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The Great War in the heart of Dixie : Alabama during World War I
- Title
- The Great War in the heart of Dixie : Alabama during World War I / edited by Martin T. Olliff.
- Publication
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | D769.85.A2 G74 2008 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Olliff, Martin T.
- Description
- viii, 275 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- There has been much scholarship on how the U.S. as a nation reacted to World War I, but few have explored how Alabama responded. Did the state follow the federal governments lead in organizing its resources or did Alabamians devise their own solutions to unique problems they faced? How did the states cultural institutions and government react? What changes occurred in its economy and way of life? What, if any, were the long-term consequences in Alabama? The contributors to this volume address these questions and establish a base for further investigation of the state during this era.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-259) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Alabama, April 1917 / Martin T. Olliff -- Military participation at home and abroad, 1917-1918 / Ruth Smith Truss -- "Tenting tonight on the old camp grounds" : Alabama's military bases in World War I / Wesley Phillips Newton -- Alabama's Black Baptist leaders, the Progressive Era, and World War I / Wilson Fallin, Jr. -- A call to arms for African Americans during the age of Jim Crow : Black Alabamians' response to the U.S. declaration of war in 1917 / David Alsobrook -- From the cotton field to the great waterway : African Americans and the Muscle Shoals Project during World War I / Victoria E. Ott -- Mobile in World War I / Michael V.R. Thomason -- The Alabama Council of Defense, 1917-1918 / Dowe Littleton -- "Can all we can, and can the Kaiser, too" : the Montgomery Cooperative Canning Club / Martin T. Olliff -- World War I : catalyst for social change in Alabama / Robert Saunders, Jr. -- Memorializing World War I in Alabama / Robert J. Jakeman.
- ISBN
- 9780817316167
- 0817316167
- 9780817354923
- 0817354921
- 9780817380588
- 0817380582
- LCCN
- 2008003195
- OCLC
- ocn181603534
- 181603534
- SCSB-9086850
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library