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A Lost Cause? (Season 1, Episode 3)
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The Federal Writers' Project approached communities that had suffered neglect from official history. Here we find African American landmarks and burial grounds in Virginia, where some communities have pushed to reclaim their place and ...See moreThe Federal Writers' Project approached communities that had suffered neglect from official history. Here we find African American landmarks and burial grounds in Virginia, where some communities have pushed to reclaim their place and spaces, often using tools employed earlier by the Writers' Project. In southern states, the Writers' Project encountered the Lost Cause, the effort after the Civil War that aimed to rewrite the war's meaning and origins in slavery. The myth shaped the environment for white writers of the WPA Guide to Virginia, and it continues to hold influence today. Yet the field research underlying the WPA guide - details the federal writers uncovered in records, interviews and landmarks - provides a way to untangle the Lost Cause myth. We follow poet Kiki Petrosino as she researches her family's Virginia history near Charlottesville, and historians at the Library of Virginia, and in Alexandria and Richmond. See less
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Director
Andrea Kalin
Writers
Michael May (story editing) | David A. Taylor (writer)
Producers
Andrea Kalin (producer) | James Mirabello (producer) | David A. Taylor (producer)
Editor
Ethan Oser
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Updated Mar 21, 2024
Release date
Mar 21, 2024 (United States)

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