CSPAN3 May 19, 2012
guess the premise of all this, it's the political projects that have been pervasive over the last 150 years which find useful material in the story of the lost cause that i think propels it forward and makes scholars sometimes relatively marginal in the conversation, because it's being driven by political projects of huge import. i'm reminded of the film "the birth of a nation." the character, ben cameron, right, ben cameron is a hero of the clansmen. one of the great unknown features of american constitutional history is ben cameron is modelled by a guy named rufus bratton, which is...
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