Sentence examples for historical true from inspiring English sources

In terms of pure volume, I probably read more psychological mystery and historical true crime than anything else.

I like historical true crime, the kind that uses the crime as a window into the time and place where it happened ("Damn His Blood," by Peter Moore, does a great job of illuminating early-19th-century England, both the aspects that that society had in common with ours and the aspects that are totally alien to us).

Notwithstanding the continued popularity of Silent Witness and the CSI franchise, forensics dramas are in need of some – as it were – fresh blood, and ITV's Code of a Killer provides just that by focusing on DNA fingerprinting, here in an historical, true-life context.

He was Joseph Vacher, a former soldier who roamed the French countryside from 1894 to 1897, killing more than twice as many people as Jack the Ripper, and the antagonist of Douglas Starr's absorbing historical true-crime book, "The Killer of Little Shepherds".

Among his more than thirty published books are a series of historical true-crime narratives about America's most infamous serial killers, a quartet of mystery novels featuring Edgar Allan Poe, and an anthology of American true crime writing published by the Library of America.

Even if you aren't that interested in sports, you'll find the historical facts true in the book.

Eye witness accounts, and scientific facts, are part of what makes a historical statement true, but its truth transcends them because it is necessarily bound up with the cultural significances of the present.

But is "historical truth" truer than fictional truth?

Should these characters not be played their true historical age?

In each case, a "true" historical hypothesis is persuasive because it is well written.

"People want a true historical experience, not a Disneyland experience," he said.