Grave Matters: A History of Death and Mourning
On Memorial Day we ask — how have we lived with the dead throughout American history? Have improvements in public health and medicine made death less a part of our everyday lives?
Wisconsin Death Trip
<<back to main episode page… In 1973, Michael Lesy published an artful arrangement of late-19th century newspaper clippings and otherworldly photographs from a small town in Wisconsin. He called it Wisconsin Death Trip. Photos of children in coffins–along with text chronicling murder, insanity, disease, and suicide–can be shocking to a 21st century audience. But what [...]
