@article{351968, note = {Description based on print version record.}, author = {Loewen, James W. and Sebesta, Edward H.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/351968}, title = {The Confederate and neo-Confederate reader the "great truth" about the "lost cause" / [electronic resource] :}, publisher = {University Press of Mississippi,}, abstract = {Most Americans hold basic misconceptions about the Confederacy, the Civil War, and the actions of subsequent neo-Confederates. For example, two thirds of Americans--including most history teachers--think the Confederate States seceded for "states' rights." This error persists because most have never read the key documents about the Confederacy. These documents have always been there. When South Carolina seceded, it published "Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union."}, recid = {351968}, pages = {1 online resource (xiii, 424 p.) :}, address = {Jackson, Miss. :}, year = {2010}, }