The Journal of Southern History back issues from November 2008:
Thomas Jefferson, Coercion, and the Limits of Harmonious Union
Nov 01, 2008; ... DURING THE WINTER of 1860-1861, President James Buchanan, facing what would prove to be the great crisis of the Union, argued, on the one hand, that secession was illegal and unconstitutional and, on the other, that the federal government had no constitutional right to coerce the seceded states ...
Southern Academic Ambitions Meet German Scholarship: The Leipzig Networks of Vanderbilt University's James H. Kirkland in the Late Nineteenth Century
Nov 01, 2008; ... IN THE EARLY TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY MANY U.S. CITIZENS ARE AWARE OF a few great U.S. universities that happen to be located in die South. Some of these institutions have been around for more than two centuries, and all of them have contributed to shaping U.S. higher education as it exists today ....
Jesse Helms's Politics of Pious Incitement: Race, Conservatism, and Southern Realignment in the 1950s
Nov 01, 2008; ... IN THE SOUTH, A REGION WHERE CULTURAL AND RACIAL CONSERVATISM coexisted with loyalty to the Democratic Party and wide support for liberal economic policies, Jesse Helms became a pivotal figure in constructing the new conservatism of the 1950s and 1960s. Before his thirty-second birthday, Helms, ...
The Whig Interpretation of History: A Review Essay
Nov 01, 2008; ... The Whig Interpretation of History: A Review Essay What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848. By Daniel Walker Howe. Oxford History of the United States. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. [xx], 904. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-19-507894-7.) The ...
Making an Atlantic World: Circles, Paths, and Stories from the Colonial South
Nov 01, 2008; ... Making an Atlantic World: Circles, Paths, and Stories from the Colonial South. By James Taylor Carson. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. Pp. xx, 161. $36.00, ISBN 978-1-57233-479-3.) While studying for his Canadian citizenship test, James Taylor Carson "came across the ...
1607: Jamestown and the New World
Nov 01, 2008; ... 1607: Jamestown and the New World. Compiled by Dennis Montgomery with the staff of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Principal photography by David M. Doody. (Williamsburg, Va.: Published by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in association with Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., ...
The Papers of Sir William Berkeley, 1605-1677
Nov 01, 2008; ... The Papers of Sir William Berkeley, 1605-1677. Edited by Warren M. Billings with the assistance of Maria Kimberly. (Richmond: Library of Virginia, c. 2007. Pp. [1], 682. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-88490-207-2.) Sir William Berkeley is among the most oft-quoted of early Americans. Few quotations ...
The King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776
Nov 01, 2008; ... The King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776. By Brendan McConville. (Chapel Hill: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xviii], 322. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3065-9.) I am ...
Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the Illinois Country
Nov 01, 2008; ... Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the Illinois Country. By Carl J. Ekberg. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xviii], 236. $38.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03208-0.) In three prior works Carl J. Ekberg, through mastery of colonial archives and superior ...
Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family
Nov 01, 2008; ... Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family. By Claudio Saunt. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 300. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-19-517631-5.) Claudio Saunt' s Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family, like ...
Signs, Cures, and Witchery: German Appalachian Folklore
Nov 01, 2008; ... Signs, Cures, and Witchery: German Appalachian Folklore. By Gerald Milnes. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 245. $35.00, ISBN 978-1-57233-577-6.) Gerald Milnes seeks to restore the folkways of German speakers in southern Appalachia to their rightful place for ...
The Nation's Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America
Nov 01, 2008; ... The Nation's Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America. By Peter J. Kastor. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c. 2004. Pp. [xiv], 311. $38.00, ISBN 0-300-10119-8.) At first glance, Peter J. Kastor's The Nation's Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the ...
War and Society in the American Revolution: Mobilization and Home Fronts
Nov 01, 2008; ... War and Society in the American Revolution: Mobilization and Home Fronts. Edited by John Resch and Walter Sargent. Introduction by John Shy. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, c. 2007. Pp. viii, 318. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-87580-614-3; cloth, $48.00, ISBN ...
Middle Tennessee, 1775-1825: Progress and Popular Democracy on the Southwestern Frontier
Nov 01, 2008; ... Middle Tennessee, 1775-1825: Progress and Popular Democracy on the Southwestern Frontier. By Kristofer Ray. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xxviii], 236. $41.00, ISBN 978-1-57233597-4.) Middle Tennessee, 1775-1825: Progress and Popular Democracy on the ...
Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison, and the Decline of Virginia
Nov 01, 2008; ... Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison, and the Decline of Virginia. By Susan Dunn. (New York: Basic Books, c. 2007. Pp. [x], 310. $27.50, ISBN 978-0-465-01743-0.) Scholars have long agreed that Virginia steadily descended from the state's Revolutionary heights. Virginia's leaders ...
Conservatism and Southern Intellectuals, 1789-1861: Liberty, Tradition, and the Good Society
Nov 01, 2008; ... Conservatism and Southern Intellectuals, 1789-1861: Liberty, Tradition, and the Good Society. By Adam L. Tate. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2005. Pp. [xii], 402. $49.95, ISBN 0-8262-1567-X.) The older portrait of a liberal Revolutionary South turning inward and ...
A Companion to 19th-Century America
Nov 01, 2008; ... A Companion to 19th-Century America. Edited by William L. Barney. (Maiden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, c. 2006. Pp. [x], 414. Paper, $43.95, ISBN 978-1-4051-4982-2.) Historiography is essential to our discipline, yet often students, and perhaps a few professors, consider the lengthy ...
Crossing the Border: A Free Black Community in Canada
Nov 01, 2008; ... Crossing the Border: A Free Black Community in Canada. By Sharon A. Roger Hepburn. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2007. Pp. [x], 252. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03183-0.) Sharon A. Roger Hepburn's Crossing the Border: A Free Black Community in Canada offers a different ...
Why Not Every Man? African Americans and Civil Disobedience in the Quest for the Dream
Nov 01, 2008; ... Why Not Every Man? African Americans and Civil Disobedience in the Quest for the Dream. By George Hendrick and Willene Hendrick. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, c. 2005. Pp. [viii], 246. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 1-56663-645-0; cloth, $24.95, ISBN 1-56663-609-4.) George Hendrick and Willene Hendrick ...
"Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe": Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia
Nov 01, 2008; ... "Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe": Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia. By Daina Ramey Berry. Women in American History. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xviii], 224. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03146-5.) This thought-provoking study focuses on ...
Uplifting the People: Three Centuries of Black Baptists in Alabama
Nov 01, 2008; ... Uplifting the People: Three Centuries of Black Baptists in Alabama. By Wilson Fallin Jr. Religion and American Culture. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 332. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-81731569-6.) Recent years have witnessed the publication of a number of ...
Andrew Jackson and the Constitution: The Rise and Fall of Generational Regimes
Nov 01, 2008; ... Andrew Jackson and the Constitution: The Rise and Fall of Generational Regimes. By Gerard N. Magliocca. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2007. Pp. [xiv], 186. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1509-4.) This is a book about constitutional change. "Every generation of Americans," Gerard N ....
Old Hickory's Nephew: The Political and Private Struggles of Andrew Jackson Donelson
Nov 01, 2008; ... Old Hickory's Nephew: The Political and Private Struggles of Andrew Jackson Donelson. By Mark R. Cheathem. Southern Biography Series. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. [xvi], 371. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3238-8.) As members of prominent American families have ...
Origins of the Dred Scott Case: Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837-1857
Nov 01, 2008; ... Origins of the Dred Scott Case: Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837-1857. By Austin Allen. Studies in the Legal History of the South. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xii], 274. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2842-3; cloth, $59.95, ISBN ...
Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America
Nov 01, 2008; ... Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America. By Thomas G. Mitchell. (Westport, Conn., and London: Praeger, c. 2007. Pp. vi, 289. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-275-99168-5.) This volume recounts decades of ebb and flow in the straggle against slavery. It attends to both political ...
White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001
Nov 01, 2008; ... White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001. By Michael Phillips. (Austin: University of Texas Press, c. 2006. Pp. xxxii, 267. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-292-7 1274-X; cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-29270968-4.) Michael Phillips provides an excellent, informed history of ...
The Two Lives of Sally Miller: A Case of Mistaken Racial Identity in Antebellum New Orleans
Nov 01, 2008; ... The Two Lives of Sally Miller: A Case of Mistaken Racial Identity in Antebellum New Orleans. By Carol Wilson. (New Brunswick, N.J., and London: Rutgers University Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xii], 158. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 978-0-8135-4058-0; cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8135-4057-3.) In New Orleans ...
