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Historiography not only focuses on the historical events and different perspectives (memories) from those events in history. So the Lost Cause is an example of the the UDC using historiography improperly to tell their story from just their perspective.

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The Lost Cause helped institutionalize white supremacy into education by teaching children that enslaved people were happy and that slavery was not the root cause of the war. They also glorified confederate soldiers through monuments, conveying that they were good people and that they should be respected.

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The Lost Cause was institutionalized into children through education and textbooks. For example. they made sure all textbooks glorified the South and Confederate soldiers. People wanted to remember a memory and not change what they were taught to believe

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The UDC promoted the Lost Cause as real history

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The United Daughters of the Confederacy  came out of the civil war after the south lost. They wanted to preserve and glorify the Confederate image.