Readings in Georgia History
Reviewed in the Georgia Historical Quarterly
The Sacred Mirror: Evangelicalism, Honor, and Identity in the Deep South, 1790–1860
By Robert Elder, University of North Carolina Press
The Stormy Present: Conservatism and the Problem of Slavery in Northern Politics, 1846–1865
By Adam I.P. Smith, University of North Carolina Press
At the Altar of Lynching: Burning Sam Hose in the American South
By Donald G. Mathews, Cambridge University Press
Monuments to Absence: Cherokee Removal and the Contest over Southern Memory
By Andrew Denson, University of North Carolina Press
Reassessing the 1930s South
Edited by Karen L. Cox and Sarah E. Gardner, Louisiana State University Press
Clarence Jordan: A Radical Pilgrimage in Scorn of the Consequences
By John Hayes, Mercer University Press
War Matters: Material Culture in the Civil War Era
Edited by Joan E. Cashin, University of North Carolina Press
Decisions at Chickamauga: The Twenty-Four Critical Decisions That Defined the Battle
By Dave Powell, University of Tennessee Press
Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture: Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast
Edited by Paul S. Sutter and Paul M. Pressly, University of Georgia Press
A Dream of the Future: Race, Empire, and Modernity at the Atlanta and Nashville World’s Fairs
By Nathan Cardon, Oxford University Press
Howard Zinn’s Southern Diary: Sit-Ins, Civil Rights, and Black Women’s Student Activism
By Robert Cohen, University of Georgia Press
Other Recommendations
Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic
By Erskine Clarke, published by Yale University Press
And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
By Steve Oney, published by Pantheon Books
Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War
By Jacqueline Jones, published by Alfred A. Knopf
African-American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry: The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee
Edited by Philip Morgan, published by the University of Georgia Press
Beyond Atlanta: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Georgia, 1940-1980
By Stephen G.N. Tuck, published by University of Georgia Press
