Lost Cause of the Confederacy
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Lost Cause of the Confederacy has come up in 2 episodes across 2 podcasts in TMT, including Lex Fridman Podcast, The Rest Is History. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Tom HollandEnglish actor cast as Telemachus
Holland argues that casting oneself as an oppressed underdog licenses violence, which is inherently cinematic.
“if you're the underdog and you cast yourself as oppressed, then you are entitled to inflict violence. And violence is always cinematic”
The Rest Is History: 656. The Ku Klux Klan: Birth of a Nation (Part 3) (Mar 29, 2026) · Listen from 16:00
Holland observes that America's two great early-twentieth-century film epics both promoted a romanticised fantasy of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
“It is amazing that the two great epics of American cinema in the first half of the 20th century, this and Gone with the Wind, are both basically promoting this kind of fantasy of the Civil War and its aftermath”
The Rest Is History: 656. The Ku Klux Klan: Birth of a Nation (Part 3) (Mar 29, 2026) · Listen from 15:07
Gary GallagherAmerican historian of the Civil War, professor emeritus at the University of Virginia
Gallagher argues the St. Andrew's Cross Confederate flag cannot be separated from its use by the Ku Klux Klan.
“The Confederate flag cannot be divorced from all the times that version of it, the St. Andrew's Cross version, every Ku Klux Klan group flew it”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #499 – Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & Lee (Jul 28, 2026) · Listen from 3:33:00
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Podcasts
- Lex Fridman Podcast · 1 episode
- The Rest Is History · 1 episode
Episodes
#499 – Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & LeeLex Fridman Podcast · Jul 28, 2026 · 3 h 53 min
Lex Fridman and historian Gary Gallagher discuss the American Civil War: slavery as its cause, Lincoln, Grant, Lee, key battles, the Lost Cause, and today's divisions.
656. The Ku Klux Klan: Birth of a Nation (Part 3)The Rest Is History · Mar 29, 2026 · 1 h 15 min
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace the 1915 rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan as a mass fraternal, marketing-driven, anti-Catholic movement.