@Gandydancer: thanks for drawing my attention to The Truth about the Confederacy in the United States. I remember when I first read Eric Foner's book on Reconstruction, and then when I re-edited Dubois' book on the same topic into HTML after the assassinations in Charleston in 2015. Though the book was published in 1935, I probably don't have the right to link to it here (because Du Bois lived a long life) but I learned great deal from that book, and from the video you added. Thank you.
p.s. & yes, the citation from Orwell about how "Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future." echoes for me at the moment. I'm glad to see people dumping statues into the water. I just wish more of that would happen around here... but one mustn't dream, I suppose. ^^ -- SashiRolls 🌿 · 🍥 22:16, 6 July 2020 (UTC)