She’s toying with writing a book for a popular audience in part to try to make some of the work done in the academy more accessible and interesting to those outside it.
What’s his favorite history book? "Other than my own and my wife's, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II by Fernand Braudel.”
“In a political climate where fewer and fewer of our elected officials believe in the relevance of the truth, historians are guardians of what actually happened.”