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The American Cemetery An Address Delivered At The Dedication Of Green Hill Cemetery Etc
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Book Synopsis The American Cemetery. An Address Delivered at the Dedication of Green Hill Cemetery, Etc by : Amory Dwight MAYO
Download or read book The American Cemetery. An Address Delivered at the Dedication of Green Hill Cemetery, Etc written by Amory Dwight MAYO and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Characteristically American by : Joy Giguere
Download or read book Characteristically American written by Joy Giguere and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to the nineteenth century, few Americans knew anything more of Egyptian culture than what could be gained from studying the biblical Exodus. Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt at the end of the eighteenth century, however, initiated a cultural breakthrough for Americans as representations of Egyptian culture flooded western museums and publications, sparking a growing interest in all things Egyptian that was coined Egyptomania. As Egyptomania swept over the West, a relatively young America began assimilating Egyptian culture into its own national identity, creating a hybrid national heritage that would vastly affect the memorial landscape of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Far more than a study of Egyptian revivalism, this book examines the Egyptian style of commemoration from the rural cemetery to national obelisks to the Sphinx at Mount Auburn Cemetery. Giguere argues that Americans adopted Egyptian forms of commemoration as readily as other neoclassical styles such as Greek revivalism, noting that the American landscape is littered with monuments that define the Egyptian style’s importance to American national identity. Of particular interest is perhaps America’s greatest commemorative obelisk: the Washington Monument. Standing at 555 feet high and constructed entirely of stone—making it the tallest obelisk in the world—the Washington Monument represents the pinnacle of Egyptian architecture’s influence on America’s desire to memorialize its national heroes by employing monumental forms associated with solidity and timelessness. Construction on the monument began in 1848, but controversy over its design, which at one point included a Greek colonnade surrounding the obelisk, and the American Civil War halted construction until 1877. Interestingly, Americans saw the completion of the Washington Monument after the Civil War as a mending of the nation itself, melding Egyptian commemoration with the reconstruction of America. As the twentieth century saw the rise of additional commemorative obelisks, the Egyptian Revival became ensconced in American national identity. Egyptian-style architecture has been used as a form of commemoration in memorials for World War I and II, the civil rights movement, and even as recently as the 9/11 remembrances. Giguere places the Egyptian style in a historical context that demonstrates how Americans actively sought to forge a national identity reminiscent of Egyptian culture that has endured to the present day.
Book Synopsis Grave Landscapes by : James R. Cothran
Download or read book Grave Landscapes written by James R. Cothran and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing urban populations prompted major changes in graveyard location, design, and use During the Industrial Revolution people flocked to American cities. Overcrowding in these areas led to packed urban graveyards that were not only unsightly, but were also a source of public health fears. The solution was a revolutionary new type of American burial ground located in the countryside just beyond the city. This rural cemetery movement, which featured beautifully landscaped grounds and sculptural monuments, is documented by James R. Cothran and Erica Danylchak in Grave Landscapes: The Nineteenth-Century Rural Cemetery Movement. The movement began in Boston, where a group of reformers that included members of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society were grappling with the city's mounting burial crisis. Inspired by the naturalistic garden style and melancholy-infused commemorative landscapes that had emerged in Europe, the group established a burial ground outside of Boston on an expansive tract of undulating, wooded land and added meandering roadways, picturesque ponds, ornamental trees and shrubs, and consoling memorials. They named it Mount Auburn and officially dedicated it as a rural cemetery. This groundbreaking endeavor set a powerful precedent that prompted the creation of similarly landscaped rural cemeteries outside of growing cities first in the Northeast, then in the Midwest and South, and later in the West. These burial landscapes became a cultural phenomenon attracting not only mourners seeking solace, but also urbanites seeking relief from the frenetic confines of the city. Rural cemeteries predated America's public parks, and their popularity as picturesque retreats helped propel America's public parks movement. This beautifully illustrated volume features more than 150 historic photographs, stereographs, postcards, engravings, maps, and contemporary images that illuminate the inspiration for rural cemeteries, their physical evolution, and the nature of the landscapes they inspired. Extended profiles of twenty-four rural cemeteries reveal the cursive design features of this distinctive landscape type prior to the American Civil War and its evolution afterward. Grave Landscapes details rural cemetery design characteristics to facilitate their identification and preservation and places rural cemeteries into the broader context of American landscape design to encourage appreciation of their broader influence on the design of public spaces.
Book Synopsis Awaiting the Heavenly Country by : Mark S. Schantz
Download or read book Awaiting the Heavenly Country written by Mark S. Schantz and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Americans came to fight the Civil War in the midst of a wider cultural world that sent them messages about death that made it easier to kill and to be killed. They understood that death awaited all who were born and prized the ability to face death with a spirit of calm resignation. They believed that a heavenly eternity of transcendent beauty awaited them beyond the grave. They knew that their heroic achievements would be cherished forever by posterity. They grasped that death itself might be seen as artistically fascinating and even beautiful."-from Awaiting the Heavenly Country How much loss can a nation bear? An America in which 620,000 men die at each other's hands in a war at home is almost inconceivable to us now, yet in 1861 American mothers proudly watched their sons, husbands, and fathers go off to war, knowing they would likely be killed. Today, the death of a soldier in Iraq can become headline news; during the Civil War, sometimes families did not learn of their loved ones' deaths until long after the fact. Did antebellum Americans hold their lives so lightly, or was death so familiar to them that it did not bear avoiding? In Awaiting the Heavenly Country, Mark S. Schantz argues that American attitudes and ideas about death helped facilitate the war's tremendous carnage. Asserting that nineteenth-century attitudes toward death were firmly in place before the war began rather than arising from a sense of resignation after the losses became apparent, Schantz has written a fascinating and chilling narrative of how a society understood death and reckoned the magnitude of destruction it was willing to tolerate. Schantz addresses topics such as the pervasiveness of death in the culture of antebellum America; theological discourse and debate on the nature of heaven and the afterlife; the rural cemetery movement and the inheritance of the Greek revival; death as a major topic in American poetry; African American notions of death, slavery, and citizenship; and a treatment of the art of death-including memorial lithographs, postmortem photography and Rembrandt Peale's major exhibition painting The Court of Death. Awaiting the Heavenly Country is essential reading for anyone wanting a deeper understanding of the Civil War and the ways in which antebellum Americans comprehended death and the unimaginable bloodshed on the horizon.
Book Synopsis Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870 by :
Download or read book Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870 written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Widener Library Shelflist: American history by : Harvard University. Library
Download or read book Widener Library Shelflist: American history written by Harvard University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Rural Cemetery Movement by : Jeffrey Smith
Download or read book The Rural Cemetery Movement written by Jeffrey Smith and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mount Auburn opened as the first “rural” cemetery in the United States in 1831, it represented a new way for Americans to think about burial sites. It broke with conventional notions about graveyards as places to bury and commemorate the dead. Rather, the founders of Mount Auburn and the spate of similar cemeteries that followed over the next three decades before the Civil War created institutions that they envisioned being used by the living in new ways. Cemeteries became places for leisure, communing with nature, and creating a version of collective memory. In fact, these cemeteries reflected changing values and attitudes of Americans spanning much of the nineteenth century. In the process, they became paradoxical: they were “rural” yet urban, natural yet designed, artistic yet industrial, commemorating the dead yet used by the living. The Rural Cemetery Movement: Places of Paradox in Nineteenth-Century America breaks new ground in the history of cemeteries in the nineteenth century. This book examines these “rural” cemeteries modeled after Mount Auburn that were founded between the 1830s and 1850s. As such, it provides a new way of thinking about these spaces and new paradigm for seeing and visiting them. While they fulfilled the sacred function of burial, they were first and foremost businesses. The landscape and design, regulation of gravestones, appearance, and rhetoric furthered their role as a business that provided necessary services in cities that went well beyond merely burying bodies. They provided urban green spaces and respites from urban life, established institutions where people could craft their roles in collective memory, and served as prototypes for both urban planning and city parks. These cemeteries grew and thrived in the second half of the nineteenth century; for most, the majority of their burials came before 1910. This expansion of cemeteries coincided with profound urban growth in the United States. Unlike their predecessors, founders of these burial grounds intended them to be used in many ways that reflected their views and values about nature, life and death, and relationships. Emphasis on worldly accomplishments increased with industrialization and growth in the United States, which was reflected in changing ways people commemorated their dead during the period under this study. Thus, these cemeteries are a prism through which to understand the values, attitudes, and culture of urban America from mid-century through the Progressive Era.
Book Synopsis General catalogue of printed books by : British museum. Dept. of printed books
Download or read book General catalogue of printed books written by British museum. Dept. of printed books and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army by : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Download or read book Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-general's Office, United States Army (-United States Army, Army Medical Library; -National Library of Medicine). by : Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)
Download or read book Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-general's Office, United States Army (-United States Army, Army Medical Library; -National Library of Medicine). written by Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Gazette of the Union, Golden Rule, and Odd Fellows' Family Companion by :
Download or read book The Gazette of the Union, Golden Rule, and Odd Fellows' Family Companion written by and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Cemetery written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American by : Robert Ellis Thompson
Download or read book The American written by Robert Ellis Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American State Reports by : Abraham Clark Freeman
Download or read book The American State Reports written by Abraham Clark Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Park and Cemetery and Landscape Garderning by :
Download or read book Park and Cemetery and Landscape Garderning written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Resting Places written by Scott Wilson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 887 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its third edition, this massive reference work lists the final resting places of more than 14,000 people from a wide range of fields, including politics, the military, the arts, crime, sports and popular culture. Many entries are new to this edition. Each listing provides birth and death dates, a brief summary of the subject's claim to fame and their burial site location or as much as is known. Grave location within a cemetery is provided in many cases, as well as places of cremation and sites where ashes were scattered. Source information is provided.
Book Synopsis Harper's Book of Facts by : Charlton Thomas Lewis
Download or read book Harper's Book of Facts written by Charlton Thomas Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
