This week, a class about the Reconstruction Era South and the Lost Cause myth, that myth attempted to present the American Civil War from the perspective of Confederates in the best possible light.

University of Alabama professor Leslie Gordon explains.

There's always a tension in the lost cause and even some contradictions.

So, right, this is a, it becomes a mythology.

It's an ideology.

So it's not always going to stand up to reason.

Obviously, it's not always going to be completely consistent.

So there's this view, and that never changes, that the North had too much, and there's

no way the South could have won, but there's

also a view that Confederates did something wrong themselves. Professor Gordon also discusses

how states' rights were commonly cited as a cause for the Civil War and the legacy of Confederate

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