Von Drehle's report on Civil War revisionism was eye-opening and well written. Especially smart was the

focus on Northern collusion in supporting and profiting from slavery. The time-bending photos were

terrific! One omission: W.E.B. DuBois wrote an important corrective to the Lost Cause view, titled Black

Reconstruction in America, in 1935--two decades before C. Vann Woodward published The Strange

Career of Jim Crow--but as a black scholar, he was ignored.