In the 19th century, students at American medical schools stole the corpses of recently-buried African Americans to be used for dissection. American …
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Burying the Dead with JSTOR Daily
How do we care for the dead? From cremation to burial, from cemetery to museum storage...there are a lot of options for what happens to our bodies after we die, but who gets to choose the final destination? Read on for picnics (and sex) in the graveyard, bodies lost and found after the sinking of the Titanic, and the fraught issue of human remains in museums.
Ideas about economic class informed decisions about which recovered bodies would be preserved for land burial and which would be returned to the icy …
An interdisciplinary bibliography exploring the care of the dead and how our final choices are shaped by culture, religion, economics, technology, …
There was more than one violent altercation at the cemetery when one side of the family wanted to move a dead relative, and the other didn’t. During …
Ever since the medium was invented, people have used photography to document loss. What does it mean to remember? For some, remembrance means …
This is the first in a series of columns by Genealogy Roadshow host Josh Taylor about doing genealogical research on JSTOR. This is the first in a …
The pro-cremation movement of the nineteenth century battled religious tradition, not to mention the specter of mass graves during epidemics. While …
Pliny the Elder remarked: “Such is the condition of humanity, and so uncertain is men’s judgment, that they cannot determine even death …
The banquet hall was painted black from ceiling to floor. By the pale flicker of grave lamps, the invited senators coud make out a row of …
One of the most popular tourist destinations in Paris—the Catacombs—was started as a solution to the intrusion of death upon daily life. Recently the …
Pet cemeteries document how humans’ relationships with their pets—and their deaths—have evolved since the Victorian era. The first official pet …
The author of Frankenstein always saw love and death as connected. She visited the cemetery to commune with her dead mother. And with her lover. In …
In the 19th century, bucolic, park-like cemeteries started cropping up on the outskirts of American cities. In the nineteenth century, American cities …
In eighteenth-century New England, funeral attendees went home with funeral tokens–usually a pair of gloves or a ring that declared their sorrow. It’s …
4,000 years ago in what is now Jerusalem, someone was buried with a jar of headless toads. In fact, many ancient graves included food for the …
