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“Hampton’s Collections and Connections: A Unity of Art and Life,” International Review of African American Art, 20 (no. 1, 2005), 5–31. Heavily illustrated.
Alston, Lee J., and Joseph P. Ferrie, “Time on the Ladder: Career Mobility in Agriculture, 1890–1938,” Journal of Economic History, 65 (Dec. 2005), 1058–81.
Bailey, Fred A., “The Southern Historical Association and the Quest for Racial Justice, 1954–1963,” Journal of Southern History, 71 (Nov. 2005), 833–52.
Baker, Bruce E., “Lynch Law Reversed: The Rape of Lula Sherman, the Lynching of Manse Waldrop, and the Debate over Lynching in the 1880s,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 6 (Sept. 2005), 273–93.
Bellows, Barbara L., “Eliza Lucas Pinckney: The Evolution of an Icon,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 106 (April–July 2005), 147–65.
Blair, William, “The Use of Military Force to Protect the Gains of Reconstruction,” Civil War History, 51 (Dec. 2005), 388–402.
Bryant, James C., “From Penfield to Macon: Mercer University’s Problematic Move,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 89 (Winter 2005), 462–84.
Casto, Stanley D., “Texas Sportsmen and the Conservation of Bird Life, 1890–1915,” East Texas Historical Journal, 44 (no. 1, 2006), 7–22.
Coclanis, Peter A., “Global Perspectives on the Early Economic History of South Carolina,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 106 (April–July 2005), 130–46.
Cole, Shawn, “Capitalism and Freedom: Manumissions and the Slave Market in Louisiana, 1725–1820,” Journal of Economic History, 65 (Dec. 2005), 1008–27.
D’Oney, J. Daniel, “The Houma Nation: A Historiographical Overview,” Louisiana History, 47 (Winter 2006), 63–90.
Davis, Robert S., “The Old World in the New South: Entrepreneurial Ventures and the Agricultural History of Cullman County, Alabama,” Agricultural History, 79 (Fall 2005), 439–61.
Dornan, Inge, “Masterful Women: Colonial Women Slaveholders in the Urban Low Country,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 39 (Dec. 2005), 393–402.
Ethridge, Robbie, “Creating the Shatter Zone: Indian Slave Traders and the Collapse of the Southeastern Chiefdoms,” in Light on the Path: The Anthropology and History of the Southeastern Indians, ed. Thomas J. Pluckhahn and Robbie Ethridge, 207–18. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. xii, 283 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 0-8173-1500-4. Paper, $34.95, isbn 0-8173-5287-2.)
Follett, Richard, “Give to the Labor of America. The Market of America: Marketing the Old South’s Sugar Crop, 1800–1860,” Revista de Indias (Madrid), 65 (Jan.–April 2005), 117–46.
Fraley, Miranda L., “The Legacies of Freedom and Victory Besieged: Stones River National Cemetery, 1865–1920,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 64 (Summer 2005), 134–64.
Guzman, Jane Bock, “Yet Another Look at the Fergusons of Texas,” East Texas Historical Journal, 44 (no. 1, 2006), 40–48.
Hickey, Damon D., “The Cross of Plainness: A Century of Conservative Quakerism in North Carolina,” Southern Friend, 27 (no. 2, 2005), 7–42.
Hirsch, Alan, “Threats, Promises, and False Confessions: Lessons of Slavery,” Howard Law Journal, 49 (Fall 2005), 31–60.
Hollander, Gail M., “Securing Sugar: National Security Discourse and the Establishment of Florida’s Sugar-Producing Region,” Economic Geography, 81 (Oct. 2005), 339–58.
Huddle, Mark Andrew, “Soul Winner: Edward O. Guerrant, the Kentucky Home Missions, and the ‘Discovery’ of Appalachia,” Ohio Valley History, 5 (Winter 2005), 47–64. Heavily illustrated.
Huston, James L., “An Alternative to the Tragic Era: Applying the Virtues of Bureaucracy to the Reconstruction Dilemma,” Civil War History, 51 (Dec. 2005), 403–15.
Hyde, Samuel C., Jr., “‘Plain Folk’ Reconsidered: Historiographical Ambiguity in Search of Definition,” Journal of Southern History, 71 (Nov. 2005), 803–30.
Inwood, Joshua, “Making the Legal Visible: Wilhelmina Griffin Jones’ Experience of Living in Alabama during Segregation,” Southeastern Geographer, 45 (May 2005), 54–66.
Jean, Susan, “‘Warranted’ Lynchings: Narratives of Mob Violence in Southern White Newspapers, 1880–1940,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 6 (Sept. 2005), 351–72.
Jurgelski, William Martin, “New Light on the Tsali Affair,” in Light on the Path: The Anthropology and History of the Southeastern Indians, ed. Thomas J. Pluckhahn and Robbie Ethridge, 133–64. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. xii, 283 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 0-8173-1500-4. Paper, $34.95, isbn 0-8173-5287-2.)
Kossie-Chernyshev, Karen, “Constructing Good Success: The Church of God in Christ and Social Uplift in East Texas, 1910–1935,” East Texas Historical Journal, 44 (no. 1, 2006), 49–55.
Lichtenstein, Alex, “In the Shade of the Lenin Oak: ‘Colonel’ Raymond Robins, Senator Claude Pepper, and the Cold War,” American Communist History, 3 (Dec. 2004), 185–214.
