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Volume XCV, Spring 2011, No. 1

 

Articles

• Oglethorpe in America: Georgia's Founder's Thoughts on Independence by Julie Anne Sweet

• A Georgian in the Argonne: Seeking Redemption on the Corney Ridge by Richard S. Faulkner

 

Georgia History in Pictures

• Controversial Comeback in Atlanta: The 1970 Return of Muhammad Ali in "The City Too Busy to Hate" by Paul Stephen Hudson and Lora Pond Mirza

 

Annual Report

• Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2010 by W. Todd Groce
  

 

Book Reviews

• CASHIN, Guardians of the Valley: Chickasaws in Colonial South Carolina and Georgia, by John T. Juricek
• HART, Building Charleston: Town and Society in the Eighteenth-Centurey British Atlantic World, and SHEILDS, ed., Material Culture in Anglo-America: Regional Identity and Urbanity in the Tidewater, Lowcountry, and Caribbean, by Paul M. Pressly
• FORD, Deliver Us From Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old, by Douglas R. Egerton
• WAUGH and Gallagher, ed., Wars Within a War: Controversy and Conflict Over the American Civil War, by Brian Craig Miller
• MISULIA, Columbus, Georgia 1865: The Last True Battle of the Civil War, by J. Michael Bunn
• STROM, Making Catfish Bait out of Government Boys: The Fight Against Cattle Ticks and the Transformation of the YEoman South, by George B. Ellenberg
• FEIMSTER, Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching, by Anna L. Krome-Lukens 
• PERDUE, Race and the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition of 1895, by David Fort Godshalk
• BULLOCK and GADDIE, The Triumph of Voting Rights in the South, by Augustus B. Cochran, III
• OSHINSKY, Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America, by Joseph E. Claxton

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Volume XCIV, Winter 2010, No. 4

 

Articles

• Compelled to Dissent: The Politicization of Rev. John Joachim Zubly, 1760-1776 by Joseph Locke

• The Fight to Protect Race and Regional Identity within the General Federation of Women's Clubs by Mary Jane Smith

 

Book Reviews

• CHIRHART and WOOD, eds., Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume One, by Stacy A. Cordery
• EDWARDS, The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South, by Stephanie Cole
• READ, Majority Rule versus Consensus: The Political Thought of John C. Calhoun, by Mary K. Block
• McNAIR, Criminal Injustice: Slaves and Free Blacks in Georgia's Criminal Justice System, by Jeffrey S. Adler
• VENET, ed., Sam Richard's Civil War Diary: A Chronicle of the Atlanta Home Front, by Stephen Davis
• MAJEWSKI, Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation, by Aaron W. Marrs
• DRAGO, Confederate Phoenix: Rebel Children and Their Families in South Carolina, by Wendy Venet 
• FRIEND, ed., Southern Masculinity: Perspectives on Manhood in the South Since Reconstruction, by Brian M. Ingrassia
• OLTMAN, Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition: Black Christian Nationalism in the Age of Jim Crow, by Derek Charles Catsam
• WOOD, Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940, by David Goldfield
• HUNT, Relationship Banker: Eugene W. Stetson, Wall Street, and American Business, 1916-1959, by Frederick W. Mills, Sr.
• DAVIS, An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century, by J. Brooks Flippen
  

 

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Volume XCIV, Fall 2010, No. 3

 

Articles

• James Gunn: Georgia Federalist, 1789-1801 by George R. Lamplugh

• Augustus R. Wright and the Loyalty of the Heart by David T. Dixon

Georgia History in Pictures

• Juliette Low's Gift: Girl Scouting in Savannah, 1912-1927 by Anastatia Hodgens Sims and Katherine Knapp Keena

 

Annual Bibliography

• Georgia History in 2009 by Nicole Mitchell with E. Lorene Flanders
  

 

Book Reviews

• McILVEENA, A Very Mutinous People: The Struggle for North Carolina, 1660-1713, by Christopher E. Hendricks
• FIELDS-BLACK, Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Disaspora, by Valerie Grim
• HERNDON and MURRAY, eds., Children Bound to Labor: The Pauper Apprentice System in Early America, by Catherine Jones
• NICHOLS, Red Gentlemen & White Savages: Indians, Federalists, and the Search for Order on the American Frontier, by Tanis C. Thorne
• SUMLER-EDMOND, The Secret Trust of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault: The Life and Trials of a Free Woman of Color in Antebellum Georgia, by Karen B. Bell
• MARRS, Railroads in the Old South: Pursuing Progress in a Slave Society, by Richard Saunders, Jr.
• AUCOIN, A Rift in the Clouds: Race and the Southern Federal Judiciary, 1900-1910, by Eric W. Rise 
• BASS and POOLE, The Palmetto State: The Making of Modern South Carolina, and HUDSON, Entangled by White Supremacy: Reform in World War I-era South Carolina, by Marko Maunula
• DARTT, Women Activists in the Fight for Georgia School Desegregation, 1958-1961, by Becca Walton
• FRIEDMAN, Champion of Civil Rights: Judge John Minor Wisdom, by Joseph E. Claxton

