Includes information on the types of cemeteries in the United States, as well as how to do research in and about them (includes information on photographing and rubbing tombstones)
Imprint varies: Lanham, MD : University Press of America, <1985->
Library has: v. 1, 2, 5, 6, 16, 17, 21-27.
Subject Index to v. 1-20 also published separately.
America, history and life
Historical abstracts
Contents
v. 1. Resurrecting the epitaph -- Recording cemetery data -- Care of old cemeteries and gravestones -- Protective custody: The museum's reponsible for gravestones -- Willow tree and urn motif -- Archaeological significance of mausoleums -- Mystery, history and an ancient graveyard -- Resources for the classroom teacher -- Gravestones and historical archaeology. v. 5. Pennyslvania German gravemarkers -- Early Pennyslvania gravemarkers. v. 6. Tributes in stone and lapidary lapses: commemorating Black people in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America -- Communities of the dead: tombstones as a reflection of social organization. v 16. The year's work in gravemarker/cemetery studies. v. 17 The Quaker graveyard -- John Solomon Teetzel and the Anglo-German gravestone carving tradition of 18th century northwestern New Jersey --The year's work in gravemarker/cemetery studies. v. 21 Carving a path to freedom: the life and work of African American Stonecarver Sebastian "Boss" Hammond -- Subject index for Markers 1-20 --The year's work in cemetry and gravemarker studies: an international bibliography. v. 22 -- The year's work in cemetery and gravemarker studies: an international bibliography. v.23 -- The year's work in international cemetery and gravemarker studies: and international bibliography. v.24 - Virtuous women, useful men, & lovely children - New Netherland's gravestone legacy - Myths and realities of Laural Hill's "mother and twins" monument - Embodying immortality - Borden Thorton (1762-1838), Rhode Island stonecarver - The year's work in cemetery and gravemarker studies : an international bibliography. v. 25 - Obituary: Gary L Collison - Death , burial and Memorialization in colonial New England - Scottish discoid gravemarkers - Beth El : Michigan's oldest Jewish cemetery - "Gothic" cast-iron gravemarkers in New Hampshire - The year's work in cemetery and gravemarker studies: an international bibliography. v. 26 - A Tribute to James Slater - Headstones, hatchments, and heraldry, 1650-1850 - Home at last: mortuary commemoration in Virginian slave cemeteries - Westall decoration day, a poem - The Tombstones of the English East India Company in Macao: a linguistic analysis - Fok beliefs, mystics, and superstitions in Ashkenazi and Karaite tombstone inscriptions from Ukraine - The Year's work in cemetery and gravestone studies : an international bibliography.v.27 - Memorializing the Civil War Dead -- Cities of the Dead --Eighteenth-Century Gravestone Carvers of the Upper Narragansett Basin: The Real George Allen Jr. --Wooden artifacts in Cemeteries --The Year's Work in Cemetery and Gravestone Studies: an international bibliography. v.28 - A Tribute to Fred Oakley - Preserving the Sightline of Ruckstull's Minerva on the Alter to Liberty in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn - Dearth of Markers: Ambivalence of Memory in Elmira, New Yor, and Its National and Woodlawn Cemeteries-"A Holy War, on Both sides": Stonewalll Cemetery at Winchester, Virginia - Lettering on Gravemarkers in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island: regional Variation and the Scottish Influence - The Year's Work in cemetery and Gravestone Studies: An International Bibliography.
