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So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.
Confederate symbols, and their continued valorization, rob us of an opportunity to understand our own rich “people’s heritage ...
Thousands of Confederate symbols are standing in public spaces around the nation despite ongoing efforts to have them removed ...
The move to change the name of Rutherford Hall, named after a woman who attempted to whitewash the Confederacy and slavery, is met with silence.
The report tracks both the protection and removal of Confederate memorials located in public spaces, schools, street names ...
As Fort Moore in Columbus, Georgia, reverts to its previous name, Fort Benning, the Southern Poverty Law Center says the ...
The holidays were added across the Southern states during the years after Reconstruction, historians say, when Confederate supporters were promoting the false "Lost Cause" mythology, reshaping ...
In the poisonous fiction of the Lost Cause that was fed to millions of other southerners, the brutal institution of slavery, which the Confederacy seceded to preserve, had nothing to do with the ...
The ex-Confederate president was released 150 years ... thwarting vengeful Northerners, Lost Cause Southerners and headline writers all over the country. Cornelius Vanderbilt Library of Congress ...