Georgia Historical Quarterly Archive
Volume CIII, No. 2
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Articles
- Catholics in Colonial Georgia
by Jerome Oetgen
- The Modernization of Historic Grant Field at Bobby Dodd Stadium
by Chad Seifried and Timothy Kellison
History Now
- My Grandfather and the Buffalo Soldier
by Jonathan Wickham
Further Reading
Volume CIII, No. 1
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Articles
- “Your most Dutiful[,] truly Obliged & most Humble Servant”: John Dobell and the Challenges of Navigating Early Georgia Politics
by Julie Anne Sweet
- “That Hogansville Affair”: The Failed Assassination of the African-American Postmaster Isaiah H. Lofton
by Tony B. Lowe

Volume CII, No. 4
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Articles
- Remembering the Nancy Harts: A Female Militia, Gender, and Memory
by Katherine Brackett
- Black Student Experiences in the Racial Integration of Reinhardt College, 1966–1972
by Kenneth H. Wheeler, David Busman, Jessica Fanczi, Madeline Gray, Gladys Guzman-Gomez, Abigail M. Merchant, Madelyn Montgomery, Bradley Dane Niday, Kailey Payne, Aliyah Reeves
Further Reading
Annual Report
- Annual Report for 2018
by W. Todd Groce

Volume CII, No. 3
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Articles
- The “Irish Settlement called Queensborough”: Immigration, Empire, and Revolution in Colonial Georgia
by Bryan Rindfleisch
- The Andrew Young Affair and Jimmy Carter’s Fading World-Order Vision
by John Masko
Further Reading

Volume CII, No. 2
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Articles
- “Unwept, Unhonored, Unsung”: The Historical Memory of Henry O. Flipper, West Point’s First Black Graduate
by Tyson Reeder
- The Lost Library of Georgia History Better than De Renne’s
by Kevin Kiernan
Further Reading

Volume CII, No. 1
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Articles
- John Penrose: A Success Story in Early Georgia
by Julie Anne Sweet
- A Rousing Sentiment for Good Roads: The Spectacles of Atlanta’s 1909 Automobile Week
by Brian Ingrassia
Notes and Documents
- “A Church Shall be Called the First African Baptist Church of St. Catherine’s”: The 1843 Founding Covenant of Sea Island Congregation
by John Saillant
Annual Report
- Annual Report for 2017
by W. Todd Groce
Volume CI, No. 4
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Articles
- Bringing the Quarterly into the Contemporary Era: The Formative Editorships of Thomas G. Dyer and John C. Inscoe, 1982–2000
by Paul Stephen Hudson
- “A Most Profligate Villain”: Poor Whites as Depicted in Antebellum Wanted Proclamations
by James M. Denham
History Now
- Michael O’Brien: A Forum
- An Interview with Beverly M. “Bo” DuBose III, Part Four
by Stan Deaton
Volume CI, No. 3
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Articles
- E. Merton Coulter, the Georgia Historical Quarterly, and the Struggle over Southern History
by Fred Arthur Bailey
- “Not Worth a Pinch of Snuff”: The 1789 Yazoo Land Sale and Sovereignty in the Old Southwest
by Brenden Kennedy
Notes and Documents
- “Ill-designing people”: Revisiting Philip Thicknesse’s Recollections of Georgia
by Katherine Turner
Further Reading
Volume CI, No. 2
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Articles
- “History in the Making”: The Early Years of the Georgia Historical Quarterly
by Sarah E. Gardner
- “Somewhere Toward Freedom”: Sherman’s March and Georgia’s Refugee Slaves
by Bennett Parten
Georgia History in Pictures
- Transforming the Atlanta Home Front: Camp Gordon During World War I
by Paul Stephen Hudson and Lora Pond Mirza
Further Reading
Volume CI, No. 1
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Articles
- Honoring Confederate Defeat the Georgia Way
by David Moltke-Hansen
- “A Good Bargain for the Trust”: The Ordeal of William and Sarah Elbert, 1733–1742
by Clay Ouzts
Annual Report
- Annual Report for 2016 by W. Todd Groce

Volume C, No. 4
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Articles
- “The Shot That Was Heard in Nearly Two Million Negro Homes”: The 1934 Murder of William Alexander Scott
by Thomas Aiello
- “Revolutionize Life in the Chattahoochee River Valley”: Buford Dam and the Development of Northeastern Georgia, 1950–1970
by Deanna M. Gillespie
Notes and Documents
- Finding Christoph Heinrich Müller by Kai Dose
History Now
- An Interview with Beverly M. “Bo” DuBose III, Part Three by Stan Deaton