 

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Volume XCIV, Summer 2010, No. 2

 

Articles

• Oberlin M. Carter and the Savannah River Swindle of 1898 by Robert Donald Perkins

• Radicals Between the Hedges: The Origins of the New Left at the University of Georgia and the 1968 Sit-In by Christopher A. Huff

Review Essay

• A Bishop, a Priest, Southern Evangelicalism, and the Lost Cause Religion by Lloyd Hunter

Book Reviews

• GREEN, Military Education and the Emerging Middle Class in the Old South, by John Mayfield
• DURHAM, Guardian of Savannah: Fort Mcallister, Georgia, in the Civil War and Beyond, by Buddy Sullivan
• ACKERMAN, Wade Hampton III, and ANDREW, JR., Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer, by Ben Wynne
• YARBOUGH, Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century, and ISHII, Bad Fruits of the Civilized Tree: Alchohol and the Sovereignty of the Cherokee Nation, by Mark A. Nicholas
• OGLESBY, Corra Harris and the Divided Mind of the New South, by Ann Short Chirhart
  
• ARNOLD, What Virtue There is in Fire: Cultural Memory and the Lynching of Sam Hose, and BERNSTEIN, Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Lynching in Film and Television, by Amy Louise Wood
• HORNSBY, JR., Black Power in Dixie: A Political History of African Americans in Atlanta, byPaul Stephen Hudson
  
• WHISNANT, Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History, and MARTIN, Tourism in the Mountain South: A Double-Edged Sword, by Tammy Ingram
• Jackson, Becoming King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Making of a National Leader, by Angela Hornsby-Gutting
• HOGAN, Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America, by Robert Samuel Smith
  

 

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Volume XCIV, Spring 2010, No. 1

 

Articles

• "That Cursed Rum": The Trustees' Prohibition Policy in Colonial Georgia by Julie Anne Sweet

• Hydrology and Residential Segregation in the Postwar South: An Environmental History of Atlanta, 1865-1895 by Bartow Elmore

Review Essay

• Did Homer Plessy Die a White Man? race and Southern History: The State of the Field by Peter Wallenstein

Book Reviews

• MASON, Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic, and RAY, Middle Tennessee, 1775-1825: Progress & Popular Democracy on the Southwestern Frountier, by Jim Piecuch
• RACINE, ed., Gentelman Merchants: A Charleston Family's Odyssey, 1828-1870, by Daniel Kilbride
• DEAN, The American Cane Mill: A History of the Machines, the Manufacturers, Sugar Cane and Sorghum, by Robert Scott Davis
• VARON, Disunion! The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1815, by Susan-Mary Grant
  
• MANNING, What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War, by Russell McClintock
  
• KEAN, Desegregating Private Higher Education in the South: Duke, Emory, Rice, Tulane, and Vanderbilt, by Raymond Wolters
• DYKMAN, Floridian of his Century: The Courage of Governor LeRoy Collins, and COLBURN, From Yellow Dog Democrats to Red State Republicans: Florida and Its Politics since 1940, by Laura T. McCarty
• MILLER, Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South, by Charles S. Bullock III
  
• AUTEN, Carter's Conversion: The Hardening of American Defense Policy, by Scott Kaufman

 

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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

 

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Volume XCIII, Fall 2009, No. 3

 

Articles 

• Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar and the Movement to Reopen the African Slave Trade by Jim Jordan

• New Ideas from New Sources: Modern Research in Reconstruction 1865-1876 by Robert Scott Davis

Notes and Documents

• The Confederate Nation Reflected: Names of Georgia's Civil War Companies by William Warren Rogers

Annual Bibliography

• Georgia History in 2008 by Nicole Mitchell with E. Lorene Flanders

Book Reviews 

• McMICHAEL, Atlantic Loyalties: Americans in Spanish West Florida, 1785-1810, and TAYLOR, Making an Atlantic World: Circles, Paths, and Stories from the Colonial South, by Kristofer Ray
• RENOFF, The Big Tent: The Traveling Circus in Georgia, by LeRoy Ashby
• KAYE, Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South, and FORRET, Race Relations at the Margins: Slaves and Poor Whites in the Antebellum Southern Countryside, by Emily West
• LUVAAS and NELSON, eds., Guide to the Atlanta Campaign: Rocky Face Ridge to Kennesaw Mountain, and CAUDELL and ASHDOWN, Sherman's March in Myth and Memory, by J. Michael Bunn
• GALLAGHER, Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know About the Civil War, by Daniel E. Sutherland
• O'DONOVAN, Becoming Free in the Cotton South, by Elizabeth Regosin
• JOHNSON, Southern Women at the Seven Sister Colleges: Feminist Values and Social Activism, 1875-1915, by Catherine Oglesby
• MOORE, Carnival of Blood: Dueling, Lynching, and Murder in South Carolina, 1880-1920, by Robert Cassanello
• DELFINO and GILLESPIE, eds., Technology, Innovation, and Southern Industrialization: From the Antebellum Era to the Computer Age, by George B. Ellenberg
• LIENESCH, In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement, by Steve Goodson
• JACKSON, From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice, by Noel Leo Erskine

