An Introduction to the "Lost Cause" of the Confederacy

This essay adopts a Lost Cause denialist approach to the Civil War in its presentation of common tropes, including that slavery was not the main source of conflict, the threat to self-determination as presented by big government and federalism, characterization of the war as a Northern invasion of a sovereign nation, and a mythologized approach to Robert E. Lee.

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"Your writing has a good sense of pacing and flow, and sentence variety and controlled syntax ensure a dynamic and readable text. The purpose of the paper, however, is rather hard to determine: the introduction suggests an engagement with Shaara's novel, but the body discussion is a revisionist angle on the Civil War that ends with, as far as I can tell, prediction of future civil war in America. The reader cannot determine who is doing the talking (are you analyzing the novel? airing your own opinions?), but this can be amended with more assertive signal phrases, in-text citations, and signposting. At the more macrolevel, check how this essay approaches the purpose vis-à-vis the prompt: How does the prompt ask you to interact with Shaara's novel? How does the prompt ask you to balance historical fact and literary analysis?"

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("An Introduction to the "Lost Cause" of the Confederacy.")

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