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“Lost Cause” mythology and Old South nostalgia, circa 1880s-1960s

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Scope and Contents

Images reflecting the “Lost Cause” mythos, a revisionist history of the Civil War and Reconstruction era that romanticizes enslavement and the Confederacy, or views the South as an idyllic rural landscape.

Dates

  • Creation: circa 1880s-1960s

Repository Details

Part of the University of Delaware Library Special Collections Repository

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