Angela Esco Elder is Associate Professor of History at Converse University. This interview is based on her new book, Love and Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss (The University of North Carolina Press, 2022). JF: What led...
mourning
The end of life
Here is a taste of Jonathan Lear‘s “We Will Not Be Missed!” It is a wonderful essay on mourning. Just before the pandemic set in, I listened to a lecture on climate change. The lecture went as one might expect....