“Groundwork” is the blog of editor Foster Dickson, which features project updates, brief ruminations, commentaries on readings, peripheral bits of interest— and with COVID now slowing down, excerpts from interviews and periodic travelogues.
Forthcoming: Reading Katie Lamar Jackson’s A Movement of the People
November 16, 2021: In the News, Fall 2021
November 2, 2021: Reading Heritage and Hate by Stephen M. Monroe
September 30, 2021: The Outro: There was never one South.
September 16, 2021: Forthcoming in Nobody’s Home— Twelve New Works
September 4, 2021: Reading Ben Beard’s The South Never Plays Itself
August 31, 2021: Watching “Fertile Ground” on PBS
August 24, 2021: A Road Trip, Southbound
August 16, 2021: The submission guidelines have changed.
August 14, 2021: Last Call for Submissions
August 5, 2021: People are gon’ do what they’re gon’ do.
July 22, 2021: Reading Noel Polk’s Outside the Southern Myth
July 15, 2021: The call for submissions is nearing an end.
July 6, 2021: Watching Meltdown in Dixie from America ReFramed on PBS
June 29, 2021: Reading Matthew Lassiter’s The Silent Majority
June 22, 2021: Myths and Facts: LGBTQ in the South
June 12, 2021: Forthcoming in Nobody’s Home— Twelve New Works
June 3, 2021: Watching Far East Deep South from America ReFramed on PBS
May 25, 2021: Reading South to a New Place, edited by Suzanne W. Jones and Sharon Monteith
May 15, 2021: The Fourth (and Final) Reading Period
May 4, 2021: Vox Press’s new Mississippi Prison Writings anthology
April 10, 2021: More Substance than Stereotype: Southerners and Guns
March 25, 2021: Reading Myth and Southern History, Volume 2: The New South
February 23, 2021: Reading Alexander Lamis’ The Two-Party South
February 3, 2021: Five More Historians and Journalists on the Modern South
January 23, 2021: Reading Stephen A Smith’s Myth, Media, and the Southern Mind
January 19, 2021: The call for submissions continues.
January 12, 2021: Forthcoming in Nobody’s Home— Thirteen New Works
December 19, 2020: Reading Jack Temple Kirby’s The Countercultural South
December 8, 2020: The Looming Specter of the Dormant Voter
November 24, 2020: Reading Charles Reagan Wilson’s Judgment & Grace in Dixie
November 12, 2020: Work
November 3, 2020: Reagan at Neshoba, August 1980
October 22, 2020: “I mean, what am I supposed to write about?”
October 13, 2020: Crazy, Wrong Madness
September 29, 2020: A Personal Religion that Goes Public
September 27, 2020: Five Historians and Journalists on the Modern South
September 17, 2020: Narratives, Old and New
August 3, 2020: A Word from the Editor on Submissions
July 6, 2020: On Facebook and Twitter, and just now accepting submissions
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