United Daughters of the Confederacy 
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SOURCE: New York Times
2/17/2023
Who's Afraid of Black History?
by Henry Louis Gates
The protestations of Ron DeSantis aside, American schools today carry the legacy of a massive neoconfederate indoctrination campaign that distorted the meaning of the Civil War, Reconstruction and Jim Crow, justified racist terrorism, and erased ongoing debates—including among Black Americans—about the meaning of freedom and democracy.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
1/25/2023
Florida's AP Fight Latest Battle in a Very Old Education War
by Bethany Bell
The state's rejection of the proposed curriculum as "indoctrination" stands on the foundation laid by the United Daughters of the Confederacy to establish the Lost Cause myth as the center of history education in the South for generations.
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SOURCE: Asheville Citizen-Times
12/11/2020
What Was the Dixie Highway, Anyway?
Historian Tammy Ingram discusses the Dixie Highway, about which she wrote the book, as a rare project of early 20th-century highway building and tourism development that was completed.
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SOURCE: Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
8/27/2020
Amazing Disgrace: Full Frontal With Samantha Bee on Confederate Monuments (video)
The humorist examines the controversy over removing Confederate monuments and how we remember and teach history.
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
8/6/2020
Setting the Lost Cause on Fire
by Karen L. Cox
Once revered by their communities, the United Daughters of the Confederacy today are simply out of step with change sweeping the South and the nation.
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SOURCE: Hattiesburg American
7/2/2020
Confederate Monument in Mississippi City Pays Tribute to Past that Never Was
by William Sturkey
That monument does not deserve its place of reverence. It never did. And it’s never too late to tell the truth.
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SOURCE: Youtube
10-25-17
Video of the Week: How Southern Socialites Rewrote Civil War History
The United Daughters of the Confederacy altered the South's memory of the Civil War.