Rather than investigating the reasons for Southern secession and vilifying the those who took up arms, the Lost Cause Theory sought to "recast the Confederacy's humiliating defeat in a treasonous ...
This is now known as the Lost Cause philosophy. In April of 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered in Appomattox, Virginia. The Confederacy had exhausted its resources, and the landscape of the ...
A list of recommended reading on The Lost Cause is courtesy of the Atlanta History Center. David W. Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard ...
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