by Geoff Cobb 
Being a local historian, I acknowledge that all of us make mistakes. The problem is when mistakes in local history become fossilized over years and people accept these errors as fact. Let’s correct a few blatant local history errors.
The first glaring example of historians getting it wrong is on the markers set up by the Landmark Preservation Commission to demark the areas within the Greenpoint Historic District.…
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Excellent post. We will never get history totally correct but we should strive to make it as accurate as possible.
Actually time is actually on our side re this issue. It usually takes at least 30 yrs.+ sometimes to get history right especially with presidents and other leaders.
An example of this was Gen. Grant. He was more popular after the Civil War than Lincoln. Grant was certainly a great American but it took many yrs. for America to realize that Lincoln accomplished the greatest feats in our country, saving the first democracy in 2,500 yrs. and in the process eliminating its original sin of slavery and giving his life for it.