Shannon Bontrager interview

<p>Tonight’s guest is historian Shannon Bontrager. Shannon is a professor of history at Georgia Highlands College in Cartersville, GA however he was born and raised in Michigan and taught for a time at Central Michigan University. Shannon even taught for a year in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan at the New English School in Amman, the capital.</p> <p>In 2012 Shannon Bontrager contributed an article for the Journal of the Early Republic which is now available on Amazon. Then, in February 2020, Shannon published his first book “Death at the Edges of the Empire: Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American Nation, 1863 to 1921. This book studies the culture of death, burial, and commemoration of American war dead from the Civil War to the immediate aftermath of World War One and how America used this newly created culture to forge new political identities and come to terms with its newly found imperial ambitions.</p>