Project MUSE®: Journal of Southern History - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Journal of Southern History.daily12026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 82 (2016) through current issueLatest Articles: Journal of Southern HistoryTWOProject MUSE®Journal of Southern History2325-68930022-4642Latest articles in Journal of Southern History. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Origins of the Georgia Coast: Retracing the Rich History of the Georgia Lowcountry by William P. A. Hunt (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989736
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This review begins with an unlikely person, someone whose name does not appear anywhere in the book's front matter: multibillionaire Philip F. Anschutz of Denver, Colorado. One of the wealthiest individuals in the United States, Anschutz heads a sprawling empire of diverse business interests, including several of North America's most luxurious hotels. Among them is Georgia's world-renowned Sea Island resort. The Anschutz Corporation acquired a partial interest in 2010, and six years later, the Anschutz family became Sea Island's sole owner. Additionally, Anschutz enjoys history as a hobby—so much so that he self-published two collections of biographical sketches embracing prominent figures from the American West.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallOrigins of the Georgia Coast: Retracing the Rich History of the Georgia Lowcountry by William P. A. Hunt (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USOrigins of the Georgia Coast: Retracing the Rich History of the Georgia Lowcountry by William P. A. Hunt (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®59962026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13Texas Takes Shape: A History in Maps from the General Land Office by Mark Lambert et al. (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989737
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Like the state itself, the cartographic history of Texas is big. The Texas General Land Office (GLO) has labored for decades to promote this legacy by creating, collecting, preserving, and exhibiting a broad and deep collection of maps and archival materials related to Texas geography. Over 30,000 documents of the GLO's collection of more than 45,000 maps are available digitally at HistoricTexasMaps.com. Yet, like with any large archival collection, an exhibition curated by those who know the collection best and can explain the context and relevance of the material is beneficial. Texas Takes Shape: A History in Maps from the General Land Office presents such an exhibit of more than 140 of the maps that tell the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallTexas Takes Shape: A History in Maps from the General Land Office by Mark Lambert et al. (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USTexas Takes Shape: A History in Maps from the General Land Office by Mark Lambert et al. (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®51532026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13Crossroads, Cutoffs, and Confluences: Origins of Louisiana Cities, Towns, and Villages by Richard Campanella (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989738
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Richard Campanella's Crossroads, Cutoffs, and Confluences: Origins of Louisiana Cities, Towns, and Villages is an illuminating study of "the initial siting rationales" of the places and people who made decisions to settle in Louisiana, beginning with the state's Indigenous inhabitants (p. 1). He devotes fifteen chapters to covering fifteen regions of the state, supplemented by comparative maps, photographs, and statistical support to answer the question, "Why are we here?" (p. 8).Campanella's geographic organization of Louisiana into several regions differs significantly from the standard subdivision of the state into four or five geographic regions from north to south, or east to west. Instead, Campanella
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallCrossroads, Cutoffs, and Confluences: Origins of Louisiana Cities, Towns, and Villages by Richard Campanella (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USCrossroads, Cutoffs, and Confluences: Origins of Louisiana Cities, Towns, and Villages by Richard Campanella (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®58162026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13Gentilly: A New Orleans Plantation in the French Atlantic World, 1818–1851 transed. by Nathalie Dessens and Virginia Meacham Gould (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989739
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Gentilly: A New Orleans Plantation in the French Atlantic World, 1818–1851, edited and translated by Nathalie Dessens and Virginia Meacham Gould, is an outstanding collection of fifty-four French letters written between 1818 and 1851 by the New Orleans Creole Jean Baptiste Auvignac Dorville to the French baron Henri de Sainte-Gême and his family. Dorville managed the Gentilly plantation, which was located a little over four miles from the French Quarter, on behalf of its proprietor, Sainte-Gême, who owned the plantation via his marriage to the Creole Marguerite Delmas Dreux. Dreux was the great-granddaughter of one of the two brothers who had originally created the plantation in the earliest years of New Orleans's
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallGentilly: A New Orleans Plantation in the French Atlantic World, 1818–1851 transed. by Nathalie Dessens and Virginia Meacham Gould (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USGentilly: A New Orleans Plantation in the French Atlantic World, 1818–1851 transed. by Nathalie Dessens and Virginia Meacham Gould (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®60222026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13Making Sense of Slavery: America's Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today by Scott Spillman (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989740
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This is an unusual book to review. It bridges several genres, being an extended historiographical essay on the scholarship of American racial enslavement, a history of related graduate study at universities, and a gossipy account of the leading lights of the field. The closest analogue that comes to mind is Peter Novick's That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession (New York, 1988), but Scott Spillman's Making Sense of Slavery: America's Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today has a broader popular reach and a trade publisher. Spillman is well qualified to undertake this task, having a Ph.D. in history from Stanford University. He has one foot in both worlds, academic