Volume C, No. 3
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Articles
- Lincoln, the Fall of Atlanta, and the 1864 Presidential Election by Robert E. Lowe
- “‘The Vastest Tract of Crackerland'”: Camp Stewart’s Impact on Rural Southeast Georgia by Craig S. Pascoe
Notes and Documents
- The Effect of the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic on Mortality Rates in Savannah, Georgia
Further Reading

Volume C, No. 2
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Articles
- Civil War in the Midst of Revolution: Community Divisions and the Battle of Briar Creek, 1779 by Robert S. Davis
- From Georgia to California and Back: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Southern Gold Mining by Drew Swanson
Further Reading
- Book Reviews
- Recently Processed Manuscripts, Artifacts, Maps, and Cataloged Books, Pamphlets, and Serials at the Georgia Historical Society

Volume C, No. 1
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Articles
- The Earth and Humans before Adam: The Pre-Adamite Theory of Georgia Geologist Matthew Fleming Stephenson by Lester D. Stephens
- Ronald Reagan’s Use of Race in the 1976 and 1980 Presidential Elections by Richard Primuth
Notes and Documents
- Whose Bones Are Those?: The Casimir Pulaski Burial Controversy by James S. Pula
Annual Report
- Annual Report for 2015 by W. Todd Groce
Further Reading
- Recently Processed Archival Collections at the Georgia Historical Society

Volume XCIX, Winter 2015, No. 4
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Articles
- Governor David B. Mitchell and the “Black Birds” Slave Smuggling Scandal by John D. Fair
- “Why Should a Christian Desire to Sleep Here?”: The Unitarian Rural Cemetery Movement and Its Adoption in Macon, Georgia by Scarlet Jernigan
Notes and Documents
- The Library of James Edward Oglethorpe by Thomas D. Wilson
History Now
- An Interview with Beverly M. “Bo” DuBose III, Part Two by Stan Deaton
Book Reviews
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Volume XCIX, Fall 2015, No. 3
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Articles
- “These Difficulties… rather animate than daunt me”: James Oglethorpe as a Leader by Julie Anne Sweet
- “An Historic Upset”: Herman Talmadge’s 1980 Senate Defeat and the End of a Political Dynasty by Timothy J. Minchin
History Now
- James Brewer Stewart Bertram Wyatt-Brown: A Forum
Book Reviews

Volume XCIX, Spring/Summer 2015, No. 1 & 2
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Articles
- “The Pocahontas of Georgia”: Mary Musgrove in the American Literary Imagination by Steven C. Hahn
- Fruitland Nursery: A “Horticultural Mecca” by Christopher C. Meyers
ANNUAL REPORT
- Annual Report for Calendar Year 2014 by W. Todd Groce
Book Reviews

Volume XCVIII, Spring/Summer 2014, No. 1 & 2
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Articles
- “The natural Advantages of this happy Climate”: An Analysis of Georgia’s Promotional Literature by Julie Ann Sweet
- “Remember the Pledge!”: Religious and Reformist Influences on Joseph E. Brown’s Opposition to Confederate Conscription by David Carlson
ANNUAL REPORT
- Annual Report for 2013 by W. Todd Groce
Book Reviews

Volume XCVII, Winter 2013, No. 4
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Articles
- The Ghosts of Guale: Sugar Houses, Spanish Missions, and the Struggle for Georgia’s Colonial Heritage by Joseph Floyd
- Who was the Real Gus Coggins?: Social Struggle and Criminal Mystery in Cherokee County, 1912 – 1927 by Kenneth H. Wheeler and Jennifer Lee Cowart
GEORGIA HISTORY IN PICTURES
- Red Caps, Rat Caps: Status, Spirit, and Traditions of College Dress at the University of Georgia by Patricia Hunter-Hurst and José Blanco F.
Book Reviews

