On Memorial Day, we pay public tribute to those who lost their lives fighting for our country. But how do we live with the memory of the dead the rest of the year? The Civil War killed more soldiers than all other wars from the Revolution to Korea combined. In her 2008 book, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War — one of the best books you will read this year — historian Drew Gilpin Faust writes about the impacts of these unprecedented levels of death on 19th-century Americans. In this interview with Back Story with the American History Guys, Faust, the President of Harvard University, talks about how the Civil War altered the American way of dying. [Book tip thanks to Billy Shand.]