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallMaking Sense of Slavery: America's Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today by Scott Spillman (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USMaking Sense of Slavery: America's Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today by Scott Spillman (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®81002026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13The Grand Collaboration: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the Invention of American Religious Freedom by Steven K. Green (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989741
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It may seem like an audacious choice to suggest in one's subtitle that only two men were responsible for inventing American religious freedom. But Steven K. Green's The Grand Collaboration: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the Invention of American Religious Freedom is one of those rare cases when an audacious claim largely escapes the charge of being an outrage against the truth.Green, drawing on numerous public and private statements by James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and their contemporaries, builds a compelling case for the importance of religious freedom to the country and the importance of these two men for defining and defending its contours. While every state in the Union was transforming its relations
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallThe Grand Collaboration: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the Invention of American Religious Freedom by Steven K. Green (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USThe Grand Collaboration: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the Invention of American Religious Freedom by Steven K. Green (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®68162026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique by Jonathan Gienapp (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989742
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Jonathan Gienapp's recent book, Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique, sets out to "[mount] a comprehensive historical critique of constitutional originalism" through a detailed exploration of originalism's use of (and misuse of) history, and in particular the history of the Founding period (p. 2). Gienapp argues that as a consequence of this endeavor, readers will come to "see how un-originalist originalism turns out to be" (p. 3). The critique develops over three parts. The first provides a close examination of the assumptions implicit in originalism's treatment of the Constitution, identified here in terms of "writtenness, fixity, and law" (p. 14). The second part turns to the historical
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallAgainst Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique by Jonathan Gienapp (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USAgainst Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique by Jonathan Gienapp (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®54582026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13Slavery's Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution by Timothy Messer-Kruse (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989743
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Slavery's Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution demonstrates how postwar efforts to re-enslave the roughly 12,000 African Americans freed by British forces during the American Revolution profoundly shaped America's early political trajectory. After the war, Patriots institutionalized a "national consensus" demanding the return of slavery's fugitives through Article Seven of the 1783 Treaty of Paris (p. 6). In doing so, the Founding generation created an intractable political situation that undermined the Articles of Confederation. Despite its monopoly over conducting foreign policy, Congress was incapable of preventing state governments from violating the treaty by passing punitive laws against
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallSlavery's Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution by Timothy Messer-Kruse (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USSlavery's Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution by Timothy Messer-Kruse (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®64452026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13Dangerous Learning: The South's Long War on Black Literacy by Derek W. Black (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989744
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As debates over education funding and public school curricula continue to divide state and local school boards, historians and legal experts have renewed their interest in this area to show that these debates and policies are not new. Instead, they are part of a long-standing struggle to control the education of the population and the demographics of the states. Through discussions centered on school choice, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, book banning, and critical race theory, scholars have linked this phenomenon to white southern resistance to Black literacy during the antebellum and post–Civil War periods. As author Derek W. Black, the Ernest F. Hollings Chair in Constitutional Law at the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallDangerous Learning: The South's Long War on Black Literacy by Derek W. Black (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USDangerous Learning: The South's Long War on Black Literacy by Derek W. Black (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®66132026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13The Beechers: America's Most Influential Family by Obbie Tyler Todd (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989745
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More than four decades have passed since Milton Rugoff published The Beechers: An American Family in the Nineteenth Century (New York, 1981), a 653-page tome that sought to capture the scope of one of America's most prominent reformist families. Despite its National Book Award nomination, Rugoff's volume was so expansive that it risked deterring all but the most committed readers. Southern Baptist preacher Obbie Tyler Todd's The Beechers: America's Most Influential Family revisits this same terrain, even adopting Rugoff's title, but offers a more concise, readable, and narratively engaging account. At roughly half the length of Rugoff's study, Todd's work provides an accessible synthesis that will satisfy general
