The Journal of Southern History back issues from August 2008:
Conflict and the "Slave Community": Violence among Slaves in Upcountry South Carolina
Aug 01, 2008; ... IN 1826 WILLIAM HAMILTON, A SLAVEHOLDER IN PENDLETON DISTRICT, South Carolina, reported to the authorities "that his Negro Fellow Dave was violently Beat & abused." He identified Dave's attackers as "two Negro Fellows by the Name of Ben & Aleck Belonging to John Adams & a Negro Boy ...
Cradle of America: Four Centuries of Virginia History
Aug 01, 2008; ... Cradle of America: Four Centuries of Virginia History. By Peter Wallenstein. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2007. Pp. [xviii], 476. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1507-0.) Writing the history of a single state is quite a challenge. No state, given its long, rich, and complicated ...
The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000
Aug 01, 2008; ... The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000. By Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton. (New York and other cities: Viking, 2005. Pp. xxiv, 520. $27.95, ISBN 0-670-03370-7.) Citizens of the United States like to think of themselves as a peace-loving people, a people who ...
Black Working-Class Political Activism and Biracial Unionism: Galveston Longshoremen in Jim Crow Texas, 1919-1921
Aug 01, 2008; ... J.V. BELL, A FEDERAL AGENT WHO INVESTIGATED THE 1920 LONGSHOREmen's strike in Galveston, Texas, expressed alarm over the militancy of the island's black and white workers, which had prompted Governor William P. Hobby on June 7 to declare martial law on the island. It was me expression of class ...
National Policing, Lynching, and Constitutional Change
Aug 01, 2008; ... IT COMES AS NO SURPRISE TO LEARN THAT THROUGH THE 1920S AND 1930s, the national government insisted it had no jurisdiction to investigate lynching and instead waged a campaign against black militancy. The greater surprise to historians comes from the period between 1940 and 1952, when the ...
Making Best Use of the New Laws: The NAACP and the Fight for Civil Rights in the South, 1965-1975
Aug 01, 2008; ... ON THE MORNING OF MARCH 3, 1970, THREE BUSES CARRYING BLACK schoolchildren arrived at Lamar High School in Lamar, South Carolina, a small town in the eastern part of the state. The buses were transporting some of the 514 children who were integrating the school in accordance with a recent ...
Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834
Aug 01, 2008; ... Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834. By Emily Clark. (Chapel Hill: Published by the University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, c. 2007. Pp. xvi, 287. Paper, $22.50, ISBN ...
A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia/A New World: England's First View of America
Aug 01, 2008; ... A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia. By Thomas Hariot. The 1590 Theodor de Bry Latin edition. (Charlottesville and London: Published by the University of Virginia Press for the Library at the Mariners' Museum, 2007. Pp. [xviii], 189. Paper, $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8139-2605-6; ...
From a Watery Grave: The Discovery and Excavation of La Salle's Shipwreck
Aug 01, 2008; ... From a Watery Grave: The Discovery and Excavation of La Salle's Shipwreck, La Belle. By James E. Bruseth and Toni S. Turner. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 159. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 1-58544-431-6; cloth, $39.95, ISBN 1-58544-347-6.) In 1666, at the age of ...
Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands
Aug 01, 2008; ... Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands. By Juliana Barr. (Chapel Hill: Published by the University of North Carolina Press in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, c. 2007. Pp. [xiv], 397 ....
Voices from an Early American Convent: Marie Madeleine Hachard and the New Orleans Ursulines, 1727-1760
Aug 01, 2008; ... Voices from an Early American Convent: Marie Madeleine Hachard and the New Orleans Ursulines, 1727-1760. Edited by Emily Clark. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. [xii], 138. $25.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3237-1.) This book tells the story of a remarkable group of nuns ...
Who Should Rule at Home? The Evolution of South Carolina Political Culture, 1748-1776
Aug 01, 2008; ... Who Should Rule at Home? The Evolution of South Carolina Political Culture, 1748-1776. By Jonathan Mercantini. The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xiv], 314. $49.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-654-5.) Jonaman Mercantini's Who ...
