Shannon Bontrager's guest appearances

Shannon Bontrager

New Books in History

New Books in Military History

New Books in American Studies

New Books Network

Thecuriousmanspodcast

Out Of The Blank

Behind the Book

Tom Cooper

Brian Murphy

Sebastian Junger

Michael Scott Moore

Jonathan Green

Mark Adams

David Gessner

Chris Martin

Valerie Plame

Michael Benson

James Campbell

Edward Carey

John Harris

Emma Loewe

William Hazelgrove

OwlTail

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.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/out-of-the-blank/support

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.--- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/out-of-the-blank/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/out-of-the-blank/support</a>

#1232 - Shannon Bontrager

 Matt Crawford speaks with author Shannon Bontrager about his book Death at the Edges of Empire. How has the burial and commemoration of our war dead shaped our history and our culture? What was Lincoln promising to those who died on the Civil War battlefields in his Gettysburg Address? Bontrager examines these aspects of our past and explains how they continue to shape the lens through which we view our past. A fresh and captivating look at a piece of our history I hadn't understood until reading this book.

Matt Crawford speaks with author Shannon Bontrager about his book Death at the Edges of Empire. How has the burial and commemoration of our war dead shaped our history and our culture? What was Lincoln promising to those who died on the Civil War battlefields in his Gettysburg Address? Bontrager examines these aspects of our past and explains how they continue to shape the lens through which we view our past. A fresh and captivating look at a piece of our history I hadn't understood until reading this book.

Shannon Bontrager Interview Episode 23