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Issue Summaries

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Volume XCIII, Winter 2009, No. 4

Articles

New Men in the Old South: Joseph E. Brown and his Associates in Georgia's Etowah Valley by G. Richard Wright and Kenneth H. Wheeler
"Unrelenting War on Football": The Death of Richard Von Gammon and the Attempt to Ban Football in Georgia by Christopher C. Meyers

Annual Report

Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2009 by W. Todd Groce

Book Reviews

ALDERSON JR., This Bright Era of Happy Revolutions: French Consul Michel-Ange-Bernard Mangourit and International Republicanism in Charleston, 1792-1794, by Martha L. Keber
EVANS, Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History, by Stephanie Wright
COOPER, JR., Jefferson Davis and the Civil War Era, by Brian Dirck
ASH, Firebrand of Liberty: The Story of Two Black Regiments That Changed the Course of the Civil War, by J. Wesley Moody
GILLISPIE, Andersonvilles of the North: The Myths and Realities of Northern Treatment of Civil War Confederate Prisoners, by Nat C. Hughes
JONES, Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War, by Bertram Wyatt-Brown
HUBER, Linthead Stomp: The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South, by Michael T. Bertrand
ROLINSON, Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927, by James R. Sweeney
MOORE, The South's Tolerable Alien: Roman Catholics in Alabama and Georgia, 1945-1970, by Peter C. Murray
STANONIS, ed., Dixie Emporium: Tourism, Foodways, and Consumer Culture in the American South, by Christopher C. Meyers