Article Title

The Lost Cause Ideology and Civil War Memory at the Semicentennial: A Look

Authors

Patrick Burkhardt, Forest Park Community College

Abstract

A half-century after the end of the Civil War, sectional tensions still existed in St. Louis. Patrick Burkhardt suggests that the Lost Cause ideology was alive and well in St. Louis, as revealed by the argument over erecting a new Confederate monument in Forest Park.

Recommended Citation

Burkhardt, Patrick (2011) "The Lost Cause Ideology and Civil War Memory at the Semicentennial: A Look," The Confluence (2009-2020): Vol. 2: Iss. 2, Article 3.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/confluence_2009/vol2/iss2/3