The Civil War in the news
Apr. 13th, 2011 10:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
randy_byersDo you believe that significant numbers of slaves fought on the side of the Confederacy? You're wrong. So, apparently, is Henry Louis Gates. The mythology of the Lost Cause runs deep in this country, and it pops up in surprising places.
I'm reminded of a recent conversation with a friend who told me that an absolutely brilliant writer we know believed in the Oxfordian theory about Shakespeare until my friend debunked it to him a couple of years ago. I said it reminded me of Birtherism. People believe the most bonkers stuff in the face of all the evidence. I probably do too.
I'm reminded of a recent conversation with a friend who told me that an absolutely brilliant writer we know believed in the Oxfordian theory about Shakespeare until my friend debunked it to him a couple of years ago. I said it reminded me of Birtherism. People believe the most bonkers stuff in the face of all the evidence. I probably do too.
