Memory’s Redoubt: Ex-Confederates in New York City, 1865-1910
Metadata Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.advisor | Kennington, Kelly | |
dc.contributor.author | Pettus, Ian | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-04-29T19:30:55Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-04-29T19:30:55Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024-04-29 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://etd.auburn.edu//handle/10415/9232 | |
dc.description.abstract | This dissertation focuses on elite ex-Confederates who relocated to New York City after the Civil War, arguing that they demonstrate the importance of post-war migrations to the spread of the Lost Cause. Industrialization and urban mass culture fundamentally changed late-nineteenth century New York’s social and political landscape, and ex-Confederate migrants were necessarily sensitive to these trends. As native southerners who became New Yorkers, these migrants helped author a variant of the Lost Cause “memory” that portrayed the Old South as an anti-modern Eden led by planter aristocrats. This interpretation successfully addressed the concerns of middle class and elite white New Yorkers while also enhancing ex-Confederates’ social status. White southern migrants to New York City are a prime example of the importance of post-war movement in the formation of the Lost Cause. They show that the creation of the Lost Cause was not geographically restricted and help to explain how a northern public who had once fought to free enslaved Americans ultimately came to support white supremacy and Jim Crow rule in the South. | en_US |
dc.rights | EMBARGO_GLOBAL | en_US |
dc.subject | History | en_US |
dc.title | Memory’s Redoubt: Ex-Confederates in New York City, 1865-1910 | en_US |
dc.type | PhD Dissertation | en_US |
dc.embargo.length | MONTHS_WITHHELD:60 | en_US |
dc.embargo.status | EMBARGOED | en_US |
dc.embargo.enddate | 2029-04-29 | en_US |
dc.contributor.committee | Domby, Adam | |
dc.contributor.committee | Brooks, Jennifer | |
dc.contributor.committee | Sippial, Tiffany |