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Number 1 Spring/Summer 2024

Articles:

“Passing as Gentlemen in Mark Twain and Charles Chesnutt.” Margaret D. Bauer

“Taking the Liquor Question out of Politics: The Fate of Municipal Gothenburg Proposals in England and the United States, 1877-1895.” Michael Lewis

“‘I Got Horses in the Back’: Race and Poverty in Country Rap’s Second Wave, 1999-2006.” Stuart Tully

“Our Man in Natchitoches: The Unlikely Appointment of John Sibley, Indian Agent.” James MacDonald

Book Reviews:

Ghosts of Guerilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwackers Became Gunslingers in the American West. Luke Holloway

Living by Inches: The Smells, Sounds, Tastes, and Feeling of Captivity in Civil War Prisons. Mary K. Marlatt

The Great Good: Media, Family Removal, and TVA Dam Construction in North Alabama. Lucas J. Sheaffer

Embattled Freedom: Journeys Through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps. David Chase Stephens

Murder on Shades Mountain: The Legal Lynching of Willie Peterson and the Struggle for Justice in Jim Crow Birmingham. Paul Yandle

Number 2 Fall/Winter 2024

Articles:

“James Monroe’s Military Ideology, the War of 1812, and the Revolution’s Shadow: A Founder’s Historical Memory.” Arthur Scherr

“‘Books before boys, because boys bring babies’: Familial Narrative Inheritance and Women’s Reproductive Health.” Jenna Abetz, Cara Delay, and Beth Sundstrom

“Southern City Mysteries and the Sexual Economy of Genre.” Amy A. Foley

“Escaping Mauve Characters in McCarthy’s Suttree: An Allusion from Joyce’s Ulysses.” Richard Rankin Russell

Book Reviews:

George Washington’s Washington: Visions for the National Capital in the Early American Republic. Paul Bartow

Fifty Years of Justice: A History of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. Karl F. Miller

A Bloodless Victory: The Battle of New Orleans in History and Memory. Jackson Pearson

Number 1 Spring/Summer 2023

The Social, Cultural, and Political Contours of the Black and Brown Experience in the Bayou City

Articles:
“Introduction: ‘No Dogs, Negroes, and Mexicans.’” Will Guzmán, William T. Hoston, Malachi D. Crawford, and Marco Robinson, Special Issue Editors
“Houston’s Super Neighborhood Action Plans: Collaborative Planning or Status Quo?” Ronald E. Goodwin
“Southern Communities of Color and HBCU University Relations: An Examination of the History of Community Relations and Recent Faculty Engagement.” Marco Robinson and Farrah Gafford Cambrice
“Brown, Black, and Brutalized: A Brief History of Police Brutality Against Chicanos and African Americans in Houston.” Jesús Jesse Esparza
“‘Kill the Pigs!’   The Case of Joe Torres and the Fight Against Police Brutality in Houston, 1977-1978.” Jesús Jesse Esparza

Book Reviews:
Talkin’ Tar Heel: How Our Voices Tell The Story of North Carolina. Jessica Brabble
Rebel Richmond: Life and Death in the Confederate Capital. Evan C. Rothera
Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation. Janice Yu

Number 2 Fall/Winter 2023

Articles:
“The Missouri Crisis: Change, Continuity, and Topical Diversity.” Samuel Watson
“Which Came First, the Indian or the Slave?: Missouri’s Struggle for Statehood and the Origins of Indian Removal, 1818-1821.” William S. Belko
“The Missouri Compromise, Partisanship, and Slavery in the Twilight of the Era of Good Feelings.” Christopher Childers
“The Missouri Crisis of 1819-21 and the Southern Sense of Boundaries.” John R. Van Atta

Book Reviews:
Thomas Jefferson’s Image of New England: Nationalism Versus Sectionalism in the Young Republic. Jacob A. Bruggeman
The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves’ Civil War. Noah F. Crawford
Thunder of Freedom: Black Leadership and the Transformation of 1960s Mississippi. Lindon Ratliff
James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War. George Sirgiovanni
White Sand, Black Beach: Civil Rights, Public Space, and Miami’s Virginia Key. Matthew G. Washington

Number 1 Spring/Summer 2022

Articles:
“New Perspectives on Jefferson and Slavery; or, Revising the Revisionists. Part One: Some Scholarly Interpretations of Jefferson’s Early Attitudes Toward Slavery and the Origin of his Antislavery Ideas.” Arthur Scherr
“‘About as Radical as Cotton Tom Heflin’: Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Post-1945 American Life.” Richmond B. Adams
“Frances Joseph-Gaudet’s Anti-Prison Vision and Communal Salvation.” Joe Lockard

Book Reviews:
Review Essay – The Atlanta Campaign of Earl J. Hess. Kennessaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnson, and the Atlanta Campaign, The Battle of Ezra Church and the Struggle for Atlanta, and The Battle of Peach Tree Creek: Hood’s First Effort to Save Atlanta. Henry O. Robertson
Sombreros and Motorcycles in a Newer South: The Politics of Aesthetics in South Carolina’s Tourism Industry. Wendy Braun
Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century. Michael Camp
Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs. DeLisa D. Hawkes
Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine. F. Evan Nooe

Number 2 Fall/Winter 2022

Articles:
“New Perspectives on Jefferson and Slavery; or, Revising the Revisionists. Part Two: Jefferson’s Confrontation with Slavery: Ideas and Actions.” Arthur Scherr
“‘Enslavement of the Masses’: Literary Imaginings of Antebellum American South and English Industrial North, 1852-1861.” Tatiana Konrad
“Taking on Local Color and Settling Scores with Recourse to Regionalism in Kate Grant’s Old Eternal Vigilance.” Germain J. Bienvenu

Book Reviews:
Review Essay – A New Perspective on Reconstruction: The Post-Civil War Years in Natchitoches. The Revolution that Failed: Reconstruction in Natchitoches. Mary Linn Wernet.
My Father and Atticus Finch: A Lawyer’s Fight for Justice in 1930s Alabama. Richmond Adams
American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War. David Cullen
Aberration of Mind: Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War-Era South. Hannah Katherine Hicks