![]() ![]() ![]() Seidule, who spent over 30 years in the US Army and taught for many years at West Point (and is now at Hamilton College, my alma mater), is not only an excellent historian, but a native Southerner and former believer of these myths. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause. ![]() Therein lies a main myth of the “Lost Cause” - that the Confederacy wasn’t really about slavery - that Ty Seidule brilliantly and brutally deconstructs in his eminently readable Robert E. That's just a period of time is all it is.” “The Confederacy doesn't mean that slaves were part of it. ![]() “We just want to preserve history is all we want to do,” said Bill Elliott of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Yet since Floyd’s death, officials from the Deep South to even Delaware and Arizona have voted or decided to protect 28 Confederate monuments. From Richmond, Virginia, to Birmingham, Alabama, protestors vandalized, toppled, and otherwise destroyed the obelisks and metal soldiers commemorating a traitorous army whose attempted secession from the United States caused massive bloodletting. MORE THAN A FEW monuments to the Confederate States of America fell in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police on May 25. ![]()
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