For those who argue that what pro-ethnic studies advocate for is a "twisting" of history, we offer you the United Daughters of the Confederacy...
The UDC was instrumental in ensuring that the characterization of the war in textbooks conformed to the Lost Cause narrative, and it was a prime contributor to the creation of the Confederate memorial landscape of statues and monuments... britannica.com/topic/United-D…
At its annual reunion in Atlanta in 1919, the United Confederate Veterans (UCV) set up a committee to promulgate the Lost Cause version of history through textbooks. facingsouth.org/2019/04/twiste…
The United Daughters of the Confederacy altered the South's memory of the Civil War.
Rolph said their lasting impact was on the narrative of history they rewrote in textbooks to embellish what really happened in the Confederate states before and during the Civil War.
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