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ARTICLES
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An Interview with lames M. McPhersonCharity Wait Rakestraw7
The Nuevo South: Tyson Foods and the Transformation of American LaborBrent Riffel21
Corrupt Bodies: Prostitution and Police in Birmingham, Alabama, 1940-1954Stephanie Chalifoux36
Forged in Blood: Foreigners, Common Consciousness, and Social Solidarity in Antebellum MississippiMichael J. Goleman51
BOOKS ON THE SOUTH
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COCLANIS, The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Organization, Operation, Practice, and PersonnelDeborah L. Bauer61
DESSEN S, From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and InfluencesBrian C. Brederhoeft63
SLOAN, A New World: England 3 First View of AmericaKelly K. Chaves65
HENDRICKS, The Backcountry Ybwns of Colonial VirginiaDarren R. Reid66
MERCANTINI, Who Shall Rule at Home? The Evolution of South Carolina Political Culture, 1748-1776Stephen W. Eldridge67
COGLIANO, Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and LegacyAaron Scott Crawford69
HENRIQUES, Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George WashingtonScott Taylor Morris70
ONUF, The Mind of Thomas leffersonAnn Youngblood Mulhearn72
BOSWELL and MCARTHUR, Women Shaping the South: Creating and Confronting ChangeHeather Duerre Hamann73
IABOUR, Scarlettk Sisters: Young Women in the Old SouthLaura Gentry75
BURIN, Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History ofthe American Colonization SocietyJon Ray76
CANNEY, Africa Squadron: The US. Navy and the Slave Trade, 1842-1861John C. Mitcham77
DIOUF, Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to AmericaDonna L. Cox78
SMITH, How Race Is Made: Slavery Segregation, and the SensesLucas Richert80
YOUNG, Proslavery and Sectional Thought in the Early South, 1740-1829,Christian Pinnen81
BELKO, The Invincible Duff Green: Whig ofthe WestMatthew Karp82
NEELY, The Border between Them: Violence and Reconciliation on the Kansas- Missouri LineSolomon Rose84
GARVEY, Creating the Culture of Reform in Antebellum America,Brian Russell Franklin85
BUSICK, A Sober Desire for History: William Gilmore Simms as HistorianJoshua R. Haar87
KRICK, Civil War Weather in VirginiaPeter Luebke88
SHEEHANÑDEAN, Why Confederates Fought: Family ei Nation in Civil War VirginiaBejamin L. Miller89
ROBINSON, Jeb Stuart and the Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg,Patrick R. Hampton91
NELSON and SHERIFF, A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in Americas Civil WarTimothy Huffstutter92
CLARK, Defning Moments: African American Commemoration and Political Culture in the South, 1863-1913Matthew G. Stewart93
SCOTT, Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery,Crystal Sanders95
DOTSON, Roanoke, Virginia, 1882-1912: Magic City of the New South,Robert Tice Lalka97
MCELYA, Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century AmericaMegan L. Bever99
HILD, Greenbackers, Knights of Labor Ž- Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century SouthClaire Goldstene100
BENHART, JR., Appalachian Aspirations: The Geography of Urbanization and Development in the Upper Tennessee River Valley, 1865-1900Laura A. Perry102
MINCHIN, Fighting Against the Odds: A History ofSouthern Labor since World War IIRobert C. Chidester103
BASS and THOMPSON, Strom: The Complicated Personal and Political Life of Strom ThurmondAdam Hegler104
COOK, Troubled Commemoration: The American Civil War Centennial, 1961-1965William E. Hardy106
FOSL, Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War SouthKatarina Keane107
KRUSE, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern ConservatismJensen E. Branscombe108
MCWILLIAMS, New Lights in the Valley: The Emergence of UAB Matthew L. Downs110
ROBERTS and KLIBANOFF, The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a NationBecky Bruce111
WALKER, Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American WomenDavid McRae112
WEBB, Massive Resisitance: Southern Opposition to the Second ReconstructionJeffrey D. Howison114
WENDT, The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil RightsMatt Edmonds116
WILLIS, All According to God Is Plan: Southern Baptist Missions and Race, 1945-1970Steven Corhern117
ZIEGER, For Iobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865Joseph Abel119
FREDERICK, Stand Upfor Alabama: Governor George WallaceCharles K. Roberts121
BELLEVILLE, Losing It All to Sprawl: How Progress Ate My Cracker LandscapeAlyssa Ribeiro122
FERNANDEZ, Sunshine in the Dark: Florida in the MoviesWesley Tyler French123
BOWER, African American Foodways: Explorations of History and CultureAngela Jill Cooley125
HARVEY, History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie: Scholarship, Activism, and Wayne Flynt in the Modern SouthScotty E. Kirkland126
NOTEWORTHY TITLES
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BILBY, True Born MaroonsGregory G. Zurgrave, Jr.128
LIPPY, Do Real Men Pray? Images ofthe Christian Man and Male Spirituality in White Protestant AmericaGuy Lancaster129
NOLL and BLUMHOFER, Sing Them Over Again to Me: Hymns and Hymnbooks in AmericaColin B. Chapell131
SPRINGER, Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From: Lyrics and HistoryDrew Traulson132