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What Mr. Ellis seems unable to abide are the ways our heroic myths of the Founders keep us from understanding historical reality.

With the passage of centuries, the Eurocentric accounts that depicted Cortés as a heroic “white savior” and Moctezuma as a cowardly heathen have been eclipsed.

“I always imagined heavy rain there and lightning shining on someone’s face,” Hollis said about a perhaps heroic moment linked to the fire.

Following Dr. Graham on his medical rounds, they witness no heroic acts of surgery—he cauterizes a persistent sore on someone’s face; he presides at the death bed of a longtime patient and friend.

Throughout the tournament, her heroics were often all that stopped England from heading home as she prevented three more goals than expected, given the number and quality of chances she had to face.