Friday, January 3, 9:30–11:30 a.m.
American Historical Association Annual Meeting Sessions
27. Inventing a Tradition: Cremation in Britain, Germany, and the United States, 1880–1970
Palmer House, Private Dining Room 9
Joint session with the Conference Group for Central European History
Chair: Ann G. Carmichael, Indiana University
Papers: "The Progress of Cremation" in Twentieth-Century Britain:
Comparing the Interwar and Postwar Periods
Lisa A. Kazmier, Rutgers University at New Brunswick
The Politics and Aesthetics of Burial: Cremation Promotion in Imperial
Germany
Timothy S. Pursell, University of Alaska at Fairbanks
Body, Body, Burning Bright: Cremation in Victorian America
Eric T. L. Love, University of Colorado at Boulder
Comment: Ann G. Carmichael
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