History Havoc
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Category: Book Reviews
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
One of the books I have taught for the past decade has been The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. Every year I talk about how the book helped pass legislation dealing with food preparation. As a class we read tiny segments of it and some students find the segments quite gross. It is never fun to…
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Book Review – The Billion Dollar Spy
What is going on History fans! Today I wanted to talk about a book recommendation called, The Billion Dollar Spy by David E. Hoffman. I am a child of the Cold War, at least the end of the Cold War. I have a lot of memories as a child in school dealing with nuclear bomb…
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Book Review – Evil Has a Name
Next in my book review series for 2022 is Evil Has a Name: The Untold Story of the Golden State Killer Investigation by Paul Homes, Jim Clemente, and Peter McDonnell. While this may not be the typical history book that I read and review, the story was a huge part of history in the US,…
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Reclaiming History by Vincent Bugliosi
Reclaiming History by Vincent Bugliosi Last year I was teaching about JFK in my US History class. Most of the students knew little about him, but they knew he was shot. So, we started discussing some of the things he did as president and then we got to his assassination. Diving into this, even briefly,…
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