"Much of the imagery people on this board talk, or complain, about is not embraced or promoted by modern academics, but myths (or supposed myths) circulating among the general population."

Are you saying that we of this board are promoting myths?

I have asked many people who complain about how "history is portrayed" to give examples of of what they mean. Often they have come back with referrals to convesations they overheard on the street or websites from unknown (and generally unreliable) individuals, not from leading scholars or important books on the subject. Certainly this misinformation circulating is a problem, and should be addressed...which is usually I ask for examples, because I'd like to know where this misinformation is coming from. But often historians are unfairly included or blamed in this situation because non-historians have not understood or retained the information well."

First of all your questioning the persons knowledge, especially when the person is telling you common knowledge facts that history, especially Civil War history is warped to certain views. Second when I gave you the examples you began to disagree fault with the examples I gave you. Third you did so under a false pretense that you didn't understand what I was talking about. You didn't understand that there is a history on the EP that promotes it was the main cause for the freedom of THE slave- i.e all the slaves? No modern historian could be that naive about the type of Amercian history about the EP promoted in books, novels, TV, and even political debates. What was your motive?

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David Upton