Sources from Episode 134

  1. “When Is It Okay To Dig Up The Dead?,” National Geographic,  April 7, 2016. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/04/160407-archaeology-religion-repatriation-bones-skeletons.

  2. “Archaeologists Identify Bodies of Lost Leaders of Jamestown,” National Geographic, July 28, 2015 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/07/150728-jamestown-archaeology-forensics-pocahontas-history-skeletons-religion.

  3.  “Archaeology vs. Grave Robbing, Where is the Line Drawn?”  The Funeral Law Blog,  02/21/2014, https://funerallaw.typepad.com/blog/2014/02/archaeology-vs-grave-robbing-where-is-the-line-drawn-.html.

  4. “Harvard’s Colonial-Era Body-Snatching Club,” History, Oct 30, 2015 https://www.history.com/news/harvards-colonial-era-body-snatching-club.

  5. “Harvard's Habeas Corpus: Grave Robbing at Harvard Medical School,” The Crimson, Sept 28, 2017. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/9/28/grave-robbers.

  6. “When New York Medical Students Were Body Snatchers,” NY Times, April 26, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/26/nyregion/when-new-york-medical-students-were-body-snatchers.html.

  7. Michael Sappol, A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-century America (Princeton University Press, 2002).

  8. Thomas Gallagher, The Body Snatchers, American Heritage Volume 18, June 1967, Issue 4. https://www.americanheritage.com/category/article-keywords/doctors-riot-1788.

  9. “Grave Robbing and The Doctors Riot of 1788,” New York History Blog, December 20, 2016 https://newyorkhistoryblog.org/2016/12/the-doctors-riot-of-1788.

  10. “The Gory New York City Riot that Shaped American Medicine,” Smithsonianmag.com, June 17, 2014. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gory-new-york-city-riot-shaped-american-medicine-180951766.

  11. “American Resurrection and the 1788 New York Doctors’ Riot,” The Lancet, January 22, 2011. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(11)60083-4/fulltext.

  12. “The Body Trade: Cashing in on the Donated Dead,” Reuters Investigates, October 2017, https://www.reuters.com/investigates/section/usa-bodies/.

  13. “The Body-Snatching Horror of John Scott Harrison,” Mental Floss, May 2015, https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/64221/body-snatching-horror-john-scott-harrison.