 

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Volume XCIII, Summer 2009, No. 2

 

Articles 

Book Reviews 

• MEYERS, ed., The Empire State of the South: Georgia History in Documents and Essays by Craig S. Pascoe
• CALLOWAY, White People, Indians, and Highlanders: Tribal Peoples and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America, by Bruce E. Stewart
• KAMOIE, Irons in the Fire: The Business History of the Tayloe Family and Virginia's Gentry, 1700-1860, by Darcy R. Fryer
• MIGLIAZZO, To Make This Land Our Own: Community, Identity, and Cultural Adaptation in Purrysburg Township, South Carolina, 1732-1865, and RUYMBEKE, From New Babylon to Eden: The Huguenots and Their Migration to Colonial South Carolina, by Thomas Chase Hagood
• PIECUCH, Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians, and Slaves in the Revolutionary South, 1775-1782, by Julie Anne Sweet
• ROSEN, American Indians and State Law: Sovreignty, Race, and Citizenship, 1790-1880, by Andrew Denson
• WALKER, Hell's Broke Loose in Georgia: Survival in a Civil War Regiment, by Buddy Sullivan
• REID, Freedom for Themselves: North Carolina's Black Soldiers in the Civil War Era, by Bernard E. Powers, Jr.
• WADE-LEWIS, Lorenzo Dow Turner: Father of Gullah Studies, by Leorotha Williams, Jr.
• NOVOTNY, This Georgia Rising: Education, Civil Rights, and the Politics of Change in Georgia in the 1940s, by Christopher C. Meyers
• WENDT, The Spirit & The Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights, by Wesley C. Hogan
• TURNER, Bill Bright & Campus Crusade for Christ: The Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America, by Daniel K. Williams
  

 

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Volume XCIII, Spring 2009, No. 1

 

Articles 

Review Essay

• The Southern Homefront and the Problem of Synthesis by Aaron Sheehan-Dean

Book Reviews 

• FRASER, JR., Low country Hurricanes: Three Centuries of Storms at Sea and Ashore, by Buddy Sullivan
  
• JURICEK, ed., Early American Indian Documents: Treaties and Laws, 1607-1789, Volume 12: Georgia and Florida Treaties, 1763-1776, by Andrew K. Frank
• KELTON, Epidemics & Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 1492-1715, and CUMFER, Separate Peoples, One Land: The Minds of Cherokees, Blacks, and Whites on the Tennesse Frontier, by Crandall Shifflett
  
• IRONS, The Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia, by Michael Guasco
  
• EDELSON, Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina, by T. Stephen Whitman
  
• WOOD, ed., Mary Telfair and Mary Few: Selected Letters 1802-1844, and CARTER, Southern Single Blessedness: Unmarried Women in the Urban South, 1800-1865, by Hugh S. Golson
• FAUST, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, by Paul Christopher Anderson
  
• RUBIN III, South Carolina Scalawags, and MARSZALEK, A Black Congressman in the Age of Jim Crow: South Carolina's George Washington Murray, by Gregory R. Jones
• NAYLOR, African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From Chattel to Citizens, by Rowena McClinton
• CIMBALA and SHAW, eds., Making a New South: Race, Leadership, and Community After the Civil War, by Ryan Speer
• DAUGHERITY and BOLTON, eds., With All Deliberate Speed: Implementing Brown v. Board of Education, by Robert A. Pratt
• WOODS, Richard B. Russell: Southern Nationalism and American Foreign Policy, by Larry Blomstedt

 

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Volume XCII, Winter 2008, No. 4

 

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Volume XCII, Fall 2008, No. 3

 

Articles 

Review Essay

• What Hath Howe (and the Whigs) Wrought? by George C. Rable

Annual Bibliography

• Georgia History in 2007 by Nichole Mitchell with E. Lorene Flanders
  

Book Reviews 

• MERCANTINI, Who Shall Rule at Home? The Evolution of South Carolina Political Culture, 1748-1776, by Daniel McDonough
  
• LIPSCOMB, ed., The Letters of Pierce Butler, 1790-1794: Nation Building and Enterprise in the New American Republic, by Jeff Broadwater
• PERDUE and GREEN, The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears, by Andrew K. Frank
  
