Books Available for Review
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Baldwin, Cinda K. Great & Noble Jar: Traditional Stoneware of South Carolina. University of Georgia Press. 978-0-8203-4616-8.
Bennett, Evan P. When Tobacco Was King: Families, Farm Labor, and Federal Policy in the Piedmont. University Press of Florida. 978-0-8130-6014-6.
Bishir, Catherine W. Crafting Lives: African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770-1900. University of North Carolina Press. 978-1-4696-0875-4.
Broadwater, Jeff, and Troy L. Kickler, eds. North Carolina’s Revolutionary Founders. University of North Carolina Press. 978-1-4696-5120-0.
Burnet, Katharine A., and Monica Carol Miller, eds. The Tacky South. Louisiana State University Press. 9780807177891.
Cartwright, Keith. Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways: Travels in Deep Southern Time, Circum-Caribbean Space, Afro-creole Authority. University of Georgia Press. 978-0-8203-4599-4.
Chirhart, Ann & Kathleen Ann Clark. Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times. University of Georgia Press. 978-0-8203-3784-5.
Christensen, Rob. The Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys: North Carolina’s Scott Family and the Era of Progressive Politics. University of North Carolina Press. 978-1-4696-5104-0.
Clabough, Casey, ed. Women of War: Selected Memoirs, Poems, and Fiction by Virginia Women Who Lived Through the Civil War. Texas Review Press. 978-1-937875-49-7
Coggeshall, John M. Liberia, South Carolina: An African American Appalachian Community. University of North Carolina Press. 978-1-4696-4085-3.
Dailey, Maceo C., Jr. Emmett J. Scott: Power Broker of the Tuskegee Machine. Texas Tech University Press. ISBN: 9781682831236
Daniels, Maurice C. Saving the Soul of Georgia: Donald Hollowell and the Struggle for Civil Rights. University of Georgia Press. 978-0-8203-4596-3.
Daugherity, Brian J. Keep on Keeping On: The NAACP and the Implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in Virginia. University of Virginia Press. 9780813938899.
Deutch, David. Understanding Jim Grimsley. University of South Carolina Press. 978-1-61117-929-3.
Diffley, Kathleen, and Benjamin Fagan, eds. Visions of Glory: The Civil War in Word and Image. University of Georgia Press. 978-0-8203-5593-1.
Duffy, Timothy. Blue Muse: Timothy Duffy’s Southern Photographs. University of North Carolina Press. 978-1-4696-4826-2.
Eamon, Tom. The Making of a Southern Democracy: North Carolina Politics From Kerr Scott to Pat McCrory. University of North Carolina Press. 978-1-4696-0697-2.
Farmer-Kaiser, Mary, and Shannon Frystak, eds. Louisiana Women, Their Lives and Times – Volume 2. 9780820342702.
Flanagan, Christine, ed., The Letters of Flannery O’Connor and Caroline Gordon. University of Georgia Press. 978-0-8203-5408-8.
Gallagher, Garry W., and J. Matthew Gallman. Civil War Places: Seeing the Conflict through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians. University of North Carolina Press. 978-1-4696-4953-5.
Gerard, Philip. The Last Battleground: The Civil War Comes to North Carolina. University of North Carolina Press. 978-1-4696-4956-6.
Gladney, Margaret Rose, and Lisa Hodgens, eds. A Lillian Smith Reader. University of Georgia Press. 978-0-8203-4999-2.
Grem, Darren E., Ted Ownby, and James G. Thomas, Jr., eds. Southern Religion, Southern Culture: Essays Honoring Charles Reagan Wilson. University Press of Mississippi. 978-1-4968-2047-1.
Hadden, Sally E. and Patricia Hagler Minter, eds. Signposts: New Directions in Southern Legal History. University of Georgia Press. 978-0-8203-4499-7.
Hale, Grace Elizabeth. Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture. University of North Carolina Press. 978-1-4696-5487-4.
