Jeffrey Smith

Jeffrey Smith is professor emeritus of history now living in St. Louis, Missouri. He is author of The Rural Cemetery Movement: Places of Paradox in Nineteenth-Century America (2017), “‘Every Soldier’s Grave a Shrine’: Confederate Cemetery Monuments,” in Monuments, Memory, and Commemoration: Opportunities, Challenges, and Controversies 92023), and “Till Death Keeps Us Apart: Segregation and Social Values in Cemeteries in St. Louis, Missouri,” in Till Death Do Us Part: Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed (2020). He has written widely on cemeteries and commemoration for publications including the Washington Post, History News, and the History News Network. He is a member of the board of directors of the Fr. Moses Dickson Cemetery, a historic African American cemetery on the National Register of Historic Places. He is currently completing a book manuscript, Grave Mistakes: Uses and Misuses of Cemeteries in America.