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  • Alabamiana: Isaac Ross, 1764 – 1821

    It was a Tuesday during my last week of summer break. My children and I had already spent about eight weeks together, and we were…

  • Children of the Changing South

    Foster Dickson’s edited collection Children of the Changing South: Accounts of Growing Up During and After Integration is available from McFarland & Co., Publisher in…

  • The Life and Poetry of John Beecher

    Foster Dickson’s The Life and Poetry of John Beecher, 1904 – 1980 is the only published work about this writer, poet, editor, teacher, and journalist…

  • Old ’90s Weirdness, Revisited

    Since I read last month in the Wall Street Journal about the return of Twin Peaks, I’ve re-watched the original two-season series on Netflix. I…