Debunking the Myth of the Lost Cause: A Lie Embedded in American History

Debunking the Myth of the Lost Cause

A TED-Ed resource featuring Karen L. Cox, who talks about the how this revisionist history began shortly after the Civil War ended, when southern sources claimed the conflict was about “state’s rights” and not slavery. She looks at how this revisionism came about and examines the cultural myth of the “Lost Cause.” Watch now.