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Dixie's Great War - World War I and the American South (Hardcover)
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Dixie's Great War - World War I and the American South (Hardcover)
Series: War, Memory, and Culture
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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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