well, it turns out thomas dixon and woodrow wilson went to school together at johns hopkins university in baltimore. so ugly birds, a feather stick together. another columbia university historian sayliam, dunning. he promoted the view that black governing themselves and reconstruction would have been a lossal error, reversing reconstruction was reversion natural order, the same fact of racial inequality that slavery onceoded the natural order, is black people to be enslaved. that's from this vantage point. it's kind of hard to get in touch with the okay, so let's go the next group, just the housekeeper, you know, and then, you know, tear her down or anything but but they also they didn't want to give her a whole lot of credit for anything. judge charles landis, a noted jurist in lancaster county back in the 19th century, wrote a defense of stephens and smith, a very detailed defense. in fact, he says at the beginning of it, i've researched this, so don't you dare question anything i say. and here he did make a couple of mistakes. but anyway, he wanted to defend against the scurrilous a