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallThe Beechers: America's Most Influential Family by Obbie Tyler Todd (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USThe Beechers: America's Most Influential Family by Obbie Tyler Todd (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®65782026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13One National Family: Texas, Mexico, and the Making of the Modern United States, 1820–1867 by Sarah K. M. Rodríguez (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989746
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Sarah K. M. Rodríguez's debut monograph, One National Family: Texas, Mexico, and the Making of the Modern United States, 1820–1867, is a welcome addition to a growing number of works that aim to reappraise the history of the Civil War era along the Rio Grande and the U.S.-Mexico border. Over the last year two other books, Raymond Jonas's Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire (Cambridge, Mass., 2024) and Alys D. Beverton's Exceptionalism in Crisis: Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination during the Civil War Era (Chapel Hill, 2025), have also taken on topics concerning the Civil War era in this region. Rodríguez's book is a significant contribution to this
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallOne National Family: Texas, Mexico, and the Making of the Modern United States, 1820–1867 by Sarah K. M. Rodríguez (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USOne National Family: Texas, Mexico, and the Making of the Modern United States, 1820–1867 by Sarah K. M. Rodríguez (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®59202026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13Quartermasters of Conquest: The Mexican-American War and the Making of South Texas, 1846–1860 by Christopher N. Menking (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989747
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In the decade before 1860, the federal government allocated almost 2 percent of its total expenditures to the U.S. Army's Quartermaster Department. Responsible for the unglamorous work of feeding and supplying the army in the field and constructing its forts and supply networks, the quartermasters provided crucial logistical support that enabled the army's mission of controlling the United States' rapidly expanding territory in the nineteenth century. In his new book, Quartermasters of Conquest: The Mexican-American War and the Making of South Texas, 1846–1860, historian Christopher N. Menking highlights an important episode in the department's history, describing how the army's quartermasters built a sophisticated
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallQuartermasters of Conquest: The Mexican-American War and the Making of South Texas, 1846–1860 by Christopher N. Menking (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USQuartermasters of Conquest: The Mexican-American War and the Making of South Texas, 1846–1860 by Christopher N. Menking (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®59542026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13Sovereign of a Free People: Abraham Lincoln, Majority Rule, and Slavery by James H. Read (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989748
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A work of historical political theory based principally on a careful reading of Abraham Lincoln's political writings and speeches, Sovereign of a Free People: Abraham Lincoln, Majority Rule, and Slavery cuts little new ground in the sources. But James H. Read does avail himself of the full range of historical scholarship on Lincoln, the Republican Party, and the coming of the Civil War. From this vantage point, he distills Lincoln's positions on a range of pressing topics—colonization, gradualism, racism, constitutionalism, slavery's expansion, and so much more—providing coherent, historically grounded, and balanced explanations of Lincoln's thought. Those who teach U.S. history surveys should use this book.Read's
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallSovereign of a Free People: Abraham Lincoln, Majority Rule, and Slavery by James H. Read (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USSovereign of a Free People: Abraham Lincoln, Majority Rule, and Slavery by James H. Read (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®62742026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South by Robert K. D. Colby (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989749
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In recent years, scholarly interest in the intersections of slavery and capitalism has fueled a growing body of work on the domestic slave trade in the antebellum South. With its stark commodification of human beings, the trade exemplified what Walter Johnson has called "the chattel principle"—the notion that every enslaved person had a price and could be sold at any time (p. 190). While this scholarship has explored the trade's antebellum heyday, relatively little attention has been paid to its evolution during the Civil War. Robert K. D. Colby's An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South addresses this lacuna, offering a powerful and original study of how the trade persisted, adapted, and ultimately
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallAn Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South by Robert K. D. Colby (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USAn Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South by Robert K. D. Colby (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®58022026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13The Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War: The Biography of a Regiment by James Marten (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989750
