Claiming the land
Marking the grave
Solidarity in the cemetery
Distancing the dead
Death's-heads and funeral gloves: Boston, Massachusetts
"Gone are the living, but the dead remains": Newport, Rhode Island
Cemeteries as real estate: New York City
Plain and fancy: Philadelphia and Lancaster County
The southern way of death: South Carolina and Georgia
New Orleans: where it's better to be buried above ground
New Orleans: where it's better to be buried above ground
Rituals of remembrance: St. Louis and the Boonslick
Ethnicity, religion, and class in underground Chicago
Celebrating the dead in Polyglot Texas
California: missionaries, miners, moguls, and movie stars
Who owns the bones? Sites and rites in Hawaii
National military cemeteries
Old and new fashions in death.