| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Bruce L. Clayton and John A. Salmond, editors. "Lives Full of Struggle and Triumph": Southern Women, Their Institutions, and Their Communities. Foreword by John David Smith. (New Perspectives on the History of the South.) Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2003. Pp. xii, 323. $55.00.

The essays collected in Bruce L. Clayton and John A. Salmond's contribution to the University of Florida Press's series, "New Perspectives on the History of the South," span the sweep of southern history from the colonial era to the late twentieth century. "In keeping with the best recent work," the series editor proclaims, the essays place southern women "at the center of social change and institution- and community-building over the course of the southern past." Each essay emphasizes "the agency that southern women always have held but that has largely been ignored or undervalued by traditional historical analyses" (p. vii). This emphasis allowed the editors to select some fine essays that deserve wide readership, including Anya Jabour's piece on "college girls" in the Old South, Karen L. Cox's work on the rise of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), and Sarah Hart Brown's biographical essay on Esther Cooper Jackson. The editors made some rather odd thematic and organizational choices, however, that tend to simplify, rather than complicate and expand, our understanding of the southern past.

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