“Readings in 
Religion, Radical Politics and Plain Folk in the New South"
2005 Collin College Study Grant
Kyle Wilkison

Presented to the Faculty
Collin College
May 5, 2006

Baum, Dale and Calvert, Robert A. "Texas Patrons of Husbandry: Geography, Social Contexts and Voting Behavior." Agricultural History 63 (1989): 36-55.

Burbank Garin. "Agrarian Radicals and Their Opponents: Political Conflict in Southern Oklahoma, 1910-1924." Journal of American History 58 (1971): 5-23.

Burwood, Stephen. "The South: Segregation, Sex And Socialism Before World War One." Borderlines: Studies in American Culture [Great Britain] 5 (1998): 126- 141.

Butler, Francelia. "The Ruskin Commonwealth: A Unique Experiment In Marxian Socialism." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 23 (1964): 333-342.

Creel, Von Russell, "Socialists in the House: The Oklahoma Experience, Part I." Chronicles of Oklahoma 70 (1992): 144-183.

Dorn, Jacob H. Socialism and Christianity in Early 20th Century America. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1998.

Henningson, Berton E., Jr. "Root Hog or Die: The Brothers of Freedom and the 1884 Arkansas Election." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 45(1986): 197-216.

Horton, Paul. "Testing the Limits of Class Politics in Postbellum Alabama: Agrarian Radicalism in Lawrence County." Journal of Southern History 1991 57(1): 63-84.

Hyde, Samuel C. Jr., "Plain Folk Reconsidered: Historiographical Ambiguity in Search of Definition." Journal of Southern History (November 2005) 71:803- 830.

Kane, Anne and Mann, Michael. "A Theory of Early Twentieth-Century Agrarian Politics." Social Science History 16 (1992): 421-454.

Lorence, James J. "'Dynamite for the Brain': The Growth and Decline of Socialism in Central And Lakeshore Wisconsin, 1910-1920." Wisconsin Magazine of History 66 (1983): 250-273.

McWhiney, Grady. "Louisiana Socialists in the Early Twentieth Century: A Study of Rustic Radicalism." Journal of Southern History, 20 (1954): 315-336.

Meredith, H. L. "Agrarian Socialism and the Negro In Oklahoma, 1900-1918." Labor History 11 (1970): 277-284.

_____. "Oscar Ameringer and the Concept of Agrarian Socialism." Chronicles of Oklahoma 45 (1967): 77-83.

Ogilvie, Leon Parker. "Populism and Socialism in the Southeast Missouri Lowlands." Missouri Historical Review 1971 65(2): 159-183.

Osthaus, Carl R. "The Work Ethic of the Plain Folk: Labor and Religion in the Old South." Journal of Southern History 70 (2004): 745-782.

Otto, John Solomon. "'Hillbilly Culture': The Appalachian Mountain Folk In History and Popular Culture." Southern Quarterly 24(1986): 25-34.

_____. "The Migration of the Southern Plain Folk: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis." Journal of Southern History 51(1985): 183-200.

_____. "Southern "Plain Folk" Agriculture: A Reconsideration." Plantation Society in the Americas 2 (1983): 29-36.

_____. "Plain Folk, Lost Frontiersmen, And Hillbillies: The Southern Mountain Folk in History and Popular Culture." Southern Studies 26 (1987): 5-17.

Pope, Billy. "Down On The Farm: The Agrarian Revolt In American History." Radical America 16 (1982): 139-147.

Pratt, William C. "Socialism on the Northern Plains, 1900-1924." South Dakota History 18 (1988): 1-35.

Remele, Larry. "'Things As They Should Be': Jeffersonian Idealism and Rural Rebellion In Minnesota And North Dakota, 1910-1920." Minnesota History 51(1988): 15-22.

Schwantes, Carlos A. "The Ordeal of William Morley Bouck, 1918-1919: Limits to the Federal Suppression of Agrarian Dissidents." Agricultural History 59 (1985): 417-428.

Stephens, Randall J. "The Convergence of Populism, Religion, and the Holiness-Pentecostal Movements: A Review of the Historical Literature." Fides et Historia 32 (2000): 51-64.

Wall, Bennett H. "Review Essay: Frank Lawrence Owsley, Historian of the Old South." Alabama Review 45 (1992): 132-136.

Winters, Donald L. "'Plain Folk' Of the Old South Reexamined: Economic Democracy in Tennessee." Journal of Southern History 53 (1987): 565-586.

Wood, W. Kirk. "The Misinterpretation of Frank L. Owsley: Thomas J. Pressly and the Myth of a Neo-Confederate Revival, 1930-1962." Southern Studies 10(2003): 39-67.

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