The Lost Cause

GPTKB entity

Statements (31)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf historical ideology
gptkbp:associatedWith gptkb:American_Civil_War
gptkbp:contrastsWith Unionist narratives
gptkbp:criticizedFor historians
promoting racism
historical revisionism
whitewashing slavery
gptkbp:downplays role of slavery
gptkbp:emergedIn 1865
gptkbp:emphasizes states' rights
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label The Lost Cause
gptkbp:influenced popular culture
school textbooks
monument building
Southern memory
gptkbp:originatedIn gptkb:Southern_United_States
gptkbp:promotion gptkb:United_Daughters_of_the_Confederacy
gptkb:Sons_of_Confederate_Veterans
gptkb:Southern_historians
gptkb:former_Confederates
gptkbp:relatedTo Civil War reenactments
Southern heritage groups
Confederate monuments
gptkbp:requires Confederate leaders were honorable
Confederate cause was just
Confederate defeat was inevitable
slavery was not the main cause of the Civil War
gptkbp:subjectOf gptkb:military
historical scholarship
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Edward_A._Pollard
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7