY ARTICLES IN the field of southern history published in periodicals in 2007 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 2007, the ...
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
May 01, 2008; ... The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Volume 33: 17 February to 30 April 1801. Edited by Barbara B. Oberg and others. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford, Eng.: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xlviii, 751. $99.50, ISBN 978-0-69112910-5.) February 17, 1801, was the day that the House of ...
Indian Agent: Peter Ellis Bean in Mexican Texas
May 01, 2008; ... Indian Agent: Peter Ellis Bean in Mexican Texas. By Jack Jackson. Canseco-Keck History Series, No. 6. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. Pp. [xiv], 426. $35.00, ISBN 1-58544-444-8.) In this document-driven biography the late Jack Jackson tells the story of a frontier ...
In the Name of the Father: Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation
May 01, 2008; ... In the Name of the Father: Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation. By François Furstenberg. (New York: Penguin Press, 2006. Pp. [xii], 335. $27.95, ISBN 1-59420-092-0.) '"The earth belongs in usufruct to the living,'" Thomas Jefferson wrote James Madison in 1789, asking ...
Uriah Levy: Reformer of the Antebellum Navy
May 01, 2008; ... Uriah Levy: Reformer of the Antebellum Navy. By Ira Dye. Foreword by James C. Bradford and Gene A. Smith. New Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2006. Pp. [xiv], 299. $59.95, ISBN 0-8130-3004-8.) For ...
Andrew Jackson and the Politics of Martial Law: Nationalism, Civil Liberties, and Partisanship
May 01, 2008; ... Andrew Jackson and the Politics of Martial Law: Nationalism, Civil Liberties, and Partisanship. By Matthew Warshauer. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Pp. x, 314. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-57233-548-6.) Nearly two hundred years after Andrew Jackson emerged as a national ...
The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series
May 01, 2008; ... The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series. Volume 7: 2 April-31 August 1804. Edited by David B. Mattern and others. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2005. Pp. [xxxviii], 714. $75.00, ISBN 0-8139-2353-0.) This is another large volume dealing almost ...
A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-1814
May 01, 2008; ... A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-1814. By Gregory A. Waselkov. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2006. Pp. [x], 414. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8173-1491-0.) Gregory A. Waselkov does not describe his fine new book as a microhistory, but it shares the ...
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series
May 01, 2008; ... The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series. Volume 2: 16 November 1809 to 11 August 1810; Volume 3: 12 August 1810 to 77 June 1811. Edited by J. Jefferson Looney and others. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford, Eng.: Princeton University Press, 2005, 2006. Pp. xliv, 728; xlviii, 705. $99.50, ...
Foreign Affairs and the Constitution in the Age of Fighting Sail
May 01, 2008; ... Foreign Affairs and the Constitution in the Age of Fighting Sail. By William R. Casto. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xiv], 202. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-629-3.) Edmond Charles Genet's disastrous 1793 mission as French minister to the United States is well ...
The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade
May 01, 2008; ... The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade. By Gerald Home. (New York and London: New York University Press, c. 2007. Pp. [vi], 341. Paper, $24.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-3689-0; cloth, $75.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-3688-3.) This work focuses on "the two great slave ...
Evolution of a Missouri Asylum: Fulton State Hospital, 1851-2006
May 01, 2008; ... Evolution of a Missouri Asylum: Fulton State Hospital, 1851-2006. By Richard L. Lael, Barbara Brazos, and Margot Ford McMillen. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xx], 252. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1689-2.) Evolution of a Missouri Asylum: Fulton State ...
Becoming Bourgeois: Merchant Culture in the South, 1820-1865
May 01, 2008; ... Becoming Bourgeois: Merchant Culture in the South, 1820-1865. By Frank J. Byrne. New Directions in Southern History. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2006. Pp. x, 297. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2404-9.) In recent years greater attention has finally been paid to groups long ...
An American Aristocracy: Southern Planters in Antebellum Philadelphia
May 01, 2008; ... An American Aristocracy: Southern Planters in Antebellum Philadelphia. By Daniel Kilbride. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xii], 216. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-656-9.) This book's title might lead one to think it is of narrow interest. Yet while Daniel ...