After the Massacre: The Violent Legacy of the San Sabá Mission
Aug 01, 2008; ... After the Massacre: The Violent Legacy of the San Sabá Mission. By Robert S. Weddle. With the original diary of the 1759 Red River campaign, translated by Carol Lipscomb. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xx], 196. $32.95, ISBN 978-0-89672-596-6.) More than forty years ...
Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence
Aug 01, 2008; ... Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence. By John Ferling. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. [xiv], 679. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-518121-0.) John Ferling has been writing distinguished work on war in early America and the American ...
Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship That Saved the Revolution
Aug 01, 2008; ... Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship That Saved the Revolution. By David A. Clary. (New York: Bantam Books, c. 2007. Pp. [xxviii], 564. $27.00, ISBN 978-0-553-80435-5.) Enlightening studies of historical pairings have long been in vogue, from Adrienne Koch's Jefferson ...
World of Toil and Strife: Community Transformation in Backcountry South Carolina, 1750-1805
Aug 01, 2008; ... World of Toil and Strife: Community Transformation in Backcountry South Carolina, 1750-1805. By Peter N. Moore. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 175. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-666-8.) Peter N. Moore tracks a half century's social evolution in a South ...
The Memoirs of Lt. Henry Timberlake: The Story of a Soldier, Adventurer, and Emissary to the Cherokees, 1756-1765
Aug 01, 2008; ... The Memoirs of Lt. Henry Timberlake: The Story of a Soldier, Adventurer, and Emissary to the Cherokees, 1756-1765. Edited by Duane H. King. (Cherokee, N.C.: Museum of the Cherokee Indian Press, distributed by the University of North Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xl], 176. Paper, $19.95, ISBN ...
Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness
Aug 01, 2008; ... Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness. By Matt Wray. (Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. [xiv], 213. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3873-4; cloth, $74.95, ISBN 9780-8223-3882-3.) Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness ...
Challenging Slavery in the Chesapeake: Black and White Resistance to Human Bondage, 1775-1865
Aug 01, 2008; ... Challenging Slavery in the Chesapeake: Black and White Resistance to Human Bondage, 1775-1865. By T. Stephen Whitman. (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 2007. Pp. [xvi], 301. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-938420-96-8.) T. Stephen Whitman, building on his The Price of Freedom: Slavery and ...
The Society of the Cincinnati: Conspiracy and Distrust in Early America
Aug 01, 2008; ... The Society of the Cincinnati: Conspiracy and Distrust in Early America. By Markus Hünemörder. European Studies in American History. (New York and Oxford, Eng.: Berghahn Books, 2006. Pp. [viii], 212. $75.00, ISBN 1-84545-107-4.) Markus Hünemörder revisits a topic for which Minor Myers ...
Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880
Aug 01, 2008; ... Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880. By Lynn A. Nelson. Environmental History and the American South. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xx], 295. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2627-6.) The choice of Lynn A. Nelson's ...
From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and Influences
Aug 01, 2008; ... From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and Influences. By Nathalie Dessens. Foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller. Southern Dissent. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2007. Pp. xiv, 257. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8130-3037-1.) This focused and ...
By His Own Hand? The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis
Aug 01, 2008; ... By His Own Hand? The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis. Edited by John D. W. Guice. Contributions by James J. Holmberg, John D. W. Guice, and Jay H. Buckley. Introduction by Clay S. Jenkinson. Foreword by Elliott West. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xxii], 178. $24.95, ...
Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World
Aug 01, 2008; ... Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World. By J. R. Kerr-Ritchie. Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. [xxii], 272. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3232-6.) J. R. Kerr-Ritchie's Rites of August First: ...
A Will to Choose: The Origins of African American Methodism
Aug 01, 2008; ... A Will to Choose: The Origins of African American Methodism. By J. Gordon Melton. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Litdefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2007. Pp. xii, 317. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7425-5265-4; cloth, $80.00, ISBN 978-0-7425-5264-7.) J. Gordon Melton has produced a ...
