Unlike the Confederate Lost Cause, the Trump version is a kind of gangster cult, full of rituals of loyalty to a single man and his plans to fashion an authoritarian U.S. government that will use ...

CNN commentator Karen Finney, who is related to Confederate General Robert E. Lee, writes about the embrace by 2024 Republican candidates of the “Lost Cause.” ...

The most visible examples of the Lost Cause movement may have been the thousands of statues and memorials that were erected throughout the South to glorify the heroics of the Confederacy and that ...

Confederate statues prove parts of American history are just a lost cause. ... After the South lost to the North in the Civil War, Southerners pretended the fight wasn’t actually about slavery.

Biden recalled the 2015 shooting, saying, "The word of God was pierced by bullets of hate and rage." He commended the congregation for their role in having the Confederate flag taken down from the ...

His ongoing challenge to North Carolinians’ choice has become its own lost cause, deeply rooted in the tradition of myths that have kept some people re-enacting the Civil War for 160 years.

To understand what Governor Ron DeSantis and other Republican leaders are doing with their attempted revision of history, one must remember the Lost Cause movement following the Civil War ...

After the Civil War, ... In “Oracle of Lost Causes,” Matthew Christopher Hulbert argues that it is time for Edwards to step out of his role as star-maker and “command top billing. ...

Developed by white Southerners, many of them former Confederate generals, the Lost Cause created and romanticized the “Old South” and the Confederate war effort, often distorting history in ...

CNN commentator Karen Finney, who is related to Confederate General Robert E. Lee, writes about the embrace by 2024 Republican candidates of the “Lost Cause.” ...