Bob Miller knows he’s tilting at windmills. For the past year, the retired Atlanta attorney has tried to get the University System of Georgia to erase a blot on the heart of UGA’s campus: Rutherford Hall .
The white-columned, redbrick dormitory, on the Myers quad, is named for Mildred Lewis Rutherford, a woman dead for a century and largely forgotten. But her legacy defiled history taught in schools for generations.
As president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Rutherford was a prominent voice for the Lost Cause and longtime leading censor of history books. She helped obscure the ugliness of slavery and after the Civil War promoted a narrative of a noble and chivalrous South…