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 * Category:Historiography of the American Civil War
 * Dunning School etc.
 * Naming the American Civil War
 * Lost Cause of the Confederacy
 * Issues of the American Civil War
 * Brother against brother


 * Origins of the American Civil War
 * Turning point of the American Civil War
 * Conclusion of the American Civil War


 * American Civil War in popular culture? Popular portrayals of the American Civil War? a la Gallagher perhaps
 * Wikipedia appears not to have an article on historical consciousness specificially. Collective memory.

Every Sa'udi schoolchild knows the tale of Abdul Aziz setting off with his little band of companions into the desert. He is their twentieth-century Robin Hood – courageous, foolhardy, desperate, wreathed in all the glamour of the few who pit themselves against the many – and his great raid on Riyadh has become Arabia's Storming of the Bastille.

But the myth is clouded, for, although all the many renderings are derived from Abdul Aziz's own lips, each one varies so much it is impossible to work out one definitive version in the Western historical sense – and you certainly will not be reading it in the pages that follow.