The Myth Of The Lost Cause And Civil War History
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The Myth Of The Lost Cause And Civil War History
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Author : Gary W. Gallagher
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2000
The Myth Of The Lost Cause And Civil War History written by Gary W. Gallagher and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
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.
The Myth Of The Lost Cause And Civil War History
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Author : Gary W. Gallagher
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2000-11-22
The Myth Of The Lost Cause And Civil War History written by Gary W. Gallagher and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-22 with History categories.
A “well-reasoned and timely” (Booklist) essay collection interrogates the Lost Cause myth in Civil War historiography. Was the Confederacy doomed from the start in its struggle against the superior might of the Union? Did its forces fight heroically against all odds for the cause of states’ rights? In reality, these suggestions are an elaborate and intentional effort on the part of Southerners to rationalize the secession and the war itself. Unfortunately, skillful propagandists have been so successful in promoting this romanticized view that the Lost Cause has assumed a life of its own. Misrepresenting the war’s true origins and its actual course, the myth of the Lost Cause distorts our national memory. In The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History, nine historians describe and analyze the Lost Cause, identifying ways in which it falsifies history—creating a volume that makes a significant contribution to Civil War historiography. “The Lost Cause . . . is a tangible and influential phenomenon in American culture and this book provides an excellent source for anyone seeking to explore its various dimensions.” —Southern Historian
The Myth Of The Lost Cause
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Author : Edward H. Bonekemper
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2015-10-05
The Myth Of The Lost Cause written by Edward H. Bonekemper and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-05 with History categories.
History isn't always written by the winners... Twenty-first-century controversies over Confederate monuments attest to the enduring significance of our nineteenth-century Civil War. As Lincoln knew, the meaning of America itself depends on how we understand that fratricidal struggle. As soon as the Army of Northern Virginia laid down its arms at Appomattox, a group of Confederate officers took up their pens to refight the war for the history books. They composed a new narrative—the Myth of the Lost Cause—seeking to ennoble the sacrifice and defeat of the South, which popular historians in the twentieth century would perpetuate. Unfortunately, that myth would distort the historical imagination of Americans, north and south, for 150 years. In this balanced and compelling correction of the historical record, Edward Bonekemper helps us understand the Myth of the Lost Cause and its effect on the social and political controversies that are still important to all Americans.
The Lost Cause
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Author : Edward Alfred Pollard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1866
The Lost Cause written by Edward Alfred Pollard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1866 with Confederate States of America categories.
This book recounts the Civil War as a battle between "two nations of opposite civilizations" and that slavery enriched the South.
Baptized In Blood
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Author : Charles Reagan Wilson
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 1980
Baptized In Blood written by Charles Reagan Wilson and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with History categories.
Charles Reagan Wilson documents that for over half a century there existed not one, but two civil religions in the United States, the second not dedicated to honoring the American nation. Extensively researched in primary sources, Baptized in Blood is a significant and well-written study of the South’s civil religion, one of two public faiths in America. In his comparison, Wilson finds the Lost Cause offered defeated Southerners a sense of meaning and purpose and special identity as a precarious but distinct culture. Southerners may have abandoned their dream of a separate political nation after Appomattox, but they preserved their cultural identity by blending Christian rhetoric and symbols with the rhetoric and imagery of Confederate tradition. “Civil religion” has been defined as the religious dimension of a people that enables them to understand a historical experience in transcendent terms. In this light, Wilson explores the role of religion in postbellum southern culture and argues that the profound dislocations of Confederate defeat caused southerners to think in religious terms about the meaning of their unique and tragic experience. The defeat in a war deemed by some as religious in nature threw into question the South’s relationship to God; it was interpreted in part as a God-given trial, whereby suffering and pain would lead Southerners to greater virtue and strength and even prepare them for future crusades. From this reflection upon history emerged the civil religion of the Lost Cause. While recent work in southern religious history has focused on the Old South period, Wilson’s timely study adds to our developing understanding of the South after the Civil War. The Lost Cause movement was an organized effort to preserve the memory of the Confederacy. Historians have examined its political, literary, and social aspects, but Wilson uses the concepts of anthropology, sociology, and historiography to unveil the Lost Cause as an authentic expression of religion. The Lost Cause was celebrated and perpetuated with its own rituals, mythology, and theology; as key celebrants of the religion of the Lost Cause, Southern ministers forged it into a religious movement closely related to their own churches. In examining the role of civil religion in the cult of the military, in the New South ideology, and in the spirit of the Lost Cause colleges, as well as in other aspects, Wilson demonstrates effectively how the religion of the Lost Cause became the institutional embodiment of the South’s tragic experience.
