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What Was the Lost Cause?

Originally posted at Mindy Esposito's Substack. “That’s just the Lost Cause Myth.” But when I ask someone to tell me what the “Lost Cause Myth” actually was, all I hear is crickets… Still, I get some version of that sentence hurled as an accusation all the time. Sometimes it lands on me. Sometimes I watch it thrown at someone else.…
Mindy Esposito
September 17, 2026
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Stop with the Drive By History

Originally published at Ms. Esposito's Substack. At best, you were not told the whole story. At worst, you were deliberately lied to. Either way, you have it wrong. Nashville, Tennessee For more than a century and a half, Americans have been trained to repeat one sentence. One slogan. One simplified conclusion. “The war was only about slavery.” Say it enough…
Mindy Esposito
August 19, 2026