The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
History: 19c-20c United States
Bontrager, S. 2020
Death at the Edges of Empire: Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory and the Making of an American Nation, 1863-1921, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
DiGirolamo, V. 2002
‘Newsboy funerals: tales of sorrow and solidarity in urban America’, Journal of Social History, 36:1, 5-30.
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Farrell, J. 1980
Inventing the American Way of Death 1830-1920, Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
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Fletcher, K. 2015
‘Real Business: Maryland’s first Black cemetery journey’s into the enterprise of death, 1807-1920’, Thanatological Studies, 7: 53-85.
Giguere, J. 2023
‘The crown jewel of Kentucky: Louisville’s Cave Hill Cemetery’, in K. Fletcher & A. Towle (eds) Grave History: Death, Race and Gender in Southern Cemeteries, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 51-79.
Linden-Ward, B. 1989
Silent Cemetery on a Hill: Landscapes of Memory and Boston’s Mount Auburn Cemetery, Columbus: Ohio State University Press.
Miller, D. & Rivera, J. 2006
‘Hallowed ground, place and culture: the cemetery and the creation of space,’ Space and Culture, 9:4, 334-350.
Prothero, S. 2001
Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America, Berkeley, University of California Press.
Rosenow, M. 2015
Death and Dying in the Working Class, 1865-1920, Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Smith, S. 2010
To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death, Cambridge: Mass, Havard University Press.
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Williams, S.L. 2023
‘Death can not make our souls afraid: Mosaic Templars of America Zephroes in Macon County, Alabama, 1887-1931’, in K. Fletcher & A. Towle (eds) Grave History: Death, Race and Gender in Southern Cemeteries, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 113-148.
Winegarner, B. 2023
San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History, Mount Pleasant, SC: The History Press.