Lynching in the West: 1850-1935
May 01, 2008; ... Lynching in the West: 1850-1935. By Ken Gonzales-Day. A John Hope Franklin Center Book. (Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. [xiv], 299. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3794-2; cloth, $79.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3781-2.) Stories of lynching haunt southern history, but ...
Dred Scott and the Politics of Slavery
May 01, 2008; ... Dred Scott and the Politics of Slavery. By Earl M. Maltz. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2007. Pp. [x], 182. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1503-2; cloth, $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1502-5.) Earl M. Maltz has provided a brief, highly ...
Princes of Cotton: Four Diaries of Young Men in the South, 1848-1860
May 01, 2008; ... Princes of Cotton: Four Diaries of Young Men in the South, 1848-1860. Edited by Stephen Berry. Publications of the Southern Texts Society. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2007. Pp. xiv, 554. $44.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2884-3.) Historian Stephen Berry has chosen to ...
Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life/Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War
May 01, 2008; ... Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life. By Steven Deyle. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. [xii], 398. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-516040-6.) Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War ....
America's Fortress: A History of Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Florida
May 01, 2008; ... America's Fortress: A History of Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Florida. By Thomas Reid. Florida History and Culture. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 163. $24.95, ISBN 0-8130-3019-6.) Thomas Reid's America's Fortress: A History of Fort ...
Civil War Time: Temporality and Identity in America, 1861-1865
May 01, 2008; ... Civil War Time: Temporality and Identity in America, 1861-1865. By Cheryl A. Wells. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 195. $39.95, ISBN 0-8203-2657-7.) Cheryl A. Wells has written a commendably short book-sweeping yet succinct, conceptual yet ...
The View from the Ground: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers
May 01, 2008; ... The View from the Ground: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers. Edited by Aaron Sheehan-Dean. Afterword by Joseph T. Glatthaar. New Directions in Southern History. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2007. Pp. vi, 266. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2413-1.) To work well, an anthology ...
Defend This Old Town: Williamsburg during the Civil War
May 01, 2008; ... Defend This Old Town: Williamsburg during the Civil War. By Carol Kettenburg Dubbs. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Pp. [xviii], 406. $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-2780-9.) An increasingly important genre of Civil War history is the investigation of the war's impact on people ...
A Soldier to the Last: Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler in Blue and Gray/Major General Isaac Ridgeway Trimble: Biography of a Baltimore Confederate
May 01, 2008; ... A Soldier to the Last: Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler in Blue and Gray. By Edward G. Longacre. (Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, Inc., 2007. Pp. xvi, 288. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-57488-591-0.) Major General Isaac Ridgeway Trimble: Biography of a Baltimore Confederate. By Leslie R. Tucker ....
Huts and History: The Historical Archaeology of Military Encampment During the American Civil War
May 01, 2008; ... Huts and History: The Historical Archaeology of Military Encampment During the American Civil War. Edited by Clarence R. Geier, David G. Orr, and Matthew B. Reeves. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2006. Pp. xviii, 279. $65.00, ISBN 0-8130-2941-4.) A ...
Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible of War
May 01, 2008; ... Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible of War. By A. Wilson Greene. A Nation Divided: New Studies in Civil War History. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2006. Pp. [xii], 363. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8139-2570-7.) In the past decade the study of the ...
Lincoln Emancipated: The President and the Politics of Race
May 01, 2008; ... Lincoln Emancipated: The President and the Politics of Race. Edited by Brian R. Dirck. Foreword by Alien C. Guelzo. (DeKaIb: Northern Illinois University Press, c. 2007. Pp. xiv, 189. $32.00, ISBN 978-0-87580-359-3.) "Was Lincoln a racist?" (p. viii). While sometimes denying the validity ...
Sherman's Mississippi Campaign/Mississippi's Civil War: A Narrative History
May 01, 2008; ... Sherman 's Mississippi Campaign. By Buck T. Foster. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xiv], 215. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8173-1519-1.) Mississippi's Civil War: A Narrative History. By Ben Wynne. State Narratives of the Civil War. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, ...
