Riverdale Yonkers Sunday Platform Meetings Jone Johnson Lewis, Leader of the Riverdale-Yonkers Society, will review some of the history of the creation and perpetuation of the myth, and how that myth survives in today’s culture, even among those who know that the narrative is based on a deliberate rewriting of history.
In the last few years, there have been many conversations about the memorials that loom over city streets and public parks, that are carved into mountainsides, that are supposed to honor dead heroes or past events. Many were constructed as part of the creation of the story of the Lost Cause, a romanticizing of the Confederacy and its origins. But many of those myths were also taught for decades in textbooks, sometimes more subtly.
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