The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" about the "Lost Cause"

James W. Loewen · Edward H. Sebesta

Oct 2019 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Paul Boehmer

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Most Americans hold basic misconceptions about the Confederacy, the Civil War, and the actions of subsequent neo-Confederates. For example, two thirds of Americans-including most history teachers-think the Confederate States seceded for "states' rights." This error persists because most have never read the key documents about the Confederacy. These documents have always been there. When South Carolina seceded, it published "Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union." The document actually opposes states' rights. Its authors argue that Northern states were ignoring the rights of slave owners as identified by Congress and in the Constitution. Similarly, Mississippi's "Declaration of the Immediate Causes . . . " says, "Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-the greatest material interest of the world." The 150th anniversary of secession and civil war provides a moment for all Americans to hear these documents, properly set in context by award-winning sociologist and historian James W. Loewen and coeditor, Edward H. Sebesta, to put in perspective the mythology of the Old South.

About the author

James W. Loewen is the bestselling and award-winning author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, Lies Across America, and Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers' Edition. He has won the American Book Award and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award among others. Loewen lives in Washington, DC.

Edward H. Sebesta been researching the neo-Confederate movement and writing about it since the early 1990s. He is the author of Pernicious: The Neo-Confederate Campaign against Social Justice in America. Besides researching and writing about the neo-Confederates he is also an activist.

Paul Boehmer is a seasoned actor who has appeared on Broadway, film, and television, including The Thomas Crown Affair and All My Children. Coinciding with another of his passions, sci-fi, Paul has been cast in various roles in many episodes of Star Trek.

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