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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 86, Number 2, May 2020Table of Contents
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View The Intellectual Roots of the Lost Cause: Camaraderie and Confederate Memory in Civil War Prisons
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View Desegregating Birmingham’s Buses: African Americans’ Protracted Struggle and White “Civil” Resistance
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View Race Not Place: The Invasion, and Possible Retreat, of British Historians of the American South
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View Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal by Gregory D. Smithers (review)
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View The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke by Andrew Lawler (review)
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The Jamestown Brides: The Untold Story of England’s “Maids for Virginia” by Jennifer Potter (review)
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View Remaking New Orleans: Beyond Exceptionalism and Authenticity ed. by Thomas Jessen Adams and Matt Sakakeeny (review)
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View Trade, Politics, and Revolution: South Carolina and Britain’s Atlantic Commerce, 1730–1790 by Huw David (review)
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View The Consequences of Loyalism: Essays in Honor of Robert M. Calhoon ed. by Rebecca Brannon and Joseph S. Moore (review)
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View Thomas Jefferson’s Lives: Biographers and the Battle for History ed. by Robert M. S. McDonald (review)
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Murder in the Shenandoah: Making Law Sovereign in Revolutionary Virginia by Jessica K. Lowe (review)
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View The Free Exercise of Religion in America: Its Original Constitutional Meaning by Ellis M. West (review)
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View The Pursuit of Happiness in the Founding Era: An Intellectual History by Carli N. Conklin (review)
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View The Embattled Vote in America: From the Founding to the Present by Allan J. Lichtman (review)
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View No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding by Sean Wilentz (review)
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View American Abolitionism: Its Direct Political Impact from Colonial Times into Reconstruction by Stanley Harrold (review)
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View “The Showy Town of Savannah”: The Story of the Architect William Jay by John D. Duncan and Sandra L. Underwood (review)
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View Sharp Flashes of Lightning Come from Black Clouds: The Life of Josiah Henson by Jamie Ferguson Kuhns (review)
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View Fugitivism: Escaping Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1820–1860 by S. Charles Bolton (review)
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View Rebellious Passage: The Creole Revolt and America’s Coastal Slave Trade by Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie (review)
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View The Bank War and the Partisan Press: Newspapers, Financial Institutions, and the Post Office in Jacksonian America by Stephen W. Campbell (review)
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View Industrial Development and Manufacturing in the Antebellum Gulf South: A Reevaluation by Michael S. Frawley (review)
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View They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers (review)
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View Cavaliers and Economists: Global Capitalism and the Development of Southern Literature, 1820–1860 by Katharine A. Burnett (review)
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View The Meanest and “Damnest” Job: The Civil War Experiences and Civilian History of Colonel Edmund Winchester Rucker by Michael P. Rucker (review)
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View The Seventh West Virginia Infantry: An Embattled Union Regiment from the Civil War’s Most Divided State by David W. Mellott and Mark A. Snell (review)
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View A Great Sacrifice: Northern Black Soldiers, Their Families, and the Experience of Civil War by James G. Mendez (review)
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View Marketing the Blue and Gray: Newspaper Advertising and the American Civil War by Lawrence A. Kreiser Jr. (review)
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Maryland, My Maryland: Music and Patriotism during the American Civil War by James A. Davis (review)
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View Confederate Generals in the Trans-Mississippi. Volume 3: Essays on America’s Civil War by Lawrence Lee Hewitt and Thomas E. Schott (review)
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View Private Confederacies: The Emotional Worlds of Southern Men as Citizens and Soldiers by James J. Broomall (review)
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View Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery by Joseph P. Reidy (review)
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View Ending the Civil War and Consequences for Congress ed. by Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon (review)
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View Wild Rose: The Life and Times of Victor Marion Rose, Poet and Early Historian of Texas by Louise S. O’Connor (review)
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View Southern Women in the Progressive Era: A Reader ed. by Giselle Roberts and Melissa Walker (review)
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View Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C by Ashanté M. Reese (review)
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View Taking Flight: The Foundations of American Commercial Aviation, 1918–1938 by M. Houston Johnson V (review)
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View Black Veterans, Politics, and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America: Closing Ranks ed. by Robert F. Jefferson Jr. (review)
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View Religion of Fear: The True Story of the Church of God of the Union Assembly by David Cady (review)
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View Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase by Howard E. Covington Jr. (review)
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View Jim Crow Capital: Women and Black Freedom Struggles in Washington, D.C., 1920–1945 by Mary-Elizabeth B. Murphy (review)
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View A Giant from Georgia: The Life of U.S. Senator Walter F. George, 1878–1957 by Jamie H. Cockfield (review)
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View Painting Culture, Painting Nature: Stephen Mopope, Oscar Jacobson, and the Development of Indian Art in Oklahoma by Gunlög Fur (review)
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View The New Deal’s Forest Army: How the Civilian Conservation Corps Worked by Benjamin F. Alexander (review)
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View World War II and American Racial Politics: Public Opinion, the Presidency, and Civil Rights Advocacy by Steven White (review)
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View Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring by Richard Gergel (review)
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View They Stole Him Out of Jail: Willie Earle, South Carolina’s Last Lynching Victim by William B. Gravely (review)
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View The Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys: North Carolina’s Scott Family and the Era of Progressive Politics by Rob Christensen (review)
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View A Little Child Shall Lead Them: A Documentary Account of the Struggle for School Desegregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia ed. by Brian J. Daugherity and Brian Grogan (review)
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View Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Jake Gaither, Florida A&M, and the History of Black College Football by Derrick E. White (review)
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View The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman. Volume 5: The Wider Ministry, January 1963–April 1981 ed. by Walter Earl Fluker (review)
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View The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America by Aram Goudsouzian (review)
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View A Terrible Thing to Waste: Arthur Fletcher and the Conundrum of the Black Republican by David Hamilton Golland (review)
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View The Last Orator for the Millhands: William Jennings Bryan Dorn, 1916–2005 by John Herbert Roper Sr. (review)
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View Reclaiming the Black Past: The Use and Misuse of African American History in the Twenty-First Century by Pero Gaglo Dagbovie (review)
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| ISSN | 2325-6893 |
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| Print ISSN | 0022-4642 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2020-05-21 |
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