Night Parade Of Dead Souls

Abstract The Grateful Dead were one of the most fascinating rock bands and cultural phenomena of the twentieth century. Although they had few mainstream or Top 40 hi...

Released in 1970, Workingman’s Dead was the breakthrough album for the Grateful Dead, a cold-water-shock departure from the Acid Test madness of the late ‘60s. It was the band’s mo...

How digital technology—from Facebook tributes to QR codes on headstones—is changing our relationship to death. Facebook is the biggest cemetery in the world, with co...

This chapter explores the importance of lament for the dead within historical and romance narratives composed in Scotland between c.1438 and c.1500 in both Older Scots and Latin. T...

This book takes a critical glance at the ways in which we attend to the corpse, tracing a trajectory from encounter toward considering options for disposal: veneered mortuary inter...

A "granular history" (Wall Street Journal) of the greatest hoax in radio history and the panic that followed, whichPublishers Weeklycalls "a rollicking portrait of a director on th...

For a brief time following the end of the U.S. Civil War, American political leaders had an opportunity—slim, to be sure, but not beyond the realm of possibility—to remake society ...

This chapter discusses the rise of the Friday Night Fighters. The new age of television meant grand opportunity for Friday Night Fighters. As broadcasts expanded in the postwar yea...