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...Charles S. Sydnor The Randolphs: The Story of a Virginia Family . By Eckenrode H. J. . Indianapolis and New York : The Bobbs-Merrill Company , 1946 . Pp. 310 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 Book Reviews 129 Ukraine and re-establish it as one...

..., and what the atom bomb will leave of the cities of the Ukraine if it is attempted, he does not explain. John Shelton Curtiss. The Randolphs: The Story of a Virginia Family. By H. J. Eckenrode. Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1946. Pp. 310. $3.50. As well as this reviewer can tell, Mr...

... drawn inspiration that his remarks take on an adventitious interest they would not otherwise possess. Mark Twain s criticism, moreover, has been echoed by half a dozen followers, most insistent among whom has been H. J. Eckenrode, who eighteen years ago accused Scott of turning the South away from sound...

... stitutionalist, collected and edited by Dr. Dunbar Rowland, and Jefferson Davis, President of the South by Dr. H. J. Eckenrode, are among the latest and best evidences of this reviving interest. The one represents the fruits of over fifteen years of conscienti­ ous labor and research and forms a common...

.... University of Illinois. The Revolution in Virginia. By H. J. Eckenrode. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916, 311 pp. $2.00 net. Dr. Eckenrode has made a valuable contribution to the history of Virginia. While there is considerable literature relating to certain phases of the revolutionary...

... in the best of modern scholarship dealing with the particular era and section in which his subject moved. For example, the bibliography lacks such authors as Gewehr, Harrell, and Jameson, who would have added fiber and substance to the analysis of the Revolution in Virginia. To be sure, Eckenrode is often...

... : Charles Scribner’s Sons , 1947 . Pp. vii , 312 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 130 The South Atlantic Quarterly Eckenrode suggests that the Randolph blood was more likely to produce great men, such as Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and Robert E. Lee, when...

... in Virginia. To be sure, Eckenrode is often cited, but when that author no longer serves Mr. Bowers special purposes, he is abruptly thrown aside. Mr. Bowers is simply not as much at home in the Revolutionary and Critical Periods as in later decades of American history. The author s basic argument is, Had...

... bibliography of Colonial Virginia froml754tol776 by William Clayten Torrence, andastudy ofthe Separation of Church and State in Virginia by H. J. Eckenrode, archivist. Dr. Eckenrode s monograph is based on manuscript as well as published sources and throws much light on political as well as ecclesiastical...

... in the writings of William E. Dodd, A. J. Morrison, James Truslow Adams, H. J. Eckenrode, and William B. Hesseltine, to mention only a few; and it reappears in Charles and Mary Beard s widely read The Rise of Ameri­ can Civilization. Dr. Osterweis occasionally admits that the hypothesis may be carried too far...

.... 11 Life of Jefferson Davis, 161. In chapter XIX Pollard gives a very black picture of the Confederate Congress. 1,1 Jefferson Davis, 257. Eckenrode, the latest biographer of Davis, gives a keen analysis of his cabinet appointments; H. J. Eckenrode, Jefferson Davis, President of the South (New York...

... in Virginia for 1790. 17 See H. J. Eckenrode, The Separation of Church and State in Virginia (Rich­ mond, 1909). 182 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Separate Baptists occupied in the popular mind a very definite social status to which even the opprobrious designation of New Lights never relegated the more...

... they were softened and refined under our Southern sky. 10 These views continued into the present century. Hamilton J. Eckenrode declared that in the warm climate of the American South a superior Nordic race became tropicized and thus improved in quality,11 and Francis B. Simkins also defined the South...

...Bert James Loewenberg 1934 EFFORTS OF THE SOUTH TO ENCOURAGE IMMIGRATION, 1865-1900 BERT JAMES LOEWENBERG >HE attitude of the South toward immigration has been JL interpreted as one of hostility. So modern a work as H. J. Eckenrode s Jefferson Davis: President of the South1 pre­ sents...

..., inquire into and report upon the propriety of establishing such a system of public 2 Eckenrode, The Political History of Virginia during the Reconstruction; Rich­ mond Dispatch, April 10, 1868. 28 The South Atlantic Quarterly schools as shall secure to the youth of Virginia, of all classes, the advantages...

... the legend which Beverley seems to have first recorded, gives the Cavaliers the chief credit for proclaiming Charles II king in Virginia before the Restoration in England. Eckenrode, Sir Walter Scott and the South, North American Review, Vol. CCVI, pp. 601-602. 11 Marshall, Lite of Washington, Vol. I, p...

... Hamilton, and he is just as captious regarding certain Book Reviews 323 remarks about Jefferson as war governor of Virginia in Eckenrode s Virginia in the. Revolution. Nothing in recent biogra­ phical w-riting is more notable than this aggressive defense of the arch radical of early American thinkers...

...; Pearson, pp. 99-104, 164; Hamilton J. Eckenrode, Virginia Since 1865: 1865 1945, A Political History, typescript, (Alderman Library, Univ. of 354 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Democrats in 1902 secured their suzerainty by foisting a new constitution upon the state. By adopting a poll tax as a pre­...