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1. Keeper of the Keys

  • Micki McElya
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The Politics of Mourning
This chapter is in the book The Politics of Mourning
© 2017 Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and London, England

© 2017 Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and London, England

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Introduction: A Nation’s Heart 1
  4. 1. Keeper of the Keys 12
  5. 2. Freedman’s Village 58
  6. 3. A National Cemetery 95
  7. 4. Bringing Home the Dead 137
  8. 5. Out of Many, One Unknown 170
  9. 6. For Us, the Living 217
  10. 7. Knowns and Unknowns 261
  11. Conclusion: Hereafter 307
  12. Notes 315
  13. Acknowledgments 373
  14. Illustration Credits 377
  15. Index 379
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674974050-002

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Introduction: A Nation’s Heart 1
  4. 1. Keeper of the Keys 12
  5. 2. Freedman’s Village 58
  6. 3. A National Cemetery 95
  7. 4. Bringing Home the Dead 137
  8. 5. Out of Many, One Unknown 170
  9. 6. For Us, the Living 217
  10. 7. Knowns and Unknowns 261
  11. Conclusion: Hereafter 307
  12. Notes 315
  13. Acknowledgments 373
  14. Illustration Credits 377
  15. Index 379
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