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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 91, Number 4, November 2025Table of Contents
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View A "Central Theme" in Black History: Teaching about the Black Past Requires Teaching about the South
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View Teaching about the South in Mexico: The Place of the South in a Comparative History of the Americas
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View Teaching That Changes the Sightlines: From the Enslaved Children of George Mason Project to the History of the Old South
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View Abraham Lincoln, Katherine Johnson, and Martin Luther King Jr. in Japanese Educational Manga: Three Southerners, Three Americans
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View Constructing a Southern-Centered Multiethnic Play: Teaching about the American South in China
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View Republic of Indians: Empires of Indigenous Law in the Early American South by Bradley J. Dixon (review)
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Republic of Indians: Empires of Indigenous Law in the Early American South by Bradley J. Dixon (review)
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View A Southern Underground Railroad: Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian Country by Paul M. Pressly (review)
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View Globalizing the Lower Rio Grande: European Entrepreneurs in the Borderlands, 1749–1881 by Kyle B. Carpenter (review)
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Globalizing the Lower Rio Grande: European Entrepreneurs in the Borderlands, 1749–1881 by Kyle B. Carpenter (review)
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View Till the Extinction of This Rebellion: George Rogers Clark, Frontier Warfare, and the Illinois Campaign of 1778–1779 by Eric Sterner (review)
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View Making the Frontier Man: Violence, White Manhood, and Authority in the Early Western Backcountry by Matthew C. Ward (review)
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View The Scientist Turned Spy: André Michaux, Thomas Jefferson, and the Conspiracy of 1793 by Patrick Spero (review)
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View Beyond Jefferson: The Hemingses, the Randolphs, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America by Christa Dierksheide (review)
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Beyond Jefferson: The Hemingses, the Randolphs, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America by Christa Dierksheide (review)
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View Gwinnett County, Georgia, and the Transformation of the American South, 1818–2018 ed. by Michael Gagnon and Matthew Hild (review)
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View Freedom's Currency: Slavery, Capitalism, and Self-Purchase in the United States by Julia Wallace Bernier (review)
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Freedom's Currency: Slavery, Capitalism, and Self-Purchase in the United States by Julia Wallace Bernier (review)
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View Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South by Shannon C. Eaves (review)
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Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South by Shannon C. Eaves (review)
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View American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism by Keidrick Roy (review)
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View How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America by Caroline Winterer (review)
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View The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms by Alison L. LaCroix (review)
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The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms by Alison L. LaCroix (review)
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View Searching for Dr. Harris: The Life and Times of a Remarkable African American Physician by Margaret Humphreys (review)
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View The Garretts of Columbia: A Black South Carolina Family from Slavery to the Dawn of Integration by David Nicholson (review)
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Debunking the Yule Log Myth: The Disturbing History of a Plantation Legend by Robert E. May (review)
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View Building a House Divided: Slavery, Westward Expansion, and the Roots of the Civil War by Stephen G. Hyslop (review)
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Building a House Divided: Slavery, Westward Expansion, and the Roots of the Civil War by Stephen G. Hyslop (review)
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View Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies: Southern Violence and White Supremacy in the Civil War Era by James Hill Welborn III (review)
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View The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism by Niels Eichhorn and Duncan A. Campbell, and: The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln's New Birth of Freedom Remade the World by Don H. Doyle (review)
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The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism by Niels Eichhorn and Duncan A. Campbell, and: The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln's New Birth of Freedom Remade the World by Don H. Doyle (review)
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View After Emancipation: Racism and Resistance at the University of Virginia ed. by Kirt von Daacke and Andrea Douglas (review)
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View D. D. Dougherty, Lillie Dougherty and the Early Years of Appalachian State by Doris Perry Stam (review)
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View The Gilded Life of Richard Morris Hunt: Architecture and Art for an American Civilization by Sam Watters (review)
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View The Violent World of Broadus Miller: A Story of Murder, Lynch Mobs, and Judicial Punishment in the Carolinas by Kevin W. Young (review)
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View A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune by Noliwe Rooks (review)
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View Mob Rule in the Ozarks: The Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Strike, 1921–1923 by Kenneth C. Barnes (review)
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View These Vivid American Documents: Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and FSA Photobooks by Joseph R. Millichap (review)
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These Vivid American Documents: Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and FSA Photobooks by Joseph R. Millichap (review)
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View Race and Gender at War: Writing American Military History ed. by Lesley J. Gordon and Andrew J. Huebner (review)
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View Tracking the Texas Ranger Historians ed. by Bruce A. Glasrud and Harold J. Weiss Jr. (review)
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View Above and Beyond: The Mason Family and the Transformation of Gwinnett County by Catherine M. Lewis (review)
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View Spying on Students: The FBI, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s South by Gregg L. Michel (review)
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View Instrument of the State: A Century of Music in Louisiana's Angola Prison by Benjamin J. Harbert (review)
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View The Path to Paralysis: How American Politics Became Nasty, Dysfunctional, and a Threat to the Republic by Donald G. Nieman (review)
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View The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made by Calvin Schermerhorn (review)
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View Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana by Lydia Pelot-Hobbs (review)
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Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana by Lydia Pelot-Hobbs (review)
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View Understanding the American South: Slavery, Race, Identity, and the American Century by Lacy K. Ford (review)
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| ISSN | 2325-6893 |
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| Print ISSN | 0022-4642 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2025-10-29 |
| Open Access | Yes |




