"The Lost Cause" - How Southern socialites rewrote Civil War history

Interesting video recently from VOX that talks about the concerted effort made by The United Daughters of the Confederacy - to manage how the Civil War was taught, and remembered in the South.

According to the video, the group was responsible for the existence of many of the Civil War "hero" statues that went up all over the South, as well as the way textbooks in the former confederacy described the war. It goes a long way in explaining why we see so many people today posting that the war was not about slavery at all...they have been taught that for generations now.