Memorial Day (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Memorial Day" in English language version.

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Kickler, Sarah (May 28, 2012). "Memorial Day vs. Veterans Day". Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on October 21, 2013. Retrieved April 7, 2014.

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"Where did the idea to sell poppies come from?". BBC News. November 10, 2006. Retrieved February 18, 2009.

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"Boalsburg, PA, birthplace of Memorial Day". Boalsburg.com. March 26, 1997.

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L'Hommedieu Gardiner, Mary (1842). "The Ladies Garland". J. Libby. p. 296. Retrieved May 31, 2014 – via Google Books.
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Johnson, Kristina Dunn (2009). No Holier Spot of Ground: Confederate Monuments & Cemeteries of South Carolina. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9781614232827. Retrieved May 25, 2020 – via Google Books.
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Karen L. Cox (2003). Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. Universbuttse Memorial Day. ISBN 978-0813031330.
Woodman, Wlliam (1891). "Decoration Day Exercise". Common School Education and Teachers World. Bemis Publishing Company. p. 346.
Jabbour, Alan; Jabbour, Karen Singer (2010). Decoration Day in the Mountains: Traditions of Cemetery Decoration in the Southern Appalachians. Univ of North Carolina Press. p. 125. ISBN 978-0-8078-3397-1. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
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Joan Waugh; Gary W. Gallagher (2009). Wars within a War: Controversy and Conflict over the American Civil War. Univ of North Carolina Press. p. 187. ISBN 978-0-8078-3275-2.
Knight, Lucian Lamar (1914). Memorial Day: Its True History. Retrieved May 28, 2012 – via Google Books.
Axelrod, Alan (2007). Miracle at Belleau Wood: The Birth of the Modern U.S. Marine Corps. Globe Pequot. p. 233. ISBN 978-1-59921-025-4.
Post, Peggy; Post, Anna; Post, Lizzie; Senning, Daniel Post (2011). Emily Post's Etiquette, 18. HarperCollins. p. 165. ISBN 978-0-06-210127-3.
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William H. Swatos; Peter Kivisto (1998). Encyclopedia of Religion and Society. Rowman Altamira. pp. 49–50. ISBN 978-0-7619-8956-1.
Cristi, Marcela (2001). From Civil to Political Religion: The Intersection of Culture, Religion and Politics. Wilfrid Laurier U.P. pp. 48–53. ISBN 978-0-88920-368-6.
William M. Epstein (2002). American Policy Making: Welfare As Ritual. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-7425-1733-2.
Corwin E. Smidt; Lyman A. Kellstedt; James L. Guth (2009). The Oxford Handbook of Religion and American Politics. Oxford Handbooks Online. pp. 142–143. ISBN 978-0-19-532652-9.
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says, Lisa (May 29, 2011). "Doylestown Hosts Oldest Memorial Day Parade In The Country". Retrieved June 1, 2017.

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Finch, Francis (1867). "Blue and the Gray". CivilWarHome.com.

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"MSU library, Ole Miss anthropologist, local historian search for Union graves". The Clarion Ledger. Retrieved January 21, 2020.

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Yan, Holly (May 26, 2016). "Memorial Day 2016: What You Need to Know". CNN. Retrieved May 31, 2016.

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Gardiner, Richard; Jones, P. Michael; Bellware, Daniel (Spring–Summer 2018). "The Emergence and Evolution of Memorial Day". Journal of America's Military Past. 43–2 (137): 19–37. Retrieved May 25, 2020.

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"Decoration Day". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Archived from the original on October 6, 2018. Retrieved May 31, 2019.

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Scott, Ryan (May 24, 2015). "Memorial Day, 3 p.m.: Don't Forget". Forbes. Retrieved June 2, 2015.

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Hooker, Elizabeth R. (1933). Religion in the Highlands: Native Churches and Missionary Enterprises in the Southern Appalachian Area. New York: Home Mission Council. p. 125.

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"Memorial Day". History.com. May 24, 2023.
Klein, Christopher. "Where Did Memorial Day Originate?". History.com. Retrieved May 30, 2022.
Roos, Dave. "One of the Earliest Memorial Day Ceremonies Was Held by Freed African Americans". History.com. Retrieved May 30, 2022.

