K. Krombie, tour guide at Purefinder and author of Death in New York: History and Culture of Burials, Undertakers and Executions, leads her Death in New York tour stopping at City Hall Park on Oct. 20 ...

Willem Van Swanenburg, “Death and an Arrow About to Strike the Man Down,” plate 4 from ‘Allegory of the Misuse of Worldly Property, after Maarten van Heemskerk,’ (1609), engraving, Dr. and Mrs. E.

Death. It’s the one certainty we all share, yet it’s become the shadow we dare not name. How did this happen? How did something as natural and sacred as death transform into a subject of fear and ...

Written with great sensitivity to the “considerable psychological burden that unimaginable loss and the constant threat of ...

Despite the deadliness of the disease, it was possible to recover from plague, and medieval chroniclers mention the ...