Category Neoconfederates
Civil War Legacy in the South
Here’s Professor Lesley Gordon with an excellent lecture on the development of the lost cause lie. The video’s description reads, “University of Alabama professor Lesley Gordon taught a class about the end of Reconstruction, the removal of Union troops from the South, and the Compromise of 1877.” https://www.c-span.org/video/?519565-1/civil-war-legacy-south
The Mythology of the Lost Cause
Here is an outstanding presentation on the lost cause lie by Professor Caroline Janney. The Q&A period is also great. The video’s description reads, “How did the Confederate myth of the Lost Cause develop? Why was it important for ex-Confederates to establish their ‘history’ of the war? And why has this version of the past […]
Smashing Statues
Here’s Professor Erin Thompson discussing the raising and eventual removal of confederate monuments. The video’s description reads, “John Jay College criminal justice professor Erin Thompson provided a history of America’s public monuments and examines the current debates over whether they should remain standing. This was a virtual program hosted by Books and Books Bookstore in Coral Gables, […]
Ghosts of the Confederacy
This book by Professor Gaines Foster, published in 1987, traces the development of the lost cause lie and how former confederates and their descendants came to terms with their defeat in the Civil War and celebrated the confederacy in the later years of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth century. A […]
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