One of the pitfalls in studying history is the lack of fact-checking. Once an action has been recorded in print, it becomes gospel. A mistake is self-perpetuating. This has been amplified a hundredfold in our age of social media, but it certainly didn’t start there. I would like to take a vote: how many of us have an image of Paul Revere riding gallantly to Concord, yelling, “The British…