Word: factualism
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...antithetical concepts. Among the social sciences, history is that discipline whose practitioners most need to combine broad and specific knowledge. The great historians (Marc Bloch, Fernand Braudel, to speak only of the dead) created novel and lasting interpretations by combining profound knowledge of particular topics with a wide factual basis and broad conceptualization. This view of history is, I submit, well worth espousing; and is not an ignoble aspiration for a History Department. Angeliki Laiou Chairman, History Department
...Epps's letter contains grammatical errors, factual errors and logical errors," said protester Judith R. Barish...
...Duke sent a copy to President Jimmy Carter, who had signed the treaty. Last week the letter was discovered in the collection of the Carter Presidential Library. Carter's reply: "Your letter is great -- tough and factual...
Christina Mungan '87 said she had to avoid skewing history with her own feminist perspective. Mungan, who researched marital relations as described in a 14th century manual, said she was "very, very factual" because she "was afraid that people would jump up and say, 'O.K., you're a feminist, not a historian...
Michael has accepted a contract from little-known Zebra Books for a memoir titled From the Outside Looking In, concerning his distant relationship with his famous parents and stepmother. His literary agent, Scott Meredith, calls it a "very factual and very, very frank" account of being "adopted and then forgotten." Another publisher, however, describes it as "nasty" and "skewed." News of the younger Reagan's latest venture came as an unpleasant surprise to the White House. Said an aide to the President: "He hasn't black-sheeped us lately, but, apparently, he's back...