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Bookmark or Share- The Lost Cause - Encyclopedia VirginiaThe Lost Cause is an interpretation of the American Civil War (1861–1865) that seeks to present the war from the perspective of Confederates and in the best possible terms. Developed by white Southerners, many of them former Confederate generals, in a postwar climate of economic, racial, and social uncertainty, the Lost Cause created and ...
- The Lost Cause: Definition and Origins - American Battlefield TrustThere are six main parts of the Lost Cause myth, the first and most important of which is that secession had little or nothing to do with the institution of slavery. Southern states seceded to protect their rights, their homes, and to throw off the shackles of a tyrannical government.
- The Lost Cause’s Long Legacy - The AtlanticA revisionist history that gained popularity in the 1890s, the Lost Cause recast the Confederacy’s humiliating defeat in a treasonous war for slavery as the embodiment of the Framers’ true...
- Origins of the Confederate Lost Cause - JSTOR DailyAt its heart, the Lost Cause was a “mystique of chivalric Southern soldiers and the noble Confederate leadership embodied in Jefferson Davis ” defending a way of life, state’s rights, even the original American Revolution, against a rapacious Northern industrial machine.
- Debunking the Myth of the Lost Cause: A Lie Embedded in American ...Examine the myth of the Lost Cause: a campaign created by pro-Confederates after the Civil War to promote the lie that they seceded for state's rights. In the 1860’s, 11 southern states withdrew from the United States and formed the Confederacy.
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