• McClintock, Lincoln and the Decision for War: The Northern Response to Secession, by Chandra Manning
  
• BRAGG, ROSS, BLAKER, JACOBE, and SAVAS, Never For Want of Powder: The Confederate Powder Works in Augusta, Georgia, by Gordon L. Jones
  
• OTT, Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil War, by Tracy J. Revels
  
• SCHROEDER-LEIN, The Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine, by Margaret Humphreys
  
• PRYOR, Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters, by Lesley J. Gordon
  

 

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Volume XCII, Summer 2008, No. 2

Articles

• Sovereign or Suzerain: Alexander McGillivray's Argument for Creek Independence after the Treaty of Paris of 1783
  by Melissa A. Stock

• Organized Labor Along Savannah's Waterfront: Mutual Cooperation among Black and White Longshoremen
  by Monica Hunt

• The Georgia Confederate Flag Dispute         by J. Michael Martinez

Notes and Documents

• My Experiences as a "Kriegsgefangen": Heinz Gaertner's Account as a Prisoner of War in Tennessee and Georgia                        by Susan E. Copeland, ed.

 Book Reviews

• CARP, Rebels Rising: Cities and the American revolution, by Keith Krawczynski
  
• KILBRIDE, An American Aristocracy: Southern Planters in Antebellum Philadelphia, by Frank J. Byrne
• GORDON and INSCOE, eds., Inside the Confederate Nation: Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas, by Robert Tracy McKenzie
  
• POSTEL, The Populist Vision, by Ronald P. Formisano
  
• LORENCE, A Hard Journey: The Life of Don West, by Jay Langdale
• STELPFLUG and HYATT, Home of the Infantry: The History of Fort Benning, by J. Michael Bunn
• FREDERICK, Stand Up for Alabama: Governor George Wallace, and CAMPBELL, Senator Sam Ervin, Last of the Founding Fathers by Charles S. Bullock III
  
• GAILLARD, Prophet from Plains: Jimmy Carter and his Legacy, and KAUFMAN, Rosalynn Carter: Equal Partner in the White House, by Frederick V. Mills, Sr.

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  Volume XCII, Spring 2008, No. 1

Articles

• William Stephens versus Thomas Stephens: A Family Fued in Colonial Georgia
  by Julie Anne Sweet

• Georgia Photographers: The First Generation
  by E. Lee Eltzroth

• The Bitter Trail of Defeat and Emancipation: Reconstruction in Bartow County, Georgia, 1865-1872 by Keith S. Hebert

• Self-Determination, Politics, and Gender on Georgia's Black College Campuses, 1875-1900
  by Stephanie R. Wright

 Book Reviews

• MARSH, Georgia's Frontier Women: Female Fortunes in a Southern Colony, by Lorri Glover
• MOORE, World of Toil and Strife: Community Transformation in Backcountry South Carolina, 1750-1805, by Jonathan Mercantini
• MEGGINSON, African American Life in South Carolina's Upper Peidmont, 1780-1900, by Lloyd Johnson
• BERRY, Swing the Sickle for the Harvest is Ripe: Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia, by Jeff Forret
• POOLE, South Carolina's Civil War: A Narrative History, by W. Eric Emerson
• MCKINNEY, Zeb Vance: North Carolina's Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader, by J. Michael Rhyne
• HILD, Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South, by Jonathan Daniel Wells
• MAZZARI, Southern Modernist: Arthur Raper from the New Deal to the Cold War, by Jay Langdale

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Volume XCI, Winter 2007, No. 4

 

Articles 

• Georgia and the Conversation of Indian Removal by Michael Morris

• "I Lead You to Battle": Joseph E. Johnston and the Controversy at Cassville by Timothy F. Weiss

• Complex Relations: An African-American Lawyer Navigates Jim Crow Atlanta by David Kenneth Pye

• A Light on a Hill: Georgia Southern University, 1906-2006 by Delma E. Presley

 

Book Reviews 

• UNDERWOOD and BURKE, eds., The Dawn of Religious Freedom in South Carolina, by A. Glenn Crothers
• JABOUR, Scarlet's Sisters: Youn Women in the Old South, and GLOVER, Southern Sons: Becoming Men in the New Nation, by Lisa Tendrich Frank
• FREEHLING, The Road to Disunion, Volume II, Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861, by Daniel W. Crofts
• EARLEY, Looking for Longleaf: The Fall and Rise of an American Forest, by Matthew A. Lockhart
• MONTGOMERY, The Politics of Education in the New South: Women and Reform in Georgia, 1890-1930, by Robin O. Harris
• STARNES, Creating the Land of the Sky: Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina, by Stephen Taylor
• COOK, Troubled Commemmoration: The American Civil War Centennial, 1961-1965,  by Laura T. McCarty
• KRUSE, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism, and LASSITER, The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South, by Ronald P. Formisano