I don't think Francis Marion threatened the British in a swamp over a meal so his colony's represenation 250 years later would be a traitor's favorite sport.
Worth noting that in 1921, the American Yiddish-language press described the anti-Black Tulsa massacre as a “pogrom,” because they knew that was the word that would best make their immigrant Ashkenazi Jewish readers understand what happened. ingeveb.org/blog/the-mos...
Shelby Foote, because Ken Burns was completely taken in by his genteel southern accent and faux-erudite aphorisms, did more to obfuscate the causes of the Civil War and steer popular memory away from race and slavery than perhaps any public figure.