The Great War in the heart of Dixie
Subtitle: Alabama during World War I
By: edited by Martin T. Olliff.
Contributors: Olliff, Martin T.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780817316167; 9780817354923; 9780817380588
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- Alabama; Alabama -- History -- 1819-1950
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Alabama, April 1917 / Martin T. Olliff; title: Military participation at home and abroad, 1917-1918 / Ruth Smith Truss; title: "Tenting tonight on the old camp grounds" : Alabama's military bases in World War I / Wesley Phillips Newton; title: Alabama's Black Baptist leaders, the Progressive Era, and World War I / Wilson Fallin, Jr.; title: 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; title: From the cotton field to the great waterway : African Americans and the Muscle Shoals Project during World War I / Victoria E. Ott; title: Mobile in World War I / Michael V.R. Thomason; title: The Alabama Council of Defense, 1917-1918 / Dowe Littleton; title: "Can all we can, and can the Kaiser, too" : the Montgomery Cooperative Canning Club / Martin T. Olliff; title: World War I : catalyst for social change in Alabama / Robert Saunders, Jr.; title: Memorializing World War I in Alabama / Robert J. Jakeman.