compilers-of-facts

Updated: May 16, 2025

The words "very scanty" are used most advisedly, for in very truth the American historian is a rara avis. Of American compilers-of-facts, to be sure, there have been and are very many, but an aggregation of details is not a history, nor can a man who makes a book out of local gossip and the biographies of local heroes and heroines be called an historian.

Various - The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884