Enduring Lost Cause
Subtitle: Afterlives of a Redeemer Nation
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781621903895
Subjects: United states, history, 20th century; United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865
Description: "The year 2020 will mark the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Charles Reagan Wilson's classic study Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920. Conceived in part to honor this milestone, this multiauthor volume seeks to show how various aspects of Lost Cause ideology persist into the present. Among the contributors to this work are Carolyn Dupont, Sandy Dwayne Martin, Colin Chapell, Keith Harper, and Charles Reagan Wilson himself. Among the many aspects of the Lost Cause to be considered are the following: the impact of Lost Cause ideology on southern Christianity; the difficulty of evading neo-Confederate narratives in education; and the influence of Confederate catechisms in keeping Lost Cause ideology alive and well"--