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Historical book review

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Black Flags, Blue waters – Just in time for International Talk Like a Pirate Day

September 13, 2018September 14, 2018 Sean Derrick 0 Comments Historical book review, history, Pirate

–by Michael Pierce BLACK FLAGS, BLUE WATERS: The Epic History of America’s Most Notorious Pirates by Eric Jay Dolin. Liveright

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Local Historian Sheds Light on Disasters that Shaped Saint Louis

May 1, 2018 Sean Derrick 0 Comments 1849, Book review, Historical book review, Pierre Laclede, St. Louis, St. Louis history

-By Michael Pierce If you want to take a literary deep dive into St. Louis history in the 19th century,

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“The Butchering Art” Reveals the Macabre Legend of Joseph Lister

April 20, 2018 Sean Derrick 0 Comments and Giroux, Book review, Ferrar, Historical book review, Lindsey Fitzharris, Nonfiction, Scientific American, Straus, The Butchering Art

-By Michael Pierce While not a book for the squeamish, those interested in the more macabre history of medical research

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Book Review: Saunders Paints a Moving Portrait of Supernatural Life in Lincoln in the Bardo

December 12, 2017 Sean Derrick 0 Comments Abraham Lincoln, Book review, fiction, George Saunders, Historical book review, Lincoln in the Bardo, Man Booker Prize Winner, novel

-By Michael Pierce Lincoln in the Bardo – A novel by George Saunders, published by Random House in February of

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Book Review: We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates

November 13, 2017 Sean Derrick 0 Comments Historical book review, Obama Presidency, Ta-Nehisi Coates

–By Michael Pierce I am a 56 year old white guy. I am a historian. Try as I might to

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Book Review: KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

August 6, 2017August 7, 2017 Sean Derrick 0 Comments Book review, David Grann, Historical book review, Killers of the Flower Moon

–By Michael Pierce White people wanted easy money, and J. Edgar Hoover wanted a case that would help build the

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Book Review: Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

January 10, 2017 Sean Derrick 0 Comments Attica Prison Uprising, Heather Ann Thompson, Historical book review

–By Michael Pierce At 9:46 am on Monday, September 13, 1971 a force made up of New York State Police,

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