Mortuary Science and the Civil War


Example of a Mortuary Science Application


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USCWC Interdisciplinary Perspective: Anthropology and the Civil War


Professional Associations

American Board of Funeral Service Education

The Association for Gravestone Studies Online
278 Main Street, Suite 207
Greenfield, MA 01301
Phone: (413) 772-0836
E-mail: info@gravestonestudies.org

Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science


Bibliography/References

Author
Title
Publisher
Year
Coffin, Elizabeth
Death in Early America: The History and Folklore of Customs and Superstitions of Early Medicine, Funerals, Burials and Mournings
Dutton
Farrell, James J.
Inventing the American Way of Death, 1830-1920
Temple University Press
1980
Laderman, Gary
The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes Toward Death, 1799-1883
Yale University Press
1999
Mehaffey, Karen Rae
The After-Life: Mourning Rituals and the Mid-Victorians
Laser Writers Publishing
1993
Museum of the Confederacy
Women in Mourning
1985
Sloane, David Charles et. al
The Last Great Necessity: Cemeteries in American History (Creating the North American Landscape)
Johns Hopkins Univ Press
1995

 


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USCWC Links: Funerals and Burial Practices


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