Sarah J. Purcell
Sarah J. Purcell is L.F. Parker Professor of History at Grinnell College and the author of Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era, among other books.
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Reconciliation Process
When Charles Sumner died in 1874, a bill he had sponsored two years earlier threatened to overshadow his legacy. More