This episode is a spiritual successor to very early episode, episode five, the purging of socialists from american history. And covers some similar themes, but comes out t from a totally different angle - erasing radicals and turning them into milk toast liberals. This whitewashing tendency props up and then helps to justify the continuation of contemporary racialisate violence,. unequal political and economic conditions. The establishment of what our collective history is has everything to do with the american myth making project. We'll argue that it can also force social hsion, or social cohesion based on lies can be, in this episode, a bad thing.