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Dixie's Great War
Examining the First World War through the lens of the
American South How did World War I affect the American
South? Did southerners experience the war in a particular way?
How did regional considerations and, more generally, southern
values and culture impact the wider war effort? Was there a
distinctive southern experience of WWI? Scholars considered these
questions during “Dixie’s Great War,” a
symposium held at the University of Alabama in October 2017 to
commemorate the centenary of the American intervention in the
war. With the explicit intent of exploring iterations of the
Great War as experienced in the American South and by its people,
organizers John M. Giggie and Andrew J. Huebner also sought to
use historical discourse as a form of civic engagement designed
to facilitate a community conversation about the meanings of the
war. Giggie and Huebner structured the panels thematically around
military, social, and political approaches to the war to
encourage discussion and exchanges between panelists and the
public alike. Drawn from transcriptions of the day’s
discussions and lightly edited to preserve the conversational
tone and mix of professional and public voices
, Dixie’s Great War: World War I and the American
South captures the process of historians at work with the
public, pushing and probing general understandings of the past,
uncovering and reflecting on the deeper truths and lessons of the
Great War—this time, through the lens of the South. This
volume also includes an introduction featuring a survey of recent
literature dealing with regional aspects of WWI and a discussion
of the centenary commemorations of the war. An afterword by noted
historian Jay Winter places “Dixie’s Great
War”—the symposium and this book—within the
larger framework of commemoration, emphasizing the vital role
such forums perform in creating space and opportunity for
scholars and the public alike to assess and understand the
shifting ground between cultural memory and the historical
record.
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