Now you know how many in the South feel, except what you call history has been modified since 1860, and still occurs.
Last month, I requested a US Park Service Historical Brochure from one of the 1861 war parks. The official from the park said that they were temporially out of the brochure because the Park Service had requested that they all be returned to Washington.
When asked why they were not available, the official said that the historical brochure was being rewritten.
When asked what of the history of the site could be 'rewritten' he said that "we have got to get the paragraph about slavery being the cause of the war into the copy".
The question here is not about the validity of the slavery=cause issue, but why in 2002 the US Congress would "remember the war", and go to the trouble to direct the US Park service to add its historical analysis of the cause of the war.
Is it really over? It isn't over for the US Congress and Park Service.
Why is the insertion of this explanation important to them? They won, but they can't get over it?
Do we need more proof that the winners write the history?
Do we need any more proof that it might be wise to question what the publishing houses, certain historians, and now, the Federal Government, would like for us to believe. Sounds as if they have to bolster their story....in 2002!