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McKinley Lost-Causes The Civil War (1898)

Published: Jan. 15, 2023, 9:30 a.m.

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It\\u2019s January 15th. In the winter of 1898-99, at the end of the Spanish-American War, President McKinley is touring the south to drum up support from Southern lawmakers.

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Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss how as part of his appeal to Southerners, McKinley embraces a story of the Civil War as virtuous and noble \\u2014 and makes key concessions about monuments and burial plots to Southern soldiers. In many ways, this starts to plant the seeds for the so-called \\u201cLost Cause\\u201d narrative.

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