Alexander Campbell: Adventurer in Freedom: A Literary Biography, Volume Two
Aug 01, 2008; ... Alexander Campbell: Adventurer in Freedom: A Literary Biography, Volume Two. By Eva Jean Wrather. Edited by D. Duane Cummins. (Fort Worth, Tex.: Published by TCU Press for the Disciples of Christ Historical Society, c. 2007. Pp. x, 412. $25.00, ISBN 978-0-87565-343-3.) Eva Jean Wrather's ...
African American Slave Medicine: Herbal and Non-Herbal Treatments
Aug 01, 2008; ... African American Slave Medicine: Herbal and Non-Herbal Treatments. By Herbert C. Covey. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Lexington Books, c. 2007. Pp. [viii], 207. $85.00, ISBN 978-0-7391-1644-9.) Herbert C. Covey's book African American Slave Medicine: Herbal and Non-Herbal Treatments is ...
Southern Sons: Becoming Men in the New Nation/Scarlett's Sisters: Young Women in the Old South
Aug 01, 2008; ... Southern Sons: Becoming Men in the New Nation. By Lorri Glover. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. [xii], 250. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-8498-6.) Scarlett's Sisters: Young Women in the Old South. By Anya Jabour. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2007 ....
The Birth of the Banjo: Joel Walker Sweeney and Early Minstrelsy/Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz
Aug 01, 2008; ... The Birth of the Banjo: Joel Walker Sweeney and Early Minstrelsy. By Bob Carlin. (Jefferson, N.C., and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., c. 2007. Pp. [x], 193. Paper, $35.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-2874-8.) Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues ...
Slavery and the Meetinghouse: The Quakers and the Abolitionist Dilemma, 1820-1865
Aug 01, 2008; ... Slavery and the Meetinghouse: The Quakers and the Abolitionist Dilemma, 1820-1865. By Ryan P. Jordan. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 175. $29.95, ISBN 0-253-34860-9.) Perhaps the most difficult time, ideologically, in American history for the ...
Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture
Aug 01, 2008; ... Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture. By Jeannine Marie DeLombard. Studies in Legal History. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. xiv, 330. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-80785812-7; cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3086-4.) Jeannine Marie DeLombard ...
Becoming Free in the Cotton South
Aug 01, 2008; ... Becoming Free in the Cotton South. By Susan Eva O'Donovan. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. [xiv], 364. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-674-02483-0.) Susan Eva O'Donovan begins her book about the transition from slavery to freedom in the southwestern corner of ...
City of Intrigue, Nest of Revolution: A Documentary History of Key West in the Nineteenth Century
Aug 01, 2008; ... City of Intrigue, Nest of Revolution: A Documentary History of Key West in the Nineteenth Century. By Consuelo E. Stebbins. Foreword by Gary R. Mormino and Raymond Arsenault. Florida History and Culture. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2007. Pp. [xxii], 258 ....
Historical Dictionary of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny
Aug 01, 2008; ... Historical Dictionary of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny. By Terry Corps. Historical Dictionaries of U.S. Historical Eras, No. 6. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Scarecrow Press, 2006. Pp. xxvi, 435. $85.00, ISBN 978-0-8108-5453-6.) Terry Corps, a British scholar with a special ...
John Tyler, the Accidental President
Aug 01, 2008; ... John Tyler, the Accidental President. By Edward P. Crapol. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xii], 332. $37.50, ISBN 978-0-8078-3041-3.) Despite the scorn heaped on him by Whigs and historians alike, John Tyler, "His Accidency," emerges as a tragically ...
Lincoln the Lawyer
Aug 01, 2008; ... Lincoln the Lawyer. By Brian Dirck. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 228. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-252-03181-6.) Abraham Lincoln spent his working life in the courtroom. Arriving in Illinois at age twenty-one with little formal education, Lincoln worked as ...
Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency
Aug 01, 2008; ... Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency. By William C. Harris. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2007. Pp. xii, 412. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1520-9.) This is the third large-scale work on Abraham Lincoln by the genial and meticulous William C. Harris, following hard on the heels of With ...
Jim Lane: Scoundrel, Statesman, Kansan
Aug 01, 2008; ... Jim Lane: Scoundrel, Statesman, Kansan. By Robert Collins. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 2007. Pp. 320. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-58980-445-6.) James H. Lane is one of the most controversial figures in Kansas history. A politician from Indiana, he migrated to Kansas Territory in ...
