American Burial Ground
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Rest In Peace
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Author : Meg Greene
language : en
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Release Date : 2008-01-01
Rest In Peace written by Meg Greene and has been published by Twenty-First Century Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Presents a history of cemeteries in the United States, from early burial grounds to the landcaped designs of the nineteenth century to alternative methods of burial designed for the twenty-first century.
The American Resting Place
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Author : Marilyn Yalom
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2008-05-15
The American Resting Place written by Marilyn Yalom and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-15 with Social Science categories.
An illustrated cultural history of America through the lens of its gravestones and burial practices—featuring eighty black-and-white photographs. In The American Resting Place, cultural historian Marilyn Yalom and her son, photographer Reid Yalom, visit more than 250 cemeteries across the United States. Following a coast-to-coast trajectory that mirrors the historical pattern of American migration, their destinations highlight America’s cultural and ethnic diversity as well as the evolution of burials rites over the centuries. Yalom’s incisive reading of gravestone inscriptions reveals changing ideas about death and personal identity, as well as how class and gender play out in stone. Rich particulars include the story of one seventeenth-century Bostonian who amassed a thousand pairs of gloves in his funeral-going lifetime, the unique burial rites and funerary symbols found in today’s Native American cultures, and a “lost” Czech community brought uncannily to life in Chicago’s Bohemian National Columbarium. From fascinating past to startling future—DVDs embedded in tombstones, “green” burials, and “the new aesthetic of death”—The American Resting Place is the definitive history of the American cemetery.
American Burial Ground
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Author : Sarah Keyes
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2023-12-19
American Burial Ground written by Sarah Keyes and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-19 with History categories.
In popular mythology, the Overland Trail is typically a triumphant tale, with plucky easterners crossing the Plains in caravans of covered wagons. But not everyone reached Oregon and California. Some 6,600 migrants perished along the way and were buried where they fell, often on Indigenous land. As historian Sarah Keyes illuminates, their graves ultimately became the seeds of U.S. expansion. By the 1850s, cholera epidemics, ordinary diseases, and violence had remade the Trail into an American burial ground that imbued migrant deaths with symbolic power. In subsequent decades, U.S. officials and citizens leveraged Trail graves to claim Native ground. Meanwhile, Indigenous peoples pointed to their own sacred burial grounds to dispute these same claims and maintain their land. These efforts built on anti-removal campaigns of the 1820s and 30s, which had established the link between death and territorial claims on which the significance of the Overland Trail came to rest. In placing death at the center of the history of the Overland Trail, American Burial Ground offers a sweeping and long overdue reinterpretation of this historic touchstone. In this telling, westward migration was a harrowing journey weighed down by the demands of caring for the sick and dying. From a tale of triumph comes one of struggle, defined as much by Indigenous peoples' actions as it was by white expansion. And, finally, from a migration to the Pacific emerges instead one of a trail of graves. Graves that ultimately undergirded Native dispossession.
Lay Down Body
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Author : Roberta Hughes Wright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Lay Down Body written by Roberta Hughes Wright and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
Recounting the struggles of African-American people to maintain some vestige of their African-American heritage through funeral rites and ownership of their burial grounds, these compelling stories provide background information on cemeteries in the U.S. and Canada--how and when they were founded, who is buried there and the ongoing battle to maintain possession of them. 100 photos.
African American Historic Burial Grounds And Gravesites Of New England
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Author : Glenn A. Knoblock
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-12-10
African American Historic Burial Grounds And Gravesites Of New England written by Glenn A. Knoblock and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-10 with Social Science categories.
Evidence of the early history of African Americans in New England is found in the many old cemeteries and burial grounds in the region, often in hidden or largely forgotten locations. This unique work covers the burial sites of African Americans--both enslaved and free--in each of the New England states, and uncovers how they came to their final resting places. The lives of well known early African Americans are discussed, including Venture Smith and Elizabeth Freeman, as well as the lives of many ordinary individuals--military veterans, business men and women, common laborers and children. The author's examination of burial sites and grave markers reveals clues that help document the lives of black New Englanders from the 1640s to the early 1900s.
Ethnicity And The American Cemetery
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Author : Richard E. Meyer
language : en
Publisher: Popular Press
Release Date : 1993
Ethnicity And The American Cemetery written by Richard E. Meyer and has been published by Popular Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
Contributing authors illustrate the book's interdisciplinary focus, with representation from, among others, the fields of folklore, cultural history, historical archeology landscape architecture, and philosophy, heavily illustrated, the volume also features an introductory essay by editor Richard E. Meyer and an extensive annotated bibliography.
The African Burial Ground In New York City
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Author : Andrea E. Frohne
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2015-11-09
The African Burial Ground In New York City written by Andrea E. Frohne and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-09 with History categories.
In 1991, archaeologists in lower Manhattan unearthed a stunning discovery. Buried for more than 200 years was a communal cemetery containing the remains of up to 20,000 people. At roughly 6.6 acres, the African Burial Ground is the largest and earliest known burial space of African descendants in North America. In the years that followed its discovery, citizens and activists fought tirelessly to demand respectful treatment of eighteenth-century funerary remains and sacred ancestors. After more than a decade of political battle—on local and national levels—and scientific research at Howard University, the remains were eventually reburied on the site in 2003. Capturing the varied perspectives and the emotional tenor of the time, Frohne narrates the story of the African Burial Ground and the controversies surrounding urban commemoration. She analyzes both its colonial and contemporary representations, drawing on colonial era maps, prints, and land surveys to illuminate the forgotten and hidden visual histories of a mostly enslaved population buried in the African Burial Ground. Tracing the history and identity of the area from a forgotten site to a contested and negotiated space, Frohne situates the burial ground within the context of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century race relations in New York City to reveal its enduring presence as a spiritual place.
Silent Cities
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Author : Kenneth T. Jackson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Silent Cities written by Kenneth T. Jackson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Cemeteries categories.
Urban historian Kenneth Jackson (The Encyclopedia of New York) and photographer Camilo Vergara collaborate to present a fascinating and beautiful examination of the American cemetery.
Battlefields And Burial Grounds
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Author : Roger C. Echo-Hawk
language : en
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Release Date : 1994
Battlefields And Burial Grounds written by Roger C. Echo-Hawk and has been published by Lerner Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Antiquities categories.
The Indian Struggle to Protect Ancestral Graves in,the United States,.
American Memorials And Overseas Military Cemeteries
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
American Memorials And Overseas Military Cemeteries written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Government publications categories.
There are twenty-four permanent Americana burial grounds, fourteen separate monuments and two tablets on foreign soil.