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Book Cemetery Citizens

    Book Details:
  • Author : Adam Rosenblatt
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2024-04-30
  • ISBN : 1503639126
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Cemetery Citizens written by Adam Rosenblatt and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the United States, groups of grassroots volunteers gather in overgrown, systemically neglected cemeteries. As they rake, clean headstones, and research silenced histories, they offer care to individuals who were denied basic rights and forms of belonging in life and in death. Cemetery Citizens is the first book-length study of this emerging form of social justice work. It focuses on how racial disparities shape the fates of the dead, and asks what kinds of repair are still possible. Drawing on interviews, activist anthropology, poems, and drawings, Adam Rosenblatt takes us to gravesite reclamation efforts in three prominent American cities. Cemetery Citizens dives into the ethical quandaries and practical complexities of cemetery reclamation, showing how volunteers build community across social boundaries, craft new ideas about citizenship and ancestry, and expose injustices that would otherwise be suppressed. Ultimately, Rosenblatt argues that an ethic of reclamation must honor the presence of the dead—treating them as fellow cemetery citizens who share our histories, landscapes, and need for care.

Book Remarks Addressed to the Citizens of Charleston  on the Subject of Interments  and the Policy of Establishing a Public Cemetery  Beyond the Precincts of the City

Download or read book Remarks Addressed to the Citizens of Charleston on the Subject of Interments and the Policy of Establishing a Public Cemetery Beyond the Precincts of the City written by Henry Laurens Pinckney and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Grave History

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  • Author : Terrance L. Stone
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780977854509
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Grave History written by Terrance L. Stone and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the frontier history of Prescott, Arizona? What did people do here for a living over a hundred years ago? How did they die? Author T. Stone has set out to answer these questions by creating a guidebook to Prescott's oldest public graveyard, Citzens' Cemetery. Comprised of essays, obituaries, newspaper articles, and photographs, Grave History traces the history of Prescott through the lives and deaths of those people buried in Citizens'.

Book Historical Review of Riverside Cemetery Association  Cleveland  Ohio

Download or read book Historical Review of Riverside Cemetery Association Cleveland Ohio written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Allegheny Cemetery

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  • Author : Lisa Speranza and Nancy Foley
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 1467117382
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Allegheny Cemetery written by Lisa Speranza and Nancy Foley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is easy to look at a place such as Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood and think that it encompasses strictly the dead. But a closer look reveals many lives and stories told throughout the pages of time by those who have lived them. To define Allegheny Cemetery as simply a place does not do it justice. It is not only a physical location, but a crossroads in history, and a point in time where each of these lives converge. Images of America: Allegheny Cemetery shares these legacies with the hope that present and future generations will do the same.

Book The Organization and Dedication Ceremonies of Lake View Cemetery

Download or read book The Organization and Dedication Ceremonies of Lake View Cemetery written by Lake View Cemetery (Jamestown, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Baton Rouge Cemeteries

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  • Author : Faye Phillips
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 073859184X
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book Baton Rouge Cemeteries written by Faye Phillips and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many immigrants to Baton Rouge, being buried in the highlands of their European homes was a dream. Recognizing that this desire was unlikely to come to fruition, they christened the bluff above the Mississippi River south of the town as "Highland" and established Highland Cemetery in 1819. The military fort had a burial ground; churches established cemeteries; owners, family members, and slaves were buried on the plantations; towns offered municipal cemeteries and paupers' plots; and families distant from towns created family cemeteries. Magnolia Cemetery was established for white citizens in 1852. Sweet Olive and the Lutheran Cemeteries were for free people of color and slaves. St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery, established in 1826, did not discriminate on race but on religious affiliation, as did the Jewish cemetery. Civil War Union soldiers were separated from Confederates buried in Magnolia Cemetery and interred in the Baton Rouge National Cemetery. In 1921, Roselawn Park Cemetery represented the beginning of cemeteries as business. Beautiful statuary, elaborate tombstones and memorials, unique monuments to the departed, and lush gardens accentuate Baton Rouge's cities of the dead.

