{"product_id":"this-haunted-land-reckoning-with-ghosts-and-the-stories-that-shape-america-9798890920478","title":"This Haunted Land: Reckoning with Ghosts and the Stories That Shape America","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhy do humans need ghosts? And what do ghosts have to teach us?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gaines Quammen deftly guides us through the house of horrors that is America's colonial past.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--ANNETTE MCGIVNEY, \u003ci\u003ePlastic Shaman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThis Haunted Land\u003c\/i\u003e, Betsy Gaines Quammen investigates some of America's most enduring ghost stories and uncovers how ghost stories can help us come to terms with our unsettled past. With curiosity, a bit of skepticism, and an open-hearted willingness to learn from the living and the dead, Gaines Quammen takes readers on a riveting, sometimes spooky journey into the haunted towns, lands, waters, and parts of history that we too often ignore. From a once-booming uranium mine community now entombed in Colorado's Mesa County, to America's oldest fort on the east coast of Florida, \u003ci\u003eThis Haunted Land\u003c\/i\u003e interweaves memory, mourning, folklore, and social anxiety--and shows that politicized efforts to rewrite history can be defeated by listening to the specters of the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Torrey House Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798890920478\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250","brand":"Betsy Gaines Quammen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52774261948597,"sku":"9798890920478","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/this-haunted-land-reckoning-with-ghosts-and-the-stories-that-shape-america-9798890920478","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}