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This was Jamie Holmes's third book and it was about the Seminole Wars, focusing on complexity that turned preconceived notions about the war on their head. The book featured deep archival research, leading to a very extensive notes section that was almost as long as the book itself.
His third book's out. Just out. I'm holding my hand here. It's called The Free and the Dead, The Untold Story of the Black Seminole Chief, The Indigenous Rebel, and America's Forgotten War.
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This was Jamie Holmes's third book and it was about the Seminole Wars, focusing on complexity that turned preconceived notions about the war on their head. The book featured deep archival research, leading to a very extensive notes section that was almost as long as the book itself.
His third book's out. Just out. I'm holding my hand here. It's called The Free and the Dead, The Untold Story of the Black Seminole Chief, The Indigenous Rebel, and America's Forgotten War.
The book validates one's, all of one's preconceived notions about the brutality and crime of the Indian Wars. But simultaneously it turns every preconceived notion you have about the Indian Wars on its head.
So if you're one of those guys that looks at a book and he's like, I can't read that. It's too long. Don't read the notes. I sat down with it.
The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.