Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries

U.S. Naval Academy

Greg Melville taught English at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he was the lone recipient of the school’s Apgar Award for Teaching Excellence in 2019. An author and journalist, Melville’s writing has appeared in top publications including Men’s Health, National Geographic Traveler, and The New York Times. He is the author of the acclaimed environmental book Greasy Rider, as well as his most recent work Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries.

 

Overview

Cemeteries offer an unfiltered perspective on American history, regarding race, religion, art, economics, public health, war, culture, and pop culture. But in many respects, they’re dying — due to the rise of cremations, demand for space, lack of resources, and even erasure. This course will take students on a through-the-centuries tour of American burial grounds, from Jamestown in Virginia to the future, infinite realm of digital immortality.

 

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Raul Caceres

Over my dead body

Great talk.

8 months ago
barbara ann.fields

Fascinating

At my age,this talk has helped me in deciding how I want to be *buried”. It is interesting to note that racism and prejudice against the poor goes all the way to the grave.
I have visited a cemetery for an artist field trip and it to be a beautiful and inspiring place

8 months ago
cvbrown

cemeteries

Greg Melville did a great presentation with information not well know or understood. Thank you for the opportunity to hear this

6 months ago
david.farmbrough

Interesting talk, but very America-centric

I enjoyed the lecture, there was a lot about California cemeteries I didn’t know before, but there was little or no historical context on a worldwide basis.

6 months ago
ann.farlee

Choppy delivery

Interesting information that I would have rather read myself.

1 month ago
Marcos Valcarcel

History of Cementeries.Video

Mr Greg Mellville made a excelent presentation and show a good aknolege of the history of the transition of the cementeries

2 weeks ago
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