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"Confederate Decoration Day Historical Marker". Hmdb.org. Retrieved January 21, 2020.

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Knapp, Aaron. "Rochester commemorates fallen soldiers in 150th Memorial Day parade". Journal Times. Retrieved June 1, 2017.

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"Today in History - May 30". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved May 30, 2022.
"Today in History – May 30 – Memorial Day". United States Library of Congress. Archived from the original on May 25, 2019. Retrieved May 28, 2019.

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National Park Service, "Flowers For Jennie" Retrieved February 24, 2015

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Jones, Michael (May 23, 2015). "Memorial Day's Roots Traced to Georgia". Northwest Herald.

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David Blight, cited by Campbell Robertson, "Birthplace of Memorial Day? That Depends Where You're From", The New York Times, May 28, 2012 – Blight quote from 2nd web page: "He has called that the first Memorial Day, as it predated most of the other contenders, though he said he has no evidence that it led to General Logan's call for a national holiday."
"Birthplace of Memorial Day? That Depends Where You're From". The New York Times. May 27, 2012.

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"The Center for Civil War Research". www.civilwarcenter.olemiss.edu. Retrieved May 30, 2022.
"Sophie Keller Hall, in The Story of Our Regiment: A History of the 148th Pennsylvania Vols., ed. J.W. Muffly (Des Moines: The Kenyon Printing & Mfg. Co., 1904), quoted in editor's note, p. 45". Civilwarcenter.olemiss.edu. Retrieved May 28, 2012.

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"The National Memorial Day Concert". pbs.org. May 25, 2018.

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Anania, Michael (1994). "Memorial Day". PoetryFoundation.

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Flynn, Michael (2010). "Boalsburg and the Origin of Memorial Day". Pennsylvania Center for the Book. Retrieved October 30, 2019.

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Adams, Will (May 25, 2017). "Decoration Day & The Origins Of Memorial Day". RelicRecord. Retrieved January 21, 2020.

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"The Origins of Memorial Day" Snopes.com, May 25, 2018

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"The origin of Memorial Day: Is Waterloo's claim to fame the result of a simple newspaper typo?". Syracuse.com. May 24, 2019.

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Fallows, Deborah (May 23, 2014). "A Real Story of Memorial Day". The Atlantic. Retrieved January 21, 2020.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "Memorial Day". The Atlantic.

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English, Tom (May 22, 2015). "A 'complicated' journey: The story of Logan and Memorial Day". The Southern. Retrieved May 25, 2020.
"A Complicated Journey: The Story of Logan and Memorial Day" Tom English, The Southern Illinoisan, May 22, 2015
Halstead, Marilyn. "Did Logan Start Memorial Day? Logan Museum Director Invites Visitors to Decide". TheSouthern.com.

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"Times-Dispatch". Perseus.tufts.edu. July 15, 1906. Retrieved April 7, 2014.

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Johnson, Lyndon. "Presidential Proclamation 3727". Retrieved May 27, 2013.

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Jabbour, Alan (May 27, 2010). "What is Decoration Day?". University of North Carolina Blog. Archived from the original on May 22, 2013. Retrieved May 27, 2019.

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"Confederate Memorial Day in Georgia". New Georgia Encyclopedia. University of Georgia. Retrieved January 22, 2019.

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Mechant, David (April 28, 2007). "Memorial Day History". Archived from the original on November 1, 2018. Retrieved May 28, 2010.

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"Memorial Day Order". Cem.va.gov. National Cemetery Administration. Retrieved May 30, 2022.
"Memorial Day History". National Cemetery Administration of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. May 29, 2023. Retrieved May 29, 2023.
"Memorial Day History". U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs. Retrieved October 30, 2019.
"Interments in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) National Cemeteries" (PDF). Washington, DC: National Cemetery Administration – Department of Veterans Affairs VA-NCA-IS-1. January 2011. After the Civil War, search and recovery teams visited hundreds of battlefields, churchyards, plantations and other locations seeking wartime interments that were made in haste. By 1870, the remains of nearly 300,000 Civil War dead were reinterred in 73 national cemeteries.

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"Memorial Day". United States Department of Veterans Affairