The historian and author Ian Mortimer disagrees. Franco Moretti is an Italian literary historian and theorist. British naturalist David Bellamy lauded his skills as a natural historian and media performer. He used the writings of Eusebius, the first major Church historian. Herodotus clearly writes as both historian and teller of tales. Alwi would become a prominent Indonesian historian and diplomat. Montefiore is married to writer and historian Simon Sebag Montefiore. Hume was an early cultural historian of science. Gould was also a considerably respected historian of science. History and questions about its role in society pervade "The Historian". Annette Gordon-Reed is an American historian and Harvard Law School professor. McKennon was an avid Oregon Trail historian. He became known as a historian of the South. This is based on accounts of Vardan Areveltsi, a 13th-century Armenian historian. Derrida referred to himself as a historian.