The Freedmen's Bureau: Reconstructing the American South after the Civil War
May 01, 2008; ... The Freedmen's Bureau: Reconstructing the American South after the Civil War. By Paul A. Cimbala. An Anvil Original. (Malabar, Fla.: Krieger Publishing Company, 2005. Pp. [xii], 206. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 1-57524-094-7.) The Freedmen's Bureau: Reconstructing the American South after the ...
Long Road to Liberty: The Odyssey of a German Regiment in the Yankee Army: The 15th Missouri Volunteer Infantry/Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home/August Willich's Gallant Dutchmen: Civil War Letters from the 32nd Indiana Infantry
May 01, 2008; ... Long Road to Liberty: The Odyssey of a German Regiment in the Yankee Army: The 15th Missouri Volunteer Infantry. By Donald Allendorf. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xxxii], 342. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-87338-871-9.) Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote ...
The Doom of Reconstruction: The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era
May 01, 2008; ... The Doom of Reconstruction: The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era. By Andrew L. Slap. Reconstructing America Series. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. Pp. [xxvi], 306. $70.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-2709-9.) Hard as it might be to believe, it has been over eighty-five years ...
Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North
May 01, 2008; ... Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North. By Jennifer L. Weber. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. [xviii], 286. $28.00, ISBN 978-0-19-530668-2.) Jennifer L. Weber is convinced that the Copperheads, "the conservative, antiwar wing of ...
Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend
May 01, 2008; ... Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend. By Scott Reynolds Nelson. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. [x], 214. $25.00, ISBN 978-0-19-530010-9.) Folklorists at the Library of Congress claim that the ballad of John Henry is the ...
Beyond Redemption: Texas Democrats after Reconstruction
May 01, 2008; ... Beyond Redemption: Texas Democrats after Reconstruction. By Patrick G. Williams. Red River Valley Books, No. 1. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 234. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-58544-573-8.) When historians are asked whether Texas is southern or western, the safe ...
A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau
May 01, 2008; ... A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau. By Carolyn Morrow Long. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, c. 2006. Pp. [xl], 294. $34.95, ISBN 0-8130-2974-0.) In 1978, as Carolyn Morrow Long stood before Marie Laveau's New Orleans tomb with its offerings ...
The Dance of Freedom: Texas African Americans during Reconstruction
May 01, 2008; ... The Dance of Freedom: Texas African Americans during Reconstruction. By Barry A. Crouch. Edited by Larry Madaras. Foreword by Arnoldo De León. Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture, No. 19. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. Pp. [xviii], 268. Paper, $21.95, ...
Amarillo: The Story of a Western Town
May 01, 2008; ... Amarillo: The Story of a Western Town. By Paul H. Carlson. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xvi], 283. $28.95, ISBN 978-0-89672-587-4.) Where is Amarillo? Its longitude and latitude are easy to calculate, but determining its cultural location is more complex. The ...
Radicalism in the South Since Reconstruction
May 01, 2008; ... Radicalism in the South Since Reconstruction. Edited by Chris Green, Rachel Rubin, and James Smethurst. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. viii, 274. $69.95, ISBN 978-1-4039-7409-9.) This collection of essays makes a valuable addition to a growing literature on radical southern ...
Henry Watterson and the New South: The Politics of Empire, Free Trade, and Globalization
May 01, 2008; ... Henry Watterson and the New South: The Politics of Empire, Free Trade, and Globalization. By Daniel S. Margolies. Topics in Kentucky History. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 340. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2417-9.) Presumably today's newspaper readers would have ...
Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South
May 01, 2008; ... Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South. By Matthew Hild. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 327. $42.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2897-3.) The literature on Populism is replete with ...
The Conspiracy of the Good: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Community in Two American Cities, 1875-2000
May 01, 2008; ... The Conspiracy of the Good: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Community in Two American Cities, 1875-2000. By Michael E. James. History of Schools and Schooling. (New York and other cities: Peter Lang, c. 2005. Pp. [xx], 385. Paper, $32.95, ISBN 0-8204-5779-5.) In The Conspiracy of the ...
Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas
May 01, 2008; ... Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas. Edited by Gregg Cantrell and Elizabeth Hayes Turner. Foreword by W. Fitzhugh Brundage. Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. Pp. [xviii], 296. Paper, $19.95, ISBN ...
