Local Historian Sheds Light on Disasters that Shaped Saint Louis
-By Michael Pierce If you want to take a literary deep dive into St. Louis...
Category: What’s Readable
“The Butchering Art” Reveals the Macabre Legend of Joseph Lister
-By Michael Pierce While not a book for the squeamish, those interested in the more...
A Slaying Remembered and a Saint Louis Murder Revisited
-By Michael Pierce This gripping novel from Vicki Berger Erwin and Bryan Erwin chronicles a...
Laura Spinney Weaves a Fascinating Tale of the Dark History of the Spanish Flu
--By Michael Pierce If you're interested in learning about humans' complicated history with the...
Book Review: Setting Fire to Myths About Little House on the Prairie
-By Michael Pierce Dr. Carolyn Fraser's Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder,...
Book Review: Steve Young Tackles His Life in Uplifting New Memoir
-By Michael Pierce I’ve read lots of history and memoir over my lifetime. A lot...
Book Review: Saunders Paints a Moving Portrait of Supernatural Life in Lincoln in the Bardo
-By Michael Pierce Lincoln in the Bardo – A novel by George Saunders, published by...
Charlie Daniels Brings Insight to his Personal Life in “Never Look at the Empty Seats: A Memoir”
--By Michael Pierce Never Look At The Empty Seats: A Memoir by Charlie Daniels I've...
Book Review: We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
--By Michael Pierce I am a 56 year old white guy. I am a historian....
Book Review: Does Kate Alcott’s The Hollywood Daughter Capture Communism?
--By Marie Taylor Another dark time in American history is made more real by the...