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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.) [...]

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; [...]

Across the United States, institutions of higher learning are grappling with legacies rooted in slavery. Catalyzed by the historic mandate of Brown University president Ruth J. Simmons, the first Black [...]

During the convention of 1836, delegates adopted the Texas Declaration of Independence. It justified independence by accusing the Mexican government of having failed 'to protect the lives, liberty and property [...]

On October 6, 1971, Ron Sachs, editor of the University of Florida's student newspaper, the Florida Alligator, was arrested for violating the state's 1868 law prohibiting abortion. Sachs had not [...]

The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South. Edited by Kami Ahrens. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Pp. xiv, 268. [...]

Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon. By Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall. The New Black Studies Series. (Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2023. [...]

Just Enough to Put Him Away Decent: Death Care, Life Extension, and the Making of a Healthier South, 1900-1955. By Kristine M. McCusker. (Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois [...]

Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause: Confessions of a Southern Church. By Christopher Alan Graham. Foreword by Melanie Mullen. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2023. Pp. xvi, 215. [...]

Labor's Outcasts: Migrant Farmworkers and Unions in North America, 1934-1966. By Andrew J. Hazelton. The Working Class in American History. (Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2022. Pp. [...]

IT WOULD BE A CRYING SHAME AND DISGRACE IF AMERICA SHOULD permit one of the very greatest of its historical monuments to pass away,' a reader of the New Orleans [...]

THIS ESSAY EXPLORES THE CONTENTIOUS HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN paternalism in Charleston and the surrounding South Carolina Lowcountry during the late antebellum era as the movement repeatedly confronted skepticism and even [...]

ACCORDING TO PERCY CLAUD, NAT TURNER WAS LYNCHED. BY THE time he gave his account to historian Henry Irving Tragle in 1969, Claud, an African American farmer, had lived for [...]

The ninetieth annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association is scheduled to take place at the Westin Kansas City at Crown Center, in Kansas City, Missouri, on October 24-27, 2024, [...]

The Rhetorical Road to Brown v. Board of Education: Elizabeth and Waties Waring's Campaign. By Wanda Little Fenimore. Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2023. Pp. [...]

Terror and Truth: Civil Rights Tourism and the Mississippi Movement. By Stephen A. King and Roger Davis Gatchet. Race, Rhetoric, and Media. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2023. Pp. xviii, [...]

Race and the Greening of Atlanta: Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in an Ascendant Metropolis. By Christopher C. Sellers. Environmental History and the American South. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, [...]

Emmett J. Scott: Power Broker of the Tuskegee Machine. By Maceo C. Dailey Jr. Edited by Will Guzman and David H. Jackson Jr. Afro-Texans. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2023. [...]

In the Shadows of the Big House: Twenty-First-Century Antebellum Slave Cabins and Heritage Tourism in Louisiana. By Stephen Small. Atlantic Migrations and the African Diaspora. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, [...]

A Man of Bad Reputation: The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction. By Drew A. Swanson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. [...]

Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves. Edited by Brian Matthew Jordan and Jonathan W. White. UnCivil Wars. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2023. Pp. xiv, [...]

Heartsick and Astonished: Divorce in Civil War-Era West Virginia. Edited by Allison Dorothy Fredette. New Perspectives on the Civil War Era. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2023. Pp. xiv, 288. [...]

Slavery and the Catholic Church in the United States: Historical Studies. Edited by David J. Endres. Foreword by Archbishop Shelton J. Fabre. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2023. [...]

The Southern Historical Association will hold its ninetieth annual meeting in Kansas City, Missouri, October 24-27, 2024, at the Westin Kansas City at Crown Center. Registration is now open. For [...]

The Georgia Historical Society is pleased to announce that the following collections are now available for research: Edwin L. Jackson Collection (GHS 2746)--This collection consists of materials collected by Edwin [...]

Ballad Hunting with Max Hunter: Stories of an Ozark Folksong Collector. By Sarah Jane Nelson. Music in American Life. (Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2023. Pp. xxviii, [...]

Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad. By Miriam Thaggert. Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History. (Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2022. Pp. [...]