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.

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Months after Macon Mayor Lester Miller said he wanted local NAACP leaders and the United Daughters of the Confederacy to meet about building a memorial for a Black Confederate, leaders of one of ...

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.

A Confederate memorial in America's most honoured ... a historian and professor emerita of women's and African American studies, thought little more of the statue until decades after her visit ...