For instance, Drew Gilpin Faust, currently the president of Harvard University and a fine social historian, has argued that the Confederacy lost because southern women turned against the war.

From Southern Ladies to She-Rebels: Young Women in the Confederate South “This rebelliousness! Where does it come from?” exclaims Jane Green in response to her headstrong daughter’s stubborn ...

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Foster, Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat ... Monuments to the Lost Cause: Women, Art, and the Landscapes of Southern Memory (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003) Gary W.

But a House effort to remove statues honoring Confederates stalled in the Senate. One of those Confederate statues stands in front of the office of the House majority whip, currently occupied by Rep.