Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Lost Cause historians instead favor the more moderate postwar views of Confederate leaders. [21] The Lost Cause argument stresses secession as a defense against a Northern threat to a Southern way of life and declares that this threat violated the states' rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States. The Lost Cause's assertion ...
As she explained it, Lee valiantly fought an unjust “War of Northern Aggression” in defense of “states’ rights,” often referred to as “The Lost Cause.
The "Lost Cause" is the name which is commonly given to a movement that seeks to reconcile the existence of the traditional society of the Southern United States with the defeat of the Confederate States of America at the end of the American Civil War of 1861–1865. [7]
Statesmen of the Lost Cause: Jefferson Davis and His Cabinet is a 1939 non-fiction book by Burton Jesse Hendrick, published by Little, Brown and Company.. The thesis of the work is that the inability to acquire and develop competent politicians, as well as an inability to form a proper federal government due to too much emphasis on states' rights, caused the collapse of the Confederate States ...
White Southern myths about slavery, including a story about enslavers' Christmas benevolence, have helped prop up racism.
An explainer for all those who incorrectly assume they were dead the whole time
Edward Alfred Pollard (February 27, 1832 – December 17, 1872) was an American author, journalist, and Confederate sympathizer during the American Civil War who wrote several books on the causes and events of the war, notably The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates (1866) and The Lost Cause Regained (1868), [1] wherein Pollard originated the long-standing pseudo ...
Lost ' s finale, though, was not too obtuse." [57] Some reviewers ended puzzled about the meaning of Lost. Tim Teeman in The Times referred to "a global scratching of heads" in his review but concluded "The questions are ceaseless: it may be healthier, as one online fan put it, 'to just accept it and move on ' ". [58]