| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Book Review

Warm Ashes: Issues in Southern History at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century. Ed. by Winfred B. Moore Jr., Kyle S. Sinisi, and David H. White Jr. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. xiv, 413 pp. $49.95, ISBN 1-57003-510-5.)

This book, composed of eighteen chapters that were originally presented as papers at the Citadel Conference on the South, held in Charleston, South Carolina, on April 6–8, 2000, presents a dilemma to a reviewer limited to five hundred words. Merely to list the titles and authors of the chapters would consume approximately half the given space, and one hesitates to mention only those articles that address most precisely one's personal interests. The essays are grouped into seven categories, with each category briefly introduced by the editors. Part 1, "Forward to the Past," contains a single contribution by Emory M. Thomas that charts the evolution of Civil War historiography and points toward work that should be done. Part 2, "Enslaved," consists of three chapters, two of which (by Kirsten E. Wood and Patrick H. Breen) discuss different aspects of white women's relationship to slavery while the other, by James McMillin, challenges the commonly accepted estimates of the volume of the postrevolutionary slave trade to North America. "War and Southern Identity," part 3, presents three articles (by Christopher Phillips, Brian R. Dirck, and Christopher Waldrep) that vividly illustrate how fresh analysis can fruitfully complicate our understanding even of aspects of the past that we think we know well.

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