Marty Olliff, Ph.D., associate professor of history at Troy University, Dothan Campus

Olliff received his Ph.D. in U.S. history from Auburn University in 1998. He served as assistant university archivist at Auburn from 1996 until 2002 when he became the founding director of the Archives of Wiregrass History and Culture and a member of the history department at Troy University, Dothan Campus. Although he has published numerous articles concerning American chefs, his principal research interests are in Progressive Era Alabama. He is the editor of The Great War in the Heart of Dixie: Alabama in World War I, published by the University of Alabama Press in 2008. His most recent work concerns the Good Roads Movement in Alabama during the first two decades of the 20th century.

Presentations by Marty Olliff
The Art of War: Posters, Photographs and Postcards of World War I

The Great War in the Heart of Dixie: Alabama in World War I