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In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Bigamy and Bloodshed: The Scandal of Emma Molloy and the Murder of Sarah Graham by Larry E. Wood Carol Faulkner Bigamy and Bloodshed: The Scandal of Emma Molloy and the Murder of Sarah Graham. By Larry E. Wood. True Crime History. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2019. Pp. x, 230. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-1-60635-385-1

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In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States ed. by Shirley Samuels Frederick C. Staidum Jr. Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Edited by Shirley Samuels. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Lexington Books, 2019. Pp. xii, 224. $95.00, ISBN 978-1-4985-7311-5.) Visual culture, and vision itself

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In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Lockheed, Atlanta, and the Struggle for Racial Integration by Randall L. Patton Jody Noll Lockheed, Atlanta, and the Struggle for Racial Integration. By Randall L. Patton. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2019. Pp. xiv, 224. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-5514-6.) As a defining feature of the twentieth-century United States

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In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: A Warren Court of Our Own: The Exum Court and the Expansion of Individual Rights in North Carolina by Mark A. Davis John C. Domino A Warren Court of Our Own: The Exum Court and the Expansion of Individual Rights in North Carolina. By Mark A. Davis. (Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2019. Pp. xxii, 208. $45.00, ISBN 978-1-5310-1449-0

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship by Brenna Wynn Greer Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship. By Brenna Wynn Greer. American Business, Politics, and Society. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019

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In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life by Jennifer Jensen Wallach Beth Fowler Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life. By Jennifer Jensen Wallach. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield, 2019. Pp. x, 225. $36.00, ISBN 978-1-4422-5390-2.) “We

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In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Historical News and Notices THE ASSOCIATION The eighty-seventh annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association is scheduled to take place at the Astor Crowne Plaza in New Orleans, Louisiana, on November 3–6, 2021, Wednesday through Saturday. At the close of the Association’s eighty-sixth virtual meeting on November 21, 2020, Steven

textile mill town of Fall River, Massachusetts. She argues that the labor struggle there cemented English ethnic awareness because of the organizing experience mill workers brought from their homeland. In contrast, Joseph Hardwick focuses his essay on clergy of the Church of England. While many fled from the United States during the American Revolution, new Anglican clergy arrived in the following

wide-ranging than some scholars, like Thompson, have shown. Lincoln, too, enjoyed the humor of vulgarity, which reflected not only Lincoln’s rural frontier upbringing but also his purposeful attempts to identify with the common man. Carwardine agrees with other scholars who have noted that Lincoln “applied humor with purpose and for advantage” in his political career (p. 92). Lincoln discovered early

simply “took on a different appearance, that of the gray cloth of the Confederate States of America” (p. 14). The prologue hints at what is to come by recounting the “brutish behavior” of the Texas Rangers as they ruthlessly hanged a Union army captain so as to demonstrate to other prisoners what would happen if they did not reveal everything they knew about Union activity in the area (p. 21). These

the University Press of Kentucky. Runyon, professor emeritus at Miami University, has focused his career on nineteenthand twentieth-century American cultural history. His resume includes books on poet-authors Robert Penn Warren and Raymond Carver, abolitionist Delia Webster, and French philosopher Michel de Montaigne. In this newwork, Runyon uses the recently digitized papers of Constance de Salm,

In early 1862, Virginia state senator James M. Whittle found himself in hot water. The legislature had recently voted to prohibit distilling because it wasted grain, andWhittle had voted in support of themeasure.He received angry letters from his constituents—the farmers of Pittsylvania County—for his trouble. Writing to a friend and political supporter in Pittsylvania County,Whittle explained that

The lynch mob that formed in Roanoke, Virginia, one day in September 1893 was not the first in the town’s brief history, but it was undeniably the largest. After northern capital and the newly consolidated Norfolk and Western Railroad (N&W) had transformed the village formerly called Big Lick into the fastest-growing city in the South, Roanoke’s racial and political demographics changed dramatically

Published in 2018, Appalachia in Regional Context: Place Matters, edited by Dwight B. Billings and Ann E. Kingsolver, highlights tensions within the field of Appalachian studies, particularly tensions rooted in the diverse political, economic, and epistemological paradigms. The collection is part of a larger series, Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies, also edited by Billings and published

shortages and abuse. The commissioners used an enslaved workforce drawn from local plantations for much of the arduous early work but looked farther afield for skilled free workers. When craftsmen arrived at the worksite, they found limited supplies, inept managers, and absentee commissioners who periodically failed to meet payroll. These conditions led to serious labor disputes and ultimately left

win better education as a practical matter. However, proof of the power of claiming taxpayer status is elusive. People have used language referencing taxpaying status, but they may have done so possibly more as a rhetorical move or as a claim for access to a court of equity than as their basis for a claim for equal education. More, and very difficult, research would be necessary to prove that taxpaying

