Getting historical facts right is necessary but insufficient without interpretation.

Evidence

But this particular story of slavery and Reconstruction reveals that the facts alone aren’t enough. Interpretation matters: What we do with the facts, the kinds of questions we ask about them, and for what ends, matter. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 268

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how does Glaude’s ‘interpretation matters’ interplay with Baldwin’s insistence that lies poison any history? A tension between epistemic fix and moral rejection.
• XREF: connects to: Competent fact-finding must describe events without using the legal terms at issue — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 111; Numbers provide no narrative, and meaning requires narration rather than quantification. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 133