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Theodore Roosevelt listed Ulysses S Grant as one of the greatest Americans in history (alongside Washington and Lincoln). This was said in 1900.
Only fifty-so years later, President Dwight Eisenhower would state that Robert E Lee was one of the greatest Americans of all time.
This post is not an assassination of Lee or his character-- that’s not the point of this. What I am curious about is how this reverence of Grant, who played a key point in keeping our country together and helping African Americans get the right the vote during his Presidency, could then turn so sharply to a reverence of Robert E Lee (a man who, despite his personal disapproval of secession, still fought on behalf of the Confederacy). This strange twisting of reverence is a clear example of the Lost Cause narrative taking root.
We weren’t taught much about Grant’s Presidency during Social Studies/History class. We barely touched on him as a General in the Civil War, except as the man who was called The Butcher and who drank a lot.
So my question is just how much has this Lost Cause infiltrated our own History books?
I guess I don’t mind David Tennant playing Crowley but I’m just confused as to why they have him be ginger when in the book it CLEARLY STATES that he’s supposed to have dark hair.
Frodo & Bilbo play Scrabble regularly and are VERY competitive
Maya Lopez in Hawkeye | 1.06 “So This Is Christmas”
What’s the best time of day to write?
I’m a night-writer myself. What about you?
*finds angsty fic*
*whines every 5 minutes*
*screams intensely*
*leaps out of window whilst holding laptop*
*rolls in blood and tears*
*dies*
that was really good i’m gonna read it again
you know it’s really hard to obsess about just one fandom. just really freaking hard, it’s like you look at people who can be into Harry Potter for ten years of their life and I’m just over here thinking HOW DO YOU STAY IN ONE FANDOM FOR 10 FREAKING YEARS I DON’T HAVE THAT KIND OF TIME
