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American history

the postwar Southern narrative that romanticized the Confederacy and denied slavery as the cause of the Civil War.

In American history, Lost Cause refers to the postwar Southern narrative that romanticized the Confederacy and denied slavery as the cause of the Civil War. This meaning comes from Gallagher (2000) in The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History.[1]

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References

Gallagher, G. W., & Nolan, A. T. (2000). The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253338228

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