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.
Bibliography - Gravestone related resources, by Michael Cornish; Gravestone rubbing for beginners, by Jessie Lie Farber; Recording cemetery data, by J. Joanne Baker and Anne G. Giesecke; Making photographic records of gravestones, by Daniel Farber; Recommendations for the care of gravestones; Symbolism in the carvings on old gravestones; A basic guide to carver research, by Laurel K. Gabel; An act for the preservation and care of burial places and memorials for the dead; Cemetery reading tips.
