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The Papers of Andrew Jackson. Volume 11: 1833. Edited by Daniel Feller, Laura Eve-Moss, and Thomas Coens. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2020. Pp. xxxiv, 1007. $110.00, ISBN 978-1-62190-538-7.) The [...]

The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series. Volume 11:1 May 1816-3 March 1817, with a Supplement, 1809-1815. Edited by J. C. A. Stagg and others. (Charlottesville and London: University of [...]

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series. Vol. 16: 1 June 1820 to 28 February 1821. Edited by J. Jefferson Looney et al. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford, U.K.: Princeton University [...]

Over the last few years, we have witnessed the flourishing of a deep conservatism in the South, from the embrace of former U.S. president Donald J. Trump's politics of resentment, [...]

Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic. By Joshua R. Greenberg. American Business, Politics, and Society. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Pp. vi, [...]

A correction to a review of "The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series, Volume 11: 1 May 1816-3 March 1817, with a Supplement, 1809-1815" edited by J. C. A. Stagg and others, in the May 2023 issue, is presented.

The article reports on the availability of various collections for research at the Georgia Historical Society including Mariana Johnson Papers, Lieutenant General Donald E. "Rosie" Rosenblum Papers, and Georgia Historical Society Collection of American Civil War Confederate Medical Records.

The article reports on the availability of several collections for research at the Georgia Historical Society. These include Judge Timothy R. Walmsley Collection of Ahmaud Arbery Murder Trial Materials, Bill Rankin Papers, and Dr. John Duncan Collection of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Books and Materials.

The Real Rainbow Row: Explorations in Charleston's LGBTQ History. By Harlan Greene. (Charleston, S.C.: Evening Post Books, 2022. Pp. xiv, 337. Paper, $34.95, ISBN 978-1-929647-76-7.) Drastic Dykes and Accidental Activists: [...]

Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South. By Sarah McNamara. Justice, Power, and Politics. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Pp. xiv, 251. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-6816-1; cloth, [...]

Reinterpreting Southern Histories: Essays in Historiography. Edited by Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020. Pp. xvi, 608. Paper, $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-7346-6; cloth, $80.00, [...]

Letters from the Southern Home Front: The American South Responds to the Vietnam War. Edited by Joseph A. Fry. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2023. Pp. xiv, 306. Paper, [...]

Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color Line. By Laura J. Feller. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2022. Pp. x, 275. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-9389-2; cloth, [...]

Poison Powder: The Kepone Disaster in Virginia and Its Legacy. By Gregory S. Wilson. Environmental History and the American South. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2023. Pp. xiv, 236. Paper, [...]

Free Joan Little: The Politics of Race, Sexual Violence, and Imprisonment. By Christina Greene. Justice, Power, and Politics. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Pp. xiv, 348. Paper, [...]

The Life of Elreta Melton Alexander: Activism Within the Courts. By Virginia L. Summey. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2022. Pp. [x], 193. Paper, $27.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-6193-2; cloth, $120.95, ISBN [...]

Southern Beauty: Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South. By Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2022. Pp. xviii, 191. Paper, $30.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-6232-8; cloth, $120.95, ISBN [...]

A Brief Moment in the Sun: Francis Cardozo and Reconstruction in South Carolina. By Neil Kinghan. Southern Biography Series. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2023. Pp. xvi, 255. Paper, [...]

Congress of States: Proceedings of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America. Edited by R. David Carlson. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2023. Pp. xxii, 354. Paper, $34.95, [...]

Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America. By Leslie A. Schwalm. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Pp. xvi, 215. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-7269-4; cloth, $99.00, [...]

Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons. By Jill L. Newmark. Engaging the Civil War. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2023. Pp. xxiv, 283. Paper, [...]

Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States. By Sharon Ann Murphy. American Beginnings, 1500-1900. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. x, 419. Paper, [...]

The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family. By Kerri K. Greenridge. (New York: Liveright, 2023. Pp. xxviii, 404. Paper, $21.99, ISBN 978-1-324-09454-8; cloth, $32.50, ISBN 978-1-324-09084-7.) In [...]

Charleston and Savannah: The Rise, Fall, and Reinvention of Two Rival Cities. By Thomas D. Wilson. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2023. Pp. xiv, 348. Paper, $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-6319-6; cloth, [...]

The Cutting-Off Way: Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America, 15001800. By Wayne E. Lee. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Pp. xii, 287. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-7378-3; cloth, [...]

Native Foods: Agriculture, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism in American History. By Michael D. Wise. Food and Foodways. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2023. Pp. x, 200. Paper, $27.95, ISBN 978-1-68226238-2.) [...]

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era. By Gary Gerstle. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xiv, 406. Paper, [...]

Cradle of the Texas Republic. By Robin Montgomery and Joy Montgomery. (Charleston, S.C.: The History Press, 2022. Pp. 156. Paper, $21.99, ISBN 9781-46715-190-0.) This book offers a history of Montgomery [...]

Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States. By Jonathan Levy. (New York: Random House, 2021. Pp. xxviii, 908. Paper, $24.00, ISBN 978-0-8129-8518-4; cloth, $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8129-9501-5.) At [...]

Reporting for Arkansas: The Documentary Films of Jack Hill. By Dale Carpenter and Robert Cochran. The Arkansas Character. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2022. Pp. xiv, 190. Paper, $17.95, ISBN [...]

A New Kind of Youth: Historically Black High Schools and Southern Student Activism, 1920-1975. By Jon N. Hale. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Pp. xii, 336. Paper, [...]

T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners' Booking Association in Jazz-Age America. By Michelle R. Scott. (Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2023. Pp. xvi, 264. Paper, [...]

The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South. By Michael Ayers Trotti. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Pp. xiv, 251. Paper, $32.95, [...]

Slavery and Freedom in the Bluegrass State: Revisiting My Old Kentucky Home. Edited by Gerald L. Smith. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2023. Pp. viii, 369. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-9711-1; [...]

Reconstruction and Empire: The Legacies of Abolition and Union Victory for an Imperial Age. Edited by David Prior. Reconstructing America. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2022. Pp. xii, 348. Paper, [...]

Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia. By Emily Hilliard. (Chapei Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Pp. xviii, 277. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-7162-8; cloth, $99.00, [...]

Claiming Sunday: The Story of a Texas Slave Community. By Joleene Maddox Snider. (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 2022. Pp. xii, 258. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-87565-825-4.) This narrative kinship [...]

Liberty Road: Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism. By Gregory Smithsimon. (New York: New York University Press, 2022. Pp. [vi], 302. Paper, $30.00, ISBN 978-1-4798-6149-1; [...]

Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals. By Christopher M. Reali. Music in American Life. (Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2022. Pp. xii, 256. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-252-08658-8; [...]

King's Vibrato: Modernism, Blackness, and the Sonic Life of Martin Luther King Jr. By Maurice O. Wallace. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2022. Pp. xvi, 352. Paper, $28.95, ISBN 978-1-4780-1840-7; [...]