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Gravestones as History | Witchcraft
Gravestones as History
Graveyards provide a great deal of useful information about
peoples' lives in the past and the evolution of cultural ideas
about death. Why did early Americans call places for the dead "burying
grounds" or "graveyards”—not “cemeteries”? Why did
they treat graveyards as meadows, not as sacred or spooky places?
How common was death in early America and who was most likely
to die prematurely? How and why has the iconography of tombstones
change over time?
Vist a cemetary as part of investigating local history.
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