McKnight, Mark, “Charivaris, Cowbellions, and Sheet Iron Bands: Nineteenth-Century Rough Music in New Orleans,” American Music, 23 (Winter 2005), 407–25.
Perdue, Theda, “‘A Sprightly Lover Is the Most Prevailing Missionary’: Intermarriage between Europeans and Indians in the Eighteenth-Century South,” in Light on the Path: The Anthropology and History of the Southeastern Indians, ed. Thomas J. Pluckhahn and Robbie Ethridge, 165–74. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. xii, 283 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 0-8173-1500-4. Paper, $34.95, isbn 0-8173-5287-2.)
Raitz, Karl, and Nancy O’Malley, “The Nineteenth-Century Evolution of Local-Scale Roads in Kentucky’s Bluegrass,” Geographical Review, 94 (Oct. 2005), 415–39.
Ransom, Roger L., “Reconstructing Reconstruction: Options and Limitations to Federal Policies on Land Distribution in 1866–67,” Civil War History, 51 (Dec. 2005), 364–77.
Reid, Thomas R., “The Confederate Shoemakers of Town Bluff, Texas,” East Texas Historical Journal, 44 (no. 1, 2006), 35–39.
Reyes, Albert, “Unification to Integration: A Brief History of the Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas,” Baptist History & Heritage, 40 (Winter 2005), 44–56.
Richardson, Heather Cox, “A Marshall Plan for the South? The Failure of Republican and Democratic Ideology during Reconstruction,” Civil War History, 51 (Dec. 2005), 378–87.
Risley, Ford, “‘Dear Courier’: The Civil War Correspondence of Editor Melvin Dwinell,” Journalism History, 31 (Fall 2005), 162–70.
Scott, John Thomas, “The Final Effort to Fulfill George Whitefield’s Bequest: The Bethesda Mission of 1790–1792,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 89 (Winter 2005), 433–61.
Sheehan-Dean, Aaron, “Justice Has Something To Do with It,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 113 (no. 4, 2005), 340–77.
Spencer, Bette A., “Prominent African American Episcopalians, 1746–2005: A Guide to Historical Resources at the Virginia Theological Seminary,” Anglican and Episcopal History, 74 (Dec. 2005), 506–62.
Sundberg, Sara Brooks, “A Female Planter from West Feliciana Parish: The Letters of Rachel O’Connor,” Louisiana History, 47 (Winter 2006), 39–62.
Taylor, C. James, “A Member of the Family: Twenty-Five Years with Henry Laurens,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 106 (April–July 2005), 117–29.
Thompson, Michael D., “‘Everything but the Squeal’: Pork as Culture in Eastern North Carolina,” North Carolina Historical Review, 82 (Oct. 2005), 464–98. Heavily illustrated.
Toplovich, Ann, “Marriage, Mayhem, and Presidential Politics: The Robards-Jackson Backcountry Scandal,” Ohio Valley History, 5 (Winter 2005), 3–22. Heavily illustrated.
Virts, Nancy, “Change in the Plantation System: American South, 1910–1945,” Explorations in Economic History, 43 (Jan. 2006), 153–76.
Vorenberg, Michael, “Imagining a Different Reconstruction Constitution,” Civil War History, 51 (Dec. 2005), 416–26.
Watson, Alan D., “County Buildings and Other Public Structures in Colonial North Carolina,” North Carolina Historical Review, 82 (Oct. 2005), 427–63.
Weyeneth, Robert R., “The Architecture of Racial Segregation: The Challenges of Preserving the Problematical Past,” Public Historian, 27 (Fall 2005), 11–44.
Williams, Kidada E., “Resolving the Paradox of Our Lynching Fixation: Reconsidering Racialized Violence in the American South after Slavery,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 6 (Sept. 2005), 323–50.
Howell, Kenneth Wayne, “James Webb Throckmorton: The Life and Career of a Southern Frontier Politician, 1825–1894” (Texas A&M University, 2005). Order No. DA3172033.
Humphreys, James Scott, “South Carolina Rustic: Historian Francis Butler Simkins, a Life” (Mississippi State University, 2005). Order No. DA3171409.
Laundau, Emily Epstein, “‘Spectacular wickedness’: New Orleans, Prostitution, and the Politics of Sex, 1897–1917” (Yale University, 2005). Order No. DA3168932.
Maynor, Malinda, “Native American Identity in the Segregated South: The Indians of Robeson County, North Carolina, 1872–1956” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2005). Order No. DA3170494.
Nicholson, Glenn Edwin, “The Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention in Panama, 1905–1974: Analysis of the Strategy to Establish Indigenous Congregations” (Asbury Theological Seminary, 2005). Order No. DA3170732.
Warren, Cheryl Davis, “Time in Place, Place in Time: History and Sense of Place in Hillsborough, North Carolina” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2005). Order No. DA3170579.
Hill, Beatrice, and Brenda Lee, comps., South of Main. (Spartansburg: Hub City, 2005. xvi, 272 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 1-891885-45-6.) Heavily illustrated.
Minchin, Timothy J., “Don’t Sleep with Stevens!”: The J. P. Stevens Campaign and the Struggle to Organize the South, 1963–80. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. xvi, 239 pp. $59.95, isbn 0-8130-2810-8.)
Saikku, Mikko, This Delta, This Land: An Environmental History of the Yazoo-Mississippi Floodplain. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. xx, 373 pp. Cloth, $54.95, isbn 0-8203-2534-1. Paper, $22.95, isbn 0-8203-2673-9.)
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