Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture

Wall Street Journal’s Five Best Books on the Confederates’ Lost Cause

Southern Association for Women Historians Julia Cherry Spruill Prize

Even without the right to vote, members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy proved to have enormous social and political influence throughout the South—all in the name of preserving Confederate culture. Karen Cox traces the history of the UDC, an organization founded in 1894 to vindicate the Confederate generation and honor the Lost Cause. In this e...