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Memorializing Death in an Age of Mass Mortality: Keywords of Covid-19 by Richard C. Keller

How do we remember death when it constitutes our landscape? In an age of ubiquitous mortality—not only pandemic deaths, but also deaths from meteorological disasters, deaths of migrants…

Post date 28th February 2022
Post author By Richard C. Keller

McCain, Memorialization, and Empire

[Footnotes is proud to present the work of Matthew Chrisler. Matthew Chrisler is a PhD Candidate at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is currently conducting…

Post date 25th September 2018
Post author By Footnotes Editor

Misplaced Memorials

I recently found a mysterious, out-of-place grave marker on a vacant lot in Detroit, and I went down a research rabbit hole trying to figure out how it…

Post date 23rd December 2017
Post author By Kaeleigh Herstad