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I had a vivid dream the night I received this book. I was sitting around the table in Professor John Neff's office, just like I had in the fall of 2012 during our Civil War seminar. He stared directly at me and said, "Railroad Cut … Fifty-Fifth North Carolina." At that instant I awoke and went to find this book, which was left lying on a table near our front door. I found what I already knew would be in chapter 4: a vivid description of the Sixth Wisconsin's hurried rush at the battle of Gettysburg to shore up a potential flank attack just north of the Chambersburg Pike; the charge of the Sixth into the Railroad Cut led by Rufus R. Dawes; and the capture of the Second Mississippi's battle flag. No mention of the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallThe Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War: The Biography of a Regiment by James Marten (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USThe Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War: The Biography of a Regiment by James Marten (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®56502026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13The Second Manassas Campaign ed. by Caroline E. Janney and Kathryn J. Shively (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989751
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For The Second Manassas Campaign, editors Caroline E. Janney and Kathryn J. Shively have collected an impressive group of historians to examine a significant yet neglected and overlooked Civil War event. Second Manassas, hailed at the time as "the most decisive victory yet," has resided in the shadows of other battles and campaigns since not long after the war (p. 1). The contributors to this collection, however, present an impressive depth of research and analysis on an array of topics connected to the campaign, including military matters, politics, social conditions, economics, memory and memorialization, and human experiences, all of which demonstrate that the campaign was indeed a "most decisive victory" (p.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallThe Second Manassas Campaign ed. by Caroline E. Janney and Kathryn J. Shively (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USThe Second Manassas Campaign ed. by Caroline E. Janney and Kathryn J. Shively (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®49672026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13The Consequences of Confederate Citizenship: The Civil War Correspondence of Alabama's Pickens Family ed. by Henry M. McKiven Jr. (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989752
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For many Civil War enthusiasts, microhistories, those case studies hyperfocused on specific events, people, or places, best display the extent to which the conflict touched all who lived through it. These narratives often rely on letters and diaries, meticulously transcribed and annotated through the laborious efforts of scholars. We would be at a loss if it were not for the voyeuristic evidence that allows us to delve into the personal lives of those who endured wartime separation, material deprivation, and even death. This perspective is now made even richer by the recent addition of The Consequences of Confederate Citizenship: The Civil War Correspondence of Alabama's Pickens Family, the story of the Pickens
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallThe Consequences of Confederate Citizenship: The Civil War Correspondence of Alabama's Pickens Family ed. by Henry M. McKiven Jr. (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USThe Consequences of Confederate Citizenship: The Civil War Correspondence of Alabama's Pickens Family ed. by Henry M. McKiven Jr. (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®60412026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861–1865 by Damian Shiels (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989753
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Readers will locate this excellent new study by Damian Shiels among important books about Irish Americans. Introducing his groundbreaking work, Shiels explains that the pension applications of the widows and dependents of Irish men who served in the United States Army and Navy between 1861 and 1865 are prominent in his work. And readers will quickly appreciate the sources' value. Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861–1865 employs these records "in search of a more complicated and nuanced impression of what constituted an Irish American in 1861" (p. 25).What this undertaking reveals is the aggregate, locating a large population of individual soldiers and sailors who identified as Irish yet
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallGreen and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861–1865 by Damian Shiels (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USGreen and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861–1865 by Damian Shiels (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®60292026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13A Contested Terrain: Freedpeople's Education in North Carolina During the Civil War and Reconstruction by AnneMarie Brosnan (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989754
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AnneMarie Brosnan has produced a detailed and engaging exploration of hope during a tumultuous time in American history. As a case study, North Carolina offers an opportunity to revisit a southern story between 1861 and 1877. Although many scholars have made contributions in this area of study, A Contested Terrain: Freedpeople's Education in North Carolina During the Civil War and Reconstruction explores the social and cultural composition of North Carolina as it grappled with a new social order where education figured prominently. Brosnan cites three reasons for her focus on North Carolina. First, a large population of free people of color was dispersed throughout antebellum North Carolina. They interacted with
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallA Contested Terrain: Freedpeople's Education in North Carolina During the Civil War and Reconstruction by AnneMarie Brosnan (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USA Contested Terrain: Freedpeople's Education in North Carolina During the Civil War and Reconstruction by AnneMarie Brosnan (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®60472026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13Roses in December: Black Life in Hanover County from Civil War to Civil Rights by Jody Lynn Allen (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989755
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The history of the African American experience in the South between Reconstruction and the civil rights era follows a general pattern from emancipation and political participation, to the nadir of race relations and Jim Crow, and finally to the civil rights era and the overthrowing of second-class citizenship. Local studies provide details of African Americans' responses to the cycle of events. Jody Lynn Allen joins scholars whose investigations demonstrate that the key to the longevity of the Jim Crow second-class status across the South was the nuanced violence of structural coercion. In this community study of a county in the upper South, Allen's aims are twofold. Using the lives of notable Black Hanover County
