Fighting for the lost cause: The confederate battle flag and neo-confederacy

Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 169-201

  Webster, Gerald R ^a   Leib, Jonathan I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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