This is a two-lecture series by AJ Musewe, Director of Interactive History for Common Power, and David Domke, UW prof and Common Power Associate Director, on June 14 + June 16. Overview: We all have watched the “The Big Lie” that Donald Trump and his supporters have spun about the 2020 election: that great American patriot Trump actually won the election but had it stolen by an evil cabal of Democrats, election officials, news media, and election equipment companies. This sounds an awful lot like “The Lost Cause” created by Southern leaders after the US Civil War. In that era, white Southerners forged a narrative of a noble, patriotic white aristocracy that seceded and fought the good fight against an arrogant North, and that the South would have won the war if it had more men and resources. In this lecture series, we examine the characteristics of the Confederacy Lost Cause ideology (that’s lecture 1) and apply these dynamics to the MAGA Nation 2020/2021 argument, which we believe is a New Lost Cause narrative and is profoundly impacting today's American voting rights (that’s lecture 2). Note: this lecture series will be 80% a repeat of the same series we delivered in March, 20% updated and new based on the unfolding developments with the January 6 commission, vote "audit" in Arizona, and the push by Republican state legislatures to restrict voting rights AND to shape educational curricula.
Lecture viewing: Lectures both (a) will occur live at 5 pm PDT on June 14 and June 16 via Zoom, and (b) will be recorded for everyone to watch on your own timing. Registrants will receive viewing instructions one day in advance of each lecture and then one hour before each lecture.
Registration: There are three levels of registration for these lectures. The content is the same across the levels; the different price points are merely for you to pick the one you wish!
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