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The Confederacy's Daughters Dance in Our Heads (2)
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The Confederacy's Daughters Dance in Our Heads (2)

HISTORY & MEMORY Myth-Making That Has Blighted Lives for Over a Century. Part Two.

Annette Laing
Dec 11, 2021
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Continued from The Confederacy’s Daughters Dance in Our Heads (1)

The Lost Cause, 3.0: Mildred Rutherford Rewrites the Past, Just The Way She Wants It

Mildred Rutherford in costume
Mildred Lewis Rutherford (1851-1928) Image: New Georgia Encyclopedia

Meet Mildred Rutherford. Before there was Gone With the Wind (book, 1936, movie, 1939), before there was D.W. Griffith’s pioneering and ra…

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