Making the Modern South
Series Editor(s): David Goldfield
LSU Press has long been a leader in publishing outstanding studies of southern society. The Making the Modern South series illuminates the transformation of the American South from a primarily agricultural to a predominately metropolitan region. Focusing on the period since the Great Depression, new and established scholars analyze both change and continuity over time and draw connections between the region’s past and present. Potential authors are encouraged to take an interdisciplinary approach to research and interpretation.Topics may include but are not limited to the following:
- race relations, especially the civil rights movement
- work, including organized labor
- the roles and relationships of men, women, and children
- economic, technological, and industrial development
- politics within its regional, national, and international contexts
- culture, including art, literature, poetry, food, and music
- religion and its influence on public life
- environmental issues
- rural and urban life
- immigration and cultural diversity
Throughout his academic career, David Goldfield has contributed significantly to our understanding of the modern South with a dozen monographs and edited works as well as numerous articles. Goldfield also serves as editor of the Journal of Urban History and as an OAH Distinguished Lecturer. His most recent book is Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History.
Please send proposals to editor-in-chief Rand Dotson: pdotso1@lsu.edu
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The 1968 Florida Teachers' Strike
Public Sector Unionism and the Fight against Sunshine State Conservatism
Spying on Students
The FBI, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s South
Going to Hell to Get the Devil
The 1972 Charlotte Three Case and the Freedom Struggle in a Sunbelt City
Race and Education in New Orleans
Creating the Segregated City, 1764-1960
Race and Restoration
Churches of Christ and the Black Freedom Struggle
Creating a Progressive Commonwealth
Women Activists, Feminism, and the Politics of Social Change in Virginia, 1970s-2000s
Resisting Equality
The Citizens' Council, 1954-1989
Delaying the Dream
Southern Senators and the Fight against Civil Rights, 1938-1965
Petroleum and Public Safety
Risk Management in the Gulf South, 1901-2015
Haunted by Atrocity
Civil War Prisons in American Memory
