I am not very moved by historical apologies.

As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director of the libraries in 2007.

I had hoped that going to Hiroshima would reveal something small, gritty, and precise to countervail the epic quality of historical accounts.

The addition of romance in my books or mystery to a historical romance is the sauce, not the goose.

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.

The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.

With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous.

Anyone who says a movie about history is a historical document is crazy.

I want to bring forth the historical significance of Sreerampur and turn it into a tourism hub.

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

Israel deserves special treatment from the United States, both for historical reasons and because there can be no regional peace without a secure Israel.

I am quite prehistoric, absolutely prehistoric.

I actually worked in the general market for many years writing steamy historical romance, and I had more freedom in the Christian market than I ever did in the general market to write about any issue that I needed to write about.

Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm willing to overlook gobs of mistaken detail if the poetic valence is basically correct.

I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.

I love being educated by historical novels.

I think if you place Jesus firmly in the historical context... you can make very educated hypotheses and guesses about how he lived.

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

I either like reading fun war-based sci-fi, books about the lives of chefs, or dry historical non-fiction.

But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.