Ep. 832: Osceola, Native American Slavery, and The Seminole Wars

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Jamie Holmes is the guest on the podcast promoting his third book, which releases February 3rd. The host praises it for both validating and upending preconceived notions about the Indian Wars.

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Jamie Holmes mentions this as his second book, about a group of WWII scientists who invented a new weapon to shoot down airplanes. He describes it as the bridge from his first book to his archive-heavy historical narrative nonfiction work.

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Listed as one of Jamie Holmes' previous books when introducing him as a guest on the podcast.

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Jamie Holmes references 'a book by this guy Cialdini' when explaining behavioral economics and how salespeople and product makers use psychological insights to manipulate people.

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Jamie Holmes discusses this book by scholar David Lowenthal, noting it explores history and heritage as mythologized history, and uses the concept of exploring the past like traveling to a foreign place.

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Jamie Holmes mentions this Bill Bryson book as inspiration for a potential next project, saying he thought it could be fun to do something similar with a cool twist.

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Steven Rinella suggests this book about Neanderthals when discussing the difficulty of finding a guest to talk about Neanderthals on the podcast.