The UDC sets the record straight! Or somewhat straight.

J. Horace

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Found this booklet in some of my grandfather's papers. The booklet was issued by the UDC entitled: "Errors and Omissions in Text-Books on American History."

The New England slave trade was quite interesting.


On Reconstruction: "No wonder the world misunderstands today the repudiation of the accumulated extravagances of the corrupt State carpetbag-scalawag governments which were forced upon a prostrate people by a Congress then under the control of "Vindictives" or "Radicals."
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Found this booklet in some of my grandfather's papers. The booklet was issued by the UDC entitled: "Errors and Omissions in Text-Books on American History."

The New England slave trade was quite interesting.


On Reconstruction: "No wonder the world misunderstands today the repudiation of the accumulated extravagances of the corrupt State carpetbag-scalawag governments which were forced upon a prostrate people by a Congress then under the control of "Vindictives" or "Radicals." View attachment 174461
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Great to see this posted.

Here is a thread on another UDC pamphlet on which books should be used to educate Southern children about the war and Reconstruction.

https://civilwartalk.com/threads/di...oks-appropriate-for-students-in-south.142036/
 
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In understanding the prevalence of the Lost Cause historiography of the Civil War, the role of the UDC is a key. The Dunning School was important in crafting an academically defensible narrative, but the UDC did battle in state after state to insure that books reflecting that school's interpretation were adopted.
 
On propaganda.
Thanks for your response.
I was thinking about something like, read, research and comment on the main points: is the interpretation factual?
It is common to use the word 'propaganda' but one wonders how students might react to the challenge of analyzing what some of us believe to be the real thing. Would they agree?
 
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