# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-alfred-pollard
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:48:38.504Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-alfred-pollard"
name: "Edward Alfred Pollard"
slug: "edward-alfred-pollard"
description: "Edward Alfred Pollard was an American author, journalist, and Confederate sympathizer during the American Civil War who wrote several books on the causes and events of the war, notably The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates (1866) and The Lost Cause Regained (1868), wherein Pollard originated the long-standing pseudo-historical ideology of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy."
tagline: "American journalist, historian and political writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Edward_Alfred_Pollard.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1832-02-27"
deathDate: "1872-12-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.35
  momentum:             2.626903553299492
  historical:           3.769153333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "إدوارد ألفريد بولارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ادوارد ا. بولارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%93%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A1_%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%AB%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A1_%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A1"
    title: "এডওয়ার্ড আলফ্রেড পোলার্ড"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_A._Pollard"
    title: "Edward A. Pollard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5341473"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump