No, just objectivity. What takes imagination is believing in the emperor's new clothes when they clearly don't exist.
What takes imagination are the excuses to explain the various paradoxes you are required to believe to accept the official narrative of what happened.
The "emperor's new clothes" are DiogenesLamp's new mythological narratives for the Civil War, abandoning all connections to historical documents & reasons.
By the way, I've correctly accused DiogenesLamp of a Marxist dialectical outlook, but closer inspection reveals that's too broad a brush.
Marxist dialectics in DiogenesLamp's mind only applies to one group of people, Unionists, especially that devil Lincoln.
Confederates by stark contrast in DiogenesLamp's imagination were only driven by the purest & highest of our Founders' enlightened ideals -- freedom, justice, independence, manliness... that sort of thing.
And how does DiogenesLamp respond when confronted with Confederate materialism, for example:
As for alleged "official narrative", we should note there have been about 15,000 books written on Lincoln (about 100 per year on average), more than on any other individual in history except Jesus Christ Himself.
On the whole Civil War, the Library of Congress reports about 75,000 or 500 per year on average.
And how many of those books has DiogenesLamp read?
Not one -- zero, zip, nada books -- and yet he will impose his own fanciful narrative over the works of tens of thousands of authors (some admittedly more serious than others).
Below: The tower of Lincoln's books at Ford's Theater, 8 feet in diameter, 34 feet high, representing about half of the 15,000 total Lincoln books published to date: