Works on Southern History and Culture
Recent Scholarship (2005)
Agee, James, and Paul Ashdown, ed. James Agee: Selected Journalism.
University of Tennessee Press (December, rev. paperback).
Anderson, Gary Clayton. The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in
the Promised Land, 1820-1875. University of Oklahomas,
September).
Ashdown, Paul, and Edward Caudill. Myth of Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (January).
Asukile, Imani D. Black America: Hernando County, Florida. Arcadia
Press (October).
Bauer, Margaret Donovan. William Faulkner's Legacy: "What Shadow, What
Stain, What Mark.”. University Press of Florida (September).
Beal, Timothy K. Roadside Religion: In Search of the Sacred, the
Strange, and the Substance of Faith. Beacon Press (May).
Bennett, James B. Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans.
Princeton University Press (March).
Blount, Roy. Feet on the Street: Rambles around New Orleans. Crown
Publishing Company (February).
Blum, Edward J., and William Scott Poole, eds. Vale of Tears: New
Essays on Religion and Reconstruction. Mercer University Press
(November).
Bracken, Don. Times of the Civil War. AuthorHouse (April).
Brands, H. W. Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times. Doubleday Publishing
(October).
Brasseaux, Carl A. French, Cajun, Creole, Houma: A Primer on
Francophone Louisiana. Louisiana State University Press (March).
Brawley, Benjamin. Social History of the American Negro. Cosimo Inc.
(December, 2nd paperback).
Brewer, Becky French, and Douglas Stuart McDaniel. Park City, Tennessee
(Images of America Series). Arcadia Publishing (December).
Brundage, W. Fitzhugh. The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory.
Harvard University Press (September).
Bruseth, James E., and Toni S. Turner From a Watery Grave: The
Discovery and Excavation of la Salle's Shipwreck, la Belle.
Texas A&M University Press (April).
Busick, Sean R. A Sober Desire for History: William Gilmore Simms as
Historian. University of South Carolina Press (February).
Campbell, Tracy. Politics of Despair: Power and Resistance in the
Tobacco Wars. University Press of Kentucky (January).
Cantrell, James P. How Celtic Culture Invented Southern Literature.
Pelican Publishing Company (December).
Carr, Virginia Spencer. Understanding Carson McCullers. University
of South Carolina Press (November).
Carter, Christine Jacobson. Southern Single Blessedness: Unmarried
Women in the Urban South, 1800-1865. University of Illinois
Press (July).
Casler, John O. Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade. University of
South Carolina Press (September).
Clark, Kathleen Ann. Defining Moments: African American Commemoration
and Political Culture in the South, 1863-1913. University of North
Carolina Press (August).
Clarke, Erksine. Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic. Yale University
Press (September).
Clinton, Catherine. Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom. Little, Brown
and Company (January, paperback).
Cobb, James C. Away Down South : A History of Southern Identity.
Oxford University Press (October).
Cobb, James C. The Brown Decision, Jim Crow, and Southern Identity.
University of Georgia Press (November).
Cobb, James C., and William Whitney Stueck. Globalization and the
American South. University of Georgia Press (February).
Cockrell, Alan. Drilling Ahead: The Quest for Oil in the Deep South,
1945-2005. University Press of Mississippi (November).
Collins, Donald E. The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (May).
Connerly, Charles E. Most Segregated City in America: City Planning
and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920-1980. University of Virginia
Press (June).
Cooper, William J. Conservative Regime: South Carolina, 1877-1890.
University of South Carolina Press (May paperback reprint).
Countryman, Matthew J. Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in
Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Press (September).
Cox, John D. Traveling South: Travel Narratives and the Construction
of American Identity. University of Georgia Press (November).
Crowther, Hal. Gather at the River: Notes from the Post-Millennial
South. Louisiana State University Press (September).
Dal Lago, Enrico. Agrarian Elites: American Slaveholders and Southern
Italian Landowners, 1815-1861. Louisiana State University Press
(November).
Delfino, Susanna, and Michele Gillespie, eds. Global Perspectives on
Industrial Transformation in the American South. University of
Missouri Press (May).
Dooley-Awbrey, Betty, Claude Dooley, and Texas Historical Commission.
Why Stop?: A Guide to Texas Historical Roadside Markers. Taylor
Trade Publishing (December, rev. 5th ed.).
Ely, Melvin Patrick. Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in
Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War. Knopf
Publishing (August).
Farrow, Anne, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank. Complicity: How the North
Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery. Random House
Publishing (September).
Flynt, Wayne. Alabama Baptists : Southern Baptists in the Heart of
Dixie (Religion & American Culture). Fire Ant Books (October,
paperback).
Follett, Richard J. Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's
Cane World, 1820-1860. Louisiana State University Press (June).
Foner, Eric. Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and
Reconstruction. Knopf (November).
Ford, Deborah. Puttin' on the Grits: A Guide to Southern Entertaining.
Penguin Group (April).
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, and Eugene D. Genovese. The Mind of the
Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders'
Worldview. Cambridge University Press (October).
Franklin, John Hope, and Loren Schweninger. In Search of the Promised
Land: A Slave Family in the Old South. Oxford University Press
(August).
Fraser, Walter J. Savannah in the Old South. University of Georgia
Press (September, paperback).
Frost, Linda. Never One Nation: Freaks, Savages, and Whiteness in U. S.
Popular Culture, 1850-1877. University of Minnesota Press (May).
Gaines, Ernest J. Mozart and Leadbelly: Stories and Essays. Knopf
(October).
Gaither, Gerald H. Blacks and the Populist Movement: Ballots and
Bigotry in the New South. University of Alabama Press (paperback,
rev.).
Gates, Henry Louis, and Kwame Anthony Appiah. The New Encyclopedia
Africana. Oxford University Press (March).
Godshalk, David Fort. Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and
the Reshaping of American Race Relations. University of North
Carolina Press (September).
Golway, Terry. Washington's General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph
of the American Revolution. Henry Holt and Company (January).
Gold, Eli. Crimson Nation: The Shaping of the South's Most Dominant
Football Team. Rutledge Hill Press (August).
Gregory, James N. Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black
and White Southerners Transformed America. University of North
Carolina Press (October).
Gretlund, Jan Nordby, and Karl-Heinz Westarp, eds. Flannery O'
Connor's Radical Reality. University of South Carolina Press
(December).
Hackney, Sheldon. Magnolias without Moonlight: The American South
from Regional Confederacy to National Integration.
Transaction Publishers (October).
Haddox, Thomas F. Fears and Fascinations: Representing Catholicism in
the American South. Fordham University Press (November).
Hahn, Steven. A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in
the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration. Harvard
University Press (April, paperback).
Halpern, Monica. Moving North: African Americans and the Great
Migration 1915 – 1930. National Geographic Society (December).
Hannon, Charles. Faulkner and the DisCourses of Culture. Louisiana
State University Press (January).
Harris, J. William. The Making of the American South: A short History,
1500-1877. Blackwell Publishing (September, paperback rev).
Harvey, Paul. Freedom's Coming : Religious Culture and the Shaping of
the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era .
University of North Carolina Press (February).
Harwell, Richard Barksdale. Mint Julep. University of Virginia Press
(May).
Hoobler, Dorothy, and Thomas Hoobler. Captain John Smith: Jamestown
and the Birth of the American Dream. Wiley, John and Sons
(October).
Inscoe, John C. eds. Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from
Slavery to Segregation. University Press of Kentucky (March,
paperback).
Jackson, David H., and Canter Brown, eds. Go Sound the Trumpet!:
Selections in Florida's African American History. University of
Tampa Press (September).
Jackson, Robert. Seeking The Region In American Literature And Culture:
Modernity, Dissidence, Innovation (Southern Literary Studies).
Louisiana State University Press (December).
James, Michael E. Conspiracy of the Good: Civil Rights and the Struggle
for Community in Two American Cities, 1875-1995. Lang, Peter
Publishing (January).
Jenkins, Carol. Black Titan: A. G. Gaston and the Making of a Black
American Millionaire. Random House (January, paperback).
Johnson, Ben F. John Barleycorn Must Die: The War against Drink in
Arkansas. University of Arkansas Press (May).
Johnson, Sandra E. Standing on Holy Ground: A Triumph over Hate
Crime in the Deep South. (University of South Carolina Press,
paperback).
Jones, Paul C. Unwelcome Voices: Subversive Fiction in the AnteBellum
South. University of Tennessee Press (October).
Jones, William P. Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber
Workers in the Jim Crow South (Working Class in American
History Series). University of Illinois Press (May).
Kennedy, Cynthia M. Braided Relations, Entwined Lives: The Women of
Charleston's Urban Slave Society. Indiana University Press
(November).
Kerrison, Catherine. Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in
the Early American South. Cornell University Press (December).
