...Richard N. Current Civil War in the Making, 1815-1960 . By Craven Avery O. . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1959 . 115 pp. $3.00 . The American Tragedy: The Civil War in Retrospect . By Craven Avery O. Vandiver Frank E. . With an introduction...

...Robert H. Woody The Growth of Southern Nationalism, 1848-1861 . By Craven Avery O. . A History of the South, Vol. VI . Edited by Stephenson Wendell Holmes Coulter E. Merton . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1953 . Pp. xi , 433 . $6.50 . Copyright ©...

...J. A. Bivins Copyright © 1906 by Duke University Press 1906 Avery s Idle Comments * By J. A. Bivins, Headmaster of Trinity Park School From week to week during a period of several years there appeared in the Charlotte Observer, usually in the Monday edition, a column entitled A Variety...

...Avery F. Gordon This essay is an illustrated montage of some points of engagement with Philip Scheffner's 2007 film, The Halfmoon Files , about the Halfmoon prisoner of war camp in Wünsdorf, Germany. The camp was an important site for anthropometric research and propaganda during World War I...

...Avery Craven The Cavalier and Yankee . By Taylor William R. . New York : George Braziller , 1961 . Pp. 384 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 Book Reviews 415 But there were also other keys to his character. One of these keys was the violence with which...

...Avery Craven BOOKS Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction. By Eric L. McKitrick. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Pp. 532. $8.50. The historian is, of necessity, a revisionist. Even when he can find no new material he must rewrite his story in order to meet the demands of each new generation...

..., and on April 6, 1905, J. Campbell Avery of Pensacola introduced such a measure into the Florida legislature.6 His action precipitated Negro protests in his home town. At a mass meeting in Allen Chapel, A.M.E. Church, Negroes appointed a committee to go to Tallahassee and urge the legislature to reject Avery s...

...David Donald Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 American historians and the causes of the Civil War David Donald Since 1950 historians have written surprisingly little about the causes of the American Civil War. Aside from Avery Craven s Civil War in the Making, a restatement...

... Frederick Burt Avery, an Epis­ copal minister of Cleveland, Ohio. He told them of the prog­ ress of his school and of his plans for the future particularly of his desire to purchase the property on which had stood the million-dollar, seven-hundred-room Four Seasons Hotel which had been torn down after...

..., Wordsworth says while the girls try to figure out what is going on. It is only after time, and some loss, that the girls are able to participate in adult activity. And, traditionally, these options for boys and limits for girls have been sexrelated. Avery and Fern Arable demonstrate this difference clearly...

... in the Old South, pp. 3-6; Avery Craven, The Growth of Southern Nationalism (Baton Rouge, 1953), p. 8. 8 Cason, 90° in the Shade, cited in Edgar T. Thompson, The Climatic Theory of the Plantation, Agricultural History, 15 (January, 1941), 57. William M. Dabney and Marion Dargan, William Henry Drayton...

... to the State through a volume of prose, the right of which to exist is based upon what may be loosely called its literary qualities. Avery s Idle Comments and Mr. McNeill s Songs Merry and Sad are not a part of a spent movement; conditions fortify the hope that they are pioneers. North Carolina has now...

... and subcultures that con- tinue to survive and in turn enable survival in a harsh political climate. Their sensibility overlaps with that of Avery Gordon, who, guided by the writings of Toni Cade Bambara, articulates a utopia that exists in the here and now rather than the fantastic visions of science...

..., regardless of the Republican party. On no other issue did the campaign produce any clear mandate from the voters. Avery Craven, in The Fatal Predica­ ment, examines the statements justifying secession which the state conventions of 1860-1861 gave to the world. These explanations fall so far short of being...

... question of right and wrong actually was there. The American Tragedy is a handsome pamphlet containing two lec­ tures presented as part of a symposium at Hampden-Sydney College. In the first of these, Background Forces and the Civil War, Avery O. Craven summarizes his Civil War in the Making...

... surveys the presidential campaign. Even before 1860, he says, it was clear that the western territories were destined to be free, regardless of the Republican party. On no other issue did the campaign produce any clear mandate from the voters. Avery Craven, in The Fatal Predica­ ment, examines...

... the Russian people achieved over the centuries was in spite of rather than because of their rulers. For the student of Russian history this is a most useful work. JOHN SHELTON CURTISS The Growth of Southern Nationalism, 1848-1861. By Avery O. Craven. A History of the South, Vol. VI. Edited by Wendell Holmes...

... by governmental action engages another major social issue in par- ticularly timely fashion, and Avery Gordon’s wide-ranging essay “‘I’m already in a sort of tomb’: A reply to Philip Scheffner’s Halfmoon Files” explores a host of issues about imprisonment, enemy combatants...

...A. V. Huff, Jr. Book Reviews 345 Edmund Ruffin: A Biography. By Betty L. Mitchell. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981. Pp. x, 306. $22.50. Fifty years have passed since Professor Avery O. Craven published his masterful life of Edmund Ruffin. Now a new generation of scholars has redis­...

... is of minerals; of bees; of the death of one of the kinfolks the day before, when he accidentally stepped in front of a spar truck; of the recent ambush of the sheriff and his deputies in Avery county. Always it veers back again to minerals, spar, mica, hyalite, urananite, beryl, .and actinolite. The Forgotten...