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History is more interesting than politics.

History is exciting because it's true.

The one challenge you have when you're going back into history is that people, unlike with today's news - we think we know what's happened already - we think that it's history and therefore less interesting.

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

The truth is that real history was a lot more complicated than our popular understandings lead us to believe.

History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.

History is history.

I feel like history is about going and discovering the great human stories that just are every bit as relevant as anything that's going on today.

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.