Published: Aug. 18, 2010

For Professor Ken Foote, America's hallowed grounds fall into three general categories: those made sacred through the death of a martyr, like the sites of the assassinations of Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.; those made sacred through ethical heroic moments, like Gettysburg, and those made sacred through community disasters, like the site of the Johnstown Flood.

From Gettysburg to Ground Zero, "Sacred Space" Debated: A Centuries-Long Search To Define Hallowed Ground

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