Monthly Archives: June 2021

Review: “King Richard,” by Michael Dobbs

June 23, 2021Books of the Timeshistoryrevisited

Rick Reiman reviews “King Richard,” Michael Dobbs’s just-published micro-history of a selected phase of the Watergate scandal, now approaching its Fiftieth anniversary.

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Sherlock Holmes Explains the “JFK Assignment”

June 19, 2021Conan Doylehistoryrevisited

In this “tongue in cheek” audio narration, Dr. Reiman portrays Sherlock Holmes as he would have sounded had he lived in 2021, and had he agreed to help my students understand their big assignment of this summer semester. Of course, our course site contains the complete instructions for the assignment. I hope that this will help as well. If you like this narration, check out my two other, “real” Sherlock Holmes stores below, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and narrated by me.

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Sherlock Holmes in “Silver Blaze”

June 15, 2021Conan Doylehistoryrevisited

“Silver Blaze,” written by Conan Doyle in 1888, was one of his most popular short stories. Doyle provides something new to the Detective drama, the clue that is something that should have happened but did not. Enjoy!

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