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Ed Bonekemper’s Lost Cause Fact-Check (part two)
Part two of two During his adventures traveling the country, talking to Civil War groups, Edward Bonekemper III kept encountering the same Lost Cause quandary. “I continued to speak to well-informed groups of people and was surprised by the great … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Emerging Civil War, Memory, Slavery
Tagged Ed Bonekemper, Edward Bonekemper, Gettysburg, James Longstreet, Lost Cause, Lost-Cause-Fact-Check, Memory, slavery
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Ed Bonekemper’s Lost Cause Fact-Check (part one)
Part one of two Historians debunked the myth of the Lost Cause decades ago, but it still defines the way many (if not most) Americans remember the narrative of the Civil War. Its influence on popular imagination holds sway over … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Emerging Civil War, Memory, Reconstruction, Slavery
Tagged Alan Nevins, Bruce Catton, civil rights, civil war memory, Ed Bonekemper, Edward Bonekemper, Jim Crow, Jubal Early, Lost Cause, Lost-Cause-Fact-Check, Memory, Shelby Foote, slavery, William Nelson Pendleton
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