Category: Lost Cause
Book Review: Across the Bloody Chasm: The Culture of Commemoration Among Civil War Veterans by M. Keith Harris
Across the Bloody Chasm: The Culture of Commemoration Among Civil War Veterans by M. Keith Harris published by LSU Press (2014) Hardcover $42.50 Kindle $26.49. …
Podcast: Nina Silber on How the Civil War and Reconstruction Were Remembered in the 1930s and 1940s
Nina Silber, the author of This War Aint Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America is interviewed by Gerry Prokopowicz for this podcast from…
The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates by Edward Pollard
The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates by Edward Pollard (1866). Available Free Here. The Lost Cause by Edward Pollard is a…
Fr. Ryan, “Poet Priest of the South,” Denounces “Richmond Irish Radical Republicans” Sept 1868
Fr. Abram Joseph Ryan was one of the most visible Catholic priests in the South. A firm Confederate, he served as an army chaplain. After…
When Lost Causers Drink from the Devil’s Punchbowl They Are All Wet
When I am online writing about the treatment of African Americans during Reconstruction, I often encounter Lost Cause advocates who respond to documentation about Klan…
Washington Post: If Johnson Was Impeached and Removed, Jeff Davis Might Have Been Executed
The Washington Post has an article speculating that if Andrew Johnson had been removed from office by the Senate at the conclusion of his impeachment…
Video: Southern Historical Society Panel on Teaching Reconstruction at the College Level
Here is an interesting panel presentation given two months ago at the Southern Historical Association about ways to teach Reconstruction at the undergraduate level. There…
Old “White House of the Confederacy” Hosts New Exhibit on “The Lost Cause”
The Richmond mansion that was Jefferson Davis’s residence when he was President of the Confederacy was a sacred shrine after the war to the “Lost…
After Longstreet’s Infamous Letter Endorsing Black Civil Rights, the Destruction of His Reputation Began
This morning, I posted Gen. James Longstreet’s “infamous letter” in which he called on Southern whites to accept that the Confederacy had lost the war…
Podcast: Hattie McDaniel’s Role As Maid in “Song of the South” and “Gone With the Wind”-Episode 2
The second installment of Six Degrees of Song of the South is out. It looks at Hattie McDaniel, the first black actor to win an…