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Albert Beveridge: Thus, too, research and fact are ever in collision with fancy and legend.

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Thus, too, research and fact are ever in collision with fancy and legend.
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Albert Beveridge
Republican · Indiana

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Beveridge emphasizes the conflict between established facts and popular myths in historical narratives.

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