Publications by Journal of Southern HistoryResent articles by the "Journal of Southern History" from The Free Libraryhttp://www.thefreelibrary.comen-usFarlex, Inc.Fri, 8 Jan 2010 01:07:30 GMT360Free Online Libraryhttp://www.thefreelibrary.comhttp://www.thefreelibrary.com/_/static/TFLbyFarlex.gif17565Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 Libraries and archives.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Libraries+and+archives.-a0213529159The Special Collections division of Louisiana State University Libraries is pleased to announce the availability of fellowships to support scholars using Special Collections to conduct research in the history of Louisiana and the South. Thanks to support from an anonymous donor, six fellowships of $900 each will be awarded.

]]>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 Announcements and activities.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Announcements+and+activities.-a0213529158The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE) announces its biennial competition for the Fishel-Calhoun Prize for the best article dealing with any aspect of United States history between 1865 and 1917. The prize is open to new scholars, defined as graduate students or Ph.D.'s who received their doctorate since 2000 and who have not yet published a book. The article...]]>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 Obituaries.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Obituaries.-a0213529157David Herbert Donald died on May 17, 2009, at the age of eighty-eight. A giant in our profession, Donald fashioned an extraordinary scholarly career. Widely recognized for his prodigious research, interpretive flair, and penetrating insight rendered in vivid prose, he set a standard for historical scholarship and writing matched by few, not only in his lifetime but in any time. The honors and...]]>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 President William J. Cooper has appointed the following Membership Committee for 2010.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/President+William+J.+Cooper+has+appointed+the+following+Membership...-a0213529156President William J. Cooper has appointed the following Membership Committee for 2010: Sandra G. Treadway, Library of Virginia, chair; Juliana Barr, University of Florida; Katherine Mellen Charron, North Carolina State University; David Carlson, Troy University; David W. Coffey, Virginia Military Institute; James M. Denham, Florida Southern University; Lisa L. Denmark, Georgia Southern...]]>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 Vice President Theda Perdue has appointed the following Program Committee for the Association's 2011 annual meeting in Baltimore.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Vice+President+Theda+Perdue+has+appointed+the+following+Program...-a0213529155Vice President Theda Perdue has appointed the following Program Committee for the Association's 2011 annual meeting in Baltimore: Craig T. Friend, North Carolina State University, chair; Curtis J. Austin, University of Southern Mississippi; Juliana Barr, University of Florida; Chad T. Berry, Berea College; Rebecca Boehling, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (EHS); David C. Carter,...]]>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 A Guide to Documentary Editing, Third Edition.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/A+Guide+to+Documentary+Editing%2c+Third+Edition.-a0213529154A Guide to Documentary Editing, Third Edition. By Mary-Jo Kline and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Prepared for the Association for Documentary Editing. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, c. 2008. Pp. xvi, 329. Paper, $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8139-2727-5; cloth, $70.00, ISBN 978-0-8139-2726-8.) The Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) first published A Guide to Documentary...]]>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 Legacy: Walter Chrysler Jr. and the Untold Story of Norfolk's Chrysler Museum of Art.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Legacy%3a+Walter+Chrysler+Jr.+and+the+Untold+Story+of+Norfolk's...-a0213529153Legacy: Walter Chrysler Jr. and the Untold Story of Norfolk's Chrysler Museum of Art. By Peggy Earle. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2008. Pp. [xii], 199. $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8139-2718-3.) Peggy Earle tells the story of Walter E Chrysler Jr., his art collection, and how the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences became the Chrysler Museum of Art. A son of the founder of...]]