Books
Berry, Daina Ramey. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation. Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon
Press, 2017.
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Countryman, Matthew J. Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
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Dew, Charles B. Apostles of Disunion. Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 2002.
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Du Bois, W.E.B., and Elijah Anderson. The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.
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Faust, Drew Gilpin. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. New York, New York: Vintage Books, 2008.
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Foner, Eric. Who Owns History? Rethinking the Past in a Changing World. New York, New York: Hill and Wang, 2002.
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Hahn, Steven. A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Presidents and
Fellows of Harvard College, 2003.
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Kantrowitz, Stephen. More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic. New York, New York: Penguin Books, 2012.
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Keels, Thomas H. Philadelphia Graveyards and Cemeteries. Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2003.
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McPherson, James M. What They Fought For: 1861-1865. New York, New York: Anchor Books, 1995.
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Nash, Gary B. First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
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Nelson, Megan Kate. Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 2012.
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Perman, Michael and Amy Murrell Taylor. edit., Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction: Third Edition. Boston, Massachusetts: Wadsworth, Cengage
Learning, 2011.
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Rosen, Hannah. Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South. Durham, North Carolina:
University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
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Stout, Harry S. Upon the Altar of the Nation. New York, New York: Penguin Books, 2006.
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Wilkereson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration. New York, New York: Vintage Books, 2010.
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Newspapers
Alexandria Gazette. Alexandria, D.C. 1834-1974.
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Evening Public Ledger. Philadelphia, PA.1914-1942.
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Frederick Douglass’ Paper. Rochester, NY. 1851-1858.
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Pittsburg Dispatch. Pittsburg, PA. 1880-1923.
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The Centre Reporter. Centre Hall, PA. 1871-1940.
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The Christian Recorder. Philadelphia, PA. 1854-present.
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The Daily Gazette. Wilmington, DE. 1874-1883.
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The Evening Telegraph. Philadelphia, PA. 1864-1918.
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The Forest Republican. Tionesta, PA. 1869-1952.
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The New York Herald. New York, NY. 1840-1920.
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The New York Times. New York, NY. 1851-present.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, PA. 1829-present.
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The Philadelphia Press. Philadelphia, PA. 1857-1920.
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The Star. Reynoldsville, PA. 1892-1946.
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The Stark County Democrat. Canton, OH. 1833-1912.
Legal Cases
Mount Moriah Cemetery Association v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ex. rel. W. H. Boileau and Margaret Jones, 81 Pa. 235, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
(1876).
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Lewis's Estate. Union Trust Company's Appeal (No. 129), 152 Pa. 477, 25 A. 878, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (1893).
Dissertations
Adkins, LaTrese Evette. “‘And Who Has the Body?’: The Historical Significance of African American Funerary Display.” Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2003.
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Cass, Kelsey R. “None Else of Name: The Origin and Early Development of the United States National Cemetery System.” Ph.D., The Claremont Graduate University,
2001.
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DiAgostino, Grace. “The Cemetery Project: A Model for Teaching Historical Understanding and Public History in an Age of Teaching to the Test.” M.A., Temple
University, 2016.
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Farrell, James Joseph. “The Dying of Death: The Meaning and Management of Death in America, 1830-1920.” Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1980.
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Hanson, Robin A. “The National Cemetery: Race and Sectional Reconciliation in a Contested Landscape.” Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2008.
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Hunter, Marcus Anthony. “In Search of The Philadelphia Negro: Black Philadelphia and Urban Change (1900–2000).” Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2011.
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Morse, Susan Irene. “The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and the Urban Landscape, 1827–1927.” Ph.D., Temple University, 2000.
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Rankin-Hill, Lesley Marguerite. “Afro-American Biohistory: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations.” Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1990.
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Roberts, Nancy A. “The Afterlife of Civil War Prisons and Their Dead.” Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1996.
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Schuyler, David Paul. “Public Landscapes and American Urban Culture 1800-1870: Rural Cemeteries, City Parks, and Suburbs.” Ph.D., Columbia University, 1979.
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Titus, Christine Ann. “Preserving Our Past for the Future: Designing a Geographic Information System for Archiving Historical Cemetery Information.” M.A., West
Virginia University, 2008.
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Torres, René L. C. “Cemetery Landscapes of Philadelphia.” Theses (Historic Preservation), January 1, 1997
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Towle, Ashley N. “Dying Free: African Americans, Death, and the New Birth of Freedom, 1863-1877.” Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, 2017.
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White, Tara Y. “‘A Shrine of Liberty for the Unborn Generations’: African American Clubwomen and the Preservation of African American Historic Sites.” Ph.D., Middle
Tennessee State University, 2010.
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Wunsch, Aaron Vickers. “Parceling the Picturesque: ‘Rural’ Cemeteries and Urban Context in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia.” Ph.D., University of California,
Berkeley, 2009.