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A Battle Over 20th Century Textbooks: How The Civil War Is Still Fought In American Classrooms, Katie Court
A Battle Over 20th Century Textbooks: How The Civil War Is Still Fought In American Classrooms, Katie Court
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This paper analyzed the emergence of Lost Cause history textbooks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Following the Civil War, Confederate societies such as the United Daughters of the Confederacy and United Confederate Veterans had a vested interest in positively portraying the South. From 1890-1930, Confederate societies attempted to expel textbooks that spoke unfavorably of the Confederacy, and instead encouraged states all around the country to follow stringent rules of how to discuss historical events. This research was led by material written by these societies and the textbooks they endorsed or expelled, in order to analyze the origins …