Jubal A Early The Lost Cause And Civil War History
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Author : Gary W. Gallagher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Jubal A Early The Lost Cause And Civil War History written by Gary W. Gallagher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Myth Of The Lost Cause 1865 1900
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Author : Rollin Gustav Osterweis
language : en
Publisher: [Hamden, Conn.] : Archon Books
Release Date : 1973
The Myth Of The Lost Cause 1865 1900 written by Rollin Gustav Osterweis and has been published by [Hamden, Conn.] : Archon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Romanticism categories.
Robert E Lee And Me
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Author : Ty Seidule
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2021-01-26
Robert E Lee And Me written by Ty Seidule and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-26 with History categories.
In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy—and explores why some of this country’s oldest wounds have never healed. Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert E. Lee. From his southern childhood to his service in the U.S. Army, every part of his life reinforced the Lost Cause myth: that Lee was the greatest man who ever lived, and that the Confederates were underdogs who lost the Civil War with honor. Now, as a retired brigadier general and Professor Emeritus of History at West Point, his view has radically changed. From a soldier, a scholar, and a southerner, Ty Seidule believes that American history demands a reckoning. In a unique blend of history and reflection, Seidule deconstructs the truth about the Confederacy—that its undisputed primary goal was the subjugation and enslavement of Black Americans—and directly challenges the idea of honoring those who labored to preserve that system and committed treason in their failed attempt to achieve it. Through the arc of Seidule’s own life, as well as the culture that formed him, he seeks a path to understanding why the facts of the Civil War have remained buried beneath layers of myth and even outright lies—and how they embody a cultural gulf that separates millions of Americans to this day. Part history lecture, part meditation on the Civil War and its fallout, and part memoir, Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the deeply-held legends and myths of the Confederacy—and provides a surprising interpretation of essential truths that our country still has a difficult time articulating and accepting.
The Lost Cause
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Author : Edward Alfred Pollard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1866
The Lost Cause written by Edward Alfred Pollard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1866 with Confederate States of America categories.
This book recounts the Civil War as a battle between "two nations of opposite civilizations" and that slavery enriched the South.
Ghosts Of The Confederacy
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Author : Gaines M. Foster
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1987-04-23
Ghosts Of The Confederacy written by Gaines M. Foster and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-04-23 with History categories.
After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs, personal papers, and postwar Confederate rituals such as memorial day observances, monument unveilings, and veterans' reunions, Ghosts of the Confederacy probes into how white southerners adjusted to and interpreted their defeat and explores the cultural implications of a central event in American history. Foster argues that, contrary to southern folklore, southerners actually accepted their loss, rapidly embraced both reunion and a New South, and helped to foster sectional reconciliation and an emerging social order. He traces southerners' fascination with the Lost Cause--showing that it was rooted as much in social tensions resulting from rapid change as it was in the legacy of defeat--and demonstrates that the public celebration of the war helped to make the South a deferential and conservative society. Although the ghosts of the Confederacy still haunted the New South, Foster concludes that they did little to shape behavior in it--white southerners, in celebrating the war, ultimately trivialized its memory, reduced its cultural power, and failed to derive any special wisdom from defeat.