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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 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 …