The earliest documented use of the phrase “Lost Cause,” rebranding the Confederacy as a struggle for Southern culture and state’s rights, was in 1866.

Even as Confederate monuments tumble this summer, we may be witnessing an attempt to form a new lost cause. Today, President Trump describes his opponents as “unfair,” the pandemic sapping his ...

Lost Cause mythologizing could be found in the Montgomery Advertiser as early as 1866. But 20 years later, the newspaper turned a whole issue over to two key Confederate figures to extend the lies.

Professor of history explains how the continuation of Trumpism will be like the 'Lost Cause ... The New York Times) Dalton, Georgia — What Trump Shares With the ‘Lost Cause’ of the Confederacy.

Proponents of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy ideology say the Confederacy did the correct thing by seceding from the U.S. and the true cause of the American Civil War was the Confederates ...

And crucially, he focused on the Just Cause of the American Revolution, not the Lost Cause of the Confederacy. We should take notice of the difference, particularly in an era when some want to ...

The Cult of the Lost Cause emerged at the end of the Civil War when the Confederacy had lost. The movement is made up of those who haven’t accepted the outcome of the war 152 years later.

And the Lost Cause was the cause of the white supremacy in the South. Those monuments don't reflect who we ever have been." ... The Confederacy was on the wrong side of history.

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie praised Confederate States President Jefferson Davis effusively in a 1995 speech, calling him a “martyr to ‘The Lost Cause’” and an ...

President Donald Trump has embarked on a lost cause akin to that embraced by Southerners after the Confederacy was crushed. That historical “Lost Cause” falsely posited that the U.S. Civil War ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan President Donald Trump has embarked on a lost cause akin to that embraced by Southerners after the Confederacy was crushed. That historical “Lost Cause” falsely ...