The H-SAWH network focuses on the history of women and gender in the U.S. South.
It is sponsored by the Southern Association for Women Historians and co-sponsored by H-Net, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies.
Sharon Davies. Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Illustrations. 327 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-537979-2.
Reviewed by Krystal A. Humphreys (Texas Tech University) Published on H-SAWH (December, 2011) Commissioned by Antoinette G. van Zelm
Tiffany M. Gill. Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. 208 S. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03505-0; $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-07696-1.
Reviewed by Joey Fink Published on H-SAWH (November, 2011) Commissioned by Antoinette G. van Zelm
Amy Feely Morsman. The Big House after Slavery: Virginia Plantation Families and Their Postbellum Domestic Experiment. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010. xii + 276 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-3003-9; ISBN 978-0-8139-3008-4.
Reviewed by Debra A. Reid Published on H-SAWH (October, 2011) Commissioned by Antoinette G. van Zelm
Joan Marie Johnson. Southern Women at the Seven Sister Colleges: Feminist Values and Social Activism, 1875-1915. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010. Illustrations. 229 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8203-3468-4.
Reviewed by Mercy Harper (Rice University) Published on H-SAWH (October, 2011) Commissioned by Antoinette G. van Zelm
Ronald E. Butchart. Schooling the Freed People: Teaching, Learning, and the Struggle for Black Freedom, 1861-1876. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. xxii + 314 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-3420-6.
Reviewed by Michelle A. Krowl Published on H-SAWH (September, 2011) Commissioned by Antoinette G. van Zelm
