#1232 - Shannon Bontrager

Shannon Bontrager is a professor of history at Georgia Highlands College in Cartersville. He teaches US history, world history, and Western civilization survey courses and writes about cultural memory and American empire in locations where the military and civilian populations overlap. His new book, Death at the Edges of Empire: Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American Nation, 1863-1921, follows the unfolding technology and methodology of how Americans remembered (and forgot) the military dead from the Civil War to the First World War.