I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I am a historian. I do a lot of research, and I try to get it right.
I'm a historian in my own mind.
I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.
I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.
What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.
I take my work seriously, but I don't necessarily take myself seriously.
When you're part of history, you don't know it. You're just sort of living your life.
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'm a historian, and that freaks me out.