Book Reviews

Book reviews of: Civil Rights, Culture Wars: The Fight over a Mississippi Textbook By Charles W. Eagles (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Illustrations, acknowledgments, essay on sources, notes, index. Pp. 298. $34.95 cloth, $33.99 eBook. ISBN: 978-1-4696-3115-8.) Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement. By Devery S. Anderson. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2015. Paperback reprint with new preface, 2017. 552 pages. $25.00.) Panting for Glory: The Mississippi Rifles in the Mexican War. By Richard Bruce Winders. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2016. Acknowledgements, Notes, Bibliography, Index. Pp. x, 192. $45 cloth. ISBN: 9781623494162.) The Sacred Mirror: Evangelicalism, Honor, and Identity in the Deep South, 1790-1860. By Robert Elder. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Notes, Bibliography, Index. Pp. 288. $34.95 cloth. ISBN: 978-1-4696-2756-4.) Right to Revolt: The Crusade for Racial Justice in Mississippi’s Central Piney Woods. By Patricia Michelle Boyett. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2015. Acknowledgements, notes, bibliography, index. Pp. viii, 244. $65 hardback. ISBN 978-1-4968-0430-3.) Senator James Eastland: Mississippi’s Jim Crow Democrat. By Maarten Zwiers. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015. Acknowledgements, notes, bibliography, index. Pp. vii, 293. ISBN: 978-0-8071-60010-5.