lost cause

The Oxford American College Dictionary;      29 words ...lost cause • n. a person or thing that can no longer hope to succeed or be changed for the better. ∎  ( the Lost Cause ) the Confederacy and its defeat in the Civil War.

Lord Acton and the Lost Cause.(the English hisotrian Lord Acton was an...

American Scholar;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......won. I deemed, he wrote to the defeated General Robert E. Lee in 1866, that you were fighting the battles of our liberty...1881, he recalled that I broke my heart over the surrender of Lee. He was still avowing what he called Rebel sympathies thirty...obvious reasons, on the civil rights movement. To uphold the ...

Piniella's first battle with umpires a lost cause Cubs Notebook

Courier News (Elgin, IL);  April 6, 2007 ;     366 words ......came back. The umpire made a good call. I was wrong." Lee to wear No. 42 - Derrek Lee has seen his share of racial hostility in his pro baseball...some major league players will don No. 42 on April 15. Lee will wear the number, which was retired by all clubs...

The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History

The Journal of Southern History;  August 1, 2003 ;     653 words ...The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History. Edited by Gary...Confederate commemoration and the "Lost Cause" movement. Gary W. Gallagher and Alan...Nolan carefully dissects the body of Lost Cause tradition, refuting claims about the...

The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History.(Book Review)

Journal of Southern History;  August 1, 2003 ;     646 words ......on Confederate commemoration and the Lost Cause movement. Gary W. Gallagher and Alan...Nolan carefully dissects the body of Lost Cause tradition, refuting claims about the...Grant's generalship (and the effort of Lost Cause apologists to denigrate it) and Jeffry...

Soldiers of a Lost Cause

The Washington Post;  August 16, 1998 ;     700+ words ...LEE'S MISERABLES Life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the...better equipped and courageous foe, the soldiers of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia are an American legend. Ruefully punning on Victor Hugo's novel, they called themselves "Lee's Miserables," and in a book that marries scholarship ...

Lee case seen as victory in lost cause: Most Americans oppose...

The Washington Times;  December 16, 1997 ;     600 words ...Throughout the long, bitter battle over Bill Lann Lee's nomination to be the nation's civil rights...whether President Clinton could put Mr. Lee in the post through a recess appointment...charged racial-preference policies that Mr. Lee defended were largely submerged in the public...

[2] Lee case seen as victory in lost cause: Most Americans oppose...

The Washington Times;  December 16, 1997 ;     600 words ...Throughout the long, bitter battle over Bill Lann Lee's nomination to be the nation's civil rights...whether President Clinton could put Mr. Lee in the post through a recess appointment...charged racial-preference policies that Mr. Lee defended were largely submerged in the public...

Case study in social neurosis; Quentin Compson and the lost cause.

Papers on Language & Literature;  September 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ......thoughts and helped destroy him: the Lost Cause and his father's cynicism. Of these, the least explored in critical writing is the Lost Cause's impact upon the young man. [U]nlike...towns as Jefferson, Mississippi. The Lost Cause evolved from the antebellum South and...

Rekindling allegiance to the Lost Cause

The Boston Globe;  December 5, 1994 ;     700+ words ......marker that captures the essence of the Lost Cause. The inscription is simple: "Lt. Thomas...surrender in the spring of 1865, the Lost Cause is still worshiped like a religion in...revival in what he calls "the cult of the Lost Cause." Inasmuch as the Lost Cause swept ...

Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the...

South Carolina Historical Magazine;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......218; $55.00, cloth.) Monuments to the Lost Cause: Women, Art, and the Landscapes of Southern...Dixie's Daughters andMonuments to the Lost Cause identify excellent frameworks for adding...Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South...

The Lost Cause's female champions.(TRAVEL)(THE CIVIL WAR)

The Washington Times;  July 24, 2004 ;     700+ words ......appreciably to the Southern myth of the noble Lost Cause, first engendered by Edward A. Pollard...of the Confederacy in popularizing the Lost Cause. They did this in good part by encouraging...industrializing. By the 1970s, the myth of the Lost Cause had grown much weaker. One of the ...

NSW: Clubs say Egan a lost cause

AAP General News (Australia);  August 28, 2003 ;     186 words ...00-00-0000 NSW: Clubs say Egan a lost cause SYDNEY, Aug 28 AAP - The NSW clubs industry...claiming state Treasurer Michael Egan was a lost cause. ClubsNSW today formally launched a study...reporters. We do consider Michael Egan a lost cause. Clearly, he has taken a position on...

Tories a 'lost cause' in poll.(News)

The Mirror (London, England);  January 10, 2001 ;     91 words ......NIGEL MORRIS A KEY Tory candidate yesterday admitted: We are a lost cause. Nigel Hastilow, who is contesting Edgbaston in the election...voters and most of the media, the Conservative Party is a lost cause. Its leader is not popular, its policies have all been aped...

Attack and Die: Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage / The...

Aerospace Power Journal;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......pages, $15.95. The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History edited by...personal or political reasons. The "lost cause" myth is one example of bending...interested in the Civil War and the lost cause. As Alan Nolan eloquently states in his essay in The Myth of the Lost ...