Digging Up the Dead

A History of Notable American Reburials

by: Michael Kammen

Digging Up the Dead
Author: Michael Kammen

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Format: Hardback

Publication date: 23 April 2010

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ISBN: 0226423298 ISBN 13: 9780226423296

Digging Up the Dead by Michael Kammen

Reveals a gruesome stories of exhumation and reburial throughout American history. Taking us to the contested grave sites, this title explores how complicated interactions of regional pride, shifting reputations, and evolving burial practices led to public and often emotional battles over the final resting places of famous figures. Top page

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With "Digging Up the Dead", Pulitzer Prize - winning historian Michael Kammen reveals a treasure trove of fascinating, surprising, and occasionally gruesome stories of exhumation and reburial throughout American history. Taking us to the contested grave sites of such figures as Sitting Bull, John Paul Jones, Frank Lloyd Wright, Daniel Boone, Jefferson Davis, and even Abraham Lincoln, Kammen explores how complicated interactions of regional pride, shifting reputations, and evolving burial practices led to public and often emotional battles over the final resting places of famous figures. Grave-robbing, skull-fondling, cases of mistaken identity, and the financial lures of cemetery tourism all come into play as Kammen delves deeply into this little-known - yet surprisingly persistent - aspect of American history. Simultaneously insightful and interesting, masterly and macabre, "Digging Up the Dead" reminds us that the stories of American history don't always end when the key players pass on. Rather, the battle - over reputations, interpretations, and, last but far from least, possession of the remains themselves - is often just beginning. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: University of Chicago Press

City: Chicago, IL

Pages: 272

More info: height 60 mm width 90 mm weight 499 gr thickness 23 mm

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Age recommended: General/trade

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC22) 393.10973 Library of Congress Subject: Burial - United States - History

Record updated at: 11 June, 2013 time: 01:27


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