Robert E. Lee and me: a Southerner's reckoning with the myth of the lost cause

My childhood : raised on a White Southern myth

My hometown : a hidden history of slavery, Jim Crow, and integration

My adopted hometowns : a hidden history as "Lynchtown"

My college : the shrine of the lost cause

My military career : glorifying Confederates in the U.S. Army

My academic career : glorifying Robert E. Lee at West Point

My verdict : Robert E. Lee committed treason to preserve slavery

Epilogue: A Southern soldier confronts the lost cause in the shrine of the South.