Harjo, Laura. Spiral to the Stars: Mvskoke Tools of Futurity. University of Arizona Press. 978-0-8165-3801-0.
Harris, Alex, and Margaret Sartor, eds. Dream of a House: The Passions and Preoccupations of Reynolds Price. University of Virginia Press. 978-1-9380-8649-6.
Hawkins, Karen M. Everybody’s Problem: The War on Poverty in Eastern North Carolina. University Press of Florida. 978-0-8130-5497-1.
Hess, Earl J. Fighting for Atlanta: Tactics, Terrain, and Trenches in the Civil War. University of North Carolina Press. 978-1-4696-4342-7.
Howell, Jeffery B. Hazel Brannon Smith: The Female Crusading Scalawag. University Press of Mississippi. 978-1-4968-1079-3.
Ingram, Jessica. Road Through Midnight: A Civil Rights Memorial. University of North Carolina Press. 978-1-4696-5423-2.
Jeffries, Judson L., ed. The Black Panther Party: In a City Near You. University of Georgia Press. 978-0-8203-5197-1.
Jones, Jennifer A. The Browning of the New South. University of Chicago Press. 978-0-226-60098-7.
Jordan, Jim. The Slave-Trader’s Letter-Book: Charles Lamar, The Wanderer, and Other Tales of the African Slave Trade. University of Georgia Press. 978-0-8203-5196-4.
Jovanovic, Spoma, ed. Expression in Contested Public Spaces: Free Speech and Civic Engagement. Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield. 9781793630933.
Kelbaugh, Ross J. Maryland’s Civil War Photographs: The Sesquicentennial Collection. Maryland Historical Society. 978-0-9842135-1-1.
Kierner, Cynthia A., and Sandra G. Treadway, eds. Virginia Women: Their Lives and Times. Volume I. University of Georgia Press. 978-0-8203-4263-4.
Kreyling, Michael. A Late Encounter with the Civil War. University of Georgia Press. 978-0-8203-4657-8.
Lindsay, Debra J. Maria Martin’s World: Art & Science, Faith & Family in Audubon’s America. University of Alabama Press. 978-0-8173-1951-9.
Link, William A. Atlanta Cradle of the New South: Race and Remembering in the Civil War’s Aftermath. University of North Carolina Press. 978-1-4696-0776-4.
Lowe, John Wharton, ed. Calypso Magnolia: The Crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern Literature. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN: 9781469628882.
McCarroll, Meredith. Un-White: Appalachia, Race, and Film. University of Georgia Press. 978-0-8203-5362-3.
McGuire, Jack B. Win the Race or Die Trying: Uncle Earl’s Last Hurrah. University Press of Mississippi. 978-1-4968-0763-2.
McKinney, Gordon B. Henry W. Blair’s Campaign to Reform America: From the Civil War to the U.S. Senate. University Press of Kentucky. 978-0-8131-4087-2.
Mixon, Gregory. Show Thyself a Man: Georgia State Troops, Colored, 1865-1905. University Press of Florida. 978-0-8130-6272-3.
Monroe, Stephen M. Heritage and Hate: Old South Rhetoric at Southern Universities. University of Alabama Press. 978-0-8173-2093-5.
Morris, J. Brent, ed. Yes, Lord, I Know the Road: A Documentary History of African Americans in South Carolina, 1526-2008. University of South Carolina Press. 978-1-61117-731-2.
Murray, William P. Dangerous Innocence: White Men, Mass Culture, and the Southern Outsider’s Appeal, 1960-2020. Louisiana State University Press. 9780807181553.
Neri, Janice, Tara Nummedal, and John V. Calhoun. John Abbot & William Swainson: Art, Science, and Commerce in Nineteenth-Century Natural History Illustration. University of Alabama Press. 978-0-8173-2013-3.
Niewiadomska-Flis, Urszula. Race and Repast: Foodscapes in Twentieth-Century Southern Literature. University of Arkansas Press. 9781682262191.
