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Digging Up the Dead - A History of Notable American Reburials (Paperback)
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Digging Up the Dead - A History of Notable American Reburials (Paperback)
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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.
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