Today we continue our history of American cemeteries by exploring the ideological, religious, and artistic origins of the rural cemetery movement in America. We explore the development of Perl Lachaise in Paris and how that idea was adapted to fit the growing United States. This episode will explore what made rural/garden cemeteries different, and why they continue to capture the American imagination almost 190 years after Mount Auburn was founded. 

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Select Bibliography:

• Rotundo, Barbara, "Mount Auburn Cemetery: A Proper Boston Institution". Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 22 No. 3, July 1974.
• French, Stanley, "The Cemetery as a Cultural Institution: The Establishment of Mount Auburn and the 'Rural Cemetery' Movement".  American Quarterly, Vol. 26 No. 1, 1974.
• Sachs, Aaron, "American Arcadia: Mount Auburn Cemetery and the Nineteenth Century Landscape Tradition." Environmental History, Vol. 15 No. 2, April, 2010.
• Sloane, David Charles, "Memory and Landscape: Nature and the History of the American Cemetery." SiteLINES: A Journal of Place, Vol. 6 No.1, Fall 2010.
• Linden-Ward, Blanche, Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery. (University of Massachusetts Press, 1989).
• Linden-Ward, Blanche and Sloane, David C., "Spring Grove: The Founding of Cincinnati's Rural Cemetery, 1845-1855".  Queen City Heritage, Vol. 43. No. 1, Spring 1985.
• Linden-Ward, Blanche, "Strange but Genteel Pleasure Grounds: Tourist and Leisure Uses of Nineteenth-Century Rural Cemeteries". 
• Sharp, Frederick A.,  "The Garden Cemetery and American Sculpture: Mount Auburn". 
• Rainey, Reuben M., "Therapeutic Landscapes: America's Nineteenth-Century Rural Cemeteries." View, No. 10, Summer, 2010.
• Williams, Tate, "In the Garden Cemetery: The Revival of America's First Urban Parks". American Forests, Spring/Summer 2014.
• Batey, Mavis, "The Picturesque: An Overview." Garden History, Vol. 22 No. 1, Winter 1994.
• Birdsall, Richard D., " The Second Great Awakening and the New England Social Order." Church History, Vol. 39. No. 3, September, 1970.
• Cott, Nancy F., "Young Women in the Second Great Awakening in New England." Feminist Studies, Vol. 3 No. 1/2, Autumn 1975.
• Mathews, Donald G.,  "The Second Great Awakening as an Organizing Process, 1780-1830: An Hypothesis." American Quarterly, Vol. 21 No. 1, Spring, 1969.
• Shiels, Richard D., "The Scope of the Second Great Awakening: Andover, Massachusetts, as a Case Study." Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 5. No. 2, Summer, 1985.

Today we begin a three-part series telling the history of American cemeteries. We explore the origins of American burial traditions in Europe, how Puritan theology and Calvinist doctrine shaped burial practices in New England, how the location of Puritan burial grounds shaped early city planning, and how the Grove Street Burial Ground in New Haven, Connecticut marked a landmark moment in American history as it became the first incorporated cemetery in the young country.

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Select Bibliography:

• Stannard, David, The Puritan Way of Death. (Oxford University Press, 1977).
• Stannard, David, "Death and the Puritan Child". American Quarterly, Vol. 26. No. 5, 1974.
• Rogak, Lisa, Stones and Bones of New England: A Guide to Unusual, Historic, and Otherwise Notable Cemeteries.  (The Globe Pequot Press, 2004).
• Sinnott, Edmund W., Meetinghouse & Church in Early New England: The Puritan Tradition as Reflected in their Architecture,  History, Builders, & Ministers. (Bonanza Books, 1963).

On Episode 1 of Tomb With A View get to know your hosts, the Graveyard Girls, Liz Clappin and Ashley Shares. Learn how they became fascinated with cemeteries and have turned that fascination into careers they are passionate about. Why are cemeteries important? What makes American cemeteries unique? Why are we doing a podcast dedicated solely to them? Join us on our journey through all things cemetery on Tomb With A View.