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallRoses in December: Black Life in Hanover County from Civil War to Civil Rights by Jody Lynn Allen (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USRoses in December: Black Life in Hanover County from Civil War to Civil Rights by Jody Lynn Allen (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®92752026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13Justice for Ourselves: Black Virginians Claim Their Freedom After Slavery by John G. Deal et al. (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989756
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Justice for Ourselves: Black Virginians Claim Their Freedom After Slavery is an impressive and well-researched survey of Black Virginians' freedom-making efforts during the final three decades of the nineteenth century, before the disenfranchisement of Black men in 1902. John G. Deal, Marianne E. Julienne, and Brent Tarter set out to offer a "fresh reassessment" of "the entire history of the consequence of the abolition of slavery in Virginia," tracing the lives of Black women and men as they refused enslavement and pursued citizenship both before and after the Thirteenth Amendment (p. 5). The volume successfully integrates field-defining scholarship in the historiographies of slavery and emancipation, the Civil
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallJustice for Ourselves: Black Virginians Claim Their Freedom After Slavery by John G. Deal et al. (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USJustice for Ourselves: Black Virginians Claim Their Freedom After Slavery by John G. Deal et al. (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®56392026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13The Battle for the University of Alabama: The Perilous Path of Higher Education in the Reconstruction South by William Warren Rogers Jr. (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989757
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In this deeply researched book, William Warren Rogers Jr. situates the post–Civil War traumas that afflicted the University of Alabama (UA) within the context of southern higher education and within Reconstruction more broadly. He adds specificity to our understanding of the period and enriches the historiography of higher education.Rogers's argument is straightforward. After a three-year rebuilding period, the university aimed to reopen in October 1868, but over the previous summer the United States readmitted Alabama to the Union under an egalitarian state constitution. Chagrined opponents of equality denounced the newly elected Republican board of education and the Republican faculty it appointed as unqualified
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallThe Battle for the University of Alabama: The Perilous Path of Higher Education in the Reconstruction South by William Warren Rogers Jr. (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USThe Battle for the University of Alabama: The Perilous Path of Higher Education in the Reconstruction South by William Warren Rogers Jr. (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®59952026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13Grant's Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan by Guy Gugliotta (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989758
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The presidency of Ulysses S. Grant, long maligned and something of a Lost Cause cliché, has seen its accomplishments far overshadowed by scandal and corruption. But more recently, Grant's years in office have received some well-deserved reevaluation and rehabilitation, with new attention focused on the many sincere initiatives aimed at improving conditions for the recently freed and other marginalized communities in America. Certainly, one of the notable positives of the Grant years was his laudable commitment to civil rights, including vigorous efforts to rid the former Confederacy of terrorist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan. Award-winning journalist and author Guy Gugliotta provides an in-depth look into
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989759
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Beginning with a critically important "Note on Language and Naming," Wendy A. Gaudin demonstrates from the outset the utmost care and concern for detail that are trademarks of Sunset Limited: An Autobiography of Creole. Considering that there are so many terms and descriptors for "Creoles of Color," both in Louisiana and across its diaspora, it is essential that the author weaves a narrative that fully acknowledges the similar, yet divergent, ways that mixed-race Creoles are identified and identify themselves (p. xiv). From the beginning, Gaudin is passionate, forceful, and, at the same time, unforgiving in her clear and incisive indictment of colonialism and the damage it has wrought upon Louisiana Creoles and the
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989760
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In Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans, Ahmad Greene-Hayes credits a diverse array of what he terms Black Atlantic "religion makers" with the agency and creativity denied them by contemporary journalists and interviewers from the Works Progress Administration (WPA) who classified them as fanatics, cultists, and criminals (p. 3). The practitioners from Greene-Hayes's "Africana demimonde" were faith healers, heads of house churches, and Pan-Africanist Protestant ministers "marginalized" and "dispossessed" in the "slums" of New Orleans (p. 3). Greene-Hayes argues that they created their "Black Atlantic religions" in spite of "Jim Crow racial-sexual terrorism and anti-Blackness,"
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallUnderworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans by Ahmad Greene-Hayes (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USUnderworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans by Ahmad Greene-Hayes (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®61532026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama by Jennifer E. Brooks (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989761
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Jennifer E. Brooks, a professor of history at Auburn University, has produced a smart, nuanced, and valuable study of immigration with Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama. This monograph ambitiously interrogates a "fundamental historical amnesia" that has "allowed many citizens in a state actually built by a diversity of peoples to pretend that their experiences and sacrifices on behalf of the New South project never even happened" (p. 174). In doing so, Brooks critiques the errors of omission in this topic by standard histories of the South since the 1940s, encompassing the work of such historiographical titans as Rupert B. Vance, Rowland Berthoff, C. Vann Woodward, Gavin Wright, Eric
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallResident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama by Jennifer E. Brooks (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USResident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama by Jennifer E. Brooks (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®58162026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13So Great Was the Slaughter: Market Hunters, Sportsmen, and Wildlife Conservation in Arkansas by Buckley T. Foster (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989762
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[Editor's note: The lateness of this review is not the fault of the reviewer.]Buckley T. Foster's So Great Was the Slaughter: Market Hunters, Sportsmen, and Wildlife Conservation in Arkansas examines the complicated evolution of game laws in Arkansas during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Foster's early chapters provide important context, beginning with a description of antebellum Arkansas frontiersmen who relied on hunting and farming in varying degrees for income and sustenance. After the Civil War, however, as the nation's meatpackers struggled to keep up with Americans' insatiable demand for meat, Arkansas hunters kept a steady supply of game flowing to processors and restaurants in nearby
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallSo Great Was the Slaughter: Market Hunters, Sportsmen, and Wildlife Conservation in Arkansas by Buckley T. Foster (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USSo Great Was the Slaughter: Market Hunters, Sportsmen, and Wildlife Conservation in Arkansas by Buckley T. Foster (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®62432026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13Justice for All: Dick T. Morgan, Frontier Lawyer and Common Man's Congressman by Michael J. Hightower (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989763
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Michael J. Hightower's newest book, Justice for All: Dick T. Morgan, Frontier Lawyer and Common Man's Congressman, offers a richly detailed portrait of a man who, though largely forgotten today, played a critical role in shaping the early political and legal landscape of Oklahoma. Hightower argues that Dick T. Morgan deserves recognition as one of the "founding fathers" of the state (p. vii).Born and raised in Indiana, Morgan began his journey westward driven not by romantic notions of the frontier but by political disappointment and professional restlessness. After losing reelection to the Indiana state senate in 1882, Morgan spent several years searching for a renewed sense of purpose. That came in the form of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallJustice for All: Dick T. Morgan, Frontier Lawyer and Common Man's Congressman by Michael J. Hightower (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USJustice for All: Dick T. Morgan, Frontier Lawyer and Common Man's Congressman by Michael J. Hightower (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®58432026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13Our Onward March: The Grand Army of the Republic in the Progressive Era by Jonathan D. Neu (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989764
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Jonathan D. Neu's Our Onward March: The Grand Army of the Republic in the Progressive Era explores the public role of Union veterans during the important yet understudied period after membership of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) peaked in 1890. As Neu reveals, during its middle and later phases the GAR was not merely a pension advocacy group or an insular, backward-looking organization fixated on nostalgia. Rather, he contends that the Grand Army of 1890–1920 was a dynamic and assertive civic fixture broadly engaged with topical social issues and fiercely committed to community reform.By claiming that GAR activists both shaped and were shaped by Progressive-era currents, Neu intervenes in three primary bodies
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallOur Onward March: The Grand Army of the Republic in the Progressive Era by Jonathan D. Neu (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USOur Onward March: The Grand Army of the Republic in the Progressive Era by Jonathan D. Neu (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®71612026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13American Populist: Huey Long of Louisiana by Thomas E. Patterson (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989765
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This timely biography explores the meteoric rise and tragic demise of Huey Pierce Long Jr. of Louisiana. In this entertaining and informative take on the political career of the Kingfish, Thomas E. Patterson argues that while Long "burned his candle at both ends. … he shed a lovely light" by championing the cause of ordinary and poor Americans through his Share Our Wealth plan, which "advocated the redistribution of wealth by means of high taxes upon the wealthy" (pp. 1, 2).Do we need another biography of Huey Long? The author thinks so, and he makes a solid case that after six novels, ten biographies, and a documentary there is still more to learn about the former governor. Chronologically organized into thirty
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallAmerican Populist: Huey Long of Louisiana by Thomas E. Patterson (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USAmerican Populist: Huey Long of Louisiana by Thomas E. Patterson (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®55612026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13The State of Conservation: Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920 by Joshua Nygren (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989766
