Myth Of The Lost Cause Book. He believed, heart and soul, in the myth of the “lost cause”: In the myth of the lost cause, historian edward bonekemper deconstructs the myth of the lost cause:
Generations of southerners were taught to glorify the confederate general. It said that enslaved people were happy, which is just an abomination. From his southern childhood to his service in the u.s.
Is a tangible and influential phenomenon in american culture and this book.
Ty seidule grew up revering robert e. Ive just finished reading a really interesting book called “the myth of the lost cause, and civil war history”.its about the american civil war, and how the side that was defeated promoted a particular view of what happened in the hope that history would record things somewhat differently from the reality of what actually happened. Some of the elements of the myth are that the war was fought over state’s rights, not over slavery. The myth was an attempt to recast the confederacy as something predicated on family and heritage rather than.