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Dixie's Great War offers a fascinating collection of perspectives on World War I's impact on the US South. By bringing together leading scholars of the period to share their insights, the collection develops a nuanced range of information about the war and its effects on the South and southerners. The war's immediate and long-term consequences for the United States were profound, but relatively few works have explored the war's consequences on the home front. This collection makes an important contribution to our understanding of the war in the South. --David A. Davis, author of World War I and Southern Modernism

By bringing together leading scholars of the period to share their insights, this fascinating collection develops a nuanced range of information about the war and its effects on the South and southerners. The war's immediate and long-term consequences for the United States were profound, but relatively few works have explored the war's consequences on the home front. This collection makes an important contribution to our understanding of the war in the South. --David A. Davis, author of World War I and Southern Modernism In Dixie's Great War a wide-ranging and expert group of historians demonstrate how to engage with the history of American warfare and the history of the American South that is timely and accessible. The format of a dialogue between panelists with the public participation illuminates the tension between the study of the past, lived experience, and memory. The volume embraces this tension and thereby helps to advance our understanding of changes wrought in the South by World War I as well as better position so-called 'Southern exceptionalism' in the history of the nation as a whole at a critical juncture. -- Taylor Jaworski, University of Colorado, Boulder The wide-ranging conversation in Dixie's Great War touches on a number of important facets of the South's participation in World War I. From military service to civil rights, and from the home front to the legacy of the conflict, this work provides an engaging and approachable introduction to scholarly discussion of this transformative moment in the Southern history. --Matthew L. Downs, co-editor of The American South and the Great War, 1914-1924

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John M. Giggie is associate professor of history and African American studies at the University of Alabama, where he serves as director of the Summersell Center for the Study of the South and as a Distinguished Teaching Fellow. He is author of After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875–1917, coauthor of The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People with Alan Brinkley and Andrew J. Huebner, and editor of Faith in the Market: Religion and the Rise of Commercial Culture. Andrew J. Huebner is professor of history at the University of Alabama. He is author of Love and Death in the Great War and The Warrior Image: Soldiers in American Culture from the Second World War to the Vietnam Era, and coauthor of The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People with Alan Brinkley and John M. Giggie.

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