Table of Contents

Articles

"The Troubled Legacy of Isaac Franklin: The Enterprise of Slave Trading" by Robert H. Gudmestad

"I Shall Persevere in the Cause of Truth": Andrew Jackson Donelson and the Election of 1856" by Mark R. Cheathem

"The Press and the Legislature: Andrew Johnson's Election to the U.S. Senate in 1874" by Robert B. Jones

"The State of Tennessee: As Seen by Traugott Bromme" Introduction and Translation by Richard L. Bland

"The Nashville Tornado of March 14, 1933" by Mark A. Rose

Book Reviews

Peace and War on the Anglo-Cherokee Frontier, 1756-1763. By John Oliphant.  Reviewed by Michael E. Long

Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750-1830. By Greg O'Brien. Reviewed by David H. Dye.

They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War. By DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook. Reviewed by Antoinette van Zelm.

Jefferson Davis in Blue: The Life of Sherman's Relentless Warrior. By Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr. and Gordon D. Whitney. Reviewed by Ed Frank.

The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction. By James Alex Baggett. Reviewed by Robert H. Gudmestad.

Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South. By Lu Ann Jones. Reviewed by Debra A. Reid.

The Sporting World of the Modern South. Edited by Patrick B. Miller. Reviewed by Benjamin Houston

Tennessee Frontiers: Three Regions in Transition. By John R. Finger. Reviewed by Kristofer Ray.

Aaron Burr: Conspiracy to Treason. By Buckner F. Melton, Jr. Reviewed by Ned L. Irwin.

The Civil War in the Western Theater: 17th Annual Mississippi State University History Forum. Edited by John F. Marszalek. Reviewed by Jim Lewis.

Freedom's Promise: Ex-Slave Families and Citizenship in the Age of Emancipation. By Elizabeth Regosin. Reviewed by Lewie Reece.

The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative Thought. By Paul V. Murphy. Reviewed by Gary T. Edwards.

Franklin: Tennessee's Handsomest Town, A Bicentennial History, 1799-1999. By James A. Crutchfield and Robert Holladay. Reviewed by Jeffrey L. Durbin

Book Notes

Reviewed by Carroll Van West, Senior Editor of the Tennessee Historical Quarterly

The Stilwell Letters: A Georgian in Longstreet's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. Edited by Ronald Moseley. Forward by Herman Hattaway.

The Scopes Trial: A Brief History with Documents. By Jeffrey P. Moran.

Fanatics & Fire-eaters: Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War. By Lorman A. Ratner and Dwight L. Teeter, Jr.

Victory at Home: Manpower and Race in the American South during World War II. By Charles D. Chamberlain.

Signifying Serpents and Mardi Gras Runners: Representing Identity in Selected Souths. Edited by Celeste Ray and Luke Eric Lassiter.