The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History

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The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History

Name: The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History
ISBN: 9780253338228

Gary W. Gallagher, Alan T. Nolan

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The myth of the Lost Cause of the Confederate States in the Civil War was and is an elaborate and intentional effort on the part of southerners to rationalise the secession and the war itself. Unfortunately, for historical truth and the national memory, these skilful propagandists, beginning with Jubal Early, have been so successful that the Lost Cause has assumed a life of its own and continues to misrepresent what really happened, distorting the national memory in the process. In this book, nine historians analyse the Lost Cause, describing its content and identifying its falsity. The work is thus a major contribution to Civil War historiography.

Categories:

History - American Studies

Year:

2000

Edition:

Publisher:

Indiana University Press

Language:

english

Pages:

240

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