Week of August 18: Charles Venable and the Lost Cause
- Author
- Virginia Audio Collective
- Published
- Tue 18 Aug 2020
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This week in 1865… The University of Virginia names Charles Venable chair of the mathematics department. But his concerns extended beyond mathematics... For three and a half decades, Venable played a central role in constructing the myth of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy.
