#  Fashionable Rebellion: The Confederate Flag 'Fad' and Youth Culture at Midcentury 

 



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 **October 22, 2026** 

 12:45PM - 02:45PM EDT 

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 **Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy St, Basement Conference Room B21**  



 

 



 

Presented by the Warren Center’s Workshop on “Commemorative Acts”

Title: "*Fashionable Rebellion: The Confederate Flag 'Fad' and Youth Culture at Midcentury."*

**Karen L. Cox**  
Visiting Scholar in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History  
Professor Emerita of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Karen L. Cox is an award-winning historian of the American South and a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. She is the author of four books and the editor or co-editor of two volumes on southern history. In 2021, the *Wall Street Journal* listed her first book, *Dixie’s Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture*, as one of the top five books on the Lost Cause. A 2nd edition of her most recent book, *No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice*, was released in early 2026.

Karen has written op-eds for the *New York Times*, the *Washington Post*, *CNN*, *TIME*, *Publishers Weekly*, and *Smithsonian Magazine*. She appeared in Henry Louis Gates’s PBS documentary *Reconstruction: America after the Civil War*, the Emmy-nominated documentary *The Neutral Ground*, which examines the underlying history of Confederate monuments through the lens of monument removal in New Orleans, and Ava DuVernay's new documentary *14th*. She is currently working on a book titled *Confederate Nation* (St. Martin's Press, 2028) that examines how the Lost Cause, a post-Civil War southern mythology, reshaped American culture and politics.

**This event is being hosted elsewhere on campus, and not by the History Department. To learn more, please see the** [**original event posting**](https://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/karen-cox)**.**



 

 



 

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