The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History

From: The Journal of Southern History | Date: August 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History. Edited by Gary W. Gallagher and Alan T. Nolan. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2000. Pp. [viii], 231. $29.95, ISBN 0-253-33822-0.)

French historian and cultural critic Ernest Renan once wrote that nations and cultures are fashioned as much from what they forget as from what they remember. White southerners have certainly forged their own identity from equal parts memory and forgetfulness, a theme fully explored in the growing literature on Confederate commemoration and the "Lost Cause" movement. Gary W. Gallagher ...

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