Volume XCVII, Fall 2013, No. 3
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Articles
- “She Finds It in Her Power to Set What Value on Her Self She Pleases”: Gender, Status, and Disorder in Trustee Georgia by Lauren E. Lane
- John Ruggles Cotting and the First State Geological Survey of Georgia by Lester D. Stephens
Notes and Documents
- A Southern Spin on Concensus America: Johnny Mercer Skewers Politics on Broadway by Glenn T. Eskew
Book Reviews
- GAGNON, Transition to an Industrial South: Athens, Georgia, 1830-1870, by George B. Ellenberg
- KITCHENS, Ghosts of Grandeur: Georgia’s Lost Antebellum Homes and Plantations, by Mike Bunn
- VAN WAGENEN, Remembering the Forgotten War: The Enduring Legacies of the U.S.-Mexican War, by Mary R. Block
- MELTON, The Best Station of Them All: The Savannah Squadron, 1861-1865, by Wesley Moody
- DAVIS, What the Yankees Did to Us: Sherman’s Bombardment and Wrecking of Atlanta, by Anne J. Bailey
- GOLDFIELD, America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation, by Randall M. Miller
- WRIGHT, Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South, by Thomas L. Bynum
- KEALING, Calling Me Home: Gram Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock, by David A. Davis
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Volume XCVII, Summer 2013, No. 2
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Articles
- Thomas Causton: Cause or Casualty of Early Georgia’s Troubles? by Julie Anne Sweet
- Not Another Little Rock: Massive Resistance, Desegregation, and the Athens White Business Establishment, 1960-61 by Ashton G. Ellet
History Now
- The Army and Me by Francis N. Boney
Annual Bibliography
- Georgia History in 2012 by Rebecca Spradling
Book Reviews
- WILSON, The Oglethorpe Plan: Enlightenment Design in Savannah and Beyond, by Christopher E. Hendricks
- HAHN, The Life and Times of Mary Musgrove and PAULETT, An Empire of Small Places: Mapping the Southeastern Anglo-Indian Trade, 1732-1795, by Paul M. Pressly
- CALHOON, BARNES and DAVIS, Tory Insurgents: The Loyalist Perception and Other Essays, by Greg Brooking
- BLACKMON, Dark and Bloody Ground: The American Revolution Along the Southern Frontier, by Stephen J. Oatis
- BUSCH, Steam Coffin: Captain Moses Rogers and the Steamship Savannah Break the Barrier, by Buddy Sullivan
- GOURLEY, Diverging Loyalties: Baptists in Middle Georgia During the Civil War, by Glenn Robins
- LANGDALE, III, Superfluous Southerners: Cultural Conservatism and the South, 1920-1990, by Paul V. Murphy
- ROGERS, The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O’Connor, by James M. Hutchisson
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Volume XCVII, Spring 2013, No. 1
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Articles
- Honor, Markets, and Feuds: The Severance of Athletic Relations Between the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech by Matthew Bailey
- Racial Unrest and White Liberalism in Rural Georgia: Barrow and Oconee Counties in the Early 1920s by Mark Ellis
Notes and Documents
- Free But Not Freed: Stephen Deane’s African Family in Early Georgia by Robert Scott Davis
Annual Report
- Annual Report for FY 2012 by W. Todd Groce
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Volume XCVI, Winter 2012, No. 4
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Articles
- Apostles of the Lost Cause: The Albert Taylor Bledsoe-Alexander Hamilton Stephens Controversy by Terry A. Barnhart
- The Calculus of Realignment: The Rise of Republicanism in Georgia, 1964-1992 by Jason W. Gilliland
Book Reviews
- SWANSON, Remaking Wormsloe Plantation: The Environmental History of a Lowcountry Landscape, by Mark R. Finlay
- MOODY, Demon of the Lost Cause: Sherman and Civil War History, by Lisa Tendrich Frank
- BERGERON, Andrew Johnson’s Civil War and Reconstruction, by Paul D. Escott
- ARMSTRONG, Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching, by William D. Carrigan
- WAY, Conserving Southern Longleaf: Herbert Stoddard and the Rise of Ecological Land Management, by Andrew C. Baker
- BUCHANAN, “Some People Who Ate My Barebecue Didn’t Vote for Me”: The Life of Georgia Governor Marvin Griffin, by A.B. Cochran III
- COX, Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture, by Rebecca Cawood McIntyre
- DOOLEY, History & Reminiscences of the University of Georgia, by Stephen Berry
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Volume XCVI, Fall 2012, No. 3
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Articles
- The Role of Extreme Cold in the Failure of the San Miguel De Gualdape Colony by Guy Cameron and Stephen Vermette
- Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, African Americans in the Atlanta Campaign, and the Lost Cause by Angela Tooley
Annual Bibliography
- Georgia History in 2011 by Nathan I. Marcus
Book Reviews
- STANWOOD, The Empire Reformed: English America in the Age of the Glorious Revolution, by Kristofer Ray
- SHADBURN and STRANGER III, Upon Our Ruins: A Study in Cherokee History and Genealogy, by Robert Scott Davis
- CARNEY, Ministers and Masters: Methodism, Manhood, and Honor in the Old South, by Katherine E. Rohrer
- SHARPLESS, Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960, by Becca Walton
- GIESEN, Boll Weevil Blues: Cotton, Myth, and Power in the American South, by Andrew C. Baker
- WARD, Defending White Democracy: The Making of a Segregationist Movement & the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936-1965, by Scott E. Buchanan
- BALDWIN, The Voice of Conscience: The Church in the Mind of Martin Luther King, Jr., by David Pye
- BOYD, Georgia Democrats, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Shaping of the New South, by William P. Hustwit
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Volume XCVI, Summer 2012, No. 2
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Articles
- The Meanings of Georgia’s Eighteenth-Century Great Seals by Ben Marsh
- Orgelsdorfer Eulenspiegel and the German Internee Experience at Fort Oglethorpe, 1917-19 by Jeanne Glaubitz Cross and Ann K. D. Meyers
Book Reviews
- HALLOCK and HOFFMANN, eds., William Bartram, The Search for Nature’s Design: Selected Art, Letters, and Unpublished Writings, by Robert Krause
- HUDSON, Creek Paths and Federal Roads: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves and the Making of the American South, and MILES, The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story, by Warren Milteer, Jr.
- FAIR, The Tifts of Georgia: Connecticut Yankees in King Cotton’s Court, by Stephen Davis
- FOWLER and PARKER, eds., Breaking the Heartland: The Civil War in Georgia, by Mike Bunn
- BERNATH, Confederate Minds: The Struggle for Intellectual Independence in the Civil War South, by Robert Tinkler
- BROWN-NAGIN, Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement, by Stephen Tuck
- MINCHIN and SALMOND, After the Dream: Black and White Southerners Since 1965, by Jason Morgan Ward
- TUCK, We Ain’t What We Ought to Be: The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation, by Douglas Flamming
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Volume XCVI, Spring 2012, No. 1
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Articles
- The Murder of William Wise: An Examination of Indentured Servitude, Anti-Irish Prejudice, and Crime in Early Georgia by Julie Anne Sweet
- “Independent in Everything-Neutral in Nothing”: Joseph Addison Turner, The Countryman, and the Cultivation of Confederate Nationalism by Michael T. Bernath
Notes and Documents
- The Royal College of Physicians Survey of Savannah 1829 by A. M. Fraas
Annual Report
- Annual Report for FY 2011 by W. Todd Groce
Book Reviews
- JURICEK, Colonial Georgia and the Creeks: Anglo-Indian Diplomacy on the Southern Frontier, 1733-1763, by Tyler Boulware
- ELISOR, The Second Creek War: Interethnic Conflict and Collusion on a Collapsing Frontier, by Robbie Ethridge
- ECELBARGER, The Day Dixie Died: The Battle of Atlanta, by Stephen Davis
- RABLE, God’s Almost Chosen People: A Religious History of the American Civil War, by Paul M. Pruitt, Jr.
- ALI, In the Lion’s Mouth: Black Populism in the New South, 1886-1900, by Sylvie Coulibaly
- NORRELL, Up From History: The Life of Booker T. Washington, by Chana Kai Lee
- TUTEN, Lowcountry Time and Tide: The Fall of the South Carolina Rice Kingdom, by Stephen G. Hoffius
- HARRIS, High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America, by David A. Davis
Volume XCV, Winter 2011, No. 4
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Articles
- To Overawe the Indians and Give Confidence to the Whites: Preparations for the Removal of the Cherokee Nation from Georgia by Sarah H. Hill
- Incendiary Negro: The Life and Times of the Honorable Jefferson Franklin Long by Ephraim Samuel Rosenbaum
History Now
- History and the Public by Jamil S. Zainaldin
Annual Bibliography
- Georgia History in 2010 by Nathan I. Marcus
Review Essay
- Foreshadowing the Carter Presidency by Charles S. Bullock III
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Volume XCV, Fall 2011, No. 3
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Articles
- Monkeys, Bibles, and the Little Red Schoolhouse: Atlanta’s School Battles in the Scopes Era by Adam Laats
