# @ajcvideo on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZSGstWs0sYw
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/69525734-ajcvideo-youtube
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/c6d00dfcd0.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-06-23T14:00:35.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Atlanta Journal-Constitution (@ajcvideo) — https://gondola.cc/ajcvideo

## Caption

Confederate monuments stand across the South, but many trace back to the efforts of one influential organization: the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Beyond funding memorials, the group helped shape how the Civil War was taught in schools and remembered by generations of Americans. 

The AJC's Koralie Barrau explores how the organization's influence became part of the broader Lost Cause movement and why the debate continues today.

To learn more about the bigger impact of the UDC, watch the full Southern identity episode of "Curiosities of the South" now on the AJC YouTube channel.

Credits:
🎥: AJC | | WSLS-TV News Film Collection, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, Trimmed from Original | WXIA-TV
📸:  Getty Images | Historic Photographs Collection, Daviess County Public Library | Library of Congress | Richmond Times-Dispatch | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Tennessee State Library and Archives | The Selma Times-Journal | The Times-Picayune | The Virginian-Pilot | United Daughters of the Confederacy


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