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Alice Coltrane

The Visions of Alice Coltrane

In the years after her husband John’s death, the harpist discovered a sound all her own, a jazz rooted in acts of spirit and will.
by Marcus J. Moore via The Nation on March 21, 2024
Photograph of woman in black mourning clothes and pearls

The Elitist History of Wearing Black to Funerals

Today, mourning attire is subdued and dutiful. It wasn’t always that way.
by Katie Thornton via The Atlantic on September 26, 2022
Roundabout at the George Floyd memorial, at the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue.

George Floyd and a Community of Care

At E. 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis, a self-organizing network explores what it means to construct and maintain a public memorial.
by G. E. Patterson via Places Journal on March 1, 2021
Open books.

James Baldwin: ‘I Did Not Want to Weep for Martin, Tears Seemed Futile’

In memory of Martin Luther King Jr, a look back on his funeral.
by Jason Sokol via Literary Hub on April 4, 2018
Small headstones for pets in Hyde Park, London, dating back to the 1880s.

Why the World’s First Pet Cemetery Was Revolutionary

A new book charts the history of pet cemeteries and honors the universal experience of grieving an animal companion.
by Rachel Nuwer via Smithsonian on September 24, 2024
Horace Greeley

This Presidential Candidate Died in a Sanatorium Less Than a Month After Losing the Election

Horace Greeley ran against incumbent Ulysses S. Grant in November 1872. Twenty-four days later, he died of unknown causes at a private mental health facility.
by Greg Daugherty via Smithsonian on September 19, 2024
Statute of Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, with construction hook ready to remove it.
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History Shows the Danger of Comparing Trump to Jesus

It’s important to remember why analogies to Jesus should stay out of the political realm. The results are always ugly.
by Laura Brodie via Made By History on March 29, 2024
A supporter of Donald Trump holds a Confederate flag inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, after the crowd breached the building as Congress was proceeding with the electoral vote certification of the 2020 presidential election.

Trump's 'Lost Cause,' a Kind of Gangster Cult, Won't Go Away

Lost cause narratives sometimes have been powerful enough to build or destroy political regimes. They can advance a politics of grievance.
by David W. Blight via Los Angeles Times on January 14, 2024
W.E.B. DuBois.

On W.E.B. Du Bois and the Disgraceful Treatment of Gold Star Mothers

The symbolic battles of World War I.
by Chad Williams via Literary Hub on April 4, 2023
A "political funeral" during the height of the HIV/AIDs epidemic.

The Right to Grieve

To demand the freedom to mourn—not on the employer’s schedule, but in our own time—is to reject the cruel rhythms of the capitalist status quo.
by Erik Baker via Jewish Currents on March 13, 2023
A faded beige map of New York from the 1700s, showing the city borders and street outlines.

The Manhattan Well Mystery: On America’s First Media Circus Around a Murder Case

The death of Elma Sands and the Manhattan Company.
by Sam Roberts via Literary Hub on October 25, 2022

The Country That Could Not Mourn

The Covid-19 pandemic has shown just how hard it is for Americans to grieve.
by Sarah Jaffe via The New Republic on September 23, 2022
Picture of a pie and a piece cut out and served on a plate.

The Death of Pennsylvania’s Forgotten Funeral Pie

The sweet-yet-somber treat was the star of extravagant 19th-century funeral feasts.
by Sam O'Brien via Atlas Obscura on August 22, 2022
Members of Jayland Walker's family stand beside a sign in tribute to him.
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Jayland Walker’s Killing Didn’t Spur Expected Protests. Here’s Why.

An effective media strategy has often been crucial to rallying the public behind Black victims of fatal violence.
by Kate L. Flach via Made By History on July 13, 2022
Mashpee Wampanoag woman puts away traditional clothing in a wetu (wood-framed building).

This Tribe Helped the Pilgrims Survive for Their First Thanksgiving. They Still Regret It.

Long marginalized and misrepresented in U.S. history, the Wampanoags are bracing for the 400th anniversary of the first Pilgrim Thanksgiving in 1621.
by Dana Hedgpeth via Retropolis on November 4, 2021
Two women holding camphor, which is on a string around their necks

Flu, 1918

Remembering a year of hell and devastation—the year of the Spanish flu.
by Rose Riegelhaupt via Jewish Currents on June 14, 2021
African American mother and children in peach vignette, c. 1885.

A Mother’s Influence

How African American women represented Black motherhood in the early nineteenth century.
by Crystal Webster via Lapham’s Quarterly on June 9, 2021
Hundreds of people watch RFK's funeral train pass by.

Inside RFK's Funeral Train: How His Final Journey Helped a Nation Grieve

The New York-to-Washington train had 21 cars, 700 passengers—and millions of trackside mourners.
by Steven M. Gillon via HISTORY on June 7, 2021
A flag bearing the likeness of the former World Trade Center destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks is flown at half-staff during a ceremony to place a time capsule and plaque outside the Oculus transit station to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on April 30 in New York.
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Twenty Years After 9/11, its Memorialization Remains Contested

Should 9/11 remembrances include the global war on terror?
by John Bodnar via Made By History on May 28, 2021
Mary Todd Lincoln posing with two of her young children

Mary Lincoln Wasn’t ‘Crazy.’ She Was a Bereaved Mother, New Exhibit Says.

The Lincolns had four sons. Mary buried three of them. A new exhibit at President Lincoln's Cottage sheds light on bereaved parents, then and now.
by Gillian Brockell via Washington Post on May 1, 2021
The Gun Violence Memorial

What Should a Coronavirus Memorial Look Like? This Powerful Statement on Gun Violence Offers a Model

The pandemic, like other open wounds, must be remembered with an “open” memorial.
by Philip Kennicott via Washington Post on April 9, 2021
Artwork that says "Bury me fiercely" and features imagery of a face mask and cross

You Are Witness to a Crime

In ACT UP, belonging was not conferred by blood. Care was offered when you joined others on the street with the intent to bring the AIDS crisis to an end.
by Debra Levine via The Baffler on January 5, 2021
Military headstones for American Indians at the site of the Carlisle Indian School.

The U.S. Stole Generations of Indigenous Children to Open the West

Indian boarding schools held Native American youth hostage in exchange for land cessions.
by Nick Estes via High Country News on October 14, 2019
A group of people celebrating Pride outside of Stonewall.

Stonewall: The Making of a Monument

Ever since the 1969 Stonewall Riots, L.G.B.T.Q. communities have gathered there to express their joy, their anger, their pain and their power.
by Cheryl Furjanic via New York Times Op-Docs on June 4, 2019

Joe Biden's Audacity of Grief

On the mournful threads connecting his half-century in politics.
by George Blaustein via The New Republic on May 16, 2019

The History Before Us

How can we be sure the atrocities of the past will stay in the past?
by Jessica Jacobs via Guernica on January 21, 2019

They're Not Morbid, They're About Love: The Hair Relics of the Midwest

Leila collects art that’s made of human hair and displays it to the public at a museum bearing her name in Independence, Missouri.
by Elizabeth Harper via The Order Of The Good Death on July 11, 2018

A Tale of Two Hiroshimas

Two of the earliest films to depict the bombing of Hiroshima show how politics shapes national mourning.
by Kazu Watanabe via Current (The Criterion Collection) on May 3, 2018

Real Museums of Memphis

How the National Civil Rights Museum has obscured the ongoing dispossession of African-Americans taking place in its shadow.
by Zandria Felice Robinson via Scalawag on April 12, 2018

Fine Specimens

How Walt Whitman became the quintessential poet of disability and death.
by David S. Reynolds via New York Review of Books on March 11, 2018
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