My degree is in History. I’ve read history my entire life. All of my professors who addressed the subject said Civil War was misnamed, and that it was in fact a war of independence, but that since it had been called Civil War for so long, the term had become meaningless as it related to that struggle. Now, I can’t say that many of my professors agreed with that revolution, or thought the South pursued a noble cause.
So is my masters ... and English and Russian. Your profs were wrong. They redefine and rewrite as is too common these days - anything to mitigate what happened.
Rendering a well-know term meaningless is the point of rewriting history, so as to devalue a culture and a people leaving them open for whatever they are told by ‘authorities’ or in this case pseudo-history teachers.
End.