Micki McElya is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. Her latest book is The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
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Micki McElya is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. Her latest book is The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
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