REWRITTEN HISTORY: How the Confederacy Won the Narrative (Post-Truth II)

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 12 April 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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0:00.0	History is written by the victors, but sometimes it's rewritten by the losers.
0:11.0	They lost the war, so they changed the story.
0:15.0	They erased the truth and replaced it with something prettier, something easier to swallow. A noble cause, a tragic hero, a war for freedom, not for slavery.
0:26.6	And we believed them. We built statues for them.
0:30.6	We taught our children their version of events.
0:33.6	If you control the past, you control the present. If you control the present, you control
0:40.3	the future. Welcome to Post Truth.
1:03.5	I'm Michael Wheelan, and this is episode 2, rewritten history.
1:08.8	In the last episode, we examined a story told to inspire Virtue, a childhood fable about
1:14.1	George Washington and a cherry tree.
1:16.4	A harmless lie, maybe, but one that stuck.
1:19.5	This time we're not dealing with moral tales.
1:22.2	We're looking at deliberate distortion.
1:24.3	The Civil War ended in 1865.
1:26.9	The Confederacy was defeated.
1:28.3	Slavery was abolished.
1:30.3	And yet in the years that followed, a different story took root.
1:34.3	A story that denied slavery as the cause of the war.
1:37.3	A story that glorified Confederate leaders.
1:40.3	A story that transformed treason into heroism and racism into heritage.
1:45.0	This wasn't accidental. It was purposeful.
1:48.0	A campaign waged through books, monuments, classrooms, and politics.
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