The American Resting Place: 400 Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds

The American Resting Place: 400 Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds

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 illumin…

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