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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.
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 ...
According to Stampp, Stephens became one of the most ardent defenders of the Lost Cause. [16] The historian William C. Davis also mentioned inconsistencies in Southern states' rights arguments. He explained the Confederate Constitution's protection of slavery at the national level as follows:
An explainer for all those who incorrectly assume they were dead the whole time
He also created the first painting for which he received a significant degree of recognition, The Lost Cause, which he exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1868. [2] This was soon followed by the group Betsy Ross Making the First American Flag. [6] In 1874, Mosler returned to France, having married Sara Cahn of Cincinnati in 1869. [2]
White Southern myths about slavery, including a story about enslavers' Christmas benevolence, have helped prop up racism.
Mildred Lewis Rutherford (July 16, 1851 – August 15, 1928) was a prominent white supremacist speaker, educator, and author from Athens, Georgia.She served the Lucy Cobb Institute, as its head and in other capacities, for over forty years, and oversaw the addition of the Seney-Stovall Chapel to the school.