| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.1

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Michael E. Williams, Sr.. Isaac Taylor Tichenor: The Creation of the Baptist New South. (Religion and American Culture.) Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2005. Pp. 240. $42.50.

Between 1882 and 1916, Christians associated with the Southern Baptist Convention surpassed Methodists as the dominant southern religious denomination. This expansion was prologue to later activity that would make the Convention guide to the largest Protestant body in the United States. Isaac Taylor Tichenor (1825–1902) was arguably one of the most influential architects of this transformation through the institution that he commanded like a revolutionary vanguard, the Home Missions Board (HMB) of the Southern Baptist Convention. With comrades who created convention organizations to spawn Sunday schools and write hundreds of thousands of tracts, papers, books, and lessons, Tichenor made his efficient, aggressive, and ubiquitous institution as southern as it was Baptist—or maybe more so. In this organizational history we see a former Confederate chaplain, planter, college president, and New South businessman combine a political and personal genius for winning men and women to a cause with the determination to establish the fact of being "Southern" and "Baptist" as a religious basis for social and civic solidarity.

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