there's something about the notion of history as a two sided thing, like an a4 sheet of paper or something, that PISSES ME OFF!
there's no objective past. memory starts disintegrating the moment we form it, and everyone's memory is different in the first place. it's why we have people who actually study history. photographs can be doctored. documents can be forged. i could be doing your mother (but i'm not)
there's no singular hidden past that yearns to be exposed but is stamped out by the establishment... there are just thousands of perspectives that sit outside the traditional narrative, of which yours is only one. history is not a coin thats been glued to the floor tails-up, it's an undulating, many-headed BEAST that should eat you for trying to reduce it down to such a shell of itself.
the fact you were amerisplaining the confederacy to me almost makes it worse.