Having grown up in Georgia then lived a decade each in North Carolina and Virginia, I was acutely aware of how different the "spin" on history was in each state when doing research for the Bacon's Rebellion article. Virginia has some fascinating colonial archives that somehow never made it past its official state history textbooks into mainstream American history publications. As an example, for 250 years Virginia students have been taught that the Cherokees originated in the Southwest Virginia Mountains in the mid-1600s and did not move down into North Carolina until the early 1700s. Colonial maps and archives back up Virginia's version of history.