GRAVESTONES AND BURYING GROUNDS: SYLLABUS

September 4 Introduction to the course
University convocation
September 6 An introduction to gravestones as material culture
Assignment: Cemeteries & Gravemarkers, Foreword & Introduction
September 11 Puritans In New England
Assignment: Graven Images, Foreword & Introduction
September 13 Class visit to the North Burial Ground, Providence
Assignment: Sterling, "History of North Burial Ground" (reserve)
September 18 Puritan Religion
Assignment: Graven Images, pp. 21-64
September 20 Puritan Iconography
Assignment: Graven Images, pp. 65-238
September 25 Sources of New England Styles
Assignment: Graven Images pp. 239-431
September 27 The Craft of Gravestone Cutting
Assign, Deetz, "Remember Me as You Pass By" In Small Things Forgotten (reserve)
October 2 Artifacts as Tangible Manifestations of Shared Mental Structures
Assign St. George "Style & Structure in Joinery" in Winterthur Portfolio 13 (reserve)
October 4 Class visit to the RISD Museum
Assign St. George "Style & Structure in Joinery" in Winterthur Portfolio 13 (reserve)
October 9 Style as Evidence of Cultural Change
Assignment: Prown, "Style as Evidence" in Winterthur Portfolio 15 (reserve)
October 11 Class visit to St. John's burial ground, Providence
Assignment: gravestone/furniture paper due
October 16 New England gravestones and the Neoclassical style
Assign: Linden-Ward, "An American Sensibility" in Silent City on a Hill (reserve)
October 18 midterm examination
October 23 The Rural Cemetery Movement
Assignment: Linden-Ward, "The Cemetery Idea" in Silent City on a Hill (reserve)
October 25 The Rural Cemetery Movement
Assign: Linden-Ward, "Leisure Uses," in Meyer, Cemeteries and Gravemarkers
October 30 Class visit to Swan Point Cemetery
Assignment: Snyder, " Children's Gravemarkers" and Rotondo, "Monumental Bronze," in Meyer, Cemeteries and Gravemarkers
November 1 New Orleans Cemetery Architecture
Assignment: McDowell, "French Sources" in Meyer, Cemeteries and Gravemarkers
November 6 Multiculturalism in Eighteenth-Century New England
Assignment: Tashjian, "Afro-American Burying Ground" in Cemeteries & Gravemarkers research proposals due
November 8 Multiculturalism in Eighteenth-Century New England
Assignment: Watters, "Scotch -Irish Ethnicity" in Markers XVI (reserve)
November 13 Icons and Epitaphs in the Twentieth Century
Assignment: Rural Cemetery/Burial Ground paper due
November 15 Icons and Epitaphs in the Twentieth Century
Assign: Meyer, "Logging," and Edgette, "Epitaph," in Cemeteries & Gravemarkers
November 20 Ethnicity and Regionalism
Assignment: Cunningham, "Navajo Graves," and Gosnell & Scott, "Love and Loss," in Meyer, Cemeteries and Graveyards
November 22 Thanksgiving
November 27 Ethnicity and Regionalism
Assignment: Meyer, "Ethnic Cemeteries" and Matturri, "Windows in the Garden," in Meyer, Ethnicity and the American Cemetery (reserve)
November 29 Ethnicity and Regionalism
Assignment: Graves, "Keeping Ukraine Alive" and Kiest, "Czech Cemeteries," in Meyer, Ethnicity and the American Cemetery (reserve)
December 4 Ethnicity and Regionalism
Assignment: Halporn, "American Jewish Cemeteries" and Barber, "The Agua Mansa Cemetery" in Meyer, Ethnicity and the American Cemetery (reserve)
December 6 final reports
December 11 final reports