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    The Lost Cause of the Confederacy (or simply the Lost Cause) is an American pseudohistorical and historical negationist myth that claims the cause of...
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    Southern chivalry (category Lost Cause of the Confederacy)
    of an honorable lost cause of the Confederacy became ubiquitous as the country attempted to rebuild the union between North and South, including the rebranding...
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    Varina Anne Davis (category Lost Cause of the Confederacy)
    of the Confederacy. In 1886, Winnie and her aging father visited West Point, Georgia, on a tour of the South promoting his books and the Lost Cause of...
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    movement tend to portray the Confederacy's cause as noble and they also tend to portray most of the Confederacy's leaders as exemplars of old-fashioned chivalry...
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  • sponsored "Lost Cause" film in 2013". MuckRock. Archived from the original on September 17, 2021. Retrieved September 17, 2021. Field of Lost Shoes: Official...
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    Edward A. Pollard (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    and The Lost Cause Regained (1868), wherein Pollard originated the long-standing pseudo-historical ideology of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy. Written...
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    with the house's presentation of the history of Alabama and the ideology of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy through the displays and materials in the house;...
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  • the Lost Cause of the Confederacy ideology. Because Burns' documentary has been so influential, and serves as the main source of knowledge about the Civil...
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  • Look up lost cause or Lost Cause in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Lost Cause of the Confederacy is a set of false beliefs about the American Civil...
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  • Plantation tradition (category Lost Cause of the Confederacy)
    genre of literature based in the Southern United States that is heavily nostalgic for antebellum times. The ideology is that of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy...
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    Of continuing interest is the fading myth of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy. The war was among the first to use industrial warfare. Railroads, the...
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  • effect of ending slavery. During the Jim Crow era of the 1950s, the term "War of Northern Aggression" developed under the Lost Cause of the Confederacy movement...
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    engaging in the commemoration of these ancestors, the funding of monuments to them, and the promotion of the pseudohistorical Lost Cause ideology and...
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    culture. Although the film has been criticized as historical negationism, glorifying slavery and the Lost Cause of the Confederacy myth, it has been credited...
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  • Slavery and States' Rights (category Lost Cause of the Confederacy)
    Wheeler on July 31, 1894. The speech deals with the American Civil War and is considered to be a "Lost Cause" view of the war's causation. It is generally...
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  • figures in place. During the world wars, the United States established numerous military bases in former states of the Confederacy that were named after...
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    Immediately after the war, Davis was often blamed for the Confederacy's defeat, but after his release from prison, the Lost Cause of the Confederacy movement considered...
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    the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, the Irish slaves myth, the witch-cult, Armenian genocide denial, Holocaust denial, the clean Wehrmacht myth, the 16th-...
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    premiered. In the eyes of some modern scholars, Mitchell's novel consolidated white supremacist Lost Cause ideologies (see Lost Cause of the Confederacy) to construct...
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    endorsement of slavery and the ideology of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy. In 2009, writing in The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates characterized the song as...
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    intrepidity at the risk of life, above and beyond the call of duty" during the American Civil War. During the American Civil War, the Confederate States...
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    but the Confederates broke through up Cemetery Ridge in places, reaching the area that would become known as the high-water mark of the Confederacy. Confederate...
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    The title refers to the Biblical story of Absalom, a wayward son of King David, who was killed while fighting the empire his father built, causing grief...
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    memorialized as a symbol of national unity. Due to the pseudohistorical and negationist mythology of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy spread by Confederate...
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  • own ambitions". In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Connor Goodwin said the album is "deeply embedded in nostalgia for the Lost Cause." All tracks are written...
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    of remaining family properties provided most of what financial comfort she enjoyed.[citation needed] Lost Cause of the Confederacy A Short History of...
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    had adapted the phrase from General Robert E. Lee's purported use of the phrase "The eyes of the South are upon you" to advocate Lost Cause nostalgia....
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  • Southern Partisan (category Lost Cause of the Confederacy)
    Agrarians, the Civil War and Confederacy, and current political issues. Its news section "CSA Today" covers stories from each of the eleven former Confederate...
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    Confederate Memorial (Arlington National Cemetery) (category Lost Cause of the Confederacy)
    Publishing Co., 1994. Gross, Jennifer L. "The United Daughters of the Confederacy, Confederate Widows, and the lost Cause." In Women on Their Own: Interdisciplinary...
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    Melanie out of duty. Scarlett is heartbroken when Melanie becomes pregnant with Ashley's child. The war is going badly for the Confederacy. By September...
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