> history is always written by the victors You know, I always thought this too, but the US Civil War history is a very good counter example. Southerners had

> history is always written by the victors You know, I always thought this too, but the US Civil War history is a very good counter example. Southerners had an outsized influence on civil war history in two ways that I know of. One was the Lost Cause ideology [0]. The second was in writing about the war and its participants. For example, understating the number of troops Robert E. Lee had at decisive battles to make him look better. The Lost Cause mythology is alive and well. While there’s a good deal of new scholarship looking at the historiography of the civil war. [0] https://time.com/5013943/john-kelly-civil-war-textbooks/ https://time.com/5013943/john-kelly-civil-war-textbooks/