Volume 27 Contents | Southern Historian

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ARTICLES
Title	Author	pg
Conversation: Dan T. Carter	Michael W. Mansfield	7
"The Democracy Must Prepare for Battle": Know-Nothingism in Alabama and Southern Politics	Erik B. Alexander	23
Hearth, Home, and Hoover: The Politics of Food In Alabama	Angela Jill Cooley	38
All in Good Fun: Alcohol Culture and Recreational Space in Post-War Upstate South Carolina	Darren E. Grem	59

BOOKS ON THE SOUTH
Author(s)/Title	Reviewer	pg
A Colonial Complex: South Carolina's Frontiers in the Era of the Yamasee War	Michael Hoekstra	71
Creeks and Southerners: Biculturalism and the Early American Frontier	Jeremy Pressgrove	72
Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor	Thomas Aiello	73
Dixie's Forgotten People: The South's Poor Whites	Heather Duerre	74
The Courthouses of Early Virginia: An Architectural History	Marcus S. Ridley	76
The Roots of Appalachian Christianity: The Life and Legacy of Elder Shubal	Stephen W. Eldridge	78
The Souther Strategy: Britain's Conquest of South Carolina and Georgia	Jonathon Hooks	79
A Nation Under our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South From Slavery to the Great Migration	Scott Taylor Morris	81
The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves	Robert Gilpin	83
The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion	Daniel Menestres	84
To the Manner Born: The Life of General William H.T. Walker	R. Boyd Murphree	86
Brigadier General Tyree H. Bell, C.S.A.: Forrest's Fighting Lieutenant	Jacob Lee	87
The Ongoing Civil Wwar: New Versions of Old Stories	William R. Feeney	88
A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy	Charity Wait Rakestraw	90
Retreat From Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign	Joshua J.K. Wolf	91
The Alabama, British Neutrality, and the American Civil War	Stephen McCullough	93
Lee's Endangered Left: The Civil War in Western Virginia Spring of 1864	Natalie Fowler	94
Defining Moments: African American Commemoration & Political Culture in the South	Andrew W. Kahrl	95
The Confederate Battle Flag: America's Most Embattled Emblem	Randy R. Hourigan III	97
The Reconstruction of Southern Debtors: Bankruptcy After the Civil War	William Edward Hardy	98
Before Scopes: Evangelicalism, Education, and Evolution in Tennessee	Charles P. Clark, Jr.	100
Politics and Religion in the White South	Matthew Downs	101
The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South	Patrick R. Hampton	103
White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia 1900-1960	David Kenneth Pye	105
Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations; and MIXON, The Atlanta Riot: Race, Class, and Violence in s New South City	Michael W. Mansfield	107
A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston	Daniel J. Tortura	108
Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues	Christian McWhirter	109
Southern Struggles: The Southern Labor Movement and the Civil Rights Struggle	Susan W. Thomas	110
Throwing Off the Cloak of Privilege: White Southern Women Activists in the Civil Rights Era	Becky Bruce	112
Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina	Melissa A. Estes	114
Land of Sunshine, Land of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida	Dave Nelson	115

NOTEWORTHY TITLES
Author(s)/Title	Reviewer	pg
Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation	Stephen I. Schwab	118
A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest For Food Shaped America	Angela Jill Cooley	120
Converging Stories: Race, Ecology, and Environmental Justice in American Literature	Elizabeth Herbin	121
Patriot Fires: Forging a New American Nationalism in the Civil War North	Scott Taylor Morris	123
German Speaking Officers in the U.S. Colored Troops, 1863-1867	Antonio S. Thompson	124
After the Glory: The Struggles of Black Civil War Veteran	Kristopher Teters	126
Body and Soul: Jazz and Blues in American Film, 1927-1963	Drew Traulsen	128
Grasshopper Pilot: A Memoir	Tim Daniels	129
American Soldier	Patrick R. Hampton	131