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Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America's Cemeteries by Greg Melville
informative
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
4.75
Quick and easy read! Would recommend to anyone- easily digestible for any audience.
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
informative
medium-paced
4.0
This is my second time reading this book. Definitel a foundational text in American death studies, but not necessarily my favorite.
The Ins on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954 by S. Deborah Kang
informative
medium-paced
4.0
An interesting interdisciplinary approach to immigration history on the U.S.-Mexico border! I would probably not read it in its entirety again, but I would assign parts of it for a history class.
Unprotected Labor: Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Reform in New York, 1870-1940 by Vanessa H. May
informative
medium-paced
4.25
I would probably read this again!
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon
informative
slow-paced
4.5
Very informative, but also dense. I can see why this is a foundational text, but I probably won't want to read this in its entirety again.
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
fast-paced
4.5
The audiobook was narrated by the author! Very powerful to physically hear the author tell her own story.
Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic by Jennifer L. Morgan
challenging
informative
reflective
tense
medium-paced
4.75
Wonderfully work, but I will definitely have to read this two or three times before I fully process everything... great theoretical work and a great addition to this field of study
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
informative
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
This was my second time reading this book. I had watched many of C.D.'s YouTube videos before, but this book really challenged some of the ways that I think about death care in a global sense... I would recommend this book to anyone- C.D. does an excellent job of making a difficult topic such as this palatable for all audiences.