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Death is one of the few universals in life. Everyone who is born, will die.
How do the living make peace with death?
While different cultures make peace with death in different ways, Erik Seeman joins us to investigate how white, American Protestants made their peace with death during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.
Erik Seeman is a Professor of History at the University at Buffalo. He’s an award-winning historian who has written three books on death practices in early America, including his most recent book, Speaking with the Dead in Early America.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/305
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Death is one of the few universals in life. Everyone who is born, will die.
How do the living make peace with death?
While different cultures make peace with death in different ways, Erik Seeman joins us to investigate how white, American Protestants made their peace with death during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.
Erik Seeman is a Professor of History at the University at Buffalo. He’s an award-winning historian who has written three books on death practices in early America, including his most recent book, Speaking with the Dead in Early America.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/305
Complementary Episodes
🎧 Episode 125: Terri Snyder, Death, Slavery, & Suicide in British North America
🎧 Episode 182: Douglas Winiarski, The Great Awakening in New England
🎧 Episode 214: Christopher Grasso, Skepticism & American Faith
🎧 Episode 231: Sara Georgini, The Religious Lives of the Adams Family
🎧 Episode 301: From Inoculation to Vaccination, Part 1
REQUEST A TOPIC
📨 Topic Request Form
WHEN YOU'RE READY
🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter
👩💻 Join the BFW Listener Community
LISTEN 🎧
🍎 Apple Podcasts
💚 Spotify
🎶 Amazon Music
🛜 Pandora
CONNECT
🦋 Liz on Bluesky
👩💻 Liz on LinkedIn
🛜 Liz’s Website
SAY THANKS
💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts
💚 Leave a rating on Spotify
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