text:  Yeah, I think that that's absolutely true. By the mid-20th century, telling the history of the Civil War and its aftermath had become really the province of a kind of cadre of Southern white historians who were very, very invested in the Lost Cause narrative, in the idea that Reconstruction had been a failure, reinvigoration of the sort of myth of Confederate virtue and, you know, all of the things that comes along with the Lost Cause.