De Bow's Review: The Antebellum Vision of a New South

A study of the nineteenth-century magazine from the American South, its editor, and influence on the region.

In the decades preceding the Civil War, the South struggled against widespread negative characterizations of its economy and society as it worked to match the North's infrastructure and level of development. Recognizing the need for regional reform, James Dunwoody Brownson (J. D. B.) De Bow began to publish a monthly journal?De Bow's Review?to guide Southerners toward a stronger, mor...