Mitchell Snay

Biographic Data

ID4790179
NAMEMitchell Snay
GIVEN NAMESMitchell
FAMILY NAMESnay
SIGNATURESNAY M
AFFILIATIONSDenison University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS20
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT20
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Racial liberalism in the New South

    Mitchell SnayARTICLEPatterns of Prejudice2024

  • Liberty and Liberticide: The Role of America in Nineteenth-Century British Radicalism

    Mitchell SnayARTICLEJournal of American History2014Cited by: 2

    Journal Article Liberty and Liberticide: The Role of America in Nineteenth-Century British Radicalism Get access Michael J. Turner. (Lanham: Lexington, 2014. viii, 279 pp. $95.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 3, December 2014, Pages 947–948, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau673 Published: 01 December 2014

  • Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South

    Mitchell SnayBOOKGospel of Disunion2010

  • Blacks, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags: The Constitutional Conventions of Radical Reconstruction

    Mitchell SnayARTICLEJournal of American Ethnic History2010

    Book Review| October 01 2010 Blacks, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags: The Constitutional Conventions of Radical Reconstruction Blacks, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags: The Constitutional Conventions of Radical Reconstruction. By Richard L. Hume and Jerry B. Gough. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. xii + 528 pp. Maps, graphs, photos, tables, notes, index, and bibliography. $65 (cloth). Mitchell Snay Mitchell Snay Denison University Se…

  • The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview

    Mitchell SnayREVIEWThe Journal of Southern History2007

    Part I. Cradled in the Storms of Revolution: 1. 'That Terrible Tragedy' 2. The age of revolution through slaveholding eyes 3. 'The Purest Sons of Freedom' Entr'Acte: the bonds of slavery Part II. The Inescapable Past: 4. History as moral and political instruction 5. The slaveholders' quest for a history of the common people 6. World history and the politics of slavery 7. History as the story of freedom Part III. Ancient Legacies, Medieval Sensibi…

  • Freedom and Progress: The Dilemma of Southern Republican Thought during Radical Reconstruction

    Mitchell SnayARTICLEAmerican Nineteenth Century History2004

    The failure of the Republican Party in the South to appeal to the white yeomanry has been a recurring puzzle in the historiography of Reconstruction. Acknowledging the important role of white resistance, racism, and economic depression, this essay instead locates the roots of its failure in its ideology. It argues that the southern Republican appeal to the yeomanry was inherently weakened by yoking together Whiggish appeals of economic developmen…

  • My Father's People: A Family of Southern Jews

    Mitchell Snay, Louis D RubinARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2004

  • Religion and the Antebellum Debate over Slavery

    Russell E Richey, John R Mckivigan et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2000

    This anthology of original essays by historians explores the religious dimensions of the antebellum sectional conflict over slavery. Covering such familiar topics as the proslavery argument and denominational schisms, these essays emphasize the diversity that existed within regions, states, and denominations; the importance of local factors in shaping responses to the slavery controversy; and the powerful pulls toward moderation and unity that ex…

  • Religion and the Antebellum Debate over Slavery

    James B Stewart, John R Mckivigan et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1999Cited by: 4

  • Pastoral and Politics in the Old South

    Mitchell Snay, John M GrammerARTICLEJournal of American History1998

    Journal Article Pastoral and Politics in the Old South. By John M. Grammer. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. xiv, 185 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-8071-2117-7.) Get access Mitchell Snay Mitchell Snay Denison University Granville, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 1496–1497, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568132 Published: 01 March 1…

  • Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South

    Jack P Maddex, Jack P Maddex Jr et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1996

    Gospel of Disunion examines the ways in which religion influenced the development of a distinctive Southern culture and politics before the Civil War, translating the secessionist movement into a struggle of the highest moral significance. It explores such topics as the religious pro-slavery argument and the slaveholding ethic for Christian masters, the denominational schisms of the 1830s and 1840s that divided Southern Protestants along sectiona…

  • On Jordan's Stormy Banks: Evangelicalism in Mississippi, 1773-1876

    Mitchell Snay, Randy J SparksARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1996

  • Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South

    Curtis D Johnson, Mitchell SnayARTICLEJournal of American History1995

    Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South. By Mitchell Snay. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xii, 265 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-521-43122-0.) Curtis D. Johnson Curtis D. Johnson Mount Saint Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995, Pages 1711–1712, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081710 Publishe…

  • Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism

    Mark Y Hanley, Mitchell SnayARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1994

  • The Edge of the South: Life in Nineteenth-Century Virginia

    Mitchell Snay, Edward L Ayers et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1993

  • Ruffin: Family and Reform in the Old South

    Mitchell Snay, David F AllmendingerARTICLEJournal of American History1991

    Journal Article Ruffin: Family and Reform in the Old South. By David F. Allmendinger, Jr. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. xiv + 274 pp. $34.50.) Get access Mitchell Snay Mitchell Snay Denison University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1358–1359, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078312 Published: 01 March 1991

  • American Thought and Southern Distinctiveness: The Southern Clergy and the Sanctification of Slavery

    Mitchell SnayARTICLECivil War history1989References: 5

    American Thought and Southern Distinctiveness: The Southern Clergy and the Sanctification of Slavery Mitchell Snay On the EVE of secession, the Rev. Benjamin M. Palmer insisted that the impending crisis between the North and South was rooted in an irreconcilable disagreement over slavery that was, "in its origins, a question of morals and religion." Like the New Orleans Presbyterian minister, the clergy of the antebellum South clearly recognized …

  • A Southern Tradition in Theology and Social Criticism, 1830-1930. The Religious Liberalism and Social Conservatism of James Warley Miles, Willia Porcher Dubose and Edgar Gardner Murphy

    Mitchell Snay, Ralph E Luker et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1986

  • Richard Furman: Life and Legacy

    Mitchell Snay, James A RogersARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1986

  • The Free Black in Urban America, 1800-1850: The Shadow of the Dream

    Mitchell Snay, Leonard P CurryARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1982