We are Only Insisting upon Truth and Justice for the Southern Confederacy: The United Daughters of the Confederacy, Fabricated Memory, and Lost Cause Education

Identifier

203

Author

Kaitlyn G. Zarecor

Date

2022

Document Type

Honors Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts

Major

History

Committee Chair

Michele Coffey

Abstract

This thesis analyzes the United Daughters of the Confederacy, a neo-Confederate women's organization, and their efforts to vindicate the Confederacy with organized, united action. The Daughters attempted to popularize a revisionist historical mythology called the Lost Cause in order to maintain white supremacy. They accomplished this by engaging in extensive commemoration and monument construction. However, they were particularly impactful instilling their narratives of the Confederacy through their founding of the Children of the Confederacy and monitoring school textbooks, fighting to remove any book which they deemed biased or unfair to the former Confederacy.

Comments

Undergraduate Honor's Thesis

Library Comment

Honors thesis originally submitted to the Local University of Memphis Honor’s Thesis Repository.

Recommended Citation

Zarecor, Kaitlyn G., "We are Only Insisting upon Truth and Justice for the Southern Confederacy: The United Daughters of the Confederacy, Fabricated Memory, and Lost Cause Education" (2022). Honors Theses. 130.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/honors_theses/130