Andrew W. Hoffman is a Ph.D. candidate in the history department at Mississippi State University. In 2020, he graduated from Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa, with a B.A. in history, and in 2022 graduated from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, with an M.A. in history. His research focuses on the U.S. Civil War era, Reconstruction, and historical memory. His dissertation, entitled “Age of Reform, Age of Remembrance: Progressive Partisans of the Lost Cause, 1890-1930,” analyzes the intersection of Confederate memory and turn-of-the-twentieth century progressive reform. In so doing, he argues that when the Lost Cause is situated within the context of Progressive Era intellectual thought, it reveals itself not as a backward-looking project of preservation but as an ideology oriented toward shaping the South’s cultural, social, political, economic, and racial future. Indeed, as he demonstrates, Southern progressives utilized historical memory as another weapon in their arsenal to reorder Southern society.