Print version: Bontrager, Shannon. Death at the edges of empire : fallen soldiers, cultural memory, and the making of an American nation, 1863-1921. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2020 302 pages Studies in war, society, and the military. ISBN 9781496201843
Extensive and substantial revision of the author’s thesis (doctoral)--Georgia State University, 2011 titled Nationalizing the dead : the contested making of an American commemorative tradition from the Civil War to the Great War