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Southern Cultures
4.4 (Winter 1998)
Southern Cultures
4.3 (Fall 1998)
Southern Cultures
4.2 (Summer 1998)
Southern Cultures
4.1 (Spring 1998)
Southern Cultures
4.4 (Winter 1998)
The South in the World
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
Essays
The Apprehension of the South in Modern Culture
by Michael O’Brien
Guest editor Michael O’Brien considers the South in the world.
Haiku
by C. Vann Woodward
The preeminent historian of the South recalls the ironies of teaching
southern history in Japan.
Sushi South: Teaching Southern Culture in Japan
by Anne Goodwyn Jones
Unexpected insights into the contradictions of Japan’s cultural
and historical response to defeat and reconstruction.
Faulkner and Southern History: A View from Germany
by Peter Nicolaisen
An account of one German novelist’s struggle with his nation’s
past, and of Faulkner’s resonance within German culture.
When the North is the South: Life in the Netherlands
by Edward L. Ayers
A southerner’s observations on regionalism and southern stereotypes
abroad.
Elvis, Martin, and Mentors: The Making of Southern History in Britain
by Brian Ward
How the British have mined popular culture to make sense of the South.
Acknowledgments
by Steven Stowe
Reflections of a native Californian on his lifelong passion for history
and for the South.
Books
Richard Pells's
Not Like Us
reviewed by Richard H. King
W. C. Corsan's
Two Months in the Confederate States: An Englishman’s Travels
Through the South
reviewed by Susan H. Irons
LeeAnn Whites's
The Civil War as a Crisis in Gender: Augusta, Georgia, 1860-1890
reviewed by Anne M. Valk
Fon Louise Gordon's
Caste and Class: The Black Experience in Arkansas, 1880-1920
reviewed by Sarah Wilkerson-Freeman
Alex Lichtenstein's
Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor
in the New South
Matthew J. Mancini's
One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866-1928
reviewed by Henry McKiven
Pamela Tyler's
Silk Stockings and Ballot Boxes: Women and Politics in New Orleans,
1920-1963
reviewed by Marjorie Spruill Wheeler
Dorothy M. Scura, editor
Ellen Glasgow: New Perspectives
reviewed by Susan V. Donaldson
J. Lee Greene's
Blacks in Eden: The African American Novel’s First Century
reviewed by John Leland
Gérard Herzhaft's
Encyclopedia of the Blues
reviewed by Clyde Edgerton
Nolan Porterfield's
Last Cavalier: The Life and Times of John A. Lomax
reviewed by Beverly B. Patterson
Charles W. Dryden's
A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman
reviewed by Jill Snider
Peter G. Bourne's
Jimmy Carter: A Comprehensive Biography from Plains to Postpresidency
Kenneth E. Morris's
Jimmy Carter: American Moralist
reviewed by Leo P. Ribuffo
Music Recordings reviewed by Gavin James Campbell
Southern Cultures
4.3 (Fall 1998)
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
Essays
“The Vampire That Hovers Over North Carolina”: Gender, White
Supremacy, and the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898
by Andrea Meryl Kirshenbaum
A provocative look at the manipulation of racial and sexual fears,
culminating in a bloody riot a century ago.
Yoknapatawpha: Images and Voices
by George G. Stewart
Haunting photographs from Mississippi evoke William Faulkner’s
mythical landscape.
Olmsted’s Cracker Preacher
by Eugene D. Genovese
The author recounts an outsider’s views of backcountry religion
in the Old South.
When Mail Was Armor: Envelopes of the Great Rebellion, 1861-1865
by Stephen W. Berry
Images on Civil War envelopes reveal a previously overlooked battleground.
Books
Christine Leigh Heyrman's
Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt
reviewed by Gaines M. Foster
Michael J. Puglisi, editor
Diversity and Accommodation: Essays on the Cultural Composition of
the Virginia Frontier
reviewed by John C. Willis
Kenneth S. Greenberg's
Honor and Slavery: Lies, Duels, Noses, Masks, Dressing as a Woman,
Gifts, Strangers, Humanitarianism, Death, Slave Rebellions, The Proslavery
Argument, Baseball, Hunting and Gambling in the Old South
reviewed by Catherine Clinton
Mary Beth Pudup, Dwight B. Billings, and Altina L. Waller, editors
Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century
reviewed by David E. Whisnant
Mart A. Stewart's
“What Nature Suffers to Groe”: Life, Labor, and Landscape
on the Georgia Coast, 1680-1920
reviewed by Albert E. Cowdrey
Henry M. McKiven Jr.'s
Iron and Steel: Class, Race, and Community in Birmingham, Alabama,
1875-1920
reviewed by Tim Minchin
David B. Freeman's
Carved in Stone: The History of Stone Mountain
reviewed by John M. Coski
Mark Taylor Dalhouse's
An Island in the Lake of Fire: Bob Jones University, Fundamentalism
& the Separatist Movement
reviewed by Charles W. Dunn
Charles Reagan Wilson's
Judgment & Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis
reviewed by Wayne Flynt
Music Recordings reviewed by Gavin James Campbell
Up Beat Down South “Music With the Bark On”:
The Southern Journeys of John and Alan Lomax
by Gavin James Campbell
Southern Cultures
4.2 (Summer 1998)
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
Essays
The Lady Was a Sharecropper:
Myrtle Lawrence and the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union
by Elizabeth Anne Payne, with photographs by Louise Boyle
How one woman transcended regional and gender stereotypes in her pursuit
of justice for tenant farmers, black and white.
