The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
History: 20c United States
Coleman, B. 2008
‘Recovering the Korean war dead, 1950-1958: graves registration, forensic anthropology and wartime memorialisation’, Journal of Military History, 72: 1, 179-222.
McCusker, K. 2023
Just Enough to Put Him Away Decent: Death Care, Life Extension and the Making of a Healthier South, 1900-1955, Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Robinson, K. & Jackson, A. 2023
‘Cemeteries and community: foregrounding Black women’s labour and leadership in sacred rite remembrance practices’, in K. Fletcher & A. Towle (eds) Grave History: Death, Race and Gender in Southern Cemeteries, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 231-252.
Sloane, D. 2001
‘Selling eternity in 1920s Los Angeles’, in T. Sitton & W. Deverell (eds) Metropolis in the Making – Los Angeles in thev 1920s, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 341-360.
Trieb, M. 2001
‘The landscape of the loved one’, in J. Wolschke-Bulmahn (ed.) Places of Commemoration: Search for Identity and Landscape Design, Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Reesarch Library and Collection, 25-54.
Warner, W. 1959
The Living and the Dead: a Study of the Symbolic Life of Americans, Westport CT: Greenwood Press.