A Gallant Little Army: The Mexico City Campaign
Nov 01, 2008; ... A Gallant Little Army: The Mexico City Campaign. By Timothy D. Johnson. Modem War Studies. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2007. Pp. x, 365. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1541-4.) The United States' war with Mexico, 1846-1848, is one of the least known of the nation's military ...
The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War
Nov 01, 2008; ... The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War. By Clarissa W. Confer. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c. 2007. Pp. xii, 199. $24.95, ISBN 9780-8061-3803-9.) The outbreak of the Civil War placed the Cherokee Nation in a terrible predicament. Many Cherokees owned slaves, and some had cheered ...
Cortina: Defending the Mexican Name in Texas
Nov 01, 2008; ... Cortina: Defending the Mexican Name in Texas. By Jerry Thompson. Fronteras Series, No. 6. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. Pp. [x], 332. $32.50, ISBN 978-1-58544-592-9.) Jerry Thompson has performed a difficult feat: comprehensively examining a life that had almost ...
Irish Americans in the Confederate Army
Nov 01, 2008; ... Irish Americans in the Confederate Army. By Sean Michael O'Brien. Foreword by Kelly J. O'Grady. (Jefferson, N.C., and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers, c. 2007. Pp. [viii], 256. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-2998-1.) Sean Michael O'Brien begins his book with a complaint: "A ...
Lincoln's Man in Liverpool: Consul Dudley and the Legal Battle to Stop Confederate Warships
Nov 01, 2008; ... Lincoln's Man in Liverpool: Consul Dudley and the Legal Battle to Stop Confederate Warships. By Coy F. Cross II. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, c. 2007. Pp. x, 180. $28.95, ISBN 978-0-87580-373-9.) Coy F. Cross II examines the efforts of Thomas Haines Dudley, U.S. consul in ...
Civil War Weather in Virginia
Nov 01, 2008; ... Civil War Weather in Virginia. By Robert K. Krick. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xii], 178. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-81731577-1.) Weather often plays a dramatic role in warfare, a fact long acknowledged by military strategists and historians. In the American Civil ...
Men of Fire: Grant, Forrest, and the Campaign That Decided the Civil War
Nov 01, 2008; ... Men of Fire: Grant, Forrest, and the Campaign That Decided the Civil War. By Jack Hurst. (New York: Basic Books, c. 2007. Pp. [xx], 442. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-465-03184-9.) Jack Hurst's Men of Fire: Grant, Forrest, and the Campaign That Decided the Civil War is an examination of the battles ...
Act of Justice: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War
Nov 01, 2008; ... Act of Justice: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War. By Burras M. Carnahan. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2007. Pp. [x], 202. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2463-6.) Such eminent historians as John Hope Franklin and Allen C. Guelzo have urged scholars to tackle ...
Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory
Nov 01, 2008; ... Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory. By Christian B. Keller. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007. Pp. [xiv], 222. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-2650-4.) When on May 2, 1863, General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson attacked the Union army's dangerously ...
Earthen Walls, Iron Men: Fort DeRussy, Louisiana, and the Defense of Red River
Nov 01, 2008; ... Earthen Walls, Iron Men: Fort DeRussy, Louisiana, and the Defense of Red River. By Steven M. Mayeux. Foreword by Edwin C. Bearss. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 370. $45.00, ISBN 978-157233-576-9.) Laid out and built by Confederates to be the Gibraltar ...
Trench Warfare under Grant and Lee: Field Fortifications in the Overland Campaign
Nov 01, 2008; ... Trench Warfare under Grant and Lee: Field Fortifications in the Overland Campaign. By Earl J. Hess. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xx], 313. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-80783154-0.) This study continues Earl J. Hess's examination of field ...
The Horrid Pit: The Battle of the Crater, the Civil War's Cruelest Mission
Nov 01, 2008; ... The Horrid Pit: The Battle of the Crater, the Civil War's Cruelest Mission. By Alan Axelrod. (New York: Carroll and Graf Publishers, 2007. Pp. [xii], 284. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-7867-1811-5.) The final year of the Civil War in Virginia has received a great deal of attention from historians ...
Lincoln Revisited: New Insights from the Lincoln Forum
Nov 01, 2008; ... Lincoln Revisited: New Insights from the Lincoln Forum. Edited by John Y. Simon, Harold Holzer, and Dawn Vogel. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007. Pp. [xvi], 369. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-8232-2736-5.) Given the wealth of literature available on all things Lincoln, one reaches for this ...
