Dixie's Daughters The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture

Name: Dixie's Daughters The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture
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ISBN: 9780813028125

ISBN-10: 0813028124

ISBN-13: 9780813028125

Edition: 2003

Authors: Karen L. Cox

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Even without the right to vote, members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy proved to have enormous social and political influence throughout the South--all in the name of preserving Confederate culture. Karen L. Cox's history of the UDC, an organization founded in 1894 to vindicate the Confederate generation and honor the Lost Cause, shows why myths surrounding the Confederacy continue to endure. The Daughters, as UDC members were popularly known, were literally daughters of the Confederate generation. While southern women had long been leaders in efforts to memorialize the Confederacy, UDC members made the Lost Cause a movement about vindication as well as memorialization. They…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Publication date: 5/11/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Karen L. Cox is associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.