Dr. Jeffrey Smith

Dr. Smith is Senior Professor of History at Lindenwood University in the St. Louis area, and editor of The Confluence, a regional studies journal in a magazine format. Smith is author of The Rural Cemetery Movement: Places of Paradox in Nineteenth-Century America. Most recently, he was a contributor to Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed (“Till Death Keeps Us Apart: Segregated Cemeteries and Social Values in St. Louis, Missouri”) and in the forthcoming Monuments, Memory, and Commemoration (“Cemeteries and the Lost Cause”) and Southern Cemeteries, Imprints of Southern Culture (“Confederates in the Graveyard: Southern Identity and the Rural Cemetery Movement”).