Confederate “Heritage” Month 2023, April 5: Northern troops and the end of Reconstruction

Heather Cox Richardson is very critical of the Lost Cause narrative because it’s bad history and also because it’s racist. It’s possible to put a racist spin on factually accurate claims, although the Lost Cause narrative is at its core racist propaganda, so it has to be and is dishonest about many important factual questions. Also, it’s not just racist propaganda “at its core” but in all its other aspects, as well.

Substack: https://brucemillerca.substack.com/p/confederate-heritage-month-2023-april-64d