Dixie highway: road building and the making of the modern south, 1900-1930

In connecting the north and the south of the US, the Dixie Highway helped end regional isolation and served as a model for future interstates.

Tammy Ingram offers the first comprehensive study of the nation's earliest attempt to build a highway network, revealing how the modern US transportation system evolved out of the hard-fought political, economic, and cultural contests that surrounded the Dixie's creation.