>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 The Life and Times of Ray Hicks: Keeper of the Jack Tales.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+Life+and+Times+of+Ray+Hicks%3a+Keeper+of+the+Jack+Tales.-a0213529152The Life and Times of Ray Hicks: Keeper of the Jack Tales. By Lynn Salsi. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. Pp. [xxiv], 206. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-57233-621-6.) Ray Hicks (1922-2003) was a prominent--and unusually colorful--figure in southern Appalachia, distinguished both as a master storyteller and for his role in preserving the "Jack Tales," a series of children's folktales...]]>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 A History of My Journey: From Life on the Farm to Many Adventures Worldwide and Back Home; On the Serious Side, My Life as an Attorney, Family Man, Community Volunteer, Active in Politics and in the General Assembly of North Carolina.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/A+History+of+My+Journey%3a+From+Life+on+the+Farm+to+Many+Adventures...-a0213529151A History of My Journey: From Life on the Farm to Many Adventures Worldwide and Back Home; On the Serious Side, My Life as an Attorney, Family Man, Community Volunteer, Active in Politics and in the General Assembly of North Carolina. By Samuel Johnson. (Raleigh, N.C.: Publications Unltd, 2007. Pp. [xiv], 455. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 978-0-9767450-0-6.) This informal, at times rambling, memoir is...]]>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+Wrong+Side+of+Murder+Creek%3a+A+White+Southerner+in+the+Freedom...-a0213529150The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement, by Bob Zellner with Constance Curry (Montgomery, Ala., and Louisville, Ky.: NewSouth Books, c. 2008. Pp. 351. $27.95, ISBN 978-1-58838-222-1.), traces Zellner's life from birth to the present, devoting the bulk of the text to the 1960s. Zellner is best known for being the first white field secretary of the Student...]]>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 A Red Family: Junius, Gladys, and Barbara Scales.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/A+Red+Family%3a+Junius%2c+Gladys%2c+and+Barbara+Scales.-a0213529149A Red Family: Junius, Gladys, and Barbara Scales. By Mickey Friedman. Afterword by Barbara Scales. Historical essay by Gail Williams O'Brien. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2009. Pp. [xx], 182. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978-0-252-07604-6; cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03396-4.) Based on a series of interviews conducted by Mickey Friedman in 1971, this volume tells the...]]>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 Cricket's Child, 1945-1955: How I Never Learned to Love the Bomb.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Cricket's+Child%2c+1945-1955%3a+How+I+Never+Learned+to+Love+the+Bomb.-a0213529148Cricket's Child, 1945-1955: How I Never Learned to Love the Bomb. By Janice Saunders. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Hamilton Books, c. 2008. Pp. [x], 117. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-7618-3994-1.) As two superpowers emerged in the aftermath of World War II and locked into cold war, Americans in the 1940s and 1950s had to adjust to new socioeconomic realities under the ever-present threat of...]]>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 Texas Blues: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Texas+Blues%3a+The+Rise+of+a+Contemporary+Sound.-a0213529147Texas Blues: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound. By Alan Govenar. John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, c. 2008. Pp. xxii, 599. $40.00, ISBN 978-1-58544-605-6.) Texas Blues: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound is not an academic study, but historians as well as fans will learn much from its richly illustrated account of the roots and...]]>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 Harlan Miners Speak: Report on Terrorism in the Kentucky Coal Fields.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Harlan+Miners+Speak%3a+Report+on+Terrorism+in+the+Kentucky+Coal+Fields.-a0213529146Harlan Miners Speak: Report on Terrorism in the Kentucky Coal Fields. By Theodore Dreiser and others. New introduction by John C. Hennen. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2008. Pp. [xxxvi], 348. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8131-9187-4.) In this facsimile reprint of a report issued by the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners (NCDPP) in 1932, readers are treated to...]]