The American Resting Place

The American Resting Place
Author: Marilyn Yalom
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780618624270

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Traces the four-hundred-year history of America through its gravestones, graveyards, and burial practices, in an illustrated study that follows the historic pattern of American immigration to reveal changing ideas about death, personal identity, gender, class, economic status, ethnic burial rites, and more.


The American Resting Place
Language: en
Pages: 421
Authors: Marilyn Yalom
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-05-15 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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An illustrated cultural history of America through the lens of its gravestones and burial practices—featuring eighty black-and-white photographs. In The Ameri
The Resting Place
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Pages: 348
Authors: Camilla Sten
Categories: Fiction
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Language: en
Pages: 226
Authors: Nancy Lawson
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In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyard
Final Resting Place
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Jonathan F. Putnam
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-10 - Publisher: Crooked Lane Books

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Twenty-nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln has spent his entire adult life running from his past—from the poverty of the dirt-floor log cabin where he was raised, f
Rest in Peace
Language: en
Pages: 116
Authors: Meg Greene
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-01-01 - Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books

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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 bu