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"This updated edition of the 1992 reference work ("exhaustive ... fascinating"--Library Journal) contains information about United States military cemeteries, including how each cemetery was chosen, why it was established, and notable individuals buried therein. Appendices provide lists of installations by state and by year of establishment, as well as information on headstones, markers, and the Medal of Honor"--Provided by publisher.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Featured Cemeteries -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Changing American Traditions of Mourning -- 2. Church Street and Vicinity -- 3. Meeting Street and Vicinity -- 4. King Street and Archdale Street -- 5. Calhoun Street and North -- 6. Outside Downtown Charleston -- Bibliography.

Cemeteries are not only repositories of the dead: they reflect individual and group identities and attachment to place. Moreover, they play a central role in the social and political history of local communities. Although numerous community organizations are working to locate and document Alberta's cemeteries, each group has its own focus, e.g., headstone photos, genealogical information, or transcription indexes. As such, these records contain only limited information on the social, historical, and environmental contexts of the graves and cemeteries, making the data useful for genealogical research but of limited value for the investigation of how burial practices reflect patterns of settlement, kinship, and economic prosperity. In addition, the record formats from different organizations are often incompatible, and many records have been collected in file formats and on media that are becoming obsolete. Through collaboration between university researchers and students, the provincial government, and numerous community organizations, the Alberta Historical Cemeteries project is creating a centralized digital database of Alberta's historical cemeteries. This database will (a) enhance the ability of researchers and students to investigate the important social role played by Alberta's historical cemeteries and (b) serve as a centralized repository of information that can be used to shape policies and activities related to the management, protection, preservation, and commemoration of Alberta's cemeteries. Discipline: Computing Science Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nicholas Boers

ANCIENT RITUALS, PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN, BRING THE OLD FOLK BACK TO THE CONTAMINATED LAND OF BELARUS

Permanent individual gravemarkers were established as social norm for large populations in the nineteenth century. These markers typically display a range of matters-of-fact about the dead: name, age or dates of birth and death, family status, social position, profession, religion, etc. They also include symbolic figurations, which communicate in a more implicit way how the survivors remember their dead. Against this background, this paper analyses gravemarkers and graveyards as material witnesses of changing social and cultural sensibilities. It explores the kinds of changes which took place in European regions with a predominantly Catholic population.