>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 Bitter Freedom: William Stone's Record of Service in the Freedmen's Bureau.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Bitter+Freedom%3a+William+Stone's+Record+of+Service+in+the+Freedmen's...-a0213529145Bitter Freedom: William Stone's Record of Service in the Freedmen's Bureau. Edited by Suzanne Stone Johnson and Robert Allison Johnson. Introduction by Lou Falkner Williams. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2008. Pp. xxxii, 117. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-766-5.) This volume contains the post-Civil War account of First Lieutenant William Stone, a Union soldier from Massachusetts...]]>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 Historic Photos of Gettysburg.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Historic+Photos+of+Gettysburg.-a0213529144Historic Photos of Gettysburg. Text and captions by John S. Salmon. (Nashville, Tenn., and Paducah, Ky.: Turner Publishing Company, c. 2007. Pp. x, 206. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-59652-323-4.); Historic Photos of the Siege of Petersburg. Text and captions by Emily J. and John S. Salmon. (Nashville, Tenn., and Paducah, Ky.: Turner Publishing Company, c. 2007. Pp. x, 206. $39.95, ISBN...]]>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Generals and Field Officers of the Bluegrass State.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Kentuckians+in+Gray%3a+Confederate+Generals+and+Field+Officers+of+the...-a0213529143Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Generals and Field Officers of the Bluegrass State. Edited by Bruce S. Allardice and Lawrence Lee Hewitt. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2008. Pp. viii, 336. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2475-9.) According to editors Bruce S. Allardice and Lawrence Lee Hewitt, Kentucky, due to its famously divided loyalties, "felt the personal holocaust that was the...]]>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 A Closer Look: The Antebellum Photographs of Jay Dearborn Edwards, 1858-1861.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/A+Closer+Look%3a+The+Antebellum+Photographs+of+Jay+Dearborn+Edwards%2c...-a0213529142A Closer Look: The Antebellum Photographs of Jay Dearborn Edwards, 1858-1861. Edited by Jessica Dorman and Erin Greenwald. (New Orleans: Historic New Orleans Collection, 2008. Pp. [iv], 97. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 978-0-917860-52-2.) Even though commerce is the thematic emphasis in this collection of photographs by Jay Dearborn Edwards (1831-1900), an eerie calm seemingly at odds with New...]]>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 New Orleans' Free-Men-of-Color Cabinetmakers in the New Orleans Furniture Trade, 1800 to 1850.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/New+Orleans'+Free-Men-of-Color+Cabinetmakers+in+the+New+Orleans...-a0213529141New Orleans' Free-Men-of-Color Cabinetmakers in the New Orleans Furniture Trade, 1800 to 1850. By Margo Moscou. (New Orleans: Xavier Review Press, 2008. Pp. 95. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 978-1-883275-19-8.) Margo Moscou describes the free black cabinetmakers of antebellum New Orleans in this short book. She spends almost half of the book giving an abbreviated history of the city, while the other...]]>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 Forgotten Patriots--African American and American Indian Patriots in the Revolutionary War: A Guide to Service, Sources and Studies.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Forgotten+Patriots--African+American+and+American+Indian+Patriots+in...-a0213529140Forgotten Patriots--African American and American Indian Patriots in the Revolutionary War: A Guide to Service, Sources and Studies. Edited by Eric G. Grundset. (Washington, D.C.: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, c. 2008. Pp. [xvi], 854. $35.00, plus $8.00 shipping and handling, ISBN 978-1-892237-10-1.) As part of the ongoing work to document all individuals who had a...]]>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Telling+Histories%3a+Black+Women+Historians+in+the+Ivory+Tower.-a0213529139Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower. Edited by Deborah Gray White. Gender and American Culture. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2008. Pp. [xii], 291. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5881-3; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3201-1.)

