Dixie's daughters
Subtitle: the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the preservation of Confederate culture
By: Karen L. Cox ; foreword by John David Smith.
Series: New perspectives on the history of the South
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: United Daughters of the Confederacy -- History.; Popular culture -- Southern States.; Political culture -- Southern States.; Southern States -- Civilization.; Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence.
Description: "Even without the right to vote, members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy proved to have enormous social and political influence throughout the South - all in the name of preserving Confederate culture. Karen L. Cox's history of the UDC, an organization founded in 1894 to vindicate the Confederate generation and honor the Lost Cause, shows why myths surrounding the Confederacy continue to endure." "UDC members aspired to transform military defeat into a political and cultural victory, in which states' rights and white supremacy remained intact. To the extent they were successful, the Daughters helped to preserve and perpetuate an agenda for the New South that included maintaining the social status quo. Placing the organization's activities in the context of the postwar and Progressive-Era South, Cox describes in detail the UDC's origins and early development, its efforts to collect and preserve manuscripts and artifacts and to build monuments, and its later role in the peace movement and World War I."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-205) and index.