Articles:

"An Irresponsible Press: Memphis Newspapers and the 1866 Riot" by Marius Carriere

" Her Sons and Daughters are ever on the Altar": Fisk University and Missionaries to Africa, 1866-1937" by James A. Quirin

"The Housing Ideal at Cumberland Homesteads" by Delos D. Hughes

Book Reviews

Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All by Stephen D. Engle. Reviewed by Brian D. McKnight.

Banners to the Breeze: The Kentucky Campaign, Corinth, and Stones River by Earl J. Hess. Reviewed by James B. Lewis

The Union Must Stand: The Civil War Diary of John Quincy Adams Campbell, Fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry. Edited by Mark Grimsley and Todd D. Miller. Reviewed by William S. Nelligan

All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941 by Melissa Walker. Reviewed by Debra Reid.

The Wild East: A Biography of the Great Smoky Mountains by Margaret Lynn Brown. Reviewed by Lynn Nelson.

Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South by Janet Irons. Reviewed by Patrick D. Reagan.

The Past in the Present: Women's Higher Education in the Twentienth-Century American South by Amy Thompson McCandless. Reviewed by Janice M Leone.

Book Notes

   Reviewed by Caroll Van West, Senior Editor

Home and Away: A University Brings Food to the Table by Fred W. Sauceman

The Serpent Handlers: Three Families and Their Faith by Fred Brown and Jeanne McDonald

Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta after the Civil War by John C. Willis.

Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789-1860 by Michele Gillespie.

Black Prisoners and Their World, Alabama, 1865-1900 by Mary Ellen Curtin.

The Kentucky River by William E. Ellis.

Out of the Black Patch: The Autobiography of Effie Marquess Carmack, Folk Musician, Artist and Writer. Edited by Noel A. Carmack and Karen Lynn Davidson.

Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America by Ronald R. Kline.