The preservation needs and historical significance located within West Lawn Cemetery in Johnson City, Tennessee, a historically African American Cemetery, show the potential cemeteries have as an impactful public history site. Similar to sites like historic houses, museums, and battlefields; cemeteries offer another insight into the past through interpretation and preservation. A cemetery's ethical and practical uses as a public history site can pose complex challenges. This thesis aims to provide a compelling argument for cemeteries as repositories of irreplaceable history, providing a space for their spot in the field of public history. Although little scholarly literature is given on this concept, this research provides information on the unique landscape and window into history cemeteries hold. Furthermore, this thesis aims to provide a practical guide to navigating the complexities of historical discourse and interpretation within cemeteries.

The thesis describes all the inscriptions that one can see engraved into the gravestones on current cemeteries in Mikulov. We analyze the first and last names engraved into the gravestones but we focus primarily on epitaphs. In particular, we examine common epitaph themes, the number of their occurrences as well as linguistic errors that the inscriptions contain. In addition, we identify the most commonly quoted passages from the Bible, excerpts of poems, quotes of famous people and the time periods when they were most popular. Last but not least, we explore the symbolism and other nonverbal aspects of the gravestones. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Este trabalho estuda a presença imigrante nos cemitérios da Consolação e do Brás, necrópoles que se tornaram museus a céu aberto. Famílias de imigrantes construíram, intencionalmente ou não, em suas sepulturas nesses dois cemitérios - através de esculturas, monumentos, inscrições, localização - memórias de experiências históricas da cidade de São Paulo na passagem do século XIX para o XX. O processo de constituição de ambos cemitérios e sua atual condição revelam a diversidade das trajetórias imigrantes. A pesquisa se baseou, além dos registros bibliográficos, em livros de inumação e de arrecadação e um grupo de túmulos, que foi analisado sob a ótica da memória imigrante / This paper discusses the immigrant\'s presence in Consolação Cemetery and in Brás Cemetery - two necropolises which have become open air museums. In these two cemeteries, intentionally or not, immigrant families had built - through sculptures, monuments, inscriptions, places - memories of historical experiences of São Paulo city in the turn from the 19th century to the 20th century. The constitution of these two cemeteries as well as their current condition, reveal the differences among diverse groups of immigrants. The research was conducted based on bibliographical records, on burying records, and on some sepulchral structures, which were analyzed from the immigrant memory point of view

Este trabalho estuda a presença imigrante nos cemitérios da Consolação e do Brás, necrópoles que se tornaram museus a céu aberto. Famílias de imigrantes construíram, intencionalmente ou não, em suas sepulturas nesses dois cemitérios - através de esculturas, monumentos, inscrições, localização - memórias de experiências históricas da cidade de São Paulo na passagem do século XIX para o XX. O processo de constituição de ambos cemitérios e sua atual condição revelam a diversidade das trajetórias imigrantes. A pesquisa se baseou, além dos registros bibliográficos, em livros de inumação e de arrecadação e um grupo de túmulos, que foi analisado sob a ótica da memória imigrante / This paper discusses the immigrant\'s presence in Consolação Cemetery and in Brás Cemetery - two necropolises which have become open air museums. In these two cemeteries, intentionally or not, immigrant families had built - through sculptures, monuments, inscriptions, places - memories of historical experiences of São Paulo city in the turn from the 19th century to the 20th century. The constitution of these two cemeteries as well as their current condition, reveal the differences among diverse groups of immigrants. The research was conducted based on bibliographical records, on burying records, and on some sepulchral structures, which were analyzed from the immigrant memory point of view

In 1861, the U.S. Congress, responding to the growing number of Civil War dead, passed legislation regulating the burial practices of the Union Army. Six years later, the legislative body established a government-administered national cemetery system (NCS) that only interred Union soldiers killed in action. Subsequent pressure, from veterans groups, families, concerned citizens, and Congress led to the expansion of the institution’s eligibility regulations and funerary landscapes. As the product of over a century and a half of political and social negotiations, the NCS now consists of nearly 200 cemeteries, on domestic and foreign soil, that inter a vast array of individuals whom the government has deemed patriots. Drawing on cultural history, memory studies, anthropology, and art history, “These Honored Dead” illustrates how the NCS evolved from necessary wartime burial grounds into a federal memorial institution whose activities defined and announced the nations’ geographic, political, and social boundaries. Through an administrative and cultural history of the institution, this dissertation considers how Americans from diverse backgrounds and within divergent historical contexts have turned to the NCS to understand their individual and national identities and ideals. I look to the institution’s funerary landscapes as physical and affective evidence of how the federal government and the U.S. citizenry negotiate social and political relations. In the process, I interrogate “whose deaths matter?” to the national democratic mission. I argue that by developing national cemeteries and maintaining exclusionary interment regulations, the federal government announced a racialized, gendered, and politicized hierarchy of national belonging. The persistence of the NCS demonstrates that the nation mourns and memorializes patriotic sacrifice, regardless of martial victory, to make sense of contemporary anxieties. This dissertation illustrates the ways that the federal government mediates cultural and social politics, alongside its own interests, to construct a politically and socially useful memorial embodiment of patriotic sacrifice.

All across the world, people struggle daily to create and enhance their sense of identity. Such struggles are waged in many ways, including through the process of rediscovering and reinterpreting history. Mt. Sinai Baptist Church, an African American congregation in a suburb of Atlanta, is engaged in a search for its church cemetery, lost when the land was sold to the military during the nation’s mobilization for World War II. The church’s efforts are analyzed in the context of identity creation -- a search for links to a mythic and self-sufficient past. Archaeological methods reveal compelling evidence that the cemetery lies in a location previously unknown to the community. Through a collaborative process, the church community and the investigator identify the possible cemetery location and develop plans to institute reforms that are sustainable and agreeable to all parties.

This study conducts a multi-isotopic bioarchaeological analysis of the Avondale Burial Place (McArthur Cemetery), a recently discovered Emancipation-era African American cemetery near Macon, GA. Stable isotopic analyses were performed on available dental remains in order to reconstruct the diet and demography of the individuals buried at McArthur Cemetery. Specifically, δ18O and δ13C were characterized in tooth enamel and examined in tandem with collaborative osteological and mortuary analyses to reconstruct early-life diet and residential origin. The results suggest that members of the Avondale community buried in McArthur did not experience significant mobility, but rather resided in the area for most of their lives. Overall, these results greatly contribute to the genealogical research of McArthur Cemetery’s descendants as well as the fragmented history of the South by exploring whether the individuals in this community took part in the Great Migration following the Civil War.

Thesis (M.A.)--Youngstown State University, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-83). Also available via the World Wide Web in PDF format.

Cemeteries serve as repositories of history and memories of the local community, as well as afford the living population an opportunity to connect and learn about a culture’s past. Accordingly, the cemetery as a place and the rituals associated with death and remembrance that it holds, not only communicate and express the ideals of a collective identity, but also undergo modifications with time and geography. Through the study of burial rituals and funerary traditions of the multicultural community in the City of Richmond in British Columbia, this thesis seeks unifying qualities within the diversity of practices that will offer strategies for the design of ritual spaces that not only communicate the cultural identity within each community, but also serve as a place in which new ritual practices are born and integrated for the greater community of Richmond.

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