Revisionist history
Statues are not history. The slave market at Cheapside is history. Statues are art, and as such they are cultural icons. When you depict a degenerate bank robber, terrorist and traitor like John Hunt Morgan in art as noble and dignified sitting his proud steed, indeed, you are revising cultural history.
Doug Epling
Lexington
This story was originally published August 22, 2017 at 8:03 PM with the headline "Revisionist history."