- Into the Cotton Frontier: The Manning Quest for an American Canaan by Ricky L. Sherrod
Notes and Documents
- Edward Arista Vincent: Antebellum Immigrant, Cartographer, and Architect by Paul K. Graham
Review Essay
- Andersonville in History and Memory by Glenn Robins
Book Reviews
- BUTLER, Votaries of Apollo: The St. Cecilia Society and the Patronage of Concert Music in Charleston, South Carolina, 1766-1820, by Timothy M. Crain
- BABITS and HOWARD, Long, Obstinate, and Bloody: The Battle of Guilford Courthouse, by John W. Gordon
- DATTAL, Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power, by James L. Huston
- McGOVERN, John Mitchel: Irish Nationalist, Southern Secessionist, by Brian Kelly
- RABLE, God’s Almost Chosen People: A Religious History of the American Civil War, by Paul M. Pruitt, Jr.
- SUMMERS, A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction, by J. Vincent Lowery
- BUTCHART, Schooling the Freed People: Teaching, Learning, and the Struggle for Black Freedom, 1861-1876, by Mary Farmer-Kaiser
- COBB, The South and America Since World War II, by Timothy J. Minchin
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Volume XCV, Summer 2011, No. 2
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Articles
- James Oglethorpe and the Civil-Military Contest for Authority in Colonial Georgia, 1732-1749 by Andrew C. Lannen
- “A State of Violent Contrasts”: Lynching and the Competing Visions of White Supremacy in Georgia, 1949 by Brent M. S. Campney
History Now
- A Middle-Class African-American Child in Desegregating Savannah: The Reminiscences of Justice Leah Ward Sears by Rebecca Davis
Book Reviews
- SWEET, William Stephens: Georgia’s Forgotten Founder, by Greg Brooking
- BABITS and HOWARD, Long, Obstinate, and Bloody: The Battle of Guilford Courthouse, by John W. Gordon
- PERMAN, Pursuit of Unity: A Political History of the American South, by J. William Harris
- BOWMAN, At the Precipice: Americans North and South During the Secession Crisis, by Michael F. Holt
- WHITES and LONG, eds., Occupied Women: Gender, Military Occupation, and the American Civil War, by Christine Jacobson Carter
- MILLER, John Bell Hood and the Fight for Sivil War Memory, by Micheal T. Bernath
- FARMER-KAISER, Freedwomen and the Freemen’s Bureau: Race, Gender, and Public Policy in the Age of Emancipation, by Ronald E. Butchart
- LANDS, The Culture of Property: Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in Atlanta, by Harvey K. Newman
- LORENCE, The Unemployed People’s Movement: Leftist Liberals, and Labor in Gerogia, 1929-1941, and TAYLOR, The History of the North Carolina Communist Party, by Randall L. Patton
- COPE, On the Swing Shift: Building Liberty Ships in Savannah, by Hugh S. Golson
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Volume XCV, Spring 2011, No. 1
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Articles
- Oglethorpe in America: Georgia’s Founder’s Thoughts on Independence by Julie Anne Sweet
- A Georgian in the Argonne: Seeking Redemption on the Corney Ridge by Richard S. Faulkner
Georgia History in Pictures
- Controversial Comeback in Atlanta: The 1970 Return of Muhammad Ali in “The City Too Busy to Hate” by Paul Stephen Hudson and Lora Pond Mirza
Annual Report
- Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2010 by W. Todd Groce
Book Reviews
- CASHIN, Guardians of the Valley: Chickasaws in Colonial South Carolina and Georgia, by John T. Juricek
- HART, Building Charleston: Town and Society in the Eighteenth-Centurey British Atlantic World, and SHEILDS, ed., Material Culture in Anglo-America: Regional Identity and Urbanity in the Tidewater, Lowcountry, and Caribbean, by Paul M. Pressly
- FORD, Deliver Us From Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old, by Douglas R. Egerton
- WAUGH and Gallagher, ed., Wars Within a War: Controversy and Conflict Over the American Civil War, by Brian Craig Miller
- MISULIA, Columbus, Georgia 1865: The Last True Battle of the Civil War, by J. Michael Bunn
- STROM, Making Catfish Bait out of Government Boys: The Fight Against Cattle Ticks and the Transformation of the YEoman South, by George B. Ellenberg
- FEIMSTER, Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching, by Anna L. Krome-Lukens
- PERDUE, Race and the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition of 1895, by David Fort Godshalk
- BULLOCK and GADDIE, The Triumph of Voting Rights in the South, by Augustus B. Cochran, III
- OSHINSKY, Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America, by Joseph E. Claxton
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