My final historical romance came out December 2005. While I enjoyed writing medieval romances, I was also dying to write something with more edge.
Military leaders, many of whom were students of counterinsurgency, recognized the dangers of an incremental escalation and the historical lesson that 'trailing' an insurgency typically condemned counterinsurgents to failure.
In my world, historical revenue is the least interesting thing to consider in an acquisition strategy.
But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.
Polymer chemistry provides an excellent means of studying metathesis catalysts: miniscule catalyst loadings have the capacity to generate large amounts of polymeric material, the structure of which can provide a historical record of catalyst activity.
Denuclearization and the lasting peace on the Korean peninsula cannot be abandoned or delayed, as they are the historical assignment.
Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.
The abundance of Roman historical mysteries contrasts with the surprising paucity of crime novels set in classical Greece.
Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.