"The question before the court," he wrote in his order, "is not who gets to write history, but rather whether Ms.
Meanwhile, in the Atlanta courtroom, Judge Pannell was considering a statement from the novelist and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, who asked, "Who controls how history is imagined? Who gets to say what slavery was like for the slaves?" An expert witness for the defense, Morrison was treating Randall's novel - which depicts some of the story of "Gone With the Wind" from the perspective of the slaves at Tara - in much the same way McElvaine used "Gone With the Wind": as an idea about Southern history so powerful that it might as well be history itself. McElvaine got only a little past halfway through his New York Times op-ed on the Mississippi flag before mentioning Gerald O'Hara, Scarlett's father. And apparently, it's impossible to talk about symbols of the Confederacy without touching upon "Gone With the Wind" - history professor Robert S. presided over a hearing in which the trust that owns the copyright to Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind" sought to prevent the publication of Alice Randall's novel "The Wind Done Gone." However categorically different the two matters - an election and a dispute over copyright - might seem, they're both fingers pressed to the same pulse, the slow, steady, stubborn beating of a nostalgia that just won't die.
The day after Mississippi voters elected to keep their current state flag, which includes the Confederate battle cross, rather than adopt a new design, U.S.
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