Scottish Heritage Southern Style
by Celeste Ray
Scottish and southern heritages meld into a new kind of southern identity,
one founded on lost causes but refashioned for today’s South.
Race, Sex, and Reputation:
Thomas Jefferson and the Sally Hemings Story
by Robert M. S. McDonald
Did the “truth” about the president’s affair with
a slave woman matter to his contemporaries? The answer may surprise you.
Poem The Great Wagon Road, or How History Knocked the
Professor Cold,
or A Storyteller’s Story, or Why Appalachians Are Mountains and
a People
by Michael Chitwood
Books
Trudier Harris's
The Power of the Porch: The Storyteller’s Craft in
Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan
reviewed by Margaret D. Bauer
Charles Hudson's
Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun:
Hernando de Soto and the South’s Ancient Chiefdoms
reviewed by Peter H. Wood
J. Russell Snapp's
John Stuart and the Struggle for Empire on the Southern Frontier
reviewed by Robert M. Weir
Carol Bleser, editor
Tokens of Affection: The Letters of a Planter’s Daughter in
the Old South
reviewed by Jane Turner Censer
Jeanette Keith's
Country People in the New South: Tennessee’s Upper Cumberland
reviewed by Michael Lienesch
Larry J. Griffin and Don H. Doyle, editors
The South as an American Problem
reviewed by Peter A. Coclanis
Dan B. Miller's
Erskine Caldwell: The Journey from Tobacco Road
Wayne Mixon's
The People’s Writer: Erskine Caldwell and the South
reviewed by Bryant Simon
Vernon Chadwick, editor
In Search of Elvis: Music, Race, Art, and Religion
reviewed by William McCranor Henderson
J. W. Williamson's
Hillbillyland: What the Movies Did to the Mountains and
What the Mountains Did to the Movies
reviewed by James C. Wann
Jon Michael Spencer's
Re-Searching Black Music
reviewed by Michael Taft
Alexander S. Leidholdt's
Standing Before the Shouting Mob: Lenoir Chambers and
Virginia’s Massive Resistance to Public-School Integration
reviewed by Carl Tobias
David T. Morgan's
The New Crusades, the New Holy Land:
Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention, 1969-1991
reviewed by James L. Peacock
Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes's
Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks
reviewed by Bruce Southard
South Polls Soul Food
by John Shelton Reed
Beyond Grits & Gravy “Wie Geht’s, Y’all?”
German Influences in Southern Cooking
by Fred R. Reenstjerna
Up Beat Down South “Battle Songs of the Southern
Class Struggle”
Songs of the Gastonia Textile Strike of 1929
by Patrick Huber
Not Forgotten How I Spent My Summer Vacation
by Lauren F. Winner
Southern Cultures
4.1 (Spring 1998)
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
Interview
The Black and the Gray
An Interview with Tony Horwitz
Were there really black Confederates? A Wall Street Journal reporter
weighs the evidence.
Essays The Culture of Southern Politics
Introduction
by Ferrel Guillory
Whither Southern Republicans?
by Whit Ayers and John McHenry
“The Dread Handwriting Is on the Wall”
Confronting the New Republican South
by Mac McCorkle
Between a Rock and a Hard Place:
South Carolina’ Republican Presidential Primary
by Cole Blease Graham Jr.
A Political Paradox:
North Carolina’s Twenty-Five Years under Jim Hunt and Jesse Helms
by Ferrel Guillory
Follow the Money
by Natalie Davis
High Costs of Winning--and Losing
by Thad Beyle
Can the Flower of Southern Womanhood Bloom in the Garden of Southern
Politics?
by Sue Tolleson-Rinehart
Reflections on Redistricting
by Dan Blue
Photo Essay Mule Train: A Thirty-Year Perspective on
the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s Poor People’s
Campaign of 1968
by Roland L. Freeman
Reminiscences and a gallery of photos documenting an unfinished journey
that began thirty years ago.
Books
Davison M. Douglas
Reading, Writing and Race: The Desegregation of the Charlotte Schools
reviewed by Robert A. Pratt
Michael A. Morrison
Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and
the Coming of the Civil War
reviewed by William L. Barney
Drew Gilpin Faust
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American
Civil War
reviewed by Elizabeth D. Leonard
Mary Ann Wimsatt, editor
Tales of the South by William Gilmore Simms
reviewed by Johanna Nicol Shields
Rodger Lyle Brown
Ghost Dancing on the Cracker Circuit: The Culture of Festivals in
the American South
reviewed by William Harmon
Alex Harris, editor
A New Life: Stories and Photographs from the Suburban South
reviewed by Alex Albright
Rhapsodies in Black
an exhibition reviewed by Dale Volberg Reed
Up Beat Down South “He Put His Thumb Up to His
Nose, and Twirl’d His Fingers at His Foes”: Presidential Campaign
Songs in 1844
by Gavin James Campbell
Beyond Grits and Gravy Store Lunch
by Jerry Leath Mills
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