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| ARTICLES |
| Title | Author | pg |
| An Interview with lames M. McPherson | Charity Wait Rakestraw | 7 |
| The Nuevo South: Tyson Foods and the Transformation of American Labor | Brent Riffel | 21 |
| Corrupt Bodies: Prostitution and Police in Birmingham, Alabama, 1940-1954 | Stephanie Chalifoux | 36 |
| Forged in Blood: Foreigners, Common Consciousness, and Social Solidarity in Antebellum Mississippi | Michael J. Goleman | 51 |
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| BOOKS ON THE SOUTH |
| Author(s)/Title | Reviewer | pg |
| COCLANIS, The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Organization, Operation, Practice, and Personnel | Deborah L. Bauer | 61 |
| DESSEN S, From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and Influences | Brian C. Brederhoeft | 63 |
| SLOAN, A New World: England 3 First View of America | Kelly K. Chaves | 65 |
| HENDRICKS, The Backcountry Ybwns of Colonial Virginia | Darren R. Reid | 66 |
| MERCANTINI, Who Shall Rule at Home? The Evolution of South Carolina Political Culture, 1748-1776 | Stephen W. Eldridge | 67 |
| COGLIANO, Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy | Aaron Scott Crawford | 69 |
| HENRIQUES, Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington | Scott Taylor Morris | 70 |
| ONUF, The Mind of Thomas lefferson | Ann Youngblood Mulhearn | 72 |
| BOSWELL and MCARTHUR, Women Shaping the South: Creating and Confronting Change | Heather Duerre Hamann | 73 |
| IABOUR, Scarlettk Sisters: Young Women in the Old South | Laura Gentry | 75 |
| BURIN, Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History ofthe American Colonization Society | Jon Ray | 76 |
| CANNEY, Africa Squadron: The US. Navy and the Slave Trade, 1842-1861 | John C. Mitcham | 77 |
| DIOUF, Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America | Donna L. Cox | 78 |
| SMITH, How Race Is Made: Slavery Segregation, and the Senses | Lucas Richert | 80 |
| YOUNG, Proslavery and Sectional Thought in the Early South, 1740-1829, | Christian Pinnen | 81 |
| BELKO, The Invincible Duff Green: Whig ofthe West | Matthew Karp | 82 |
| NEELY, The Border between Them: Violence and Reconciliation on the Kansas- Missouri Line | Solomon Rose | 84 |
| GARVEY, Creating the Culture of Reform in Antebellum America, | Brian Russell Franklin | 85 |
| BUSICK, A Sober Desire for History: William Gilmore Simms as Historian | Joshua R. Haar | 87 |
| KRICK, Civil War Weather in Virginia | Peter Luebke | 88 |
| SHEEHANÑDEAN, Why Confederates Fought: Family ei Nation in Civil War Virginia | Bejamin L. Miller | 89 |
| ROBINSON, Jeb Stuart and the Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg, | Patrick R. Hampton | 91 |
| NELSON and SHERIFF, A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in Americas Civil War | Timothy Huffstutter | 92 |
| CLARK, Defning Moments: African American Commemoration and Political Culture in the South, 1863-1913 | Matthew G. Stewart | 93 |
| SCOTT, Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery, | Crystal Sanders | 95 |
| DOTSON, Roanoke, Virginia, 1882-1912: Magic City of the New South, | Robert Tice Lalka | 97 |
| MCELYA, Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America | Megan L. Bever | 99 |
| HILD, Greenbackers, Knights of Labor - Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South | Claire Goldstene | 100 |
| BENHART, JR., Appalachian Aspirations: The Geography of Urbanization and Development in the Upper Tennessee River Valley, 1865-1900 | Laura A. Perry | 102 |
| MINCHIN, Fighting Against the Odds: A History ofSouthern Labor since World War II | Robert C. Chidester | 103 |
| BASS and THOMPSON, Strom: The Complicated Personal and Political Life of Strom Thurmond | Adam Hegler | 104 |
| COOK, Troubled Commemoration: The American Civil War Centennial, 1961-1965 | William E. Hardy | 106 |
| FOSL, Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South | Katarina Keane | 107 |
| KRUSE, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism | Jensen E. Branscombe | 108 |
| MCWILLIAMS, New Lights in the Valley: The Emergence of UAB | Matthew L. Downs | 110 |
| ROBERTS and KLIBANOFF, The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation | Becky Bruce | 111 |
| WALKER, Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women | David McRae | 112 |
| WEBB, Massive Resisitance: Southern Opposition to the Second Reconstruction | Jeffrey D. Howison | 114 |
| WENDT, The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights | Matt Edmonds | 116 |
| WILLIS, All According to God Is Plan: Southern Baptist Missions and Race, 1945-1970 | Steven Corhern | 117 |
| ZIEGER, For Iobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865 | Joseph Abel | 119 |
| FREDERICK, Stand Upfor Alabama: Governor George Wallace | Charles K. Roberts | 121 |
| BELLEVILLE, Losing It All to Sprawl: How Progress Ate My Cracker Landscape | Alyssa Ribeiro | 122 |
| FERNANDEZ, Sunshine in the Dark: Florida in the Movies | Wesley Tyler French | 123 |
| BOWER, African American Foodways: Explorations of History and Culture | Angela Jill Cooley | 125 |
| HARVEY, History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie: Scholarship, Activism, and Wayne Flynt in the Modern South | Scotty E. Kirkland | 126 |
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| NOTEWORTHY TITLES |
| Author(s)/Title | Reviewer | pg |
| BILBY, True Born Maroons | Gregory G. Zurgrave, Jr. | 128 |
| LIPPY, Do Real Men Pray? Images ofthe Christian Man and Male Spirituality in White Protestant America | Guy Lancaster | 129 |
| NOLL and BLUMHOFER, Sing Them Over Again to Me: Hymns and Hymnbooks in America | Colin B. Chapell | 131 |
| SPRINGER, Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From: Lyrics and History | Drew Traulson | 132 |