New bills in Oklahoma and Florida would create laws to ban teaching facts because they're "offensive", but this isn't the first time we've been through this.

How did the Lost Cause go from a Confederate myth to a lesson plan in hundreds of American school textbooks? Well, take:

- 1 part pissed off Georgian aristocrat (Mildred Rutherford brand)
- 1 part aging Confederate veterans
- 3 parts United Daughters, Sons, and Veterans of the Confederacy
- 1 dash racism
- Set your oven to Northern Complacency, and bake for two decades.

Viola! Should feed roughly 60 million kids and keep for about 100 years.

It turns out the heritage that many Confederate Monuments venerate, probably never happened at all.

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NOTES:
This video is extremely text heavy because I wanted to use primary sources and direct quotes as much as possible. Pausing to read screens isn't a bad idea.

CONTACT FOR Georgia University Naming Board
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PRIMARY SOURCES:
Mildred Rutherford -
[ Ссылка ] (Measuring Rod)
[ Ссылка ] (Truths of History)
[ Ссылка ] (Historical sins speech)
[ Ссылка ] (scrap book)

TRR Cobb [ Ссылка ] (Slave legal treatise)

[ Ссылка ] (Meeting minutes of United Daughters of the Confederacy 1900-1903)
[ Ссылка ] (Letter from Rutherford commission to school board)
[ Ссылка ] Grant’s manumission doc - I will say Lee’s handwriting is better.

Textbooks -
[ Ссылка ] (History of Virginia for boys & girls)
[ Ссылка ] young peoples history of NC

Robert E Lee
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Articles:
[ Ссылка ] fantastic write up from Virginia’s state encyclopedia office
[ Ссылка ] (Great article about timeline of this - also calls guys Confederate Generals)
[ Ссылка ] (peer reviewed research on this all)
[ Ссылка ] ( Millie and statements by John Kelly)
[ Ссылка ] (SPLC article about out-of-context marker for Nathan Bedford Forrest)
[ Ссылка ] (decent write up with source links)
[ Ссылка ] time article on the john kelly gaffe
[ Ссылка ] RE the false claim about black confederate soldiers
[ Ссылка ] same as above, diff sources.
[ Ссылка ] long but in-depth write up
[ Ссылка ] sources for soldier numbers
[ Ссылка ] RE grant vs lee as slaveholders
[ Ссылка ] ulian Carr - “confederate general” is in quotes.
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[ Ссылка ] on textbooks
[ Ссылка ] write up about Virginia textbooks with examples
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Claim need to defend confederate history:
[ Ссылка ] I dont want to give this site traffic, but you can see their (unsourced) arguments.


0:00 Intro
0:37 Mildred Rutherford
3:17 Inventing History
4:49 Education vs Indoctrination
6:30 Confederate "Generals"
8:12 Millie Plays Make-Believe
15:07 Examples of the Impact
16:40 Final Thoughts

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