Resources

These resources are available in the Brown Library System and can be accessed by all Brown students and faculty with their Brown IDs, and by others with permission. Books on Reserve: Primary Texts: Graven Images: New England Stonecarving and its Symbols, 1650-1815 by Allan I. Ludwig In Small Things Forgotten : An Archaeology of Early American Life by James Deetz Cemeteries and Gravemarkers : Voices of American Culture edited by Richard E. Meyer Secondary Texts: Markers: The Annual Journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies Volumes 1-20 Silent City on a Hill : Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery by Blanche Linden-Ward Art as Evidence: Writings on Art and Material Culture by Jules David Prown Mallet & Chisel: Gravestone Carvers of Newport, Rhode Island, in the Eighteenth Century by Vincent F. Luti Swan Point Cemetery: An Historical Walking Tour by William McKenzie Woodward Other Helpful Books: Ethnicity and the American Cemetery edited by Richard E. Meyer Silent Cities : The Evolution of the American Cemetery by Kenneth T. Jackson and Camilos José Vergara Memorials for Children of Change: The Art of Early New England Stonecarving by Dickran and Ann Tashjian "With Bodilie Eyes": Eschatological Themes in Puritan Literature and Gravestone Art by David H. Watters North Burial Ground, Providence, Rhode Island: Old Section, 1700-1848 by John E. Sterling The Last Great Necessity: Cemeteries in American History by David Charles Sloane Gravestones of Early New England and the Men Who Made Them, 1653-1800, by Harriette Merrifield Forbes Memento Mori: The Gravestones of Early Long Island, 1680-1810 by Richard F. Welch The Good Old Days: An Invitation to Memory by Ralph Jocelyn McGinnis The Masks of Orthodoxy: Folk Gravestone Carving in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, 1689-1805 by Peter Benes Early American Gravestone Art in Photographs by Francis Y. Duval Books in the Rockefeller Library (not on reserve): The Art and Mystery of Historical Archaeology : Essays in Honor of James Deetz edited by Anne Elizabeth Yentsch, Mary C. Beaudry The Art and Mystery of Historical Archaeology : Essays in Honor of James Deetz edited by Anne Elizabeth Yentsch, Mary C. Beaudry The Art and Mystery of Historical Archaeology : Essays in Honor of James Deetz edited by Anne Elizabeth Yentsch, Mary C. Beaudry Interpreting Objects and Collections edited by Susan M. Pearce Here Lies America : A Collection of Notable Graves by Nancy Eills and Parker Hayden Project Remember : A National Index of Gravesites of Notable Americans by Arthur S. Koykka The Revival Styles in American Memorial Art by Peggy McDowell and Richard E. Meyer Stories on Stone: A Book of American Epitaphs by Charles Langworthy Wallis