@article{858581, author = {Cox, Karen L.,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/858581}, title = {Dixie's daughters : the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the preservation of Confederate culture /}, publisher = {University Press of Florida,}, abstract = {''A vital and, until now, missing piece to the puzzle of the 'Lost Cause' ideology and its impact on the daily lives of post-Civil War southerners. This is a careful, insightful examination of the role women played in shaping the perceptions of two generations of southerners, not simply through rhetoric but through the creation of a remarkably effective organization whose leadership influenced the teaching of history in the schools, created a landscape of monuments that honored the Confederate dead, and provided assistance to elderly veterans, their widows, and their children.}, recid = {858581}, pages = {1 online resource (xvii, 218 pages) :}, address = {Gainesville, FL :}, year = {2003}, }