“History Is Written by Victors” Is a Foolish Phrase

> Civil War, WWI, WwII, Vietnam, Iraq go down in the history books and are taught to young minds with anything but the facts. Maybe I didn't fully grasp the theme in this article, but suggesting that History is contrived by anyone BUT the Victors or the people at the top, is laughable.

The false mythology associated with the Civil War is in no small part the invention of the side that nominally lost, so, unless you make the argument circular by defining “victors” as “whoever manages to control the historical perception of the conflict”, I think it's a counterargument to your defense of the saying.

Arguably, Vietnam fits the same pattern in the US.