Here is a brilliant exposition of the power of patient lies and relabeling to mask ugly truths about our history. It retells the migration of language from "slaveholders rebellion" to "civil war". And it shows a direct parallel with Trump’s lies about January 6. The narrative matters!
It Wasn’t a ‘Civil War.’ It Was the Slaveholders’ Rebellion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/opinion/civil-war-slaveholders-rebellion-slavery.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2VA.1Mjb.x3vp663__E0c&smid=nytcore-android-share
Affirming Democracy, Gathering Resistance 
Thanks for this, Dan. In a recent post, I quoted from the U-M Clements Library, “In darkness dwells the people which knows its annals not.” It seems we don’t know our history, given that it has been corrupted in the telling for a century plus. we have to come to terms with the truth if we are not just to survive as a nation but to survive justly.