American Resting Place Four Hundred Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds

Name: American Resting Place Four Hundred Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds
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ISBN: 9780618624270

ISBN-10: 0618624279

ISBN-13: 9780618624270

Edition: 2008

Authors: Marilyn Yalom, Reid S. Yalom

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A sweeping history of America as seen through its gravestones, graveyards, and burial practices, stunningly illustrated with eighty black-and-white photographs Cemeteries and burial grounds, as illuminated by an acclaimed cultural historian, are unique windows onto our religious, ethnic, and deeply human history as Americans. The dedicated mother-son team of Marilyn and Reid Yalom visited hundreds of cemeteries to create The American Resting Place, following a coast-to-coast trajectory that mirrors the vast historical pattern of American migration. Yalom's incisive, often poignant exploration of gravestone inscriptions reveal changing ideas about death and personal identity, and demonstrate…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 5/15/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Reid S. Yalom is a contributor for the following Houghton Mifflin Company Title: The American Resting Place



Photo Portfolio


Preface: Tombstones to Live By



Claiming the Land



Marking the Grave



Solidarity in the Cemetery



Distancing the Dead



Death's-Heads and Funeral Gloves: Boston, Massachusetts



"Gone Are the Living, but the Dead Remain": Newport, Rhode Island



Cemeteries as Real Estate: New York City



Plain and Fancy: Philadelphia and Lancaster County



The Southern Way of Death: South Carolina and Georgia



New Orleans: Where It's Better to Be Buried above Ground



Rituals of Remembrance: St. Louis and the Boonslick



Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in Underground Chicago



Celebrating the Dead in Polyglot Texas



California: Missionaries, Miners, Moguls, and Movie Stars



Who Owns the Bones? Sites and Rites in Hawaii



National Military Cemeteries



Old and New Fashions in Death


Endnotes


Acknowledgments


Selected Bibliography


Index