- 337 pages
- English
- PDF
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About this book
Marking the fortieth anniversary of Charles Reagan Wilson’s classic Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865–1920, this volume collects essays by such scholars as Carolyn Reneé Dupont, Sandy Dwayne Martin, Keith Harper, and Wilson himself to show how various aspects of the Lost Cause ideology persist into the present. The Enduring Lost Cause examines the lasting legacy of a belief system that sought to vindicate the antebellum South and the Confederate fight to preserve it. Contributors treat such topics as symbolism, the perpetuation of the Lost Cause in education, and the effects of the Lost Cause on gender and religion, as well as examining ways the ideology has changed over time.
The twelve essays gathered here help the reader understand the development of a cultural phenomenon that affected generations of southerners and northerners alike, arising out of the efforts of former Confederates to make sense of their defeat, even at the expense of often mythologizing it. From fresh looks at towering figures of the Lost Cause (to reexamining the role of African Americans in disseminating the ideology (in the form of a religious explanation for suffering), the essayists carefully analyze the tensions between the past and the present, true belief and commercialization, continuity and change. Ultimately the narrative of the Lost Cause persists worldwide, merging with American exceptionalism to become a pillar of the conservative wing of US politics, as well as a lasting cultural legacy. The Enduring Lost Cause provides a window into this world, helping us to understand the present in the context of the past.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction, Edward R. Crowther
- Confederate Symbology and the Prophecy of J. William Jones, Christopher C. Moore
- A Pure and Priceless Heritage: Gender Construction and the Lost Cause, Colin Chapell
- âThe Truth is Everythingâ: The Confederate Catechism and Perpetuating the Lost Cause, Reith Harper
- The Black Lost Cause: African American Christians during the Post-Reconstruction and Jim Crow Era, 1877-1925, Sandy Dwayne Martin
- The Modernization of the Lost Cause, Charles Reagan Wilson
- âOld Times There Are Not Forgottenâ: Confederate Commemoration, Protest, and Debate at the University of Mississippi, 1865-2017, Leigh McWhite
- Subverting the Myth: Lost Cause Gender and the Cold War, Alan Scot Willis
- Black and White and Red All Over: Mississippiâs Religous Red Scare, Carolyn Dupont
- âMay Their Gallant Souls ⌠be Honored and Glorifiedâ: Civil War Reenacting and the Lost Cause, Bradley Keefer
- The Ongoing Lost Cause of Southern Cultural Superiority and Its Impact on SBC Home Missions in the Mid-1900s, Ed Stetzer
- Redeemer Nation and Lost Cause Religion: Making America Great Again (For the First Time), Bill J. Leonard
- âSkewed Too Farâ: Social Studies Standards and the Lost Cause in Texas, Edward R. Crowther
- Contributors
- Index