Historian Edward Pollard's 1866 book The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates coined the phrase for a movement to idealize the southern way of life and the Confederacy's defeat by the U.S. military during the Civil War.
Historian Edward Pollard's 1866 book The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates coined the phrase for a movement to idealize the southern way of life and the Confederacy's defeat by the U.S. military during the Civil War.