The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890-1950
May 01, 2008; ... The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890-1950. By Francille Rusan Wilson. Carter G. Woodson Institute Series. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2006. Pp. [xvi], 356. $37.50, ISBN 0-8139-2550-9.) In this ...
Rethinking Zion: How the Print Media Placed Fundamentalism in the South
May 01, 2008; ... Rethinking Zion: How the Print Media Placed Fundamentalism in the South. By Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Pp. [xxvi], 177. $36.00, ISBN 1-57233-493-2.) In this intriguing study Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews examines print media such as the ...
A Common Thread: Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in the Textile Industry
May 01, 2008; ... A Common Thread: Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in the Textile Industry. By Beth English. Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xii], 236. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2628-3.) The shift of capital by ...
Righteous Indignation: Religion and the Populist Revolution
May 01, 2008; ... Righteous Indignation: Religion and the Populist Revolution. By Joe Creech. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2006. Pp. xxx, 232. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978-0-252-07315-1; cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-25203074-1.) When Richard Hofstadter discussed the Populists in his ...
Southern Journeys: Tourism, History, and Culture in the Modern South
May 01, 2008; ... Southern Journeys: Tourism, History, and Culture in the Modern South. Edited by Richard D. Starnes. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 2003. Pp. [x], 310. Paper, $26.95, ISBN 0-8173-5009-8; cloth, $57.50, ISBN 0-8173-1297-8.) Southern Journeys: Tourism, History, and ...
The Rosenwald Schools of the American South
May 01, 2008; ... The Rosenwald Schools of the American South. By Mary S. Hoffschwelle. Foreword by John David Smith. New Perspectives on the History of the South. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2006. Pp. xx, 401. $39.95, ISBN 0-8130-2957-0.) In 1932 over five thousand ...
Julius Rosenwald: The Man Who Built Sears, Roebuck and Advanced the Cause of Black Education in the American South
May 01, 2008; ... Julius Rosenwald: The Man Who Built Sears, Roebuck and Advanced the Cause of Black Education in the American South. By Peter M. Ascoli. Philanthropie and Nonprofit Studies. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xvi], 453. $35.00, ISBN 0-253-34741-6.) As ...
Looting Spiro Mounds: An American King Tut's Tomb
May 01, 2008; ... Looting Spiro Mounds: An American King Tut's Tomb. By David La Vere. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c. 2007. Pp. [x], 255. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3813-8.) In Looting Spiro Mounds: An American King Tut 's Tomb, David La Vere captures the decimation of the Spiro Mounds ...
"Everybody Was Black Down There": Race and Industrial Change in the Alabama Coalfields
May 01, 2008; ... "Everybody Was Black Down There": Race and Industrial Change in the Alabama Coalfields. By Robert H. Woodrum. Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 304. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2879-9; cloth, $59.95, ...
Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975
May 01, 2008; ... Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975. By Susannah Walker. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2007. Pp. [xiv], 250. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2433-9.) Susannah Walker's new book, Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, ...
Poverty and Progress in the U.S. South Since 1920
May 01, 2008; ... Poverty and Progress in the U.S. South Since 1920. Edited by Suzanne W. Jones and Mark Newman. European Contributions to American Studies. (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2006. Pp. 207. euro35.95, ISBN 90-8659048-9.) The contributors to this collection interpret poverty as a human ...
Foundations for Excellence: 75 Years of Duke Medicine
May 01, 2008; ... Foundations for Excellence: 75 Years of Duke Medicine. By Walter E. Campbell. Edited by Maura High. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Medical Center Library, c. 2006. Pp. xviii, 462. $39.95, ISBN 0-9672946-4-9.) From the beginning of his philanthropic endeavors James Buchanan Duke harbored ...
A Florida Fiddler: The Life and Times of Richard Seaman
May 01, 2008; ... A Florida Fiddler: The Life and Times of Richard Seaman. By Gregory Hansen. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2007. Pp. x, 254. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8173-1553-5.) Richard Seaman was an acclaimed fiddler who continued to perform his traditional style and repertory-first learned ...