Erin Kimmerle, Ph.D., is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of South Florida, and executive director of the Florida Institute of Forensic Anthropology and Applied Science at USF. In We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys (William Morrow), she presents a searing and heartbreaking account of the Arthur G. Dozier Boys School. A well-guarded secret in Florida – until reports of cruelty, abuse, and “mysterious” deaths could no longer be squelched – the institution was shut down in 2011. Established in 1900, the juvenile reform school accepted children as young as 6 for crimes as harmless as truancy or trespassing. The boys sent there were subject to brutal abuse, routinely hired out to local farmers by school management as indentured labor, and died either at the school or in attempting to escape its brutal conditions. After Dozier closed, Kimmerle stepped in to locate the school’s graveyard and determine who and how many were buried there. The school’s accounting suggested there were 31 boys in unmarked graves; the actual number was at least twice that. In spite of residents and local law enforcement threatening and harassing Kimmerle and her team on their task, what’s emerged from their work is an indictment of the reform school system – and a reckoning with racism and shame in the legacy of America.