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Correcting History: Confederate Monuments, Rituals and the Lost ...

The Lost Cause narrative would have us believe that Confederate monuments have always been celebrated, but people have protested them since they started ...

Europe in 1989, America in 2020, and the Death of the Lost Cause

And many of us feel some awe in seeing, during these past few weeks, Confederate monuments in America likewise reduced to pieces, relics of ...

The Lost Cause - Encyclopedia Virginia

Two competing men's organizations formed to eulogize Lee: the Lee Memorial Association of Lexington and the Lee Monument Association, initiated by Early and ...

Poll: Majority of Americans support preserving Confederate history

The "Lost Cause" popularity persists even after the 2020 murder of ... monuments and names of former Confederates from schools amid a racial ...

Why Confederate Lies Live On - The Atlantic

The People's Memorial Cemetery was founded in 1840 by 28 members of Petersburg's free Black community. Buried on this land are people who were ...

Removing Lost Cause monuments is the first step in dismantling ...

Removing and challenging the symbols of the Lost Cause is an important step to dismantling white supremacy, but it cannot be the only step.

History of Memory, Tourism, and the Lost Cause at Fort Pulaski

Men and women stand in front of General Morgan's monument. Dressed in fancy clothes with United Daughters of the Confederacy members stand in ...

Opinion | Not White Enough: My Reckoning With the Lost Cause Myth

The truth is that the monument, erected in 1912, was not an act of pride, but of shame. It was a display of atonement to the rest of the South, ...

Setting the Lost Cause on Fire - American Historical Association

These monuments were targeted because they symbolize the systemic racism and white supremacy still prevalent across the nation. The United ...

Tearing Down the Lost Cause | University Press of Mississippi

In Tearing Down the Lost Cause: The Removal of New Orleans's Confederate Statues James Gill and Howard Hunter examine New Orleans's complicated relationship ...

Monuments to the Lost Cause: Women, Art, and the Landscapes of ...

Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. xxvi, 265 pp. BW illustrations. VG/VG.

'The lost cause': the women's group fighting for Confederate ...

The United Daughters of the Confederacy, a 124-year-old organization, is aiming to stop the removal of Confederate statues as protests ...

How I Learned About the “Cult of the Lost Cause” | Smithsonian

There it was in black and white, in a 1999 application to put the equestrian statue of General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard on the National ...

Lost Cause Religion - New Georgia Encyclopedia

In addition to Confederate Memorial Day, “the Sabbath of the South,” additional rituals honored Confederate veterans, especially the erection of Confederate ...

Lost Cause | Meaning, Myth, Ideology, History, Significance, & Facts

Great loss is a universal element in the harvest of war. We see it in countless cemeteries across modern landscapes, in monuments of all kinds, and in the less ...

The Lost Cause: Definition and Origins | American Battlefield Trust

Ladies' Memorial Associations were formed all across the South to dedicate Confederate cemeteries and organized Memorial Days for fallen ...

After the Lost Cause | The New Yorker

As Smith travels this changing South, he finds memorials to slavery that exist alongside, and in some cases have displaced, the old monuments to ...

Whose Heritage? Public Symbols of the Confederacy (Third edition)

Moreover, when myths about the “Lost Cause” are dispelled and people are taught that heritage groups and white Southerners erected Confederate ...

Grayven Images: Confederate Monuments and Power of the Lost ...

Confederate monuments were powerful symbols of the Lost Cause narrative of Southern history. The narrative sought to vindicate the Confederacy ...

Lost Cause Myth of the Confederacy - Encyclopedia of Arkansas

At that memorial, the participants did not engage in any of the Lost Cause rhetoric already emerging but simply carried out a ceremony of ...