Debunking The Myth Of The Lost Cause: A Lie Embedded In American History – Karen L. Cox

Debunking the myth of the Lost Cause: A lie embedded in American history – Karen L. Cox

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Examine the myth of the Lost Cause: a campaign created by pro-Confederates after the Civil War to promote the lie that they seceded for state’s rights.

In the 1860s, 11 southern states withdrew from the United States and formed the Confederacy. They seceded in response to the growing movement for the nationwide abolition of slavery. Yet barely a year after the Civil War ended, southern sources began claiming the conflict was about state’s rights. How did this revisionist history come about? Karen L. Cox examines the cultural myth of the Lost Cause.

Lesson by Karen L. Cox, directed by Anton Bogaty.

July 4, 2015 | Dream Journal

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Dream 1

All that I can remember of this dream is being inside a multi-story school/college-like building, some other students and I went inside a room with old military uniforms from different countries (mostly from the USA) from maybe the American Revolutionary War until maybe World War II, and we each had to quickly pick a uniform to wear so that we could take a group photograph where everyone would be together but separated in different lines based on which uniform you were wearing.

Unfortunately there was not enough time for me to look through most of the uniforms or to try them on, and so I had to rush and almost randomly pick a uniform; and I put the uniform on, it turned out to be a Confederate General’s/Commander uniform supposedly, and so I got in line with the other students wearing Confederate uniforms; and the General/Commander for our group was a man who looked like or was the comedian Stephen Colbert, but I was accidentally wearing the General’s uniform (we used the term Commander instead of General for some unknown reason).

I told Commander Colbert that we should quickly change uniforms because he was the Commander, he said that it was not necessary and we probably did not have enough time to change, and then it was time for us to line up and take our photographs; and after we took our photographs I remember walking to another room that was a small cafeteria where some of my former classmates were sitting like my former female classmate DF, and I sat down to talk with them.