The Lost Cause
Lost Cause of the Confederacy - Wikipedia
The cause of the Confederate States during the American Civil War was just, heroic, and not centered on slavery.
The Lost Cause - Encyclopedia Virginia
Advocates of the Lost Cause further argue that Confederates were not defeated on the battlefield; rather, they were overwhelmed by massive Union resources and ...
Lost Cause | Meaning, Myth, Ideology, History, Significance, & Facts
Lost Cause, interpretation of the American Civil War that attempts to preserve Southern honor by casting the Confederate defeat in the best ...
The Lost Cause: Definition and Origins | American Battlefield Trust
The third tenet states that the Confederacy was only defeated because of the Northern states' numerical advantage in both men and resources. The ...
The Lost Cause's Long Legacy - The Atlantic
The Lost Cause recast the Confederacy's humiliating defeat in a treasonous war for slavery as the embodiment of the Framers' true vision for America.
What exactly is the Lost Cause? : r/ShermanPosting - Reddit
The "Lost Cause" is the name we use for the Confederates and their descendants attempting to whitewash their war motives. They were not fighting ...
Europe in 1989, America in 2020, and the Death of the Lost Cause
The Lost Cause is one of the most deeply ingrained mythologies in American history. Loss on an epic scale is often the source of great literature.
The Lost Cause - Virginia Museum of History & Culture
The Lost Cause was a widespread effort by former Confederates after the American Civil War (1861–1865) to justify and glorify the Confederacy.
Debunking the myth of the Lost Cause: A lie embedded ... - YouTube
Examine the myth of the Lost Cause: a campaign created by pro-Confederates after the Civil War to promote the lie that they seceded for ...
Mississippi and the Lost Cause - 2023-08
In the aftermath of the Civil War, White Southerners rewrote history in an attempt to vindicate their violent rebellion against the United States.
Lost Cause Ideology, Found at the University of Richmond
Lost Cause Ideology was created after the Civil War in an attempt for Confederates and their descendants to shape the memory of the conflict.
How I Learned About the “Cult of the Lost Cause” | Smithsonian
The Cult of the Lost Cause had its roots in the Southern search for justification and the need to find a substitute for victory in the Civil War ...
The “Lost Cause” as a term was coined by Richmond newspaper editor Edward Pollard in The Lost Cause: A Southern History of the War of the ...
Memorialization of Robert E. Lee and the Lost Cause
In the years following the Civil War, Robert E. Lee became one of the most memorialized figures of the former Confederacy.
How Confederate propaganda ended up in the South's schoolbooks
The poisonous Lost Cause lessons were taught to multiple generations of Southerners to uphold institutionalized white supremacy — in part ...
Five myths about the Lost Cause - The Washington Post
Five myths about the Lost Cause ... Some of the most enduring misconceptions around the Confederacy are part of a mythology, known as the Lost ...
Lost Cause Myth - The Inclusive Historian's Handbook
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Lost Cause offered guidance for people who were anxious about unchecked capitalism, ...
CIVIL WAR SESQUICENTENNIAL: the Lost Cause
Fascination with the Lost Cause seems to know no end—at least among historians, who keep publishing books on the topic. Since at least the 1940s, the.
History of Memory, Tourism, and the Lost Cause at Fort Pulaski
The Lost Cause Myth is the explanation of how Southern slave states that rebelled against the federal government justified succession. There are ...
a new southern history of the war of the Confederates. Comprising a ...
The lost cause; a new southern history of the war of the Confederates. Comprising a full and authentic account of the rise and progress of the late southern ...
The Keeper of Lost Causes
2013 filmThe Keeper of Lost Causes, also known as Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes, is a 2013 Danish film directed by Mikkel Nørgaard. The movie is based on the novel by Jussi Adler-Olsen. It is the first film in the Department Q film series, followed by The Absent One and A Conspiracy of Faith.