How has the perception of history overshadowed actual historical events? For example, Benjamin Franklin flying a kite with a key to “discover electricity” might be a small scale example. Or people “knowing” history from Shakespeare or movies.

What scholarship exists on the perception of history?

Finally, what do you think the impact of collective memory or public opinion is on the historical record/how history is presented? (For example the cancellation of the Enola Gay exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum.)