The historian engaged by the Times, Graham Stewart, wrote that Murdoch and Thatcher "had no communication whatsoever during the period in which the Times bid and referral was up for discussion".
In France, rabble-rousing historians are engaged in a feverish debate over the 650 French soldiers who were shot for "cowardice" during the Grande Guerre.
"To open those stories to the scrutiny of historians and engage them in our national story, is, I think, a very fitting thing to do as we enter into the 150th anniversary of the war," said the president of Harvard, Drew Gilpin Faust, who used a portion of the collection to write her 2008 book, "This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War".
As Eric Hobsbawm, the British Marxist historian, said in regard to Mr. Irving: "Most historians are politically engaged one way or another... you judge what they do not by the political intent, but by whether they produce work based on evidence".
I'm not an academic historian by any means, but I do take a lot of inspiration from the publicly engaged historians of the mid-20th century, above all C. Vann Woodward (perhaps because we're both sons of the Upper South).
Natural historians like Hunter, engaged in the systematic study of the living world, needed competent draughtsmen to record their findings.
In part, the foundation was a way to cut his taxes, but it also offered a way for him and his wife, Caroline Rob Zaleski, an architectural historian, to engage in philanthropic activities.
The council engaged historian Daniel Williams to research the battle, and in 1974 his findings were used to build the Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre and the presentation it houses.
This fueled a wide-ranging dispute over the viability of scientific realism, one that engaged philosophers, historians, and other students of science.
Still, as he prepared to take the oath again, Mr. Obama struck the historians as relaxed and engaged, especially compared with their last dinner with him before the election, when they sensed the tension that gripped him.
