Those Confederate Statues Were Put There As Propaganda. Meet the Women Who Got Away With It

History, it’s said, is written by the winners. In America, that isn’t true.

Here, history is written by the people most determined to write it.

We’re also told than men control the narrative. But in America, women have done more — far, far more — to shape popular historical memory in the public square than any other group. Put simply, the women of the South — allegedly on the losing side, allegedly powerless — directed the most powerful public…