Gail W O'Brien

Saving the neighborhood: Racially restrictive covenants, law, and social norms

[Review of ]. Reviews in American History, 42(3), 536–540.

Defining the peace: World War II veterans, race, and the remaking of Southern political tradition.

[Review of ]. Journal of Southern History, 72(1), 227–228.

Civil rights crossroads: Nation, community, and the black freedom struggle.

[Review of ]. Journal of Southern History, 71(1), 215–216.

Kentucky justice, southern honor, and American manhood: Understanding the life and death of Richard Reid.

GW O'Brien. (2005, February). AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, Vol. 110, pp. 159–160.

Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the struggle for racial justice in the Cold War south.

[Review of ]. Journal of Southern History, 70(2), 477–478.

Bill Tillman and the Reconstruction of white supremacy

[Review of ]. American Historical Review, 106(4), 1363–1364.

Democracy betrayed: The Wilmington race riot of 1898 and its legacy

[Review of ]. Journal of American History (Bloomington, Ind.), 86(3), 1344–1345.

Seizing the new day: African Americans in post-Civil War Charleston

[Review of ]. Journal of American History (Bloomington, Ind.), 86(3), 1344–1345.

The color of the law: Race, violence, and justice in the post-World War II South

Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.

The lynching of Cleo Wright

[Review of ]. Reviews in American History, 27(3), 462–469.

The legal fraternity and the making of a new South community, 1848-1882

Athens: University of Georgia Press.