Dive into “Fact versus Fabrication: Popular Depictions of Francis Marion and the Historical Record” to explore how art, storytelling, and national memory reshaped the Swamp Fox into an American hero, sometimes at the expense of accuracy.
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Fact versus Fabrication: Popular Depictions of Francis Marion and the Historical Record
By Scott Kaufman More than a century ago, Sydney G. Fisher charged fellow historians with mythologizing the American Revolution. The colonists debated for years over whether to seek freedom from Gr…
