An existential and theological crisis immediately followed the American Civil War causing many southerners to lose their faith in institutions, including organized religion. As white working-class and middle-class southerners in the Georgia piedmont recovered from the war, burge…
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This thesis evaluates changes in the fugitive slave provision of the Constitution. Additionally, the study looks at proposed changes to the federal fugitive slave policy, and how individual states approached the topic of fugitive slaves. The research covers the absence of the fu…
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…
Civil War Reenactment has become a popular pastime for the past fifty years. Thousands of people done Civil War era clothing, march on national battlefields in military units, and fire muskets at one another in order to celebrate the men who fought and died at these battles. The…
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…
The purpose of this research thesis is to determine at what level the Lost Cause narrative plays a role in how museums teach the history of the Civil War. I will use secondary data analysis, archival study, and interviews conducted in the past as well as interviews I conducted m…
This thesis argues that Confederate heritage groups leading the Lost Cause Movement in West Virginia promoted Stonewall Jackson, through tactics such as ceremonies, publications, and monuments, to the point where his appeal expanded beyond that of former Confederates and their d…
This project examines the influence of the Institutions of Higher Learning in the monuments dedicated to the Lost and Won Cause present on Mississippi’s public college campuses. Monuments and memorials stand as representations of public history, and the IHL’s interpretations of …
The meaning of Confederate monuments and memorials, following the violent, high-profile events such as the Charleston church shooting in 2015, the Unite the Right rally in 2017, and the killing of George Floyd in 2020, has been at the center of the ongoing debate about how to pr…