The presidential candidate’s recent (and swiftly qualified) comments about the Civil War helped spread a myth that has warped American history for over a century.
The presidential candidate’s recent (and swiftly qualified) comments about the Civil War helped spread a myth that has warped American history for over a century.
"Remember the Maine" was the call from Americans in the summer of 1898 the year of the Spanish-American War, which lasted only from April 21 to Aug. 13.