The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History

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The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History is written by Gary W. Gallagher and published by Indiana University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0253338220 (ISBN 10) and 9780253338228 (ISBN 13).

The myth of the Lost Cause of the Confederate States in the Civil War was and is an elaborate and intentional effort on the part of southerners to rationalise the secession and the war itself. Unfortunately, for historical truth and the national memory, these skilful propagandists, beginning with Jubal Early, have been so successful that the Lost Cause has assumed a life of its own and continues to misrepresent what really happened, distorting the national memory in the process. In this book, nine historians analyse the Lost Cause, describing its content and identifying its falsity. The work is thus a major contribution to Civil War historiography.