The Confederacy's Daughters Dance in Our Heads (2)
HISTORY & MEMORY Myth-Making That Has Blighted Lives for Over a Century. Part Two.
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
Meet Mildred Rutherford. Before there was Gone With the Wind (book, 1936, movie, 1939), before there was D.W. Griffith’s pioneering and ra…