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The Journal of Southern History, which is edited at and supported by Rice University, is a quarterly devoted to the history of the American South broadly conceived. The Journal publishes refereed articles and solicited book reviews on all aspects of southern history and is unrestricted as to chronological period, methodology, and southern historical topic.
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Volume 84, Number 2, May 2018Table of Contents
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View "A Low Caste White Man with Lust in His Heart": Race, Deviance, and Criminal Justice in Jim Crow New Orleans
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View Farm to Factory: Secondary Road Building and the Rural Industrial Geography of Post–World War II North Carolina
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View The Politics of Queer Disidentification and the Limits of Neoliberalism in the Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equality in Houston
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View Finding Justice: A History of Women Lawyers in Maryland since 1642 ed. by Lynne A. Battaglia (review)
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View The Lives in Objects: Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast by Jessica Yirush Stern (review)
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View General Alonso de León's Expeditions into Texas, 1686–1690 trans. and ed. by Lola Orellano Norris (review)
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General Alonso de León's Expeditions into Texas, 1686–1690 trans. and ed. by Lola Orellano Norris (review)
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View The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America Before Independence by S. Max Edelson (review)
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View Unity in Christ and Country: American Presbyterians in the Revolutionary Era, 1758–1801 by William Harrison Taylor (review)
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View Bounds of Their Habitation: Race and Religion in American History by Paul Harvey, and: Christianity and Race in the American South: A History by Paul Harvey (review)
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Bounds of Their Habitation: Race and Religion in American History by Paul Harvey, and: Christianity and Race in the American South: A History by Paul Harvey (review)
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View The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution by Michael J. Klarman (review)
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View Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture by Britt Rusert (review)
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View Monuments to Absence: Cherokee Removal and the Contest over Southern Memory by Andrew Denson (review)
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View Who Belongs?: Race, Resources, and Tribal Citizenship in the Native South by Mikaëla M. Adams (review)
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View Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa by Lisa A. Lindsay (review)
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View The United States and the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Americas, 1776–1867 by Leonardo Marques (review)
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View Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson by Christina Snyder (review)
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View A Rape in the Early Republic: Gender and Legal Culture in an 1806 Virginia Trial by Alexander Smyth (review)
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View The Denmark Vesey Affair: A Documentary History eds. by Douglas R. Egerton and Robert L. Paquette (review)
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View Creators and Consumers: Women and Material Culture and Visual Art in 19th-Century Texas, the Lower South, and the Southwest by David B. Warren Symposium (review)
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View Fugitive Testimony: On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives by Janet Neary, and: Hope Draped in Black: Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of Progress by Joseph R. Winters (review)
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View The Secret Life of Bacon Tait, a White Slave Trader Married to a Free Woman of Color by Hank Trent (review)
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View Recaptured Africans: Surviving Slave Ships, Detention, and Dislocation in the Final Years of the Slave Trade by Sharla M. Fett (review)
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View Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South by Keri Leigh Merritt (review)
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View Reparation and Reconciliation: The Rise and Fall of Integrated Higher Education by Christi M. Smith (review)
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View Colonel Henry Theodore Titus: Antebellum Soldier of Fortune and Florida Pioneer by Antonio Rafael de la Cova (review)
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View Two Against Lincoln: Reverdy Johnson and Horatio Seymour, Champions of the Loyal Opposition by William C. Harris (review)
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View Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War's "Gospel Army." by Johari Jabir (review)
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View Midnight in America: Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams During the Civil War by Jonathan W. White (review)
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View Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America by Douglas R. Egerton (review)
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View Armies in Gray: The Organizational History of the Confederate States Army in the Civil War by Dan C. Fullerton (review)
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View Theater of a Separate War: The Civil War West of the Mississippi River, 1861–1865 by Thomas W. Cutrer (review)
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View Reconstruction in Alabama: From Civil War to Redemption in the Cotton South by Michael W. Fitzgerald (review)
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View The Dooleys of Richmond: An Irish Immigrant Family in the Old and New South by Mary Lynn Bayliss (review)
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View Reconstructing Democracy: Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep South after the Civil War by Justin Behrend (review)
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View The Road to Jim Crow: The African American Struggle on Maryland's Eastern Shore, 1860–1915 by C. Christopher Brown (review)
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View Cultivating Success in the South: Farm Households in the Postbellum Era by Louis A. Ferleger and John D. Metz (review)
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View Defining the Delta: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Lower Mississippi River Delta ed. by Janelle Collins (review)
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View The Georgia Peach: Culture, Agriculture, and Environment in the American South by William Thomas Okie (review)
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View Health Divided: Public Health and Individual Medicine in the Making of the Modern American State by Daniel Sledge (review)
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View Old-Time Religion Embracing Modernist Culture: American Fundamentalism between the Wars by Douglas Carl Abrams (review)
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View The Uplift Generation: Cooperation Across the Color Line in Early Twentieth-Century Virginia by Clayton McClure Brooks (review)
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View Discovering the South: One Man's Travels Through a Changing America in the 1930s by Jennifer Ritterhouse (review)
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View Reviewing the South: The Literary Marketplace and the Southern Renaissance, 1920–1941 by Sarah E. Gardner (review)
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View Frankie and Johnny: Race, Gender, and the Work of African American Folklore in 1930s America by Stacy I. Morgan (review)
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View Maintaining Segregation: Children and Racial Instruction in the South, 1920–1955 by LeeAnn G. Reynolds (review)
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View Paths Out of Dixie: The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America's Deep South, 1944–1972 by Robert Mickey (review)
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View Richmond's Priests and Prophets: Race, Religion, and Social Change in the Civil Rights Era by Douglas E. Thompson (review)
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View True South: Henry Hampton and Eyes on the Prize, the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights Movement by Jon Else (review)
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View To Stand Aside or Stand Alone: Southern Reform Rabbis and the Civil Rights Movement by P. Allen Krause (review)
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View Champions of Civil and Human Rights in South Carolina Volume 1: Dawn of the Movement Era, 1955 ed. by Marvin Ira Lare (review)
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View Selma's Bloody Sunday: Protest, Voting Rights, and the Struggle for Racial Equality by Robert A. Pratt (review)
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View The Bohemian South: Creating Countercultures, from Poe to Punk eds. by Shawn Chandler Bingham and Lindsey A. Freeman (review)
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View Dangerous Grounds: Antiwar Coffeehouses and Military Dissent in the Vietnam Era by David L. Parsons (review)
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View When Architecture Meets Activism: The Transformative Experience of Hank Williams Village in the Windy City by Roger Guy (review)
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View Women Against Abortion: Inside the Largest Moral Reform Movement of the Twentieth Century by Karissa Haugeberg (review)
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View Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women's Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics by Marjorie J. Spruill (review)
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| ISSN | 2325-6893 |
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| Print ISSN | 0022-4642 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2018-05-07 |
| Open Access | No |




