31.   The sad truth is that historians have had little success in getting statesmen to understand history so as not to repeat it.

32.   The value of the find lies in artifacts that might answer a few of the many questions historians have about pirate life.

33.   What historians actually have access to is skimpy.

34.   Yet like paleontologists arguing over whether dinosaurs were hot- or cold-blooded, historians have taken the same fundamental material and come to opposite conclusions.

35.   Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has sided with the publishers in the case, arguing that historians might have more difficulty doing research.

36.   Historians have had to rely on military journals and old newspaper accounts to trace them.

37.   Historians had no problem with regarding Adolf Hitler as beyond the pale for murdering six million Jews, he said.