Kinder, Chuck Last Mountain Dancer: Hard-Earned Lessons in Love, Loss,
and Honky-Tonk Outlaw Life. Avalon Publishing Group (August,
paperback).
Klotter, James C., ed. Human Tradition in the New South. Rowan and
Littlefield Publishers (October).
Lakwete, Angela. Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in
Antebellum America. Johns Hopkins University Press (October,
paperback).
Lane, John. Chattooga: Descending into the Myth of Deliverance River.
University of Georgia Press (September, paperback).
Lassiter, Matthew D. The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the
Sunbelt South. Princeton University Press (December).
Lefever, Harry G. Undaunted by the Fight: Spelman College and the Civil
Rights Movement, 1957-1967. Mercer University Press (February).
Leonard, Frances, and Ramona Cearley, eds. Conversations with Texas
Writers (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and
Culture). University of Texas Press (March).
Leuchtenburg, William E. White House Looks South: Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson. Louisiana State
University Press (September).
Long, Alecia P. Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability
in New Orleans, 1865-1920. Louisiana State University Press (July,
paperback).
Lowe, John, ed. Bridging Southern Cultures: An Interdisciplinary
Approach (Southern Literary Studies). Louisiana State University
Press (January).
McArthur, Judith N., and Harold L. Smith. Minnie Fisher Cunningham: A
Suffragist's Life in Politics. Oxford University Press (September,
paperback).
McGraw, Eliza R. L. Two Covenants: Representations of Southern
Jewishness. Louisiana State University Press (June).
McLaughlin, Malcolm. Power, Community, and Racial Killing in East St.
Louis. Pelgrave Macmillan (November).
Mackey, Robert R. The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare In The Upper
South, 1861-1865. University of Oklahoma Press (April).
Menifield, Charles E., and Stephen D. Shaffer, eds. Politics in the New
South: Representation of African Americans in Southern State
Legislatures. State University of New York Press (August).
Minchin, Timothy J. Don't Sleep with Stevens!: The J.P. Stevens
Campaign and the Struggle to Organize the South, 1963-80.
University Press of Florida (May).
Montgomery, Marion, and Michael M. Jordan. On Matters Southern:
Essays About Literature and Culture, 1964-2000. McFarland and
Company (August).
Neff, John R. Honoring the Civil War Dead: Commemoration and the
Problem of Reconciliation (Modern War Studies Series). University
of Kansas Press (April).
Oatis, Steven J. Colonial Complex: South Carolina's Frontiers in the
Era of the Yamasee War, 1680-1730. University of Nebraska Press
(January).
O'Brien, Michael. Henry Adams and the Southern Question. University of
Georgia Press (May).
Ogbar, Jeffrey O. G. Black Power: Radical Politics and African
American Identity. Johns Hopkins University Press (September).
Ortiz, Paul. Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black
Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to
the Bloody Election of 1920. University of California Press
(February).
Pacheco, Josephine F. The Pearl: A Failed Slave Escape on the Potomac.
University of North Carolina Press (February).
Pascoe,Craig S., Andy Ambrose, and Karen Trahan Leathem, eds. The
American South in the Twentieth Century. University of Georgia
Press (November).
Peacock, James L., Harry L. Watson, and Carrie R. Matthews, eds. The
American South in a Global World. University of North Carolina
Press (March).
Piazza, Tom. Why New Orleans Matters. HarperCollins (November).
Pollitzer, William S. The Gullah People and Their African Heritage.
University of Georgia Press (November).
Portnoy, Alisse. Their Right to Speak: Women's Activism in the Indian
and Slave Debates. Harvard University Press (October).
Prahlad, Anand, ed. Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American
Folklore: Three Volumes. Greenwood Publishing Group (December).
Quinlan, Kieran. Strange Kin: Ireland and the American South.
Louisiana State University Press (January).
Rampersad, Arnold, and Hilary Herbold, eds. The Oxford Anthology of
African American Poetry. Oxford University Press (October).
Raper, Arthur F. Preface to Peasantry: A Tale of Two Black Belt
Counties. University of South Carolina Press, paperback reprint).
Reed, Julia. Queen of the Turtle Derby and Other Southern Phenomena.
Random House (April).
Reynolds, David S. John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed
Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded the Civil Rights.
Random House (April).
Redford, Dorothy Spruill. Generations of Someset Place, North Carolina:
From Slavery to Freedom (Images of America Series). Arcadia
Publishing (June).
