Digging Up the Dead: A History of Notable American Reburials

by Michael Kammen

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226423301

ISBN13:9780226423302

Release Date:April 2011

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:3.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.2" x 9.0"

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