Item details: The false cause : fraud, fabrication, and white supremacy in Confederate memory - 48335393

The false cause : fraud, fabrication, and white supremacy in Confederate memory

text The false cause : fraud, fabrication, and white supremacy in Confederate memory

Summary: "This book examines the foundational role of deliberate misrepresentation in various elements of white supremist Lost Cause mythology, from Confederate soldiers' military prowess, loyalty, motivation, and unity, to mythical black Confederates, to ... Read more

Contents: Introduction -- Rewriting the past in stone: monuments, North Carolina politics, and Jim Crow, 1890-1929 -- Inventing Confederates: creating heroes to maintain white supremacy, 1900-1951 -- The loyal deserters: Confederate pension fraud in Civil W... Read more

Format: text

Description: 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Publisher: University of Virginia Press 2020

Library	Location	Status

Library	Location	Status
TADL-WOOD	320.56 DOM in Adult Non-fiction	Checked out (Due: 2024-04-19)

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