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Lost Cause of the Confederacy
Removal of Confederate monuments and memorialsThe Robert E. Lee monument in New Orleans stands as a stark symbol of the era that built it, yet its removal on the 19th of May 2017, marked only one chapter…
Jefferson DavisJefferson F. Davis was born on the 3rd of June 1808 at a family homestead in Davisburg, Kentucky. He was the youngest of ten children born to Jane and Samuel…
American Civil War CentennialCongress created the United States Civil War Centennial Commission in 1957. This federal body did not dictate a single theme for the nationwide observance.
Lost Cause of the ConfederacyThe term Lost Cause first appeared in the title of an 1866 book by Virginian journalist Edward A. Pollard, The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War…
Names of the American Civil WarThe phrase Civil War appears on the title page of a 1954 history textbook from Harvard University. It also covers the front of a plaque at Arlington National…