Introduction (Jan. 12)
I. Syllabus
II. Purposes
III. Humor
Seventeenth-Century West Africa (Jan. 14)
I. Early West
Africa
randomization
II.
Religion
polytheism
III. Death
Practices
subfloor burials
A.
Archaeology
Yoruba
B. Grave
Goods
Pieter de Marees
C.
Ethnography
Ghana
Early Modern Europe (Jan. 19)
I. Catholic Background
II. The Black Death
III. Ars Moriendi
IV. Burial Practices
purgatory, limbo
Requiem
macabre
extreme unction
charnel house; ossuary
"ad sanctos" burial
Pre-contact Indians (Jan. 21)
I. Mississippian Culture
II. Cahokia
III. Hurons
IV. Narragansetts
litter
Great Sun
"in-group retainer sacrifice"
Jesuit Relations
disarticulated
Ossosané
Cautantowwit
Culture of Mortality (Jan. 26)
I. Protestant Reformation
II. Changes in Burials
III. Columbian Exchange
IV. Jamestown's Early Years
V. Culture of Mortality
VI. Social Fluidity
Martin Luther, John Calvin
Sola Scriptura
virgin soil epidemic
syphilis
Powhatan
oligohaline, mesohaline, polyhaline
typhoid, dysentery
Living With Death (Jan. 28)
I. Gender Relations
A. Marriage
B. Widowhood
II. Family Life
III. Burial Practices
IV. Violence and Indians
V. Indentured Servitude
VI. Transition to Slavery
Sarah Harrison
"widowarchy"
"now-wife"
Pocahontas
John Rolfe
An Omnipotent God (Feb. 2)
I. Puritanism in England
II. Profile of Migrants
III. Puritanism in New England
IV. Social Stability
V. "Infant Damnation"
Catharine of Aragon
Anne Boleyn
William Laud
Cotton Mather
Jonathan Edwards
Iconography (Feb. 4)
I. Funerals
II. Iconography
cerecloth
bier
pall
death's head
epitaph
Great Awakening (Feb. 9)
I. Funerals
II. Mourning
III. Deathbed Scenes
IV. Increasing Mortality
V. Great Awakening
lutestring
Elizabeth Holyoke
George Whitefield
liminality
Slave Funerals (Feb. 11)
I. Middle Passage
II. 18th-Century Developments
III. Afro-Christianity
IV. 19th-Century Burial Practices
V. Flight and Rebellion
coffles
barracoons
Barbados
Ghana
transmigration
Chloe Spear
sankofa
Nat Turner
Beautiful Death (Feb. 16)
I. Romanticism
II. Iconography
III. Second Great Awakening
IV. Death Practices
V. Beautiful Death
VI. Mourning Portraiture
soul effigy
Cane Ridge, Kentucky
burned-over district
Charles Grandison Finney
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Little Eva
Toward Disunion (Feb. 18)
I. The Grotesque
II. Rural Cemeteries
III. Origins of the Civil War
IV. Death in the Civil War
George Lippard
Edgar Allan Poe
"Berenice"
miasma
animalcules
Mount Auburn
Rise of Embalming (Feb. 23)
I. Battlefield Photography
II. Gettysburg Address
III. Washington and Lincoln
IV. Rise of Embalming
daguerreotype
Mathew Brady
Alexander Gardner
John Wilkes Booth
Jean Nicolas Gannal
Mourning Culture (Mar. 2)
I. Historical Context
II. Rise of Undertakers
III. Spiritualism
IV. Victorian Mourning Culture
social darwinism
laissez-faire government
Hydesville, NY
Mary Todd Lincoln
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
The Gates Ajar (1869)
bombazine, crepe
Iconography (Mar. 4)
I. Victorian Mourning Culture
II. Criticism and Parody
III. Mourning Photography
IV. Iconography
Timothy S. Arthur
Emmeline Grangerford
Stephen Dowling Bots
Green-Wood Cemetery
obelisk
Blocher memorial
The Mortality Transition (Mar. 16)
I. Debate Over Causes
II. Urbanization
A. Catholics
B. Jews
C. Death in the Cities
III. The Sanitary Revolution
IV. Rise of Hospitals
shiva
Louis Pasteur
Robert Koch
tuberculosis, diphtheria
Joseph Lister
dispensary
carbolic acid (phenol)
Twentieth-Century Iconography (Mar. 18)
I. Tuberculosis
II. Race, Class, and Disease
III. Mortality Transition
IV. Iconography
tubercle bacillus
Robert Koch
sanitorium
Bauhaus
Weimar, Germany
art deco
World War One (Mar. 23)
I. Jazz Funerals
II. First World War
III. Influenza Epidemic, 1918
IV. War and Literature
benevolent societies
Fort Riley, Kansas
Treaty of Versailles
Erich Maria Remarque
Ernest Hemingway
World War Two (Mar. 25)
I. WWI and Literature
II. Second World War
III. The Atomic Bomb
IV. U.S. Response
V. Living With the Bomb
VI. The Bomb Today
Aldous Huxley
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Bataan Death March
Curbing Grief (Mar. 30)
I. Historical Changes
II. Grief and Mourning
III. Medicalization
IV. Funeral Directors
Amy Vanderbilt
Geoffrey Gorer
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Fit-A-Fut Oxford
Burial Practices (Apr. 1)
I. Cemeteries
A. Landscape-Lawn Plan
B. Memorial Parks
II. Pet Cemeteries
III. Parody and Criticism
IV. Cremation
V. Burial Today
Adolph Strauch
Glendale
Hubert Eaton
potter's field
Jessica Mitford
Henry Laurens
mausoleums
The Death Penalty (Apr. 6)
I. History
II. Supreme Court Decisions
III. Public Opinion
IV. Death Row
George Kendall
Furman v. Georgia (1972)
William Brennan
Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
David Baldus
McClesky v. Kemp (1987)
Wili Otey
Terror and Memorialization (Apr. 8)
I. World War One
II. Vietnam Veterans Memorial
III. September 11
Thiepval
Battle of the Somme
Maya Lin
Physician-Assisted Suicide (Apr. 13)
I. History
II. Concerns Today
III. "Right to Die"
IV. Jack Kevorkian
euthanasia
Hippocrates
Karen Ann Quinlan
Kathleen Foley
Dax Cowart
Derek Humphry
Hemlock Society
Timothy Quill
A Death of One's Own (Apr. 15)
Jim Witcher
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
Kitty Rayl
Death with Dignity Act
AIDS and Hospice (Apr. 20)
I. History of AIDS
II. Impact
III. History of Hospice
IV. Impact
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
pneumocystis (PCP)
Kaposi's sarcoma (KS)
Legionnaire's disease
Fred Phelps
antiretroviral (ARV) therapy
Cicely Saunders
Florence Wald
The Good Death Today (Apr. 22)
I. History
II. Dying Today
A. Morrie Schwartz
B. Cardinal Joseph Bernardin
C. A New Orthodoxy?
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)