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I'm a historian in my own mind.

I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.

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.

I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.

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

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

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.

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.