Southern Methodist University Research Articles

The Korean infrasound catalogue (1999–2022)

SUMMARY The Korean infrasound catalogue (KIC) covers 1999–2022 and characterizes a rich variety of source types as well as document the effects of the time-varying atmosphere on event detection and location across the Korean Peninsula. The KIC is produced using data from six South Korean infrasound arrays that are cooperatively operated by Southern Methodist University and Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources. Signal detection relies on an Adaptive F-Detector that estimates arrival time and backazimuth, which draws a distinction between detection and parameter estimation. Detections and associated parameters are input into a Bayesian Infrasonic Source Location procedure. The resulting KIC contains 38 455 infrasound events and documents repeated events from several locations. The catalogue includes many anthropogenic sources such as an industrial chemical explosion, explosions at limestone open-pit mines and quarries, North Korean underground nuclear explosions and other atmospheric or underwater events of unknown origin. Most events in the KIC occur during working hours and days, suggesting a dominance of human-related signals. The expansion of infrasound arrays over the years in South Korea and the inclusion of data from the International Monitoring System infrasound stations in Russia and Japan increase the number of infrasound events and improve location accuracy because of the increase in azimuthal station coverage. A review of selected events and associated signals at multiple arrays provides a location quality assessment. We quantify infrasound events that have accompanying seismic arrivals (seismoacoustic events) to support the source type assessment. Ray tracing using the Ground-to-Space (G2S) atmospheric model generally predicts observed arrivals when strong stratospheric winds exist, although the predicted arrival times have significant discrepancies. In some cases, local atmospheric data better captures small-scale variations in the wind velocity of the shallow atmosphere and can improve arrival time predictions that are not well matched by the G2S model. The analysis of selected events also illustrates the importance of topographic effects on tropospheric infrasound propagation at local distances. The KIC is the first infrasound catalogue compiled in this region, and it can serve as a valuable data set in developing more robust infrasound source localization and characterization methods.

Judge rules against university

Case name: McGowan, et al. v. Southern Methodist University, No. 3:18‐CV‐00141 (N.D. Tex. 02/05/24).

“I Thought It Was Beautiful; I Just Wish I Could Understand It”: The Awkward Dance of Multilingual Worship

This article explores strategies for planning and leading multilingual worship. It offers an overview of translation and multilingualism for readers unfamiliar with the growing body of scholarship in these fields and connects them to the role of translation and multilingualism in Christian worship, leveraging decolonial perspectives to critique its history. This article draws from a data set of approximately 40 liturgies designed for the Course of Study School of the United Methodist Church at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. It uses selections from these liturgies to demonstrate how issues of translation and multilingualism might be dealt with in worship planning and leadership. Finally, the article points to possibilities for further exploration at the intersection between Christian worship and multilingualism.

Judge rules against university

Case name: McGowan, et al. v. Southern Methodist University, No. 3:18‐CV‐00141 (N.D. Tex. 02/05/24).

Geography, Infrastructure and Architecture: From the Immaterial Scenes of the Arts to the Physical Space of the American City

The aim of this paper is to propose a design answer to the United States issue of public space through the use of art, using the city of Dallas as an example. A pragmatic way to interpret space is the grid. The first analysis are aimed toward one of the most ancient systems of formulating “urban” conglomerates, the roman grid. In the USA, it is the Continental Congress’s Land Ordinance of 1785 to prescribe the usage of the Continental grid. Ideally the two grids have the same role, the significant difference is their scale. This grid can only be compared to a colossal scale, here space is subordinated to time. This mutation is in line with the urban development processes of the city of Dallas. This is why, the University Crossing Trail Public Improvement Distric, along with the Southern Methodist University of Dallas, have developed a collaboration to promote and regenerate an old trail of the city into an art corridor. Even if not constructed using the Jeffersonian grid, the apparent orderliness of its blocks accentuates the complete supremacy of circulation, while the shapes and turns of the infrastructure collaborate to a new idea of beauty within the landscape of the city. The proposed solution is to intervene with three different urban art projects that have been placed along the main and different types of infrastructures of the city. The intention is to invert the subordination of space that returns protagonist where the urban art projects have been inserted, without ever negating the principal condition of circulation and speed. Because this apparent contradiction requires a specific and cautious sensitivity, it is the responsibility of art and architecture to mediate between audacious locations, functional solutions and the world of visual representation.

