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So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.
Confederate symbols, and their continued valorization, rob us of an opportunity to understand our own rich “people’s heritage ...
The move to change the name of Rutherford Hall, named after a woman who attempted to whitewash the Confederacy and slavery, is met with silence.
The report tracks both the protection and removal of Confederate memorials located in public spaces, schools, street names ...
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A poisoned cause, a pointless sacrifice | BRIAN LYMAN
There is no reason to honor men who died for the Confederacy and white supremacy. But their lives hold warnings for us.
Thousands of Confederate symbols are standing in public spaces around the nation despite ongoing efforts to have them removed ...
As Fort Moore in Columbus, Georgia, reverts to its previous name, Fort Benning, the Southern Poverty Law Center says the ...
Consider that Griffin, then a college student, was proudly posing in Confederate grays 136 years after that side surrendered at Appomattox. While the particular myths of the Lost Cause have varied ...
In the poisonous fiction of the Lost Cause that was fed to millions of other southerners, the brutal institution of slavery, which the Confederacy seceded to preserve, had nothing to do with the ...