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In The State of Conservation: Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920, Joshua Nygren dissects the development of "the conservation-industrial complex," a network of private businesses and public services that worked to foster soil and water conservation (p. 3). Using the Progressive era, interwar era, and post–World War II era, Nygren illustrates an overarching theme—that machinery, fertilizer, and pesticide companies supported conservation for profits. Positive optics surrounding conservation shielded these companies from criticism until the 1960s, when scrutiny descended on those businesses whose practices had furthered "social inequality and environmental despoilation … all in the name
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallThe State of Conservation: Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920 by Joshua Nygren (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USThe State of Conservation: Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920 by Joshua Nygren (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®61232026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13Doc Watson: A Life in Music by Eddie Huffman (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989767
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Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson's musical talent took him across North America and around the world. He awed peers, inspired new artists, and entertained crowds at Veterans of Foreign Wars posts, Los Angeles hotspots, and Greenwich Village coffeehouses. He won seven Grammy Awards, recorded numerous albums, and helped found one of the nation's most highly regarded music festivals. Having so much ground to cover, author Eddie Huffman sets a realistic goal for this biography, aiming it at "anybody who wants to know more about Doc's life and music in general" (p. 5). With that as its target, Doc Watson: A Life in Music hits the mark.Born in Deep Gap, North Carolina, Watson drew his earliest inspiration from traditional and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallDoc Watson: A Life in Music by Eddie Huffman (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USDoc Watson: A Life in Music by Eddie Huffman (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®58032026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13Only a Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformations of Miami by Mauricio Castro (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989768
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There is much to admire in Mauricio Castro's understanding of how Cuban Americans integrated into and reshaped the city of Miami, Florida. He has written a well-argued analysis, full of fascinating details, about the creation, development, and transformations of Cuban Miami from the 1959 triumph of the Cuban Revolution through the 1990s. Only a Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformations of Miami focuses on the "interactions of three main historical entities: the federal government, the city of Miami, and the Cuban community" (p. 5). By examining these interactions, he weaves a well-researched narrative of how the arrival of Cuban refugees made possible three types of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallOnly a Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformations of Miami by Mauricio Castro (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USOnly a Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformations of Miami by Mauricio Castro (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®68802026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13College Sports: A History by Eric A. Moyen and John R. Thelin (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989769
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If some modern-day Alexis de Tocqueville were to pass through Starkville, Mississippi, or Tuscaloosa, Alabama, then he would surely muse upon the paradox that is big-time college sports. At first glance, college sports are realms of garish overkill, with gargantuan stadiums, celebrity coaches, million-dollar players, and overheated fan bases. Our modern Tocqueville might remark that in an age of television-driven conference realignment and the recent House v. NCAA settlement (2025), which allows universities to pay players, athletic departments hold tenuous connections to the educational and research missions of American institutions of higher education. How can such gleaming sports facilities exist on the same
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallCollege Sports: A History by Eric A. Moyen and John R. Thelin (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USCollege Sports: A History by Eric A. Moyen and John R. Thelin (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®60312026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13The 1968 Florida Teachers' Strike: Public Sector Unionism and the Fight Against Sunshine State Conservatism by Jody Baxter Noll (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989770
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In February 1968, Florida teachers held the first statewide teacher walkout in the country. Approximately 35,000 teachers sent in letters of resignation—to skirt Florida's anti-strike laws—in a powerful rebuke of Republican governor Claude R. Kirk Jr.'s policies of educational austerity. The protest, which was supported by the Florida Education Association (FEA), garnered widespread teacher participation, with approximately 50 percent of teachers walking off their jobs, across racial lines and in nearly every county in the state. In The 1968 Florida Teachers' Strike: Public Sector Unionism and the Fight Against Sunshine State Conservatism, Jody Baxter Noll examines the political context that set the stage for the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallThe 1968 Florida Teachers' Strike: Public Sector Unionism and the Fight Against Sunshine State Conservatism by Jody Baxter Noll (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USThe 1968 Florida Teachers' Strike: Public Sector Unionism and the Fight Against Sunshine State Conservatism by Jody Baxter Noll (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®61582026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13Death in Briar Bottom: The True Story of Hippies, Mountain Lawmen, and the Search for Justice in the Early 1970s by Timothy Silver (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989771
