The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
War cemeteries: United States
Blair, W. 2004
Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865-1914, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
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.
Budreau, L. 2011
Bodies of War: World War I and the Politics of Commemoration in America, 1919-1933, NYUP: New York.
Ebel, J. 2012
‘Overseas military cemeteries as American sacred space: mine eyes have seen la gloire’, Material Religion, 8:2, 183-214.
MacCloskey, M. 1968
Hallowed Ground: Our National Cemeteries, New York: Richards Rosen Press.
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Matzler, J. 1995
‘A history of Arlington National Cemetery’ in O.Czerner & I. Juszkiewicz (eds) Cemetery Art, ICOMOS: Wrocław, 191-195.
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McElya, M. 2016
The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honour in Arlington National Cemetery, Boston: Harvard University Press.
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Piehler, G. 1994
‘The war dead and the Gold Star: American commemoration of the First World War’, in J. Gillis (ed.) Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 168-185.
Stern, M. 2001
‘The National Cemetery System: politics, place, and contemporary cemetery design’, in J. Wolshke-Bulmahn (ed) Places of Commemoration: Search for Identity and Landscape Design, Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 107-130.
