What do we do with this knowledge?
We can make-believe a Disney-like myth… or might we do something wiser with it.

bearded white man in black suit and top hat and white woman in 19th century purple dress stand in front of a football field white man and woman dressed in old-style clothes greet pedestrians on a sidewalk a woman with dark hair, wearing a black dress and holding a bouquet, looks at a man in a black suit and top hat with a large beard man and woman dressed in old-style clothes posing for photograph with Clemson student; baloons in background man and woman dressed in old-style clothes posing for photograph in front of balloons man and woman dressed in old-style clothes face each other; she holds boquet as Clemson Tiger mascot stands between them like a priest marrying them

"All history is propaganda, but not all propaganda is history." Abel A. Bartley (from Race, Reconstruction, and Post-bellum Education in Thomas Green Clemson's Life and World, 2009, p. 160)

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