The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Design: Rural United States
Britton, J. 2014
‘“Feeling is our objective”: Green-Wood Cemetery, sentiment, and refinement in Antebellum New York’, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 36, 1, 19-34.
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.
Giguere, J. 2018
‘“Too mean to live, and certainly in no fit condition to die” vandalism, public misbehavior, and the Rural Cemetery Movement’, Journal of the Early Republic 38:2, 293-324.
Giguere, J. 2018
‘Localism and nationalism in the city of the dead: the Rural Cemetery Movement in the antebellum south’ Journal of Southern History, 84:4, 845-882.
Jernigan, S. 2023
‘The status quo made picturesque: nineteenth-century Macon, Georgia, and its garden of the dead’, in K. Fletcher & A. Towle (eds) Grave History: Death, Race and Gender in Southern Cemeteries, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 16-50.
