The "Myth of Black Reconstruction" asserted that Northern "Radical Republicans" sought to punish the South after the Civil War. Columbian University historian William Dunning trained a generation of graduate students whose state-by-state studies claimed to confirm this version, but it was the viciously racist 1915 film, "The Birth of a Nation", that convinced even Northern audiences that White Southerners had been innocent victims of postwar retribution. Further confirming this impression was 1939's "Gone with the Wind". This short clip captures the film's perverse historical point of view.

Source: Gone with the Wind (1939).

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