The Making of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park: A Devil, Two Rivers, and a Dream
Nov 01, 2008; ... The Making of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park: A Devil, Two Rivers, and a Dream. By Teresa S. Moyer and Paul A. Shackel. American Association for State and Local History Book Series. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2008. Pp. [xxii], 235. Paper, ...
A Higher Purpose: Profiles in Presidential Courage
Nov 01, 2008; ... A Higher Purpose: Profiles in Presidential Courage. By Thomas J. Whalen. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2007. Pp. xvi, 254. $26.00, ISBN 978-1-56663630-8.) Frequently, presidents of the United States are called on to make tough decisions, ones for which they could pay a political price. In ...
"Take Up the Black Man's Burden": Kansas City's African American Communities, 1865-1939
Nov 01, 2008; ... "Take Up the Black Man's Burden": Kansas City's African American Communities, 1865-1939. By Charles E. Coulter. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 345. $39.95, ISBN 978-08262-1649-6.) This fine urban history purports to use metropolitan Kansas City to ...
Records of the Moravians in North Carolina. Volume 13: 1867-1876
Nov 01, 2008; ... Records of the Moravians in North Carolina. Volume 13: 1867-1876. Edited by C. Daniel Crews and Lisa D. Bailey. (Raleigh: Office of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 2006. Pp. [xvi], [6767]-7330. $25.00, ISBN 0-86526-324-8.) A fascinating glimpse into ...
To Save My Race from Abuse: The Life of Samuel Robert Cassius
Nov 01, 2008; ... To Save My Race from Abuse: The Life of Samuel Robert Cassius. By Edward J. Robinson. Religion and American Culture. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2007. Pp. xii, 212. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8173-1555-9.) This biography explores the life and theology of Samuel Robert Cassius ...
African American Environmental Thought: Foundations
Nov 01, 2008; ... African American Environmental Thought: Foundations. By Kimberly K. Smith. American Political Thought. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2007. Pp. [xii], 257. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1516-2.) Kimberly K. Smith has tackled a thorny topic in reviewing the relationship between African ...
Charles Goodnight: Father of the Texas Panhandle
Nov 01, 2008; ... Charles Goodnight: Father of the Texas Panhandle. By William T. Hagan. Oklahoma Western Biographies. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c. 2007. Pp. xiv, 147. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3882-4; cloth, $26.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3827-5.) Charles Goodnight, a ragged pioneer who ...
Tascosa: Its Life and Gaudy Times
Nov 01, 2008; ... Tascosa: Its Life and Gaudy Times. By Frederick Nolan. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xx], 361. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-89672604-8.) Tascosa, Texas, endured for less than fifty years, and it was only ever a small town: it had fewer than fifty buildings, and the ...
Sutton E. Griggs and the Struggle against White Supremacy
Nov 01, 2008; ... Sutton E. Griggs and the Struggle against White Supremacy. By Finnie D. Coleman. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. Pp. [xxiv], 166. $35.00, ISBN 978-1-57233-480-9.) Finnie D. Coleman's study of the early-twentieth-century African American audior Sutton E. Griggs ...
William Montgomery Brown (1855-1937): The Southern Episcopal Bishop Who Became a Communist
Nov 01, 2008; ... William Montgomery Brown (1855-1937): The Southern Episcopal Bishop Who Became a Communist. By Ronald M. Carden. Preface by John B. Boles. (Lewiston, N.Y., and other cities: Edwin Mellen Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xii], 268. $109.95, ISBN 978-0-7734-5471-2.) After an up-by-the-bootstraps ...
At the Heart of Texas: One Hundred Years of the Texas State Historical Association, 1897-1997
Nov 01, 2008; ... At the Heart of Texas: One Hundred Years of the Texas State Historical Association, 1897-1997. By Richard B. McCaslin. Foreword by J. P. Bryan. Illustrated and with captions and sidebars by Janice Pinney. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, c. 2007. Pp. [xviii], 333. $39.95, ISBN ...
The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines
Nov 01, 2008; ... The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines. By Paul A. Kramer. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xiv], 538. Paper, $26.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5653-6; cloth, $69.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-2985-1.) Paul A. Kramer has provided us with ...
Gary Hollow: A History of the Largest Coal Mining Operation in the World/Coalwood: A History of the West Virginia Mining Communities of Coalwood, Caretta and Six
Nov 01, 2008; ... Gary Hollow: A History of the Largest Coal Mining Operation in the World. By Alex P. Schust. (Harwood, Md.: Two Mule Publishing Company, c. 2005. Pp. vi, 474. $65.00, ISBN 0-9767517-0-4.) Coalwood: A History of the West Virginia Mining Communities of Coalwood, Caretta and Six. By Alex P ....
