Ann Fabian is dean of humanities and professor of American studies and history at Rutgers University. She is the author of many books, including, most recently, The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Ghosts of the Unburied Dead1 “The Promise of a Fine Skull”2 A Native among the Headhunters3 Crania Americana4 “News from the Feegees”5 The Unburied DeadEpilogue: Brains, Bones, and GravesNotesIndex

“Ann Fabian’s latest book is fascinating, astonishingly original, and supplies significant implications for our understanding of life and death in America—among other things.  Brain capacity leads to issues of intelligence, and we all know where that leads. The subject is both curious and compelling—American studies and cultural history at its best.”

Ann Fabian is dean of humanities and professor of American studies and history at Rutgers University. She is the author of many books, including, most recently, The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Ghosts of the Unburied Dead1 “The Promise of a Fine Skull”2 A Native among the Headhunters3 Crania Americana4 “News from the Feegees”5 The Unburied DeadEpilogue: Brains, Bones, and GravesNotesIndex

“Ann Fabian’s latest book is fascinating, astonishingly original, and supplies significant implications for our understanding of life and death in America—among other things.  Brain capacity leads to issues of intelligence, and we all know where that leads. The subject is both curious and compelling—American studies and cultural history at its best.”

Ann Fabian is dean of humanities and professor of American studies and history at Rutgers University. She is the author of many books, including, most recently, The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Ghosts of the Unburied Dead1 “The Promise of a Fine Skull”2 A Native among the Headhunters3 Crania Americana4 “News from the Feegees”5 The Unburied DeadEpilogue: Brains, Bones, and GravesNotesIndex

“Ann Fabian’s latest book is fascinating, astonishingly original, and supplies significant implications for our understanding of life and death in America—among other things.  Brain capacity leads to issues of intelligence, and we all know where that leads. The subject is both curious and compelling—American studies and cultural history at its best.”