holding fast to a narrow definition of treason, decided that whatever Burr might have said was protected under his First Amendment right of free speech and, finding no evidence of treasonous intentions or acts, ruled for acquittal. After explaining all this very clearly, the author concludes that historical scholarship cannot give any definitive answer to the nagging questions about Burr’s true intentions

with “white slavery,” the coercion of young white girls into prostitution. In “The White Slave: AmericanGirlhood, Race, andMemory at the Turn of the Century,” Micki McElya argues that Progressive-era reformers drew on popular memories of antebellum slavery to equate commercial sex in urban centers with slavery and to claim all white sexworkers, regardless of age, as enslaved childrenwho needed the

population is mostly absent. George Washington’s Washington provides tantalizing snapshots of the district’s demographics at certain points, and the book is littered with examples of the capital’s vernacular architecture, but rarely is the reader transported to the street level, where politicians rubbed elbows with tradesmen, laborers, enslaved people, and the rest of the population. For the most part

politics. Fairclough’s account of politics is mostly about men and mostly about voting, but he notes in passing that the Reverend Alfred Raford Blunt’s political power in the parish seemed to come from his influence on black female parishioners who threatened to divorce men who voted Democratic. As Kate Côté Gillin has shown in Shrill Hurrahs: Women, Gender, and Racial Violence in South Carolina, 1865–1900

ForAdamFairclough, Reconstructionwas not an “unfinished revolution”—to quote Eric Foner’s Reconstruction (New York, 1988)—but a “revolution that failed.” In this meticulously crafted analysis of a black-majority parish in Louisiana, Fairclough gives theNatchitoches ParishRepublican Party a close and careful analysis. He concludes that the local and state Republican Party was a little more venal and

Few inventions have been more intertwined, influential, or destructive than race and nation. European nation-states first emerged during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, in the same moment that Europeans devised the transatlantic slave trade. The concept of race followed soon thereafter. While some European and American theorists insisted that every national group contributed its own special

These four books examine civil cases involving African Americans in the South between the early nineteenth century and 1950. A central theme unites them:What should historians make of courtroom victories by African American civil parties in the nineteenth-century South? African Americans—slave or free—had the deck stacked against them when they entered the courtroom in this period, especially in southern

Roger W. Lotchin’s Japanese American Relocation in World War II: A Reconsideration attempts to revise decades of research on the experiences of persons of Japanese ancestry in the United States during World War II. National security, he argues, was the driving force behind mass incarceration in internment camps and motivated the actions of American officials and the general public. Conversely, Lotchin

violence as irrational, chaotic, and spontaneous. González-Tennant, to the contrary, argues that most violence of that sort grew from quite rational origins. He uses the Rosewood race riot as an example. He notes that rational thought propelled the white mob when its members went after Sam Carter, who allegedly knew the attacker, and Sarah and Philomena Carrier, who witnessed firsthand the attack on

In recent years, the study of the Civil War era has benefited from a number of fine works on Irish Americans in the Confederate and Union armies. Scholars such as Susannah J. Ural, David T. Gleeson, William B. Kurtz, and Christian G. Samito have expanded historians’ understanding of how members of this immigrant group fought for their adopted nation—a nation that had too frequently welcomed them not

For historians and political scientists looking for the authoritative source on Gerald R. Ford’s political career, Scott Kaufman’s thoroughly researched book provides that resource in a single volume, with a narrative style that is at once scholarly and accessible. Moreover, in exploring Ford’s political experience, Kaufman offers a sweeping history of national politics between 1948 and 1976 from the

A Forgotten Front: Florida During the Civil War Era is a collection of ten essays about different aspects of Florida and the Civil War. Of the eleven states that seceded, it seems that the least has been written about Florida. Thus, any work on Florida’s Civil War history is welcome. The subjects covered in A Forgotten Front seem almost random. It appears that the editors chose the writers first, as

members and slaves were born or died and penned amatter-of-fact report for his own nuptials on April 20, 1836: “I wasmaried [sic] on this day about 50 persons at the weeding [sic] and about 75 at the infair [infare (reception)]” (p. 45). The second volume, covering 1856, continues to offer the same type of information as the first volume but has more detailed ledgers for the plantation’s stock, market

Margaret M. Mulrooney’s Race, Place, and Memory: Deep Currents in Wilmington, North Carolina is one of the latest additions to the University Press of Florida series Cultural Heritage Studies. Begun in 2005 with Paul A. Shackel as the editor, the series, as this book’s back matter explains, was created to “bring together research devoted to understanding the material and behavioral characteristics