The American Resting Place: 400 Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds
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Traces the 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, gender, and class.
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