Or Rappel-Kroyzer
ABSTRACT
The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) in California played a pivotal role in advancing the "Lost Cause" narrative in the state, including erecting Confederate Memorials. Their activities molded a Californian public perception that aligned more with the Southern viewpoint of the Civil War. Given the substantial influence California holds in U.S. culture and politics, understanding this shift is crucial. While there's a wealth of research on the national UDC and its operations in the South, the California branch remains under-explored.
In this paper, I present a detailed digital database of all the 6637 organization's members and officers from roughly half the years between 1914 to 1979, with additional summarized data for the years 1900-1914. The database is a result of digitization of membership rolls, including role and addresses, from several dozens yearbooks: scanning, transcribing, extracting structured data from the transcription, curating and finally geolocating all addresses.
This detailed database enables first of a kind research on this organization: locating the exact addresses on a map not only enables analyzing the geospatial distribution of the organization with its ebbs and flows over time, but also tracking the immediate surroundings of member concentrations, enabling innovative insights into path of influence the organization had on Californian, and indeed American,
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- The UDC California Division Members Database: Using Spatial Analysis to Shed new Light on the Formation of Civil War Memory in California
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