Dixie's daughters : the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the preservation of Confederate culture / Karen L. Cox ; foreword by John David Smith.

9780813063898 (electronic book)
0813031338 (electronic book)
9780813031330 (electronic book)
9780813026251

Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, 2003.

English

1 online resource (xvii, 218 pages) : illustrations.

E483.5 .C68 2003eb

369/.17

''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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-205) and index.

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New perspectives on the history of the South.