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The contributions of Edward A. Pollard's The Lost Cause to the Myth of the Lost Cause
<p>Edward A. Pollard’s <em>The Lost Cause</em> first appeared in 1866. Although it established the Myth of the Lost Cause, it was widely read, not as myth, but as history, especially in the South. Then, after 1900, it was largely forgotten. However, starting in the early 1970s, historians began to …
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The Second Lost Cause: Post-National Confederate Imperialism in the Americas.
<p>At the close of the American Civil War some southerners unwilling to remain in a reconstructed South, elected to immigrate to areas of Central and South America to reestablish a Southern antebellum lifestyle.</p><p>The influences of Manifest Destiny, expansionism, filibustering, and southern …
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The Myth of the Lost Cause and Tennessee Textbooks, 1889-2002.
<p>The Myth of the Lost Cause is an inaccurate account of the Civil War that remains prominent in American society. The myth alters key aspects of the war such as its cause, participants, and outcome. It is my hypothesis that one reason many Americans misunderstand the war is because they learned …
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The Lost Cause: An Examination of the Defeat of the Confederate States of America
This study examines the Lost Cause of the Confederacy and the reasons for the defeat of the Confederate States of America. The Confederate States of America was created with propaganda, lofty ideals and unbridled optimism. With the outcome of the American Civil War known, this study seeks to answer …
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A Lost Cause Found: Vestiges of Old South Memory in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
… of the Civil War past, one that emphasizes the Lost Cause myth of the Confederacy. In addition to uncovering neo-Confederate forms of memorialization, I also examine how normative lessons of morality, honor, patriotism, masculinity, and hyper-militarism become naturalized as a result of Lost …
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From Lost Cause to Female Empowerment: The Texas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1896-1966
… cultural shapers, ultimately proved elusivenot because the Daughters failed to stress the morals they associated with the Old South but because Texans never embraced them to the exclusion of values more characteristic of the New South. The organization proved, however, a tremendous success in …
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Dismantling Lost Cause fables : a content analysis examining narrative and visual representations of slavery in U.S. history textbooks.
Lost Cause revisionism obscures racialized chattel slavery's foundational position in antebellum society and its significance as the cause of the American Civil War. Misperceptions about enslavement and the social construction of race abound in modern classrooms due to vague coverage and …
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Bridging the Gap between the Reality and the Myth of the American South: Three Authors' Efforts to Recover the Religious South
… progression beyond the civil religion of the Lost Cause. In this examination, I trace the development of the Southern mind from its inception into the Jim Crow South. In doing so, I contend that portions of the religious South became so entranced by their region's mythologized past that the …
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The Wind Goes On: 'Gone with the Wind' and the Imagined Geographies of the American South
… the effects of Gone with the Wind's version of Lost Cause collective memory on the construction of the Old South, Civil War, and Lost Cause in the American imagination from 1936 to 2016. By utilizing the concept of prosthetic memory in conjunction with older, still-existing forms of collective …
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Glory Stands Beside Our Grief: the Maryland United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Assertion of Their Identity
… of the Confederacy, Maryland Division as a Lost Cause organization in a border state, and argues how the women sought respect from the national UDC chapter and divisions of former Confederate states. Women of the Maryland UDC believed strongly in their wartime support for the Confederacy and …
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"Is This Park to Memorialize Confederate Valor and History or Not?": Sectionalist Civil War Memory in the History of Manassas National Battlefield Park, 1861-2011
… historians and laypeople alike have debated the causes and conduct of the war. Through the acceptance of the Confederate veterans memorial school the Lost Cause that led to reunification in the late nineteenth century, the memory of the Civil War and the actual events became indistinguishable. …
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Tributes to the Past, Present, and Future: Confederate Memorialization in Virginia, 1914-1919
… to build monuments to a conflict their side had lost half a century earlier? This thesis examines this question to extend the study of the Lost Cause past the traditional stopping date of the Civil War semicentennial in 1915 and to add to the study of memorialization as a historical process. …
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Social graces: the Natchez Garden Club as a literacy sponsor
… suggest that the club contributed to the Lost Cause mentality in the town by promoting patriarchy, paternalism and privilege. At the same time, the club carved a path for club members in the town to reconceive the how the club worked as informal educators that promoted literacy practices …
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“We deem it entirely fitting": Civil War memory in Oklahoma
… white people living in Oklahoma established the Lost Cause as the dominant form of Civil War memory in the state, which was realized through Confederate commemoration traditions such as building monuments, holding reunions, and working within the education system. Although similar activities …
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Creating Virginia’s War Memorial Carillon in the Shadow of the Civil War
… appropriateness and residual attachments to the Lost Cause of the Civil War inform the debates about the best memorial to represent Virginia and honor the soldiers, sailors, marines, and women from Virginia who fought in the World War.
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The Spirit of Columbus: Civil War Memory in the Fountain City, 1865-1880
… involvement in the creation of the South’s Lost Cause identity. The Confederate Memorial Day tradition in Columbus shows that the tradition evolved over time, in response to conflict with Union authorities and social changes as men and women reinterpreted the historical significance of their …
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Rethinking Tennessee Williams' "Desperate" Women
… leaning into the more disagreeable facets of Lost Cause nostalgia reveals the classist and racist ideologies that motivate their quests for upstanding Southern aristocratic lives. Critics have been slow to read Amanda, Blanche, and Maggie as rational socioeconomic actors, but this reading …
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Craving / Carving a sacred space : a study of religion on Stone Mountain.
… history of the location, the emplacement of the Lost cause mythology at the site, differences between the decades old Easter sunrise service, and a more recent Via Crucis pilgrimage on Good Friday, the emergence of contemporary New Age spiritual practices on the monadnock, and the cultivation of …
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"To Mississippi, Alone, Can They Look For Assistance:” Confederate Welfare In Mississippi
… and the 1888 pension law operated outside the Lost Cause movement, providing for veterans and African-American camp servants at equal rates, in addition to widows. Finally, this study argues that, unlike other Confederate soldiers’ homes, the residents of the Beauvoir Soldiers’ Home were not …
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Virginia's minimal resistance: the desegregation of public graduate and professional education, 1935-1955
… that segregated higher education was all but a lost cause. They became conciliatory to the forces of desegregation in hopes of saving segregation in primary and secondary education. From 1950 to 1955, a period I call "limited desegregation" existed. During these years, the state's white graduate …
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