In this Issue

Table of Contents

Abductors/Liberators and the Underground Railroad

R. J. M. Blackett
pp. 5-30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950503
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The Rise and Fall of the Southern Commercial Conventions of 1837–1839

Richard Campbell
pp. 31-70
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950504
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Good Roads Training: Object Lessons and Visual Spectacle in Early-Twentieth-Century Progressivism

Brian M. Ingrassia
pp. 71-98
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950505
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The WPA Redeemer Narratives: White Mississippians and Reconstruction Memory in the New Deal Era

Jason Morgan Ward
pp. 99-134
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950506
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Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by Nicholas Radburn (review)

Craig Marin
pp. 135-136
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950508
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Sawdust in Your Pockets: A History of the North Carolina Furniture Industry by Eric Medlin (review)

Tyler Greene
pp. 136-137
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950509
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Charleston Horse Power: Equine Culture in the Palmetto City by Christina Rae Butler (review)

Abraham Gibson
pp. 137-138
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950510
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The Huguenot-Anglican Refuge in Virginia: Empire, Land, and Religion in the Rappahannock Region by Lonnie H. Lee (review)

Evan Haefeli
pp. 138-140
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950511
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Touchstones of Tradition: Insights from the Material Culture of Miccosukee and Seminole People ed. by William H. Marquardt (review)

Andrew K. Frank
pp. 140-141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950512
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Captivity’s Collections: Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade by Kathleen S. Murphy (review)

Ryan Fontanilla
pp. 141-142
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950513
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Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition by Kathleen M. Brown (review)

Andrea Livesey
pp. 142-144
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950514
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I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar ibn Said’s America by Mbaye Lo and Carl W. Ernst (review)

Ras Michael Brown
pp. 144-145
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950515
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Dishonored Americans: The Political Death of Loyalists in Revolutionary America by Timothy Compeau (review)

John Ruddiman
pp. 145-146
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950516
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Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic by Michael A. Blaakman (review)

Joshua D. Rothman
pp. 146-148
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950517
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Aggression and Sufferings: Settler Violence, Native Resistance, and the Coalescence of the Old South by F. Evan Nooe (review)

Daniel E. Cone
pp. 148-149
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950518
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For the People, for the Country: Patrick Henry’s Final Political Battle by John A. Ragosta (review)

Sean P. Harvey
pp. 149-151
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950519
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Theatre on the American Frontier by Thomas A. Bogar (review)

Sarah Meer
pp. 151-152
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950520
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Peddlers, Merchants, and Manufacturers: How Jewish Entrepreneurs Built Economy and Community in Upcountry South Carolina by Diane Catherine Vecchio (review)

Ashley Walters
pp. 152-153
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950521
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Reconsidering Regions in an Era of New Nationalism ed. by Alexander Finkelstein and Anne F. Hyde (review)

Michael S. Green
pp. 153-155
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950522
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Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America by Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt (review)

Dolores Janiewski
pp. 155-156
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950523
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Grave History: Death, Race, and Gender in Southern Cemeteries ed. by Kami Fletcher and Ashley Towle (review)

Dallas Hanbury
pp. 156-157
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950524
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A Place for Memory: Baltimore’s Historic Laurel Cemetery ed. by Isaac Shearn and Elgin Klugh (review)

Lee Sartain
pp. 157-159
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950525
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Journey to Freedom: Uncovering the Grayson Sisters’ Escape from Nebraska Territory by Gail Shaffer Blankenau (review)

Tessa Evans
pp. 159-160
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950526
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The Army Under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era by Cecily N. Zander (review)

Beau Cleland
pp. 160-161
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950527
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Fighting for a Free Missouri: German Immigrants, African Americans, and the Issue of Slavery ed. by Sydney J. Norton (review)

Kristen Epps
pp. 161-162
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950528
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Two Counties in Crisis: Measuring Political Change in Reconstruction Texas by Robert J. Dillard (review)

Patrick G. Williams
pp. 163-164
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950529
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Southern Black Women and Their Struggle for Freedom during the Civil War and Reconstruction ed. by Karen Cook Bell (review)

