Louis Nelson Thesis

Louis Nelson in the article, “When Rewriting the Past Is a Good Thing”, claims that being able to rewrite the past can be beneficial when revisiting subjects such as the the controversial monuments in his hometown of Charlottesville Virginia. Nelson supports this claim by stating that “Those who are discontented have ventured into a more recent, revisionist histories that begin to engage the same subjects but through a different lens” (Paragraph 3). He then demonstrates how the people began to differentiate their views based on the importance of historical significance. Lastly, the author questions how we are supposed to be able to write new histories that engage our present due to what will pass as historically accurate. Nelson’s purpose