Robert E. Lee and Me by Ty Seidule5/9/2023 ![]() Seidule allows readers to see these points through his own eyes as he offers informed commentary about his journey from Lost Cause apologist to self-described counternarrative zealot. ![]() This book is a captivatingly layered story of personal introspection and professional progression that spotlights both the power of and fallacies in Lost Cause ideology. According to the commission’s chairperson, the group’s mandate includes “assigning, modifying or removing anything that commemorates the Confederate States of America or any person who served voluntarily with the Confederacy.” One member of that commission is retired US Army brigadier general Ty Seidule, PhD, professor emeritus of history at the US Military Academy and author of A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause: Robert E. ![]() On February 12, 2021, US secretary of defense Lloyd Austin announced the names of four scholars and former senior military leaders to serve as representatives on the Department of Defense’s congressionally mandated commission on the naming of items in the department that commemorate the Confederate States of America. ![]()
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