A Perfect Reference for Digital RF Memories and Transceiver Technologies [Book/Software Reviews

Phillip Pace is a distinguished professor (emeritus) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) and has also taught as an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University. He was a senior scientist at L3Harris Technologies, Advanced Systems & Technologies, Plano, TX, USA, from 2020 to 2022. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Ohio University in 1983 and 1986, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1990—all in electrical and computer engineering.

Intersections of Taste, Race, and Class

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook and Film ReviewsIntersections of Taste, Race, and Class Ewoodzie Jr., Joseph C. 2021. Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.Carolyn MasonCarolyn MasonDepartment of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Heroy Hall, Office 428B, 3225 Daniel Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75205, USA ([email protected]). 27 I2I 23 Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Current Anthropology Volume 64, Number 3June 2023 Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/725038 HistoryAccepted February 27, 2023 © 2023 The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. All rights reserved. For permission to reuse, please contact [email protected]PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Breaking it Down: Economic Consequences of Disaggregated Cost Disclosures

Motivated by the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s project on the disaggregation of income statement expenses, we study a Korean rule change that allowed firms to withhold a previously mandated disaggregation of cost of sales (CoS). We find that after withholding, firms’ profitability increases by 1.6 percentage points. Our industry-focused results suggest that withholding affects profitability by reducing the transfer of competitive information to peer firms. We then document a range of evidence consistent with the idea that firms withhold disaggregated CoS to protect cost innovations from rivals. First, we construct a novel measure of firms’ cost-innovative potential and show that it predicts withholding and subsequent profitability gains under the voluntary disclosure regime. Second, we document efficiency gains following the withholding of disaggregated CoS. Third, our survey experiment of 1,257 U.S. public firm managers shows that they would reduce investments in process/cost innovations if they were required to disaggregate CoS. Our study highlights to standard setters and academics that CoS disaggregation entails operational consequences for firms. This paper was accepted by Brian Bushee, accounting. Funding: The authors acknowledge financial support from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and the Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business. Supplemental Material: The data files and online appendix available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.4780 .

Exploring acoustic characteristics of different aircraft types by fusing with aircraft tracking data.

In this study, we develop a method that assigns acoustic signals with Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) data to build a labeled dataset of acoustic signals from aircraft without expensive ground-truth experiments. An exploration of the resultant labeled dataset enables an assessment of the acoustic characteristics from three types of aircraft. The fusion framework is evaluated using data from an acoustic sensor and collocated ADS-B receiver in the middle of a large urban area at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Our results demonstrate the benefit of combining multiple types of data to generate a labeled dataset leveraging open-source aircraft surveillance data. By studying three classes of aircraft, we find that the smaller fixed wing single engine (FWSE) class is mostly detected within approximately 5000 m, while the larger fixed wing multi-engine (FWME) class is commonly detected out to greater distances above 7500 m. The FWSE class has a median source frequency at 100 Hz, compared to FWME class with median source frequency at 80 Hz, while rotorcraft has a source frequency falling into a lower range of 30-100 Hz.

