...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 Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1689 . By Craven Wesley Frank . A History of the South, Vol. I . Edited by Stephenson Wendell Holmes Coulter E. Merton . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1949 . Pp. xv , 451 . $6.00...

...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 ©...

...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...

...Charles Craven Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 THE ROBESON COUNTY INDIAN UPRISING AGAINST THE KKK Charles Craven ONE OF the most striking aspects of the Ku Klux Klansmen who in January 18, 1958, came to Robeson County, North Carolina, to hold a rally was their lack of numbers...

...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...

... Craven, a leading art critic of the day, tells us that, on the basis of ac­ complished work, the movement already marks the end of American subservience to foreign cultural fashions. This does not necessarily imply repudiation, for most of the leaders in the new American art have had foreign study...

...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...

...Harold S. Schultz The Neglected Thread: A Journal from the Calhoun Community, 1836-1842 . By Moragné Mary E. . Edited by Craven Delle Mullen . Columbia : University of South Carolina Press , 1951 . Pp. xxxviii , 256 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952...

... 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...

...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...

... the biography, will be worthy of Washington the man. Charles S. Sydnor. The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 16071689. By Wesley Frank Craven. A History of the South, Vol. I. Edited by Wendell Holmes Stephenson and E. Merton Coulter. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1949. Pp. xv, 451...

..., 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...

... in the field of early Ameri­ can history. He is indebted to Paul J. Bohanan. James Sheehan, Robert Gilmour, and Peter Wood for advice and criticism. 1. Thomas J. Wertenbaker, The Planters of Colonial Virginia (Princeton, 1922), p. 29. Also, Wesley Frank Craven, The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century...

... the abstract idealist) was willing to risk war if that were the price for setting the world in order. Again, the offending extremists turn out to be mostly the abolitionists. Slavery, it appears, was not so bad; anti­ slavery, not so good. The historian s problem, as Craven remarks, is . . . largely one...

... 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...

... ry Allen, which Callie Craven says is a dwellin song and must be sung slow and mournful, dwellin on the long notes. Arnold s footnote recalls Goldsmith s 1765 essay, The music of the finest singer is dissonance to what I felt when an old dairy­ maid sung me into tears with . . . Barb ry Allen...

... Beverley to Wesley Frank Craven. Since the early nineteenth century it has been customary to view the rebellion as a pro­ genitor of the American Revolution, a harbinger of later developments in American democracy, and a movement generated by a desire for political reforms and relief from an oppressive...

... The South Atlantic Quarterly Joseph Roth has grasped the spirit of Job, and has transmitted it, less majestic, less philosophical, and yet powerful into his book. Elizabeth D. Wheatley. DEFENDER OF SOUTHERN INSTITUTIONS Edmund Ruffin, Southerner, A Story in Secession. By Avery Craven. New York: D. Appleton...