Book Greensboro s First Presbyterian Church Cemetery

Download or read book Greensboro s First Presbyterian Church Cemetery written by Carol Moore and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historic First Presbyterian Church Cemetery was established in 1831 and over time has survived vandalism, storms, an earthquake, and threats of removal. It is a lasting remembrance to the early citizens of Greensboro who carved a city out of the wilderness. Originally the cemetery was located on the edge of town, but because of Greensboro's growth, it is now nestled in the center of the cultural district behind the Greensboro Historical Museum. Those buried in the cemetery are from all walks of life-from wealthy to poor, those with doctorate degrees to the illiterate, the famous to those whose names are lost for all time, the newborn to the centenarian, the saint to the sinner, and the slave owner to the abolitionist. The early builders of the city and state and veterans of four wars now rest in the First Presbyterian Church Cemetery.

Book Digging for the Disappeared

Download or read book Digging for the Disappeared written by Adam Rosenblatt and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mass graves from our long human history of genocide, massacres, and violent conflict form an underground map of atrocity that stretches across the planet's surface. In the past few decades, due to rapidly developing technologies and a powerful global human rights movement, the scientific study of those graves has become a standard facet of post-conflict international assistance. Digging for the Disappeared provides readers with a window into this growing but little-understood form of human rights work, including the dangers and sometimes unexpected complications that arise as evidence is gathered and the dead are named. Adam Rosenblatt examines the ethical, political, and historical foundations of the rapidly growing field of forensic investigation, from the graves of the "disappeared" in Latin America to genocides in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia to post–Saddam Hussein Iraq. In the process, he illustrates how forensic teams strive to balance the needs of war crimes tribunals, transitional governments, and the families of the missing in post-conflict nations. Digging for the Disappeared draws on interviews with key players in the field to present a new way to analyze and value the work forensic experts do at mass graves, shifting the discussion from an exclusive focus on the rights of the living to a rigorous analysis of the care of the dead. Rosenblatt tackles these heady, hard topics in order to extend human rights scholarship into the realm of the dead and the limited but powerful forms of repair available for victims of atrocity.

Book Congressional Record

Download or read book Congressional Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proposed Establishment of a National Cemetery Adjacent to Manassas Battlefield Park  Virginia

Download or read book Proposed Establishment of a National Cemetery Adjacent to Manassas Battlefield Park Virginia written by United States. Congress. House. Veterans' Affairs Committee and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proposed Establishment of a National Cemetery Adjacent to Manassas Battlefield Park  Virginia

Download or read book Proposed Establishment of a National Cemetery Adjacent to Manassas Battlefield Park Virginia written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Hospitals and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cemeteries of Yavapai County

Download or read book Cemeteries of Yavapai County written by Parker Anderson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yavapai County, Arizona, is regarded as the most historically significant area within the state. After Arizona was proclaimed an American territory by Pres. Abraham Lincoln in 1863, it was here that the first territorial government was established. Yavapai County history and culture is reflected in its simple but deeply reverent burial grounds where many of Arizonas early pioneers are buried. The county has many cemeteries, and this book focuses on the most historic of these, from Prescott to Southern Yavapai ghost towns, where people ranging from Big Nose Kate to Sharlot M. Hall are interred, and examines the Old Wests attitudes toward death and burial.

Book Sessional Papers

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  • Author : Ontario. Legislative Assembly
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1897
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 794 pages

Download or read book Sessional Papers written by Ontario. Legislative Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Asheville s Riverside Cemetery

Download or read book Asheville s Riverside Cemetery written by Joshua Darty and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since December 1885, the wrought iron gates of Riverside Cemetery have welcomed both mourners and visitors alike. The garden-style cemetery overlooking the French Broad River is the final resting place of great American authors Thomas Wolfe and O. Henry, Civil War heroes, colorful politicians, and acclaimed artists and craftsmen. Around every bend of Riverside's winding roads, a new story is waiting to be told, from a deadly shoot-out in Pack Square, the sad ending of 18 German sailors who were prisoners during World War I, to a United States senator with a connection to the Hope Diamond fortune--and its curse. Asheville's Riverside Cemetery illustrates the history of the cemetery and the notable figures who rest within, telling their stories and giving glimpses of what one could hear if stones could talk.