Eudora Welty Collection: Mississippi Department of Archives and History

Eudora Welty Collection:Mississippi Department of Archives and History Elisabeth Cambonga The materials transferred to the Archives and Records Services Division (A&RS) from the Museum Division since March 2011, along with those transferred to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) upon the settlement of Eudora Welty's estate, continue to be incorporated into the Eudora Welty Collection. Any newly acquired collections of Welty-related material not donated to MDAH by Eudora Welty or her heirs are established as collections unto themselves, in accordance with archival rules of provenance, and are not added to the Eudora Welty Collection proper. In 2019, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded an implementation grant to MDAH to support the preservation, digitization, and enhancement of access to the papers and photographs of Eudora Welty. The Eudora Welty Foundation matched MDAH's contribution to the grant. Although scheduled to be completed in May 2022, project revisions related to Covid-19 delayed progress and MDAH received a second grant extension from NEH. The project aimed to professionally conserve and scan selected items in the Eudora Welty Collection. The preparation and digitization of items necessitated the closure of selected series during scanning and quality control review. The grant was completed in January 2023 and can now be accessed via the digital archives on MDAH's website by visiting https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/welty. The Welty Family Papers, Series 45, has been processed and is open as of April 2022; a new subseries, the Garden Papers of Chestina Welty, will open in April 2023. Series 33, Works on Welty, was opened in January 2023, and Series 34, Dramatizations of Welty's Fiction, is scheduled to be opened in 2023. The preparation of items may necessitate the temporary closure of this series. [End Page 199] We suggest researchers contact MDAH, refdesk@mdah.ms.gov, to verify the availability of series that are of particular interest to them prior to visiting the archives. Researchers are invited to visit the MDAH website where the home page https://www.mdah.ms.gov/ features Welty information with some regularity and provides a portal to the online catalog where new series and series revisions may be posted. The A&RS division continues to use Koha, a recently updated open source system, for its online catalog. An instruction sheet, The Eudora Welty Collection: Collection Research and Access via the Online Catalog, has been prepared to aid researchers in readily locating catalog records for the Eudora Welty Collection and other Welty-related materials in the division's holdings. The instruction sheet now includes information on accessing the Eudora Welty Digital Archives and concludes with a current series list. Researchers interested in obtaining publication rights for, and/or reproductions of, material in the Eudora Welty Collection may benefit from information provided in The Eudora Welty Collection: Contacts for Use Permission and Reprographic Services. The 2023 Eudora Welty Research Fellowship co-sponsored by the Eudora Welty Foundation and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History will be awarded in April. On-site research at the William F. Winter Archives and History Building, supported by the stipend of $5,000, will be conducted during the summer. The 2022 Fellow was Pamela J. Merryman, a PhD candidate in Liberal Studies at Southern Methodist University. Ms. Forrest Galey, who served as the curator of the Eudora Welty Collection since 1997 retired in December 2022 after more than thirty-seven years of outstanding service to MDAH and the state of Mississippi. Galey joined MDAH in 1985 as an archivist and Graphic Records Collection curator of Special Collections. She then served as the Archival Program Supervisor and later as Special Projects Officer. In 2012, she received the Public Humanities Award for Special Recognition presented by the Mississippi Humanities Council. During her tenure, Galey was instrumental in the multi-year construction planning of the William F. Winter Archives & History Building and the move from the Charlotte Capers Building, the former home of the archives and library. Galey also led the grant project Sharing the Literary and Photographic Legacy of Eudora Welty, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Eudora Welty Foundation, and MDAH, involving the improved conservation and...

Critical Race Theory: Counter-Storytelling the Case of ‘Old Frank’ and the Daniel Family Cemetery

The Texas Historical Commission (“THC”), a legislatively enacted agency of the State of Texas, has erected and disseminated nearly 17,000 historical markers across the state’s vast 268,596 square miles and 254 counties with one express purpose: “To protect and preserve the state’s historic and prehistoric resources for the use, education, enjoyment, and economic benefit of present and future generations.” Unfortunately, the histories of both the United States and Texas are under siege. Politically charged and fear driven constituents have fully devoted their collective time, energy, and financial resources to destroying the perceived new boogeyman, Critical Race Theory (“CRT”). Since January 2021, all but six states have considered legislation concerning CRT in public schools. Currently, eighteen states, including Texas, have passed legislation banning CRT to eradicate altogether or offer a redacted historicity. Despite their intent, the THC, through its application and review processes, actively participates in erecting memorials that obscure aspects of Texas history, especially those pertaining to race and racism. Conversely, CRT advocates, through one of its key tenets of counter-storytelling, aim to reveal all history. The specific case of “Old Frank” illuminates the intersectionality between CRT, the State of Texas, and Southern Methodist University’s histories. Located two blocks north of the campus in University Park, Texas, “Old Frank,” a family slave, inaugurated The Daniel Family Cemetery in 1850 and has been buried there with other “unknown” slaves in unmarked graves for nearly two centuries. “Old Frank’s” untold or “undertold” story both illuminate CRT’s necessity and stymies the THC’s ability to fulfill its motto of “Real Places Telling Real Stories.”

Learn from the leadership of U.S. presidents

While in Dallas recently, I had some time to kill before my flight back to Atlanta. Just down the street from Love Field Airport is the Southern Methodist University campus, which hosts the George W. Bush Presidential Center. I'd never been to a presidential library before and decided to venture inside.

Learn from the leadership of U.S. presidents

While in Dallas recently, I had some time to kill before my flight back to Atlanta. Just down the street from Love Field Airport is the Southern Methodist University campus, which hosts the George W. Bush Presidential Center. I'd never been to a presidential library before and decided to venture inside.

