Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State

This is a wonderful conversation with Professor Anne Marshall on Kentucky and the Lost Cause lie. This is from the history podcast, “For the Ages.”

The episode’s description reads, “Kentucky fought alongside the Union for the entirety of the Civil War, yet in the decades that followed, the state embraced many political and cultural traditions of the Confederacy, enacting Jim Crow laws and erecting monuments to embrace this adopted identity. In a fascinating conversation on identity and political myth-making, historian Anne E. Marshall breaks down how and why Kentuckians constructed this historically-revisionist narrative that shaped the trajectory of their state for the next 60 years.
Recorded on August 23, 2023″

You can access the podcast at this link.

Tags: american-civil-war, Civil War Memory, confederate-monuments, Kentucky, Lost Cause Lie, Reconstruction