Spring ‘99
VOLUME 5, NUMBER 1: COMING TO TERMS WITH SCARLETT and more.
King of the One-String
by Fetzer Mills Jr., photographs by Tom Rankin
Author and photographer team up to show and tell just what a diddley-bow can do.
We've Got to Get Out of This Place: Tony Horwitz Tours the Civil War South
by Grace Elizabeth Hale
Is it heritage, not hate? A review of Tony Horwitz's Confederates in the Attic probes the many meanings of Civil War nostalgia.
Living and Dying in Dixie
by John Shelton Reed
"Hot Music on the Half-Shell for Two": Anton Rubinstein's Southern Fan
by Gavin James Campbell
Clutching the Chains that Bind: Margaret Mitchell and Gone with the Wind
by Drew Gilpin Faust
Drew Faust has some things to say about Scarlett O'Hara, the South's favorite bad belle. Three other scholars of southern women's literature and history talk back.
Race and the Cloud of Unknowing in Gone with the Wind
by Patricia Yaeger
"I Was Tellin It": Race, Gender, and the Puzzle of the Storyteller
by Anne Goodwyn Jones
"The Prong of Love"
by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Philip J. Schwarz's
Slave Laws in Virginia
reviewed by Thomas D. Morris
Edward D. C. Cambell Jr. and Kym S. Rice, editors
A Woman's War: Southern Women, Civil War, and the Confederate Legacy
reviewed by LeeAnn Whites
W. Fitzhugh Brundage's
A Socialist Utopia in the New South: The Ruskin Colonies in Tennessee and Georgia, 1894-1901
reviewed by Christopher H. Owen
Tracy Elaine K'Meyer's
Interracialism and Christian Community in the Postwar South: The Story of Koinonia Farm
reviewed by W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Elna C. Green's
Southern Strategies: Southern Women and the Woman Suffrage Question
reviewed by Pamela Tyler
Tommy L. Bogger's
Free Blacks in Norfolk, Virginia, 1790-1860: The Darker Side of Freedom
reviewed by Robert C. Kenzer
Xi Wang's
The Trial of Democracy: Black Suffrage and Northern Republicans, 1860-1910
reviewed by John David Smith
Mark A. Fossett and M. Therese Seibert's
Long Time Coming: Racial Inequality in the Nonmetropolitan South, 1940-1990
reviewed by Robert A. Margo
James Axtell's
The Indians' New South: Cultural Change in the Colonial Southeast
reviewed by Tim Alan Garrison
Tenth Conference on Restoring Southern Gardens and Landscapes
The Influence of Women on the Southern Landscape
reviewed by Rachel V. Mills
Ray Jenkins's
Blind Vengeance: The Roy Moody Mail Bomb Murders
Byron Woodfin's
Lay Down with Dogs: The Story of Hugh Otis Bynum and the Scottsboro First Monday Bombing
reviewed by Larry J. Griffin
Thomas E. Douglass's
A Room Forever: The Life, Work, and Letters of Breece D'J Pancake
reviewed by Ruel Foster
Kenny Dalsheimer's
Go Fast, Turn Left: Voices from Orange County Speedway
reviewed by Elizabeth A. Fenn
Conjunto Bernal, 16 Early Tejano Classics, and: Santiago Jimenez Jr., Purely Instrumental
Jim Mills, Bound to Ride, and: Nashville Bluegrass Band, American Beauty
Mississippi String Bands: Traditional Fiddle Music of Mississippi
Mama Don't Allow No Easy Riders Here: Strutting the Dozens, and: Shake Your Wicked Knees: Rent Parties and Good Times
reviewed by Gavin James Campbell