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Virtual Burial Plots: A Conversation between Kelly Christian and Jed Brubaker
A conversation about Facebook legacy pages and what happens to our data after we die
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Cost of Living: Life Insurance and Burial in Black Chicago
Black funeral service providers’ long fight against discrimination in life insurance
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A Gloomy and Tedious Period: Learning from 1816
From volcanic eruptions to hurricanes, from classic novels to migration waves
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It’s in the Cloud: Miasma, Healthcare.gov, and Computing
The history of health in clouds, from miasmas to digital healthcare and “cloud campuses”
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The Trump Who Cried Witch: Unruly Language and the American Witch Hunt
Speech, defamation, and witchcraft (on Twitter and in the transcripts of the Salem Witch Trials)
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Psychic Violence: the Hauntings of Sarah Winchester
Ongoing narratives of colonialist expansion in San Jose, CA
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Preserving Culture, or a Brief History of the Jackalope
Commercial tourism and the great America that never was
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General Access: Hair Jewelry and Godey’s Lady’s Book
The commodification of sentimental culture
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A Wrinkle in Time: the Horniman walrus and colonial legacy
The hidden history of a rather large taxidermy speciman
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It’s Not Right But It’s Okay: Looking at Postmortem Photographs (of Whitney Houston)
In the National Enquirer, the reality of death becomes as strange and superficial as the surrounding fictions.
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