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The British Gentry, The Southern Planter And The Northern Family Farmer: Agriculture And Sectional Antagonism In North America, Carol Walker Jordan Apr 2015

The British Gentry, The Southern Planter And The Northern Family Farmer: Agriculture And Sectional Antagonism In North America, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Review of the book The British Gentry, The Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer: Agriculture and Sectional Antagonism in North America by James L. Huston.


Charles Walters: The Director Who Made Hollywood Dance, Melinda F. Matthews Apr 2015

Charles Walters: The Director Who Made Hollywood Dance, Melinda F. Matthews

The Southeastern Librarian

No abstract provided.


The Political Career Of W. Kerr Scott: The Squire From Haw River, Keith Gorman Apr 2015

The Political Career Of W. Kerr Scott: The Squire From Haw River, Keith Gorman

The Southeastern Librarian

No abstract provided.


Voice Of The Wildcats: Claude Sullivan And The Rise Of Modern Sportscasting, Karen J. Cook Apr 2015

Voice Of The Wildcats: Claude Sullivan And The Rise Of Modern Sportscasting, Karen J. Cook

The Southeastern Librarian

Review of the book Voice of the Wildcats: Claude Sullivan and the Rise of Modern Sportscasting by Alan Sullivan with Joe Cox.


Refugitta Of Richmond The Wartime Recollections, Grave And Gay, Of Constance Cary Harrison, Carol Walker Jordan Apr 2015

Refugitta Of Richmond The Wartime Recollections, Grave And Gay, Of Constance Cary Harrison, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

No abstract provided.


The Prince Of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood, Melanie J. Dunn Apr 2015

The Prince Of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood, Melanie J. Dunn

The Southeastern Librarian

Review of the book The Prince of Los Cocuvos: A Miami Childhood by Richard Blanco.


Asylum Doctor: James Woods Babcock And The Red Plague Of Pellagra, Barbara Kelly Jan 2015

Asylum Doctor: James Woods Babcock And The Red Plague Of Pellagra, Barbara Kelly

The Southeastern Librarian

Review of the book Asylum Doctor: James Woods Babcock and the Red Plague of Pellagra by Charles S. Bryan. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-61117-490-8.


Chained To The Land: Voices From Cotton And Corn Plantations, Carol Walker Jordan Jan 2015

Chained To The Land: Voices From Cotton And Corn Plantations, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Review of the book Chained to the Land: Voices from Cotton and Cane Plantations edited by Lynette Ater Tanner. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair Publishers, 2014. ISBN 978-0-89587-628-7.


Madam Belle: Sex, Money And Influence In A Southern Brothel, Melinda F. Matthews Jan 2015

Madam Belle: Sex, Money And Influence In A Southern Brothel, Melinda F. Matthews

The Southeastern Librarian

Review of the book Madam Belle: Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel by Maryjean Wall. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8131-4706-2.


The Civil War As Global Conflict: Transnational Meanings Of The American Civil War, Kathelene Mccarty Smith Jan 2015

The Civil War As Global Conflict: Transnational Meanings Of The American Civil War, Kathelene Mccarty Smith

The Southeastern Librarian

Review of the book The Civil War as Global Conflict: Transnational Meanings of the American Civil War edited by David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis. Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-61117-325-3.


Jekyll Island's Early Years From Prehistory Through Reconstruction, Carol Walker Jordan Jan 2015

Jekyll Island's Early Years From Prehistory Through Reconstruction, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Review of the book Jekyll Island's Early Years from PreHistory Through Reconstruction by June Hall McCash. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8203-2447-0.


Enterprising Women: Gender, Race And Power In The Revolutionary Atlantic, Carol Walker Jordan Jan 2015

Enterprising Women: Gender, Race And Power In The Revolutionary Atlantic, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Review of the book Enterprising Women: Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic by Kit Candlin and Cassandra Pybus. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-8203-4455-3.


From Princess To Chief: Life With The Waccamau Siouan Indians Of North Carolina, Carol Walker Jordan Jan 2015

From Princess To Chief: Life With The Waccamau Siouan Indians Of North Carolina, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Review of the book From Princess to Chief: Life with the Waccamaw Siouan Indians of North Carolina by Pricilla Freeman Jacobs and Patricia Barker Lerch. Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8173-1797-3.


Penn Center: A History Preserved, Carol Walker Jordan Jan 2015

Penn Center: A History Preserved, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Review of the book Penn Center: A History Preserved by Orville Vernon Burton with Wilbur Cross. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8203-2602-3.


Book Review: Archivists, Collectors, Dealers, And Replevin: Case Studies On Private Ownership Of Public Documents, Yumi Ohira Jan 2015

Book Review: Archivists, Collectors, Dealers, And Replevin: Case Studies On Private Ownership Of Public Documents, Yumi Ohira

Criss Library Faculty Publications

Archivists, Collectors, Dealers, and Replevin: Case Studies on Private Ownership of Public Documents is an excellent resource for archival students, educators, historians, collectors, and any audience with an interest in archives. Starting with an historical review of collecting institutional and government documents and the development of the archival tradition in the United States, the author examines all aspects of the problems straddling the archival profession. The book allows the reader to easily follow the role of archivists in issues such as protection from loss through theft and neglect as well as archival conflict arising from the existence of public documents …


Do We Still Need Peer Review? An Argument For Change [Review], Michael J. Hughes Jan 2015

Do We Still Need Peer Review? An Argument For Change [Review], Michael J. Hughes

Library Faculty Research

How long has peer review been in crisis? At what point does crisis outlast emergency to become status quo? Attacks on the weaknesses of peer review appear with such regularity that they have migrated from scholarly journals to newspapers and magazines. Notwithstanding criticism—and bold experiments such as the experimental open peer review given online to Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s 2011 book Planned Obsolescence before its publication—the gears grind on, due in large part to the reward systems built around the mechanism of blind and anonymous review.


Review Of You're Wearing That To School?! By Lynn Plourde, Rebekkah C. Reisner Jan 2015

Review Of You're Wearing That To School?! By Lynn Plourde, Rebekkah C. Reisner

Library Intern Book Reviews

No abstract provided.