Category: Lost Cause
Thomas Nast Cartoon on the Threat to Black Suffrage from Confederates and Northern Democrats
Thomas Nast was America’s most powerful political cartoonist throughout the Civil War and Reconstruction. A strong supporter of the Republican Party during the 1860s, he…
The Limits of the Lost Cause: Essays on Civil War Memory by Gaines Foster
The Limits of the Lost Cause: Essays on Civil War Memory. By Gaines M. Foster. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2024. Hardcover, 280 pp….
Historians Discuss the Movie “Gettysburg” on Its 30th Anniversary
Historians at the Movies Podcast has on Kevin Levine, Waitman Beorn, and Rich Condon to discuss the Ted Turner 1993 film Gettysburg. Most of my…
NY Times on Gettysburg’s “Lost Cause Problem”
For the 161st Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg the New York Times published an opinion piece today on Gettysburg and the Lost Cause. Simon…
“The Lost Cause” As Part of Early Confederate Iconography & Counter-Iconography
In 2023, the Department of Defense removed the Confederate monument from Arlington National Cemetery. Inscribed on the monument are the words “Vitrix causa diis placuit…
Study the Course of the Civil War With South Carolina School Children Circa 1918
I wanted to look at what South Carolina school children learned about the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era in the early 20th Century by…
Gerry Prokopowicz has author Matthew Christopher Hulbert on to Discuss His New Book “Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War”
Gerry Prokopowicz has author Matthew Christopher Hulbert on to discuss his new book “Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War”….
Gerry Prokopowicz Has Elizabeth Varon to Discuss “Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South” on His Podcast
Gerry Prokopowicz has Elizabeth Varon to discuss her new book Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South. Because Longstreet, one of Robert E. Lee’s most accomplished…
Righting the Longstreet Record at Gettysburg: Six Matters of Controversy and Confusion by Cory Pfarr
Righting the Longstreet Record at Gettysburg: Six Matters of Controversy and Confusion by Cory Pfarr published by McFarland (2023) Cory Pfarr published Longstreet at Gettysburg: A…
Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South by Elizabeth Varon
Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South by Elizabeth Varon published by Simon & Schuster (2023) Back in the 1960s when I first started…
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