Learn from the leadership of U.S. presidents

While in Dallas recently, I had some time to kill before my flight back to Atlanta. Just down the street from Love Field airport is the Southern Methodist University campus, which hosts the George W. Bush Presidential Center. I'd never been to a presidential library before and decided to venture inside. I hope you can put your politics aside as I describe my visit and the leadership qualities I identified in former President Bush. All presidents of the United States display high levels of leadership, or they wouldn't have been elected.

Port Hudson: The Most Significant Battlefield Photographs of the Civil War by Lawrence Lee Hewitt

Reviewed by: Port Hudson: The Most Significant Battlefield Photographs of the Civil War by Lawrence Lee Hewitt Carol Degrasse (bio) Port Hudson: The Most Significant Battlefield Photographs of the Civil War. Lawrence Lee Hewitt. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2021. ISBN 978-1621904830. xi, 352 pp. $49.95. The photographic history of the American Civil War—although extensive—has only recently begun to receive the meticulous attention it deserves, particularly in terms of engaging with the historical and geographical context of extant images. Although broad photographic collections of the “decisive” Civil War battles have been compiled, few have undergone the type of comprehensive examination that Lawrence Lee Hewitt accomplishes in Port Hudson: The Most Significant Battlefield Photographs of the Civil War. Hewitt not only provides an expansive visual record of the Battle of Port Hudson, he also decisively corrects the many inconsistencies and inaccuracies associated with these photographs. Hewitt’s book—the product of four decades of research and collecting—takes on greater historical significance when one considers that military occupation and natural erosion have markedly changed the terrain, further complicating the visual record of the battlefield and surrounding landscape. This notable distinction sets the book apart from earlier collections that examine Civil War battle-fields in which the landscapes have been accurately preserved or restored. Here, Hewitt makes a concerted effort to correct topographical inaccuracies by supplying revised maps that depict the photographs’ proper orientations. Perhaps more importantly, he also painstakingly strives to provide proper attribution of the photographs, amend erroneous captions, and include photographs omitted from earlier collections, including those of Black troops and some of the first known “action shots” of any Civil War battle. The book contains 173 of the most representative photographs of Hewitt’s massive collection, covering a diverse range of subjects that include military and civilian spaces taken both during and after the siege. The photographs—some published for the first time—are arranged in chronological order to depict the topographical changes that occurred during battle as well as after its conclusion. Hewitt’s first two chapters provide historical context for those that follow— first, foregrounding Civil War photography both as an art and a business venture and second, providing a brief but thorough historical context for the Port Hudson battles. The other chapters are arranged chronologically, each focusing on one or more of the seven photographers whose works this volume includes. Each chapter contains biographical information on the artists, along with accounts of the photographic techniques they used at Port Hudson. William D. McPherson and his partner, A. J. Oliver, are given two chapters, with the duo’s [End Page 326] photographs of Port Hudson during and after the siege appearing separately. Apart from its sheer abundance, McPherson and Oliver’s work merits a second chapter for its uniqueness. For example, the pair’s work demonstrates some of the earliest attempts to produce combination printing as well as night-time and time-lapse photographs. Hewitt even suggests that some of McPherson and Oliver’s photographs are the first to show troops “engaged” in battle, although to do so, he extends the meaning of engaged to include photographs simply taken while the siege was under way. One of Port Hudson’s defining characteristics is that Hewitt does not simply present the photographs with a historical and geographical emphasis. Instead, he skillfully weaves the historical and geographical information into a narrative that also delves into photographic history and technology, battlefield archaeology, and cartography. The Port Hudson collection will likely never attain the level of recognition of photos of other battle sites; however, this type of in-depth visual study will provoke new scholarship on other Civil War battles and on Civil War photography as a whole. Carol Degrasse Southern Methodist University Carol Degrasse CAROL DEGRASSE is a PhD candidate at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and a 2021 NEH Summer Scholar. She has published on Rebecca Harding Davis, Emily Dickenson, Henry David Thoreau, and effective pedagogical practices. Her dissertation, “Visualizing Identity: Photography and Social Performances of Race in the American Nineteenth Century,” challenges widely accepted theories of race, visual culture, and performance by examining the roles played by aesthetics in framing social identities of...