In the Shadow of the Civil War: Passmore Williamson and the Rescue of Jane Johnson
Aug 01, 2008; ... In the Shadow of the Civil War: Passmore Williamson and the Rescue of Jane Johnson. By Nat Brandt with Yanna Kroyt Brandt. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 216. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-687-3.) Most Americans know more about twentieth-century civil ...
Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America
Aug 01, 2008; ... Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America. By Sylviane A. Diouf. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. [xii], 340. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-19-531194-4.) Sylviane A. Diouf's compelling book traces the ...
This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War
Aug 01, 2008; ... This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War. By James M. McPherson. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 260. $28.00, ISBN 978-0-19-531366-6.) This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War assembles essays by James M. McPherson on a variety of ...
First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis's Civil War
Aug 01, 2008; ... First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis's Civil War. By Joan E. Cashin. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. [xii], 403. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02294-2.) Remarkably, more than forty years of attention to women's history did not produce a ...
Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War
Aug 01, 2008; ... Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War. By Bruce Levine. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. [x], 252. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-514762-9.) Bruce Levine presents a well-researched assessment of Confederate leaders' ...
Cry Havoc! The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861
Aug 01, 2008; ... Cry Havoc! The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861. By Nelson D. Lankford. (New York: Viking, 2007. Pp. [xii], 308. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-670-03821-3.) Cry Havoc! The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861 by Nelson D. Lankford is a riveting, thought-provoking, and masterfully written account of the ...
Beleaguered Winchester: A Virginia Community at War, 1861-1865
Aug 01, 2008; ... Beleaguered Winchester: A Virginia Community at War, 1861-1865. By Richard R. Duncan. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. [xxii], 380. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3217-3.) Beleaguered Winchester, indeed. The Virginia town reportedly changed hands seventy-two times ...
Jeb Stuart and the Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg
Aug 01, 2008; ... Jeb Stuart and the Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg. By Warren C. Robinson. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xviii], 198. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8032-1101-8.) The long-running debate on who was to blame for the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg continues with ...
Nathan Bedford Forrest: In Search of the Enigma
Aug 01, 2008; ... Nathan Bedford Forrest: In Search of the Enigma. By Eddy W. Davison and Daniel Foxx. Foreword by Edwin C. Bearss. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 2007. Pp. 528. $35.00, ISBN 978-1-58980-415-9.) Over the last quarter century the Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest has ...
War Crimes against Southern Civilians
Aug 01, 2008; ... War Crimes against Southern Civilians. By Walter Brian Cisco. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 2007. Pp. 220. $24.95, ISBN 978-1-58980-466-1.) Walter Brian Cisco, a professional writer, seeks in this work to convince a broad popular audience of the number and gravity of crimes ...
Civil War to the Bloody End: The Life and Times of Major General Samuel P. Heintzelman
Aug 01, 2008; ... Civil War to the Bloody End: The Life and Times of Major General Samuel P. Heintzelman. By Jerry Thompson. Canseco-Keck History Series, No. 9. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. Pp. [xviii], 443. $35.00, ISBN 978-1-58544-535-6.) Jerry Thompson offers a thorough ...
Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana: Confederate General and New South Reformer
Aug 01, 2008; ... Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana: Confederate General and New South Reformer. By Mary Gorton McBride with Ann Mathison McLaurin. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. [xvi], 320. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3234-0.) This work is an overdue biography of Confederate officer ...
Yearning to Breathe Free: Robert Smalls of South Carolina and His Families
Aug 01, 2008; ... Yearning to Breathe Free: Robert Smalls of South Carolina and His Families. By Andrew Billingsley. Foreword by James E. Clyburn. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. xxvi, 253. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-686-6.) On May 13, 1862, enslaved crew members of the ...
Preserving the Constitution: Essays on Politics and the Constitution in the Reconstruction Era
Aug 01, 2008; ... Preserving the Constitution: Essays on Politics and the Constitution in the Reconstruction Era. By Michael Les Benedict. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. Pp. [xiv], 314. Paper, $26.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-2554-5; cloth, $80.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-2553-8.) Preserving the Constitution: ...
Tourism in the Mountain South: A Double-Edged Sword
Aug 01, 2008; ... Tourism in the Mountain South: A Double-Edged Sword. By C. Brenden Martin. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. Pp. [xxii], 246. $32.00, ISBN 978-1-57233-575-2.) Tourism's contribution to the highland South has not been a simple thing to evaluate. The industry's impact has ...
Manners and Southern History
Aug 01, 2008; ... Manners and Southern History. Edited by Ted Ownby. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. Pp. [xvi], 169. $50.00, ISBN 978-1-57806-979-8.) Although many caricatures of southerners depict them as exhibiting excessively correct manners, only a few historians have studied how ...
Winding through Time: The Forgotten History and Present-Day Peril of Bayou Manchac
Aug 01, 2008; ... Winding through Time: The Forgotten History and Present-Day Peril of Bayou Manchac. By Mary Ann Sternberg. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. [xiv], 158. $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8071-3253-1.) Author Mary Ann Sternberg assesses the dialogues between both humans and ...
A Scalawag in Georgia: Richard Whiteley and the Politics of Reconstruction
Aug 01, 2008; ... A Scalawag in Georgia: Richard Whiteley and the Politics of Reconstruction. By William Warren Rogers Jr. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 269. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03160-1.) Historians have turned time and again to biography as a means of coming to ...
Appalachian Aspirations: The Geography of Urbanization and Development in the Upper Tennessee River Valley, 1865-1900
Aug 01, 2008; ... Appalachian Aspirations: The Geography of Urbanization and Development in the Upper Tennessee River Valley, 1865-1900. By John Benhart Jr. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 184. $38.00, ISBN 978-1-57233-562-2.) Appalachian Aspirations: The Geography of ...
The New Orleans of Lafcadio Hearn: Illustrated Sketches from the Daily City Item
Aug 01, 2008; ... The New Orleans of Lafcadio Hearn: Illustrated Sketches from the Daily City Item. Edited by Delia LaBarre. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. lii, 175. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8071-3243-2.) Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), a journalist, essayist, and novelist, is a shadowy ...
Kindler of Souls: Rabbi Henry Cohen of Texas
Aug 01, 2008; ... Kindler of Souls: Rabbi Henry Cohen of Texas. By Henry Cohen II. Focus on American History Series. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. Pp. [xviii], 153. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-292-71461-8.) In 1888 Henry Cohen began his tenure as the spiritual leader of Galveston's B'nai Israel ...
Black Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the Twentieth Century
Aug 01, 2008; ... Black Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Jonathan Scott Holloway and Ben Keppel. African American Intellectual Heritage Series. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, c. 2007. Pp. x, 507. Paper, $40.00, ISBN ...
W. E. B. Du Bois: American Prophet
Aug 01, 2008; ... W. E. B. Du Bois: American Prophet. By Edward J. Blum. Politics and Culture in Modern America. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c. 2007. Pp. viii, 273. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-4010-8.) With this book Edward J. Blum solidifies his reputation as one of the most singular and ...
Macon Black and White: An Unutterable Separation in the American Century
Aug 01, 2008; ... Macon Black and White: An Unutterable Separation in the American Century. By Andrew M. Manis. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press and the Tubman African American Museum, 2004. Pp. xvi, 429. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-86554-958-3; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-86554-761-0.) Surprisingly enough, few ...
The Supreme Court of Florida, 1917-1972
Aug 01, 2008; ... The Supreme Court of Florida, 1917-1972. By Walter W. Manley II and Canter Brown Jr. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 428. $59.95, ISBN 0-8130-3003-X.) Legal historians have long been preoccupied with federal law and the U.S. Supreme Court, to ...
In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement
Aug 01, 2008; ... In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement. By Michael Lienesch. H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xii], 338. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3096-3.) From the ...
Private Politics and Public Voices: Black Women's Activism from World War I to the New Deal
Aug 01, 2008; ... Private Politics and Public Voices: Black Women's Activism from World War I to the New Deal. By Nikki Brown. Blacks in the Diaspora. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xiv], 194. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-253-34804-3.) This new book by Nikki Brown examines ...