Lindsey R. Peterson
pp. 164-165
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950530
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The Iron Dice of Battle: Albert Sidney Johnston and the Civil War in the West by Timothy B. Smith (review)

Zachary S. Daughtrey
pp. 165-166
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950531
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Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta—and Then Got Written Out of History by Howell Raines (review)

Henry M. McKiven
pp. 167-168
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950532
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Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War by Edda L. Fields-Black (review)

Janell Hobson
pp. 168-169
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950533
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Civil War Torpedoes and the Global Development of Landmine Warfare by Earl J. Hess (review)

Tommy Jamison
pp. 169-170
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950534
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The Cassville Affairs: Johnston, Hood, and the Failed Confederate Strategy in the Atlanta Campaign, 19 May 1864 by Robert D. Jenkins Sr (review)

John D. Fowler
pp. 171-172
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950535
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Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South by Elizabeth R. Varon (review)

Aaron Sheehan-Dean
pp. 172-173
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950536
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Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War by Matthew Christopher Hulbert (review)

Joy M. Giguere
pp. 173-175
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950537
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The Limits of the Lost Cause: Essays on Civil War Memory by Gaines M. Foster (review)

Paul Harvey
pp. 175-176
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950538
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A Place Called Ilda: Race and Resilience at a Northern Virginia Crossroads by Tom Shoop (review)

Colita Nichols Fairfax
pp. 176-177
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950539
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I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War against Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams (review)

Melissa DeVelvis
pp. 177-179
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950540
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White Man’s Work: Race and Middle-Class Mobility into the Progressive Era by Joseph O. Jewell (review)

Frederick Gooding Jr.
pp. 179-180
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950541
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Birddogs and Tough Old Broads: Women Journalists of Mississippi and a Century of State Politics, 1880s–1980s by Pete Smith (review)

Jonathan Daniel Wells
pp. 180-181
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950542
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Black Folklorists in Pursuit of Equality: African American Identity and Cultural Politics, 1893–1943 by Ronald LaMarr Sharps (review)

Maurice A. Robinson
pp. 181-183
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950543
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Wading In: Desegregation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Amy Lemco (review)

Robert Luckett
pp. 183-184
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950544
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Tennessee’s Experience during the First World War ed. by Michael E. Birdwell (review)

Jeffrey M. Leatherwood
pp. 184-185
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950545
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The House Where My Soul Lives: The Life of Margaret Walker by Maryemma Graham (review)

Kevin D. Greene
pp. 185-188
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950546
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Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement by Tanisha C. Ford (review)

Beatrice J. Adams
pp. 188-189
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950547
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Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights by Samuel G. Freedman (review)

Andrew Harrison Baker
pp. 189-190
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950548
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Southern History Remixed: On Rock ’n’ Roll and the Dilemma of Race by Michael T. Bertrand (review)

Joseph M. Thompson
pp. 191-192
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950549
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The Insurrectionist: Major General Edwin A. Walker and the Birth of the Deep State Conspiracy by Peter Adams (review)

J. Michael Butler
pp. 192-193
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950550
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Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America by Andrew C. McKevitt (review)

Angela F. Keaton
pp. 193-194
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950551
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An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era by Beth Bailey (review)

Stephen Sloan
pp. 195-196
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950552
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NASA and the American South ed. by Brian C. Odom and Stephen P. Waring (review)

Valerie Neal
pp. 196-197
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950553
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Poor Atlanta: Poverty, Race, and the Limits of Sunbelt Development by LeeAnn B. Lands (review)

Tina M. Kibbe
pp. 197-198
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950554
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White Ice: Race and the Making of Atlanta Hockey by Thomas Aiello (review)

Kate Aguilar
pp. 198-199
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950555
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Why Any Woman: Feminism and Popular Culture in the Late Twentieth-Century South by Keira V. Williams (review)

Ann Youngblood Mulhearn
pp. 199-201
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950556
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January 6 and the Politics of History ed. by Jim Downs (review)

Paul Renfro
pp. 201-202
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950557
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Historical News and Notices

pp. 203-205
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2025.a950507
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