W. E. B. Du Bois calls out a series of historians who rewrote Reconstruction history from a frankly Confederate-- which is to say, white supremacist-- point of view. How was such a deceit accomplished in the living memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction? What were those lies? How were they established as ‘fact’ despite not being so? What purpose did such lies serve in the ultimate destruction of what Reconstruction had set out to accomplish?

W. E. B. Du Bois calls out a series of historians who rewrote Reconstruction history from a frankly Confederate-- which is to say, white supremacist-- point of view. How was such a deceit accomplished in the living memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction? What were those lies? How were they established as ‘fact’ despite not being so? What purpose did such lies serve in the ultimate destruction of what Reconstruction had set out to accomplish?