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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 

  • Slave Women, Capital Crime, and Criminal Justice in Georgia by Glenn McNair

  • Liberty Shipyards: The Role of Savannah and Brunswick in the Allied Victory, 1941-1945  by Ashley Veasey


Notes and Documents

  • Georgia's Influence on the U.S. Senate: A Reassessment of the Rejection of Benjamin Fishbourn and the Origin of Senatorial Courtesy by Mitchel A. Sollenberger


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 

  • A Misguided Mistake: The Trustees' Public Garden in Savannah, Georgia by Julie Anne Sweet

  • "As Gold is Tried in the Fire, So Hearts Must be Tried by Pain": The Temperance Movement in Georgia and the Local Option Law of 1885 by Michael A. Wagner

  • The Origins of the Georgia Judiciary by Scott D. Gerber

Notes and Documents

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


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

 

Articles 

  • "The Fire-Brand of Discord": The North, the South, and the Southern Fire of 1820 by Matthew Mason

  • Religious Leaders in the Aftermath of Atlanta's 1906 Race Riot by Harvey K. Newman and Glenda Crunk

  • A Question of Progress and Welfare: The Jitney Bus Phenomenon in Atlanta, 1915-1925 by Julian C. Chambliss

Annual Report

  •   Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2008 by W. Todd Groce


Communications

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Volume XCII, Fall 2008, No. 3

 

Articles 

  • "Next to Nothing?": Benjamin Ingham's Mission to Georgia by John Thomas Scott

  • Hysteria and Literature: Atlanta's First Execution and its Legendary Ties to Organized Crime by Robert Scott Davis

  • A Rebel Yell for Yankee Doodle: Selling the New South at the 1881 Atlanta International Cotton Exposition by K. Stephen Prince

Notes and Documents

  • In Memoriam: Edward Joseph Cashin, Jr. (1927-2007) by Lee Ann Caldwell

  • Killed in the Line of Duty: Marshal Robert Harriss, Jr., of Summerville, Georgia by Russell K. Brown

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

Georgia History in Pictures
  • 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

 
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