Good thing I know my history, eh? To repeat a post from earlier in the thread:
It's what I do for a living.
For decades.
BTW: The reason for my user name is because I work with original documents, letters from the Revolutionary War Era to Civil War - some that are now in museums and Institutions. Some have been written about in books.
Thousands of original Civil war soldiers letters have passed through my hands, Confederate, and Union, (which of course involves a great deal of research) -- as well as original items signed by near every CW General and near every Founder and President...
Letters and docs actually signed by Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln. Yes. I've touched the exact same paper they touched.
It's pretty humbling, and it really does give me a depth in history few know of, and quite a unique perspective.
In addition, I have literally thousands of original newspapers, pamphlets, books in my archives from the 1840's 50's and 60's. I use original sources.
Going on 30 years now, I have been eating, drinking and breathing history in my each and every day. I think I'm qualified, and from my perspective, it is the many of these Southern neo-confederates types and like-minded people here who have attached to the rewrite of history that was started in the 1890's
Lost Cause and is still seeped into the Southern Zeitgeist.