"historical testimony" is correct and usable in written English, and can be used to refer to statements made in the past about an event or situation.
For example, "This historical testimony provides evidence of the events leading up to the Great War."
These accounts were written centuries after the fact and are valueless as genuine historical testimony.
There's another remarkable DVD extra that encapsulates, in an offhanded and utilitarian short film, the power of historical testimony.
As war returns to the Balkans, a young doctor inflects her grandfather's folk tales with stories of her own coming of age, creating a vibrant collage of historical testimony that has neither date nor dateline.
But the most extraordinary and agonizing elements of historical testimony that the house contains are literally documentary: the wallpaper in the room shared by Otto, Edith, and Margot Frank retains the father's dated horizontal pencil marks tracing his daughters' growth.
The Sharks Will Eat You!," a one-man show at the Stage Left Studio, Jay Alvarez elevates family lore into historical testimony, recounting the escape he made in 1964, when he was just 4. The hero of this illegal emigration is his father, Umberto, who came to realize that an uncertain future in the United States was better than what Cuba offered.
But The South China Morning Post, based in Hong Kong, which reported Friday that it had obtained a copy of the manuscript, said Mr. Li wrote in a foreword dated Dec. 6, 2003, that he felt bound to record what had happened "to serve as the most important historical testimony" about Tiananmen.
The film is a personal project for the Basque director Koldo Serra, and much of the detail in it comes from historical testimonies he began collecting in 2012.
While historical testimonies of the time, from Philo and Josephus, describe Pilate's cruelty in detail, recounting that he would routinely round up Jews suspected of anti-Roman activity, he becomes in the Gospels a nearly sympathetic character, the better to depict the Jews as the satanic agents of Jesus' execution.
The historical testimonies reveal to Eckhart that ritualistic formalism is not a key certain to experiencing God.
Overseas, he was criticized for denying that Japan's wartime army had forced women into sexual slavery, despite historical documents and testimony.
By recording transparent, careful accounts of the four wives who survived — Maryam, Amal, and two older Saudi wives of bin Laden who lived more briefly in Abbottabad — the commission has delivered to the historical record illuminating testimony that had previously leaked out only through anonymous intelligence briefings, some of them plainly designed to spin the facts.
