The past isn't over
The past isn't over — it's the argument we're still having. Every account of what happened is also a claim about what it meant, and the tidy version is almost always the one that left something out.
This corner of Letters goes back to the sources and resists the comfort of the clean story, asking not just what happened but who got to decide how it would be remembered.
Full essays are on the way. Until then, be suspicious of any history that has no loose ends.