History is not something for you to ignore or change. It is what happened and, hopefully, is something from which we can learn what we did wrong or what we did right and can use to guide our lives in the future.
tk for PPE says: Obviously the two Klan articles were not straight forward factual news accounts and appeared to reflect the writer's (editor's?)sentiments interjected (i.e. "and certainly what the Klan stands for can be backed up by every good American"). Thus the reason, initially, for the consideration as to whether or not to use these articles.