Yet by the time he made those comments in 1869, the myth of the Lost Cause and its justifications for Confederate defeat were in full flower. And it was Lee — not President Jefferson Davis ...

Soon after the end of the war, reasons for why the Confederacy was just in its endeavors began cropping up. This is now known as the Lost Cause philosophy. In April of 1865, General Robert E.

And then, of course, there was the American South after the Civil War, when the narrative of the Confederate “lost cause” yielded a potent brew of twisted history and white supremacist ideology.

With more than 700 Confederate statues remaining ... then an accurate American history could be a “lost cause” after all.

He argued that many of their writings served as the foundation of the Lost Cause view of the war. Phillip Greenwalt talked about how Southerners coped with the loss of the Confederacy following ...

Rewriting history was the goal. Mary Anna Lee, the widow of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, wanted a version of her husband’s life told. So she gave exclusive rights to prominent sculptor Edward ...

Confederate V.P. Alexander Stevens in his famous oration declared secession was all about slavery. The Lost Cause argument reminded us that only about 18% of the southern population owned slaves ...

The Lost Cause narrative prevailed in America by, in essence, resorting to the oldest bully tactic in the book: Win by psychologically wearing down the opposition. Confederate sympathizers ...

People beyond Richmond are looking to us for answers about finding a way past the Lost Cause version of history. Richmond, the former capital of the Confederacy and Lost Cause Central, turned ...

Many children who were indoctrinated with Lost Cause ideology grew up to advocate for state history books that looked kindly on the Confederacy and maintained racist depictions of African Americans.