Southern Biography Series


Series Editor:

Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History, University of Florida


Originally launched in the late 1930s, the Southern Biography Series of the Louisiana State University Press has a long and venerable tradition. The first editors, Wendall Holmes Stevenson and Fred C. Cole, were succeeded in 1950 by T. Harry Williams, who edited the series for thirty years. William J. Cooper, Jr., was series editor from 1980 to 1994, when Bertram Wyatt-Brown began his tenure. Notable titles from the twentieth century include P. G. T. Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray by T. Harry Williams, James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery by Drew Gilpin Faust, Mary Boykin Chesnut by Elisabeth Muhlenfeld, General Edmund Kirby Smith, C.S.A. by Joseph H. Parks, and Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest by K. Jack Bauer.

BOOKS IN THIS SERIES

Alden, John Richard - George Washington: A Biography

Alexander, Elizabeth Urban - Notorious Woman: The Celebrated Case of Myra Clark Gaines

Ambrose, Douglas - Henry Hughes and Proslavery Thought in the Old South

Baker, Lewis - The Percys of Mississippi: Politics and Literature in the New South

Bauer, K. Jack - Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest

Becnel, Thomas A. - Senator Allen Ellender of Louisiana: A Biography

Boman, Dennis K. - Lincoln's Resolute Unionist: Hamilton Gamble, Dred Scott Dissenter and Missouri's Civil War Governor

Brazy, Martha Jane - An American Planter: Stephen Duncan of Antebellum Natchez and New York

Breslaw, Elaine G. - Dr. Alexander Hamilton and Provincial America: Expanding the Orbit of Scottish Culture

Brown, Canter, Jr. - Ossian Bingley Hart, Florida?s Loyalist Reconstruction Governor

Brown, David - Southern Outcast: Hinton Rowan Helper and The Impending Crisis of the South

Bruce, Dickson D. - Archibald Grimke: Portrait of a Black Independent

Cheathem, Mark R. - Old Hickory's Nephew: The Political and Private Struggles of Andrew Jackson Donelson

Clayton, Bruce - W. J. Cash: A Life

Cole, Donald B. - A Jackson Man: Amos Kendall and the Rise of American Democracy

Cowdrey, Albert E. - War and Healing: Stanhope Bayne-Jones and the Maturing of American Medicine

Crow, Jeffrey J., and Robert F. Durden - Maverick Republican in the Old North State: A Political Biography of Daniel L. Russell

Din, Gilbert C. - Francisco Bouligny: A Bourbon Soldier in Spanish Louisiana

Durham, David I. - A Southern Moderate in Radical Times: Henry Washington Hilliard, 1808–1892

Eckert, Ralph Lowell - John Brown Gordon: Soldier, Southerner, American

Evans, Curt J. - The Conquest of Labor: Daniel Pratt and Southern Industrialization

Faust, Drew Gilpin - James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery

Fitzpatrick, Vincent - Gerald W. Johnson: From Southern Liberal to National Conscience

Fuller, A. James - Chaplain to the Confederacy: Basil Manly and Baptist Life in the Old South

Goggin, Jacqueline - Carter G. Woodson: A Life in Black History

Grantham, Dewey W. - Hoke Smith and the Politics of the New South

Highsaw, Robert B. - Edward Douglass White: Defender of the Conservative Faith

Justesen, Benjamin R. - George Henry White: An Even Chance in the Race of Life

Klotter, James C. - Kentucky Justice, Southern Honor, and American Manhood: Understanding the Life and Death of Richard Reid

Krawczynski, Keith T. - William Henry Drayton: South Carolina Revolutionary Patriot

Kurtz, Michael L., and Morgan D. Peoples - Earl K. Long: The Saga of Uncle Earl and Louisiana Politics

Leidholdt, Alexander S. - Editor for Justice: The Life of Louis I. Jaffe

Littleton, Taylor C. - The Color of Silver: William Spratling: His Life and Art

Longley, Kyle - Senator Albert Gore, Sr.: Tennessee Maverick

Loveland, Anne C. - Lillian Smith, A Southerner Confronting the South

May, Robert E. - John A. Quitman: Old South Crusader

McBride, Mary Gorton - Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana: Confederate General and New South Reformer

Monaco, C. S. - Moses Levy of Florida: Jewish Utopian and Antebellum Reformer

Muhlenfeld, Elisabeth S. Foreword by C. Vann Woodward - Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Biography

Newmyer, R. Kent - John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court

Niven, John - John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union: A Biography

Parks, Joseph H. - General Edmund Kirby Smith, C.S.A.

Parks, Joseph Howard - Joseph E. Brown of Georgia

Phipps, Sheila R. - Genteel Rebel: The Life of Mary Greenhow Lee

Reed, Germaine M. - David French Boyd: Founder of Louisiana State University

Reynolds, Katherine Chaddock - Visions and Vanities: John Andrew Rice of Black Mountain College

Schott, Thomas E. - Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia: A Biography

Shawhan, Dorothy S., and Martha H. Swain. Foreword by Anne Firor Scott - Lucy Somerville Howorth: New Deal Lawyer, Politician, and Feminist from the South

Tinkler, Robert - James Hamilton of South Carolina

Williams, T. Harry - P. G. T. Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray

Yow, Valerie Raleigh - Bernice Kelly Harris: A Good Life Was Writing