At best, the result represents a failure of historical imagination.

Indeed it requires a strong effort of historical imagination to understand this intensity.

But as an exercise in historical imagination, the play stimulates.

Fischer's career began with a fairly impressive act of historical imagination.

This scene asks you to exercise some historical imagination.

Sentimentalities about "the greatest generation" now seem to mark the horizon of our historical imagination.

He has been cried up, and cried down, with an equal lack of historical imagination.

It is given to "honor works of literary fiction that significantly advance the historical imagination" to a novel about American history.

The Haggadah asks all participants to have historical imagination, pretending they themselves also wandered the desert.

"The Plot Against America" is an exercise in historical imagination.