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Death in Briar Bottom: The True Story of Hippies, Mountain Lawmen, and the Search for Justice in the Early 1970s is not your typical historical monograph. Part memoir, part historical synthesis, and part true crime investigation, Timothy Silver's latest book is engrossing and thought-provoking throughout. "This book is unlike any other I have written," admits the author, best known for his research on the environmental histories of Appalachia and the Civil War (p. 165). Written with narrative flair and poignant self-reflection, Death in Briar Bottom is a fast-paced and worthwhile exploration of youth, rock and roll, police brutality, and the deficiencies of the American legal system in the 1970s South.The book
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallDeath in Briar Bottom: The True Story of Hippies, Mountain Lawmen, and the Search for Justice in the Early 1970s by Timothy Silver (review)2026-05-13text/htmlen-USDeath in Briar Bottom: The True Story of Hippies, Mountain Lawmen, and the Search for Justice in the Early 1970s by Timothy Silver (review)2026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®55282026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13Delusions of Imperial Grandeur: How New Orleans Tried to Connect the Oceans in Mexico, 1849–1907
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989772
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After the U.S.-Mexico War (1846–1848), a rising class of southern and western merchants maneuvered aggressively to compete with the great North Atlantic cities in the chaotic geopolitical battleground of the Gulf Caribbean. New Orleans business elites envisioned themselves as the vanguard of this movement. "A new era has dawned upon the country," a group of them proclaimed in a petition to build a naval depot in the Crescent City. "The acquisition of California"—with all the gold in its mountains—"and the settlement of the Oregon boundary, have turned the attention of men's minds in a different direction and to different channels from those in which their energies had been previously exercised." They were confident
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallDelusions of Imperial Grandeur: How New Orleans Tried to Connect the Oceans in Mexico, 1849–19072026-05-13text/htmlen-USDelusions of Imperial Grandeur: How New Orleans Tried to Connect the Oceans in Mexico, 1849–19072026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®2502062026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13The Willow Springs Controversy: Hazardous Waste Disposal, Gender, and the Rise of Grassroots Environmentalism in Southwest Louisiana, 1974–1986
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989773
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One sweltering hot afternoon in 1968, blue tanker trucks began coming down High Hope Road near Gentry Vincent's home in Willow Springs, Louisiana. Located in the southwestern corner of the state, the African American hamlet of Willow Springs had never seen so much industrial activity before. For decades, the community had considered the sandy bluff to be home and enjoyed a quiet isolation from white society. Residents who asked about the construction were told that a resort was being built, that the pits being dug would become fishponds. Day and night, the trucks passed through, pumping a mysterious dark-colored liquid into several Olympic-pool-sized lagoons—less than eight hundred feet from Vincent's home.1 Local
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/685/image/coversmallThe Willow Springs Controversy: Hazardous Waste Disposal, Gender, and the Rise of Grassroots Environmentalism in Southwest Louisiana, 1974–19862026-05-13text/htmlen-USThe Willow Springs Controversy: Hazardous Waste Disposal, Gender, and the Rise of Grassroots Environmentalism in Southwest Louisiana, 1974–19862026-05-132026TWOProject MUSE®2084292026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-05-13Emmett Till and His Interpreters
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989774
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Seventy-one years ago, on August 28, 1955, Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old Black boy from Chicago, was murdered while visiting relatives in the Mississippi Delta. A month later the trial of half brothers J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant, local white men charged in the gruesome killing, attracted scores of reporters from across the nation to the small town of Sumner. After an all-white jury acquitted the men, no court ever again charged anyone in Till's death.The first book on the Till case appeared in 1988, and, according to one study, a "cottage industry" quickly developed.1 In the next thirty-six years, nearly a dozen major nonfiction books explored the unsolved murder. Perhaps never had such a large, diverse, and
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989775
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This classified bibliography includes most scholarly articles in the field of southern history published in periodicals in 2025, 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 2025, the appropriate year is marked with a bracketed notation. Entries under each heading are arranged alphabetically by
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989776
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The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave Trade. By Jake Subryan Richards. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2025. Pp. xvi, 319. $38.00, ISBN 978-0-300-26320-6.) In this new book, Jake Subryan Richards explores the experiences of liberated Africans—illegally trafficked enslaved Africans set free by British gunboats on the Atlantic Ocean during abolition—through the courts and political systems of multi-imperial societies—British African dominions, Spanish Cuba, and Brazil—revealing the complex, enduring bondage of such individuals within the Atlantic world, 1807–1860s. Using its naval power in the Atlantic, Britain attacked slaving vessels and freed illegally trafficked Africans
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989777
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Since 1934, the Southern Historical Association has worked diligently to advance the cause of history in and of the American South, all while earning a reputation as one of the most rigorous, yet thoroughly accessible, academic organizations in the United States. The SHA has embarked on a new capital campaign with the goal of doubling the endowment ahead of our centennial in 2034. This goal will ensure that our Association, which has served the region and the profession so well, will remain welcoming, vibrant, and rewarding for future generations dedicated to exploring the complex and critically important history of the American South. All donations are appreciated; all are taxdeductible. Please visit
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