American Burial Ground Lynn Hard Kurihara's life provides a window

Kurihara's life provides a window into the history of Japanese Americans during the first half of the twentieth century

Toshihiro Higuchi argues that the PTBT

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unique insight into American cultural makeup and identity

American Burial Ground Lynn Hard Kurihara's life provides a windowIn popular mythology, the Overland Trail is typically a triumphant tale, with plucky easterners crossing the Plains in caravans of covered wagons. But not everyone reached Oregon and California. Some 6,600 migrants perished along the way and were buried where they fell, often on Indigenous land. As historian Sarah Keyes illuminates, their graves ultimately became the seeds of U. S. expansion. By the 1850s, cholera epidemics, ordinary diseases, and