In this project, I will address the misconceptions that have surrounded the strategic aims of the Confederate States Navy pertaining to the ironclad warship. It is commonly understood among historians that the ironclads built by the Confederacy were laid down with the intention …
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The culture of honor in the American South was a major influence on the social and moral direction of the Confederacy. However, the southern brand of honor in early America changed from how cultural honor had been represented historically. Cultural practices specific to the Sout…
The United States Civil War was the most gruesome conflict fought on United States soil. The mass influx of injured soldiers requiring care forced the Union and Confederacy to evaluate and adapt their traditional medical practices in an attempt to care for this population. Armor…
While numerous historians have studied and written about the lives and deeds of Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and Jefferson Davis, fewer have conducted analyses of these three individuals’ popular memories. This study considers how the memory of these three Confederate leade…
The American Civil War spanned four years of bloody fratricide that divided the country. During those years, President Lincoln declared a blockade on all Southern ports hoping to cut supplies to the Confederacy in an attempt to shorten the conflict. As a result, blockade running…
We are largely unaware of the invisible forces at work that shape both the space we inhabit and our experience of that space. Therefore, it is necessary to interrogate the physical markers that shape that experience. This thesis poses the question: what is the purpose of a site …
Edward A. Pollard’s The Lost Cause first appeared in 1866. Although it established the Myth of the Lost Cause, it was widely read, not as myth, but as history, especially in the South. Then, after 1900, it was largely forgotten. However, starting in the early 1970s, historians b…