Word: factualism
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...authors have also given a good example of what the raw material of history looks like, for they offer both the pertinent and the bogus. They give the conflicting eyewitness accounts of the President's murder and the wild rumors that swept Washington, as well as a factual narrative of the events before and after his death. There are not only pictures of Booth's derringer, the chair Lincoln sat in, the clothes he wore; there are also spurious photographs of Lincoln in death and of mawkish funeral souvenirs...
Moynihan is the author of the recently published pamphlet, The Negro Family, a factual study of the "structural distortions in the life of the Negro American...
...Please accept my thanks for the story on Southern Baptists [Nov. 26]. As a Southern Baptist layman, I am especially eager for Americans to have a factual account of how we stand as a denomination in this important area of our national life. The picture you present is precisely correct. We have come a long way and are still moving miraculously further toward the goal of acting like Christians about integration...
...factual premise is incorrect. The Department of History has never lost a promising young man or failed to appoint anyone it wished from outside because of the lack of a slot for them. Oscar Handlin Chairman, Department of History
...year study of the quality of grade-school education in the U.S. and Britain. A team of University of Toledo educators, headed by Professor Robert L. Gibson, gave pupils in the paired towns identical achievement tests in English usage, arithmetic and read ing. The findings, first factual evidence on a much debated question, show that U.S. children start slower than British kids but edge ahead...