TABLE OF CONTENTS
From the Editor’s Desk…………………………………………………………………………………………….6
ARTICLES
A Conversation with Dr. William J. Cooper, Jr.
Adam H. Petty……………………………………………………………………………………………8
A Conversation with Dr. George C. Rable
Adam H. Petty…………………………………………………………………………………………..41
Expansion and Exclusion: A Case Study of Gentrification in Church Hill
Kathryn Schumann Parkhurst………………………………………………………………….69
BOOKS ON THE SOUTH
SUTTO, Loyal Protestants and Dangerous Papists: Maryland and the Politics of
Religion in the English Atlantic, 1630-1690, John Young ……………………………………85
TALLY, Poe and the Subversion of American Literature: Satire, Fantasy, Critique,
Daniel J. Burge…………………………………………………………………………………………………..86
FRANK, The Civilian War: Confederate Women and Union Soldiers during Sherman’s
March, Madeleine Forrest………………………………………………………………………………….88
STITH, Extreme Civil War: Guerrilla Warfare, Environment, and Race on the
Trans-Mississippi Frontier, Evan C. Rothera……………………………………………………….90
SMITH, The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War, G.
David Schieffler………………………………………………………………………………………………….93
WILLIAMS, I Freed Myself. African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War
Era, Katharina Schlichtherle………………………………………………………………………………94
CLAMPITT, Occupied Vicksburg, Lindsay Rae Smith……………………………………………..96
ARMY, Engineering Victory: How Technology Won The Civil War,
Ian P. Yunker…………………………………………………………………………………………………….98
PRINCE, Stories of the South: Race and the Reconstruction of Southern Identity, 1865-
1915, Matthew C. O’Neal………………………………………………………………………………..100
NASH, Reconstruction’s Ragged Edge: The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern
Mountains, Aaron Phillips……………………………………………………………………………….101
DOWNS, After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War, Laura Ellyn
Smith…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….104
MIXON, Show Thyself a Man: Georgia State Troops, Colored, 1865-1905,
Kari Boyd……………………………………………………………………………………………………..106
Southern Historian
COHEN, Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of
Carrie Buck, Josiah Skogen…………………………………………………………………………..107
BRYAN, Asylum Doctor: James Woods Babcock and the Red Plague of Pellagra,
Laura Smith…………………………………………………………………………………………………110
BERREY, The Jim Crow Routine: Everyday Performances of Race, Civil Rights, and
Segregation in Mississippi, Heather M. Haley………………………………………………..112
GREENE, No Depression in Heaven: The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the
Transformation of Religion in the Delta, Ali K. Nabours ………………………………113
REIFF, Born of Conviction: White Methodists and Mississippi’s Closed Society, Joseph
Baumstarck, Jr………………………………………………………………………………………………115
DE JONG, You Can’t Eat Freedom: Southerners and Social Justice after the Civil Rights
Movement , Tori Jessen………………………………………………………………………………..118
MANGANIELLO, Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy
and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region, Michael Camp…………………………………….119