]]>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 Southern Cultures: The Fifteenth Anniversary Reader.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Southern+Cultures%3a+The+Fifteenth+Anniversary+Reader.-a0213529138Southern Cultures: The Fifteenth Anniversary Reader. Edited by Harry L. Watson and Larry J. Griffin and others. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2008. Pp. [xviii], 507. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5880-6; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3212-7.)

]]>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 Promises Kept: East Carolina University, 1980-2007.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Promises+Kept%3a+East+Carolina+University%2c+1980-2007.-a0213529137Promises Kept: East Carolina University, 1980-2007. Edited by Henry C. Ferrell Jr. (Greenville, N.C.: East Carolina University, 2006. Pp. [xii], 393. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-9758874-3-1.)

This volume's dozen essays about aspects of the university's life are intended to provide a sequel to Mary Jo Jackson Bratton's East Carolina University: The Formative Years, 1907-1982 (Greenville, N.C.,...]]>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 Black Greek-Letter Organizations in the Twenty-First Century: Our Fight Has Just Begun.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Black+Greek-Letter+Organizations+in+the+Twenty-First+Century%3a+Our...-a0213529136Black Greek-Letter Organizations in the Twenty-First Century: Our Fight Has Just Begun. Edited by Gregory S. Parks. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2008. Pp. xviii, 490. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8131-2491-9.)

This collection of twenty-one essays, plus an introduction, explores the past, present, and future of the nation's nine traditional African American fraternities and...]]>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 White Masculinity in the Recent South.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/White+Masculinity+in+the+Recent+South.-a0213529135White Masculinity in the Recent South. Edited by Trent Watts. Making the Modern South. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. Pp. [x], 269. $37.50, ISBN 978-0-8071-3314-9.)

White Masculinity in the Recent South is an anthology composed of an introduction and thirteen essays that examine the intersecting tensions found in traditional and contemporary southern white...]]>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 Race, Class, and the Death Penalty: Capital Punishment in American History.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Race%2c+Class%2c+and+the+Death+Penalty%3a+Capital+Punishment+in+American...-a0213529134Race, Class, and the Death Penalty: Capital Punishment in American History. By Howard W. Allen and Jerome M. Clubb, with assistance from Vincent A. Lacey. (Albany: State University of New York Press, c. 2008. Pp. [xiv], 239. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-7914-7437-2.)

]]>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 Complex Justice: The Case of Missouri v. Jenkins.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Complex+Justice%3a+The+Case+of+Missouri+v.+Jenkins.-a0213529133Complex Justice: The Case of Missouri v. Jenkins. By Joshua M. Dunn. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2008. Pp. [xii], 226. $37.50, ISBN 978-0-8078-3139-7.)

Complex Justice: The Case of Missouri v. Jenkins tells the story of court-ordered school desegregation in Kansas City, Missouri. The book is deeply researched, well informed, and clearly written. This reviewer...]]>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 Barn Burning, Barn Building: Tales of a Political Life, from LBJ through George W. Bush and Beyond.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Barn+Burning%2c+Barn+Building%3a+Tales+of+a+Political+Life%2c+from+LBJ...-a0213529132Barn Burning, Barn Building: Tales of a Political Life, from LBJ through George W. Bush and Beyond. By Ben Barnes with Lisa Dickey. (Albany, Tex.: Bright Sky Press, c. 2006. Pp. 256. $24.95, ISBN 978-1-931721-71-4.)

Dolph Briscoe: My Life in Texas Ranching and Politics. By Dolph Briscoe as told to Don Carleton. (Austin: Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin, 2008....]]>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 The New Politics of North Carolina.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+New+Politics+of+North+Carolina.-a0213529131The New Politics of North Carolina. Edited by Christopher A. Cooper and H. Gibbs Knotts. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2008. Pp. [xiv], 314. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5876-9; cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3191-5.)

V. O. Key Jr. established in Southern Politics in State and Nation (New York, 1949) a standard by which regional politics would be measured. Key...]]>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 Georgia Odyssey: A Short History of the State.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Georgia+Odyssey%3a+A+Short+History+of+the+State.-a0213529130Georgia Odyssey: A Short History of the State. By James C. Cobb. (2nd ed.; Athens, Ga., and London: Published by University of Georgia Press in association with the Georgia Humanities Council, c. 2008. Pp. [xii], 188. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-3050-1.)

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