Book reviews

The Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians seeks book reviewers on an ongoing basis.

The book review editor assigns reviews from a list of books available for review. Additionally, a prospective reviewer may contact the book review editor to suggest a title for assignment that is not on the list of available titles. Reviews that are unsolicited and arrive without assignment will be returned. We do not accept reviews that are published elsewhere in print or electronically.

To be considered as a reviewer, send an email request with your current c.v. to the book review editor, Jeff Broadwater (ojbroadwater@barton.edu). Preference is given to NCAH members in assigning reviews. We encourage prospective reviewers to consider joining the NCAH.

Publishers interested in submitting books for review should contact the review editor before sending materials.

Submission

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically by email attachment. It is not necessary to submit a hard copy of the review.   In addition to the review itself, the reviewer’s name and affiliation are needed.  Reviews should be submitted electronically in .doc, .docx or.rtf format to Jeff Broadwater (ojbroadwater@barton.edu).

Books Available for Review in the 2025 Issue of the Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians as of September 28,2024

From the University of North Carolina Press:

Margaret Humphreys, Searching for Dr. Harris: The Life and Times of a Remarkable African      American Physician (2024)

Lori D. Ginzberg, Tangled Journeys: One Family’s Story and the Making of American History    (2024)

Crystal R. Sanders, A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and     the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs (2024)

Verdis Levar Robinson and Paul Otto, Bacon’s Rebellion, 1676-1677: Race, Class, and Frontier             Conflict in Colonial Virginia (2024) (This is a supplemental reader for classroom use.)

Mateo Jarquin, The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin America History (2024)

James C. Cobb, C. Vann Woodward, America’s Historian (2022)

Susan J. Pearson, The Birth Certificate: An American Story (2021)

Michael E. Woods, Arguing Until Doomsday: Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy (2020)

Cynthia A. Kierner, Inventing Disaster: The Culture of Calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the Johnstown Flood (2019)

From Princeton University Press:

Benjamin Nathans, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement (2024)