Category: Lost Cause
Video Reconstruction in the Movies-NPS Ranger Rich Condon Discusses Hollywood Depictions
Reel History is a regular series on YouTube discussing how history is portrayed by Hollywood. In this episode Reconstruction in the Movies National Park Ranger…
Caroline Janney Talk on How the Lost Cause Was Created and Why It Was Dominant in the South for 125 Years
This is an excellent discussion of the creation of The Lost Cause mythology of the Civil War. The creation of the myth started at Appomattox…
Around the Web April 2022: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
March was a most unusual month for me. I spent the last third of it hospitalized at the NYU hosital in Mineola, on Long Island….
The Confederate Daughter Who Rewrote Alabama’s Civil War History
The Birmingham New has an outstanding article on the Daughter of the Confederacy who helped rewrite the State of Alabama’s Civil War and Reconstruction history….
Manassas Battlefield Confederate Park & Historical Vindication of the Confederacy
At its 1926 Convention, the Sons of Confederate Veterans spent a lot of time on a discussion of an internal dispute over its effort to…
Opposing Stone Mountain’s Confederate Memorialization & Lee’s Shrine in 1926
In the 1920s, Confederate groups like the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Sons of Confederate Veterans were pushing forward schemes to memorialize the…
Refuting the Lost Cause Argument of Alexander Stephens: What About the Slavery?
Alexander Stephens was the Confederate Vice President who said that slavery was the “Cornerstone” of the Confederacy. After the Confederacy was defeated and slavery was…
Alabama City of Eufaula Purposely Forgets Its History of 1874 Massacre of Black Voters
The Birmingham News has an in-depth article by Kyle Whitmire on how Eufaula, Alabama ignores is history. This is a city ostensibly steeped in history,…
Report Says Reconstruction History Classes Need to Center Black Communities Redefining Freedom & Joy
One of the more interesting recommendations of the Zinn Education Project report on the teaching of Reconstruction is that teachers should “Foreground the meaning of…
New Report Critical of Lack of Reconstruction Education in Middle and High Schools
The progressive Zinn Education Project has a new report out on the state of Reconstruction education in American schools. Here is a list of the…
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