Confederate Lies in School Textbooks

New bills in Oklahoma and Florida would create laws to ban teaching facts because they're "offensive", but this isn't the first time we've been through this.

How did the Lost Cause go from a Confederate myth to a lesson plan in hundreds of American school textbooks? Well, take:

1 part pissed off Georgian aristocrat (Mildred Rutherford brand)
1 part aging Confederate veterans
3 parts United Daughters, Sons, and Veterans of the Confederacy
1 dash racism
Set your oven to Northern Complacency, and bake for two decades.

Viola! Should feed roughly 60 million kids and keep for about 100 years.

It turns out the heritage that many Confederate Monuments venerate, probably never happened at all.

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NOTES:
This video is extremely text heavy because I wanted to use primary sources and direct quotes as much as possible. Pausing to read screens isn't a bad idea.

CONTACT FOR Georgia University Naming Board
https://www.usg.edu/naming_advisory_g...

PRIMARY SOURCES:
Mildred Rutherford -
https://archive.org/details/measuring... (Measuring Rod)
https://archive.org/details/truthsofh... (Truths of History)
https://archive.org/details/addressde... (Historical sins speech)
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i... (scrap book)

TRR Cobb https://archive.org/details/inquiryin... (Slave legal treatise)

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i... (Meeting minutes of United Daughters of the Confederacy 1900-1903)
https://www.facingsouth.org/sites/def... (Letter from Rutherford commission to school board)
https://pastexplore.files.wordpress.c... Grant’s manumission doc - I will say Lee’s handwriting is better.

Textbooks -
https://archive.org/details/historyof... (History of Virginia for boys & girls)
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i... young peoples history of NC

Robert E Lee
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...

Articles:
https://evblog.virginiahumanities.org... fantastic write up from Virginia’s state encyclopedia office
https://www.facingsouth.org/2019/04/t... (Great article about timeline of this - also calls guys Confederate Generals)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40583086... (peer reviewed research on this all)
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/mill... ( Millie and statements by John Kelly)
https://www.splcenter.org/news/2018/1... (SPLC article about out-of-context marker for Nathan Bedford Forrest)
https://www.scarymommy.com/daughters-... (decent write up with source links)
https://time.com/5013943/john-kelly-c... time article on the john kelly gaffe
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/ar... RE the false claim about black confederate soldiers
https://slate.com/human-interest/2019... same as above, diff sources.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20... long but in-depth write up
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks... sources for soldier numbers
https://acwm.org/blog/myths-misunders... RE grant vs lee as slaveholders
https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/car... ulian Carr - “confederate general” is in quotes.
https://www.salon.com/2013/03/16/the_...
https://www.roanedemocrats.org/revisi... on textbooks
https://richmond.com/discover-richmon... write up about Virginia textbooks with examples
https://roanoke.com/opinion/editorial...

Claim need to defend confederate history:
https://chuckbaldwinlive.com/Articles... I dont want to give this site traffic, but you can see their (unsourced) arguments.


0:00 Intro
0:37 Mildred Rutherford
3:17 Inventing History
4:49 Education vs Indoctrination
6:30 Confederate "Generals"
8:12 Millie Plays Make-Believe
15:07 Examples of the Impact
16:40 Final Thoughts