Transcription of Volume 1 of J.W. McCormick, a funeral home doing business in Columbia, South Carolina during the late nineteeth and early twentieth centuries. This volume includes information concerning patients of the South Carolina State Hospital (identified in the volume as the State Hospital for [the] Insane, and also known as the "Asylum.')

Transcript of what is identified as Volume 2 of J.W. McCormick, a funeral home doing business in Columbia, South Carolina during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The volume includes information on white and black clients handled by the funeral home between 1903 and 1906, prior to required SC Death Certificates.

This collection of original essays and commentary considers not merely how history has shaped the continuing struggle for racial equality, but also how backlash and resistance to racial reforms continue to dictate the state of race in America. Informed by a broad historical perspective, this book focuses primarily on the promise of Reconstruction, and the long demise of that promise. It traces the history of struggles for racial justice from the post US Civil War Reconstruction through the Jim Crow era, the Civil Rights and Voting Rights decades of the 1950s and 1960s to the present day.

Cedars Cemetery in Camden, South Carolina, dates back to plantation days. The earliest marked gravestone is dated 1839, a descendent of Bonds Conway, and over 1,500 gravestones mark the area. However, hundreds more are unmarked. The location survey, which took six months, resulted in connecting local families whose histories had been lost in time. The revelations of those buried at Cedars have made publishing of Camden Roots a necessary addition to the history of South Carolina by acknowledging the contributions of African Americans to the history of Camden, Kershaw County, and the state of South Carolina.

Book provides transcription of Books 3 through 8 of J.W. McCormick, a funeral home doing business in Columbia, South Carolina during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Information includes decedent's name, last place of residence, age, cause of death, attending physician, death and burial dates, who was to pay for the funeral, and a listing of itemized costs, such as preservation, coffin, clothing, etc.

Death Across Oceans: Archaeology of Coffins and Vaults in Britain, America, and Australia brings together the leading researchers in historic mortuary practice from Britain, North America, and Australia. It is the first book dedicated to the material culture associated with burial in the historic, English-speaking world. It combines reflections and evaluations from the pioneer scholars who initiated research in this field during the 1980s with studies by young scholars now pushing the research into a new and wider range of issues. This volume will be the seminal work in this field for some time, providing key analyses and essential bibliographic routes into site-specific literature, and setting the research agenda for the future.