Nunnally, Thomas E., ed. Speaking of Alabama: The History, Diversity, Function, and Change of Language. University of Alabama Press. 978-0-8173-1993-9.
Olliff, Martin T. Getting Out of the Mud: The Alabama Good Roads Movement and Highway Administration, 1898-1928. University of Alabama Press. 9780817319557.
Paredes, J. Anthony and Judith Knight, eds. Red Eagle’s Children: Weatherford vs Weatherford et al. University of Alabama Press. 978-0-8173-1770-6.
Peeples, Edward H., with Nancy MacLean. Scalawag: A White Southerner’s Journey Through Segregation to Human Rights Activism. University of Virginia Press. 978-0-8139-3539-3.
Picone, Michael D., and Catherine Evans Davies, eds. New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South: Historical and Contemporary Approaches. University of Alabama Press. 978-0-8173-1815-4.
Pleasants, Julian M. Home Front: North Carolina During World War II. University Press of Florida. ISBN: 978-0-8130-5425-4.
Rankin, Tom. One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia.University of North Carolina Press. 978-1-4696-0740-5.
Reardon, Carol, and Tom Vossler. A Field Guide to Antietam: Experiencing the Battlefield through Its History, Places and People. University of North Carolina Press. 978-1-4696-3020-5.
Reardon, Carol, and Tom Vossler. A Field Guide to Gettysburg: Experiencing the Battlefield through Its History, Places, and People. Second Edition. University of North Carolina Press. 978-1-4696-3336-7.
Reaser, Jeffrey, Eric Wilbanks, Karissa Wojcik, and Walt Wolfram. Language Variety in the New South: Contemporary Perspectives on Change and Variation. University of North Carolina Press. 978-1-4696-3880-5.
Roberts, Robin. City of the Undead: Voodoo, Ghosts and Vampires of New Orleans. Louisiana State University Press. 9780807180266.
Robertson, William Glenn. River of Death: The Chickamauga Campaign. Volume One. The Fall of Chattanooga. University of North Carolina Press. 978-1-4696-4312-0.
Sartor, Margaret, and Alex Harris, eds. Where We Find Ourselves: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum, 1897-1922. University of North Carolina Press. 978-1-4696-4831-6.
Shelton, Allen C. Where the North Sea Touches Alabama. University of Chicago Press. 978-0-226-07322-4.
Sheppard, Jonathan C. By the Noble Daring of Her Sons: The Florida Brigade of the Army of Tennessee. University of Alabama Press. 978-0-8173-1707-2.
Smith, Jon. Finding Purple America: The South and the Future of American Cultural Studies. University of Georgia Press. 978-0-8203-4526-0.
Snyder, Jeffrey Aaron. Making Black History: The Color Line, Culture, and Race in the Age of Jim Crow. University of Georgia Press. 978-0-8203-5283-1.
Swindall, Lindsey R. The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World: Southern Civil Rights and Anticolonialism, 1937-1955. Universirty Press of Florida. 978-0-8130-4922-2.
Tarter, Brent. A Saga of the New South: Race, Law, and Public Debt in Virginia. University of Virginia Press. 978-0-8139-3877-6.
Tell, Dave. Remembering Emmett Till. University of Chicago Press. 918-0-226-55953-7.
Tise, Larry E. Circa 1903: North Carolina’s Outer Banks at the Dawn of Flight. University of North Carolina Press. 978-1-4696-5114-9.
Waid, Candace. The Signifying Eye: Seeing Faulkner’s Art. University of Georgia Press. 978-0-8203-4316-7.
Weiss, Brad. Real Pigs: Shifting Values in the Field of Local Pork. Duke University Press. 978-0-8223-6157-2.
Wiggins, Sarah Woolfolk and Ruth Smith Truss, eds. The Journal of Sarah Haynsworth Gayle, 1827 – 1855: A Substitute for Social Intercourse. University of Alabama Press. 978-0-8173-1333-3.