CSI:Dixie has received reviews and notices in the The New York Times ("New Databases Offer Insights Into the Lives of Escaped Slaves" by Eve M. Kahn) , Slate ("The Hundreds of Life Stories Found in Coroner's Reports From the 19th-Century South" by Rebecca Onion), and the Journal of the Civil War Era ("CSI: Dixie: A Grim Archive of Slavery's Violence" by Blake McGready).