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Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that.

I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.

Historians will tell you that they deal with fact and empirical evidence. But that doesn't really help me understand a person.

I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.

I am a historian. I do a lot of research, and I try to get it right.

I don't know if a historian or scholar owns an opinion.

I'm a historian in my own mind.

I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.

Any historian worth their salt should be aware of wars, conflicts, catastrophes. They happen. This is part of the panorama.