Identify and refuse Lost Cause mythology as deliberately constructed historical deception — UDC 1894-1930 monument campaign + Birth of a Nation 1915 + Gone with the Wind 1936 + Dunning School historiography + 20th-c textbook coverage — apply MG-7 Q9 + MG-14a
Exercise
Difficulty 2
~4 min
hist.g8.f.ex_38
Short Answer
Prompt
Per SPLC 2019 Whose Heritage? when were most Confederate monuments erected?
How it's presented
mode
text
Answer criteria
type
rubric
criteria
- Two waves: 1894-1930 (UDC campaign) and 1955-1965 (response to civil rights movement)
- NOT immediately after Civil War; 20th-century constructions
Hints
- Per Cox 2003 Dixie's Daughters UDC was central to first wave.
- Monuments are 20th-century artifacts of white-supremacist political assertion.
Misconceptions to watch
- Believing monuments were 1860s memorials
Used in lessons