[Sailor Steve]

It's a question that cannot be answered today. On the one hand no one can say what people in the future will think. On the other hand future historians will only know what we today have written, which is always blinded by bias. We don't know what happened in ancient Rome, only what Romans had to say about it. The American Revolution is closer to home in both time and place. We know what people at that time wrote. We know what the next generation wrote, and the one after that. We can read the precise records concerning the outcomes of different battles and the outcome of the war itself. We can read the treaty that formally ended the war. We can read the writings of the time and get a pretty good idea of what happened, but there is no way they could know then what we would think of them now. What "we" think of them now is widely varied, because every history that is written is written by someone with an agenda. That agenda may be a serious attempt to get at the truth, but in fact the people who wrote about it then and the ones who write about it now all have their own biases.

We have widely varied opinions about what we see going on around us today. Current writers are all biased for or against any topic you can name. Mostly all we do here is complain about one side or the other's bias and agendas and try to slant things to suit our own bias. Any future writers will have to sort through everybody's writing today and try to pick which is closer to the truth, which will inevitably mean which is closer to their own opinion of what went on today. That means future writers will be trying to sort through today's opinions while looking at them through their own opinions.

Whatever anyone says to that question, it will be guesswork and nothing more.