Learn from the leadership of U.S. presidents

While in Dallas recently, I had some time to kill before my flight back to Atlanta. Just down the street from Love Field airport is the Southern Methodist University campus, which hosts the George W. Bush Presidential Center. I'd never been to a presidential library before and decided to venture inside.

The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics by Frank Andre Guridy

Reviewed by: The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athleticsby Frank Andre Guridy David K. Wiggins The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics. By Frank Andre Guridy. Texas Bookshelf. ( Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021. Pp. x, 418. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-4773-2183-6.) I like this book very much. Frank Andre Guridy, utilizing a nice combination of secondary and primary source material, provides a very interesting and insightful analysis of sports in Texas and, by extension, in American culture more generally. Although some might be overwhelmed by its 353 pages of text and disappointed by its limited coverage of interscholastic athletics, the book provides important and detailed information largely about the role and [End Page 590]changing pattern of college and professional sports in the Lone Star State from the end of the Jim Crow era to the 1980s. I have no doubt readers of The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athleticswill gain a better appreciation of the large number of outstanding athletes and culturally significant sporting events that took place in Texas during a rapidly changing and tumultuous period in American history. Guridy covers some frequently told stories such as the integration of football at Southern Methodist University and the subsequent scandal that rocked its gridiron program, the well-known Battle of the Sexes tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs at the Houston Astrodome, the enormous success of the University of Houston's basketball program popularly referred to as Phi Slama Jama, the football dominance of the University of Texas Longhorns, and the emergence and ultimate success of the San Antonio Spurs professional basketball team. He also examines some stories not as well known, including perhaps most important the origin and cultural significance of the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders. In the process, Guridy provides interesting details on the athletes, coaches, owners, and support personnel who contributed to the vibrant and nationally prominent sports programs in Texas. He furnishes significant details and background information, for example, on perhaps the greatest woman athlete of all time, Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson; the University of Texas's great running back Earl Campbell; Jerry LeVias, who integrated the Southern Methodist University football program; coach Guy Lewis, who masterminded the University of Houston's highly successful basketball team; oil tycoon Lamar Hunt, who co-founded the American Football League (AFL); Gussie Nell Davis, who led the highly skilled Kilgore Rangerettes drill team; tennis legends Rosemary "Rosie" Casals and Gladys Medalie Heldman; the Dallas Cowboys' famous coach Tom Landry; Texas Rangers owner Robert E. Short; and University of Houston football coach Bill Yeoman. Adding immeasurably to the effectiveness of the book is the fact that Guridy places sports in Texas in proper historical context and consistently draws connections to what was taking place in the industry on a national scale and how sport in the state both impacted and was impacted by larger societal changes and movements. Virtually every page of the book is filled with engaging details about the business side of athletics and how smart, wealthy, and imaginative entrepreneurs transformed how sports were organized, viewed, and financed. Guridy effectively connects sports in the Lone Star State to the larger civil rights struggle and explains how Black athletes increasingly found their way into intercollegiate and professional sports while still suffering the pangs of racial discrimination and being viewed as commodities in institutions still controlled largely by white men. Guridy also effectively connects sports in Texas to the second-wave feminist movement and illuminates how women athletes negotiated for better treatment while at once struggling to overcome the sexist views and gender stereotypes so rampant in a culture that continued to trivialize their efforts at bodily excellence and skill development. In all, there is much to recommend about Frank Guridy's The Sports Revolution. It is a nicely written, compelling, and thoughtful book that provides an awareness of and appreciation for the changing nature of sports in [End Page 591]Texas specifically and American culture more broadly. I expect it to have a long shelf life and to be of interest to those who want to learn more...

Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox by Caroline E. Janney

Reviewed by: Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox by Caroline E. Janney Cecily Zander Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox. By Caroline E. Janney. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Pp. 344. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.) Historians have expended considerable effort in understanding how and why people go to war. Military mobilization, after all, is a topic that touches on all manner of fields—the history of ideas, politics, economics, diplomacy. What if, as historian Caroline E. Janney asks in Ends of War, historians gave the same care and attention to demobilization and to the myriad ways in which soldiers left the armies that they had once willingly (or forcibly) joined? The answer in the case of the American Civil War is that the surrender of Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House was not the end of the war for thousands of soldiers of the Army of Northern Virginia. The scattered and disorganized dissolution of the most important Confederate army, Janney finds, starkly revealed the devotion Confederates felt to their failed nation even after its downfall, while foreshadowing the energy that the defeated rebels poured into creating the powerful Lost Cause ideology in their telling of the war. [End Page 125] The most immediate effects of the surrender were felt in Virginia, where roads and railways were choked with defeated Confederates seeking passage home. Any soldiers not officially paroled at Appomattox were encouraged to find a provost marshal’s office and acquire a signed parole. Parole papers were especially important because they protected Confederate soldiers from being arrested or tried for treason. These documents did not, however, afford their bearers the option to pass through states that had remained loyal to the Union. This left some former rebels trapped in Virginia until the federal government clarified the conditions on which they could return home—conditions that included swearing a loyalty oath and never again wearing the uniform of the Confederate army. Not all soldiers were willing to lay down their weapons and accept a parole. Many who chose not to remain in the Old Dominion struck out for North Carolina, where they hoped to join with Joseph E. Johnston’s Army of Tennessee and continue their fight. Johnston’s surrender to William T. Sherman soon sundered their ambition. The final remaining option for those who would not accept a parole would be to wage a guerilla war for the survival of the Confederacy, though this quickly proved untenable; most, including the notorious raider John S. Mosby, turned themselves in to Union authorities by the end of the summer. While large numbers of former Confederates moved across the landscape, thousands of others remained stationary. For rebels who refused paroles and were captured by the United States, the war dragged on through the summer of 1865 as the Union’s best legal and military minds attempted to determine their status. It was not until President Andrew Johnson’s amnesty proclamation that Confederate prisoners of war were afforded the option to swear a loyalty oath and be allowed to return to their homes. Although more books have been written about the Civil War than almost any other subject in American history, Janney is the first to offer an examination of the legal, political, and military mire generated by the disbanding of a major army at war’s end. Not only is Ends of War destined to become a valuable resource for understanding the complex details of the transition from war to peace, but it should also become a foundational work for further study of the weeks and months between Appomattox and the beginning in earnest of Reconstruction. Joining with a chorus of scholars asking us to consider a longer Civil War, Janney’s work offers a simple premise—the war did not end at Appomattox—and with clarity and verve, she explains why the ends of war matter as much as their beginnings. [End Page 126] Cecily Zander Southern Methodist University Copyright © 2022 The Texas State Historical Association

A Game Plan for Protecting Patient Data: Helping ensure critical infrastructure is arista’s goal

After graduating from Southern Methodist University with a B.A. degree in Latin American studies and a B.B.A. degree in management information systems in 1996, Sonia Arista began her career as a business analyst and management consultant. She quickly found her passion in health care.

Catherine Carté, Religion and the American Revolution: An Imperial History

Carté, associate professor of history at Southern Methodist University, has provided to church historians an invaluable resource in her definitive narrative of what she terms “British imperial Protestantism” and its role in colonial North America and the subsequent shape of religion in the American Revolution and the newly independent United States. She has replaced the often disjointed and narrowly focused histories of the established churches in England and Scotland, the dissenting Congregationalists, Baptists, and Moravians, along with their missionary societies and colleges and the international rise of pietism (including the Evangelical revival of the eighteenth century). Finally, she provides the broad context out of which American denominations arose after the Revolution. This grand narrative comes together in a single volume of manageable size that once required a small library to pull together.What the author calls imperial Protestantism developed out of the British Act of Union (1707), which brought together the Church of England and the Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and the Toleration Act (1689). which categorized dissenters into a mixed system rather than a single established church. In the eighteenth century an interlocking network of societies from each group further included the Pietistic movement, which Carté calls “awakened Protestants.”The empire stumbled toward the American Revolution in the 1770s, but the religious system was not a cause. Religious leaders were primarily reactive, but they were drawn into the conflict nevertheless. Religious establishment survived on the state level but was omitted in the new American federal system. The war left churches and international organizations in tatters. Even anti-Catholicism was a victim of the war, since the American government had depended so strongly on the French and their allies.In the United States a new generation began to create denominations. The Episcopal Church created itself apart from the Church of England and the Wesleyan movement established its own Methodist Episcopal Church in America. In the early decades of the nineteenth century, American denominations created, separate from the state, an agenda in concert with temperance, abolitionist, and global missionary societies.Methodist church historians should read this study with great interest, finding the roots of their movement clearly intertwined with the general narrative and providing the background for the emergence of the Methodists in America as the dominant expression of denominationalism prior to the Civil War.