(Lapham's Quarterly) Bess Lovejoy–The American Way of Death

Rising industrialization and urbanization in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries helped push the graveyard out of town, and these shifts coincided with the rise of a new reserve, in which displays of strong emotion, such as grief, were unseemly. But … Continue reading (Lapham's Quarterly) Bess Lovejoy–The American Way of Death