Preserved: A Cultural History of the Funeral Home in AmericaA spirited look at how funeral homes impacted American consumerism, the built environment, and national identities. Funeral homesthose grand, aging mansions repurposed into spaces for embalming, merchandising, funeral services, and housing for the funeral director and their familyare immediately recognizable features of the American landscape, and yet the history of how these spaces emerged remains largely untold. In Preserved, Dean Lampros uses the