Because our textbooks and monuments are wrong.   by James W. Loewen   This column is reprinted from the Washington Post with permission from its author, James W. Loewen   History is the polemics of the victor, William F. Buckley once said. Not so in the United States, at least not regarding the Civi...

Staff report Below are the lyrics* to “I Wish I Was in Dixie’s Land” - generally known today as just "Dixie". According to tradition, Ohio -born minstrel show composer Daniel Decatur Emmett wrote "Dixie" around 1859. Bryant’s (blackface) Minstrels, of which Emmett was a member, premiered it in New Y...