The Duke was of a different time and hard to judge by todays standards fairly but he was wrong on many points such as the taking of native lands and the Vietnam war, EPA, the civil rights movement. On a separate note: the confederate statues are, in themselves, an attempt to rewrite history. Most of these statues were erected by the daughters of the confederacy in an attempt to rebrand the war as a states rights conflict and not one for and about slavery. And it was very successful judging by many Americans view of the war. The war, the state governments who seceded, the generals who led the armies all did so for the cause of slavery. That much is proven fact in the realm of historians.