Revels, Tracy J. Grander in Her Daughters: Florida's Women during the
Civil War. University of South Carolina Press (January).
Rhyne, Nancy. Before and after Freedom: Lowcountry Narratives and
Folklore. The History Press (October).
Richardson, Miles. Culture, Ethnicity, and Justice in the South : The
Southern Anthropological Society, 1968-1971. University of
Alabama Press (January).
Richter, William L. Historical Dictionary of the Old South. Rowan and
Littlefield Publishers (December).
Robertson, Robert J. Fair Ways: How Six Black Golfers Won Civil Rights
in Beaumont, Texas. Texas A&M University Press (October).
Rothman, Adam. Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of
the Deep South. Harvard University Press (April).
Saunt, Claudio. Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an
American Family. Oxford University Press (April).
Schultz, Mark Rural Face of White Supremacy: Beyond Jim Crow.
University of Illinois Press (April).
Scully, Pamela, and Diana Paton, eds. Gender and Slave Emancipation
in the Atlantic World. Duke University Press (October).
Sexton, Jay. Debtor Diplomacy: Finance and American Foreign Relations
in the Civil War Era 1837-1873. Oxford University Press
(September).
Silbey, Joel H. Storm Over Texas. Oxford University Press (June).
Sitton, Thad, and James H. Conrad. Freedom Colonies: Independent Black
Texans in the Time of Jim Crow. University of Texas Press (March).
Smith, Mark M., ed. Stono: Documenting and Interpreting a Southern
Slave Revolt. University of South Carolina Press (November).
Sparks, John. Roots of Appalachian Christianity: The Life and Legacy of
Elder Shubal Stearns. University Press of Kentucky (March).
Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma. Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black
Urban Modernity. University of California Press (March).
Stojanowski, Christopher. Biocultural Histories in la Florida: A
Bioarchaeological Perspective. University of Alabama Press
(December).
Sweet, Julie Anne. Negotiating for Georgia: British-Creek Relations
in the Trustee Era, 1733-1752. University of Georgia Press
(February).
Tucker, Leslie R. Major General Isaac Ridgeway Trimble: Biography of
a Baltimore Confederate. MacFarland and Company, Publishers
(October).
Underwood, James Lowell, and W. Lewis Burke, eds. At Freedom's Door:
African American Founding Fathers and Lawyers in Reconstruction
South Carolina. University of South Carolina Press (March).
Urgo, Joseph R., and Ann J. Abadie, eds. Faulkner and the Ecology of
the South. University Press of Mississippi (September).
Watson, Dwight D. Race and the Houston Police Department, 1930-1990:
A Change Did Come. Texas A&M University Press (December).
Webb, Clive. Massive Resistance: Southern Opposition to the Second
Reconstruction. Oxford University Press (July).
Wells, Cheryl A. Civil War Time: Temporality and Identity in America,
1861-1865. University of Georgia Press (August).
Westhauser, Karl E., Elaine M. Smith, and Jennifer A. Fremlin, eds.
Creating Community: Life and Learning at Montgomery's Black
University. University of Alabama Press (September).
White, Shane, and Graham J. White. Sounds of Slavery: Discovering
African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech.
Beacon Press (April).
Whites, Leeann. Gender Matters: Civil War, Reconstruction, and the
Making of the New South. Palgrave Macmillan (May).
Wiese, Andrew. Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in
the Twentieth Century. University of Chicago Press (December,
paper ed.).
Williams, Heather Andrea. Self-Taught : African American Education in
Slavery and Freedom (The John Hope Franklin Series in African
American History and Culture). University of North Carolina Press
(February).
Williams, Michael E. Isaac Taylor Tichenor: The Creation of the Baptist
New South. University of Alabama Press (September).
Williams, Patrick Gresham, Jeannie M. Whayne, and S. Charles Bolton,
eds. A Whole Country in Commotion: The Louisiana Purchase and
the American Southwest. University of Arkansas Press (April).
Wilson, Charles Reagan, and Mark Silk, eds. Religion and Public Life in
the South: In the Evangelical Mode. AltaMira Press (July).
Wilson, David K. The Southern Strategy: Britain's Conquest of South
Carolina and Georgia, 1775-1780. University of South Carolina
Press (May).
Wilson, Douglas. Black & Tan: A Collection of Essays and Excursions on
Slavery, Culture War, and Scripture in America. Canon Press
(August).
Wood, Ralph C. Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South.
Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company (September).
