American Death Trip (1) Hurons and Fathers

ANNETTE TELLS TALES Death Has History! Riffing on a Historian's Stories of Death and Deadness in Early America

This is an Annette Tells Tales post at Non-Boring History, in which historian Dr. Annette Laing chattily retells stories from history, and especially scholarly work, to turn them into something normal people might actually want to read.

Annette's cunning plan is also to show readers, entertaining post by post, what history really is, why it’s not the s…