Eliza Calvert Hall: Kentucky Author and Suffragist
Nov 01, 2008; ... Eliza Calvert Hall: Kentucky Author and Suffragist. By Lynn E. Niedermeier. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2007. Pp. [x], 284. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2470-4.) Lynn E. Niedermeier' s Eliza Calvert Hall: Kentucky Author and Suffragist offers a thoroughly fascinating ...
Christian Sisterhood, Race Relations, and the YWCA, 1906-46
Nov 01, 2008; ... Christian Sisterhood, Race Relations, and the YWCA, 1906-46. By Nancy Marie Robertson. Women in American History. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xx], 276. $45.00, ISBN 978-0252-03193-9.) Christian Sisterhood, Race Relations, and the YWCA, 1906-46 ...
Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, the Extension Service, and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas
Nov 01, 2008; ... Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, the Extension Service, and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas. By Debra A. Reid. Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, No. 14. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. Pp. [xxxii], 295. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-58544-571-4.) Cooperative ...
Amy Ashwood Garvey: Pan-Africanist, Feminist and Mrs. Marcus Garvey No. 1; Or, A Tale of Two Amies
Nov 01, 2008; ... Amy Ashwood Garvey: Pan-Africanist, Feminist and Mrs. Marcus Garvey No. 1; Or, A Tale of Two Amies. By Tony Martin. The New Marcus Garvey Library, No. 4. (Dover, Mass.: Majority Press, 2007. Pp. 450. $40.00, ISBN 0-912469-06-4.) Tony Martin, who has devoted his lengthy scholarly career ...
Lone Star Lawmen: The Second Century of the Texas Rangers
Nov 01, 2008; ... Lone Star Lawmen: The Second Century of the Texas Rangers. By Robert M. Utley. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. [xvi], 400. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-19-515444-3.) Scholars who have followed revisionist interpretations of the American West and Southwest since the ...
Inherit the Land: Jim Crow Meets Miss Maggie's Will
Nov 01, 2008; ... Inherit the Land: Jim Crow Meets Miss Maggie's Will. By Gene Stowe. Illustrated by Carl A. Sergio. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006. Pp. xii, 309. $35.00, ISBN 1-57806-864-9.) Gene Stowe has done a tremendous service for students of southern history by excavating a ...
Willie Wells: "El Diablo" of the Negro Leagues
Nov 01, 2008; ... Willie Wells: "El Diablo" of the Negro Leagues. By Bob Luke. Foreword by Monte Irvin. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 192. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-292-71751-0; cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-292-71674-2.) Until the 1970s, relatively little was known about the thousands of ...
A Hard Journey: The Life of Don West
Nov 01, 2008; ... A Hard Journey: The Life of Don West. By James J. Lorence. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xx], 308. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-252-03231-8.) A Hard Journey: The Life of Don West is the biography of a union organizer, educator, and poet who, in author James J ....
This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal
Nov 01, 2008; ... This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal. By Sarah T. Phillips. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. [xii], 289. Paper, $23.99, ISBN 978-0-521-61796-3; cloth, $79.00, ISBN 978-0-521-85270-8.) This book brings together political ...
Building Louisiana: The Legacy of the Public Works Administration
Nov 01, 2008; ... Building Louisiana: The Legacy of the Public Works Administration. By Robert D. Leighninger Jr. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. Pp. XXX, 298. $50.00, ISBN 978-1-57806-945-3.) Robert D. Leighninger Jr., a faculty associate in the School of Social Work at Arizona State ...
The South's Tolerable Alien: Roman Catholics in Alabama and Georgia, 1945-1970
Nov 01, 2008; ... The South's Tolerable Alien: Roman Catholics in Alabama and Georgia, 1945-1970. By Andrew S. Moore. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. [xiv], 210. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3212-8.) This text breaks new ground in overcoming the divisions that have tended to separate ...
Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
Nov 01, 2008; ... Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America. By Peniel E. Joseph. (New York: Henry Holt and Company, c. 2006. Pp. [xvi], 399. Paper, $17.00, ISBN 978-0-8050-8335-4; cloth, $27.50, ISBN 978-0-8050-7539-7.) Peniel E. Joseph's history of ...