This past fall, Karen Cox, professor of history, was interviewed for the story “How Southern socialites rewrote Civil War history,” published on the Vox website.
As part of the story, Cox was featured in a roughly seven-minute video that outlined how the United Daughters of the Confederacy altered the South’s memory of the Civil War. Since the video was posted to the Vox YouTube site in October 2017, it has recorded 1,004,685 views and counting.
Cox is the author of “Dixie’s Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture” and "Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture."
Numerous national and local media outlets have utilized her expertise in stories related to the history of Civil War monuments and how these shrines have been imbued with meaning.