Book

Spectacle of Grief

Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era

Sarah J. Purcell

2022

The University of North Carolina Press

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Lithograph of African Americans in prayer as Liberty lays a wreath on Charles Sumner’s casket. By Matt Morgan, from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 1874.

Reconciliation Process

When Charles Sumner died in 1874, a bill he had sponsored two years earlier threatened to overshadow his legacy.

by Sarah J. Purcell via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 13, 2022

brought to you by

© Bunk History