Lost Cause

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12/9/19
  

  A University’s Betrayal of Historical Truth

  by David W. Blight, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Kevin M. Levin

  The University of North Carolina agreed to pay the Sons of Confederate Veterans $2.5 million—a sum that rivals the endowment of its history department.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/8/19
  

  Nikki Haley gets the history of the Confederate flag very wrong

  by Adam H. Domby

  On Friday, Haley declared the Confederate flag was “hijacked” by the racism of a single white supremacist terrorist in 2015, and that before then, “people saw it as service, sacrifice and heritage.” 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  12/7/19
  

  Nikki Haley's Confederate Flag Comments Spark Backlash

  She told the conservative radio host Glenn Beck that the Confederate flag symbolized “service, sacrifice and heritage” for some people in her state until Dylann S. Roof “hijacked” it.

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• SOURCE: Virginia Mercury
  12/6/19
  

  ‘We’re telling history now’: New Lost Cause exhibit opens at Richmond museum

  Includes a qutoe from Melvin Patrick Ely, a College of William & Mary history professor.

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• 6/16/19
  

  The Origins of the Lost Cause Myth

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  States’ rights and slavery, while theoretically distinct, were in praxis intertwined. Here's what a Jeffersonian analysis of Jubal Early’s lost-cause apologia can teach us.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/12/19
  

  How historians got Nike to pull an ad campaign — in under six hours

  by Megan Kate Nelson

  The multinational corporation dropped its “Lost Cause” ads after historians pushed back.

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• 7/15/18
  

  The Overlooked Irony of the Red Hen Restaurant Incident

  by Wallace Hettle

  It’s across the street from the home of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson, where the myth of the Lost Cause is still celebrated.