Dixie's Great War

“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

"The volume does an excellent job highlighting the ways the war experience transpired in the South and how the South influenced the larger national whole, though the scholars emphasize that they do not find an entirely distinctive southern experience. Indeed, the contributors add to the historiography by showing how the war helped flatten regional distinctions." 
—The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXXXVIII

"The contributions to Dixie's Great War. . . are intended to follow closely what the participants actually said, and how they responded to what audience members said. The goal was to preserve all the spontaneity of historical give-and-take, with the object of showing what Jay Winter considers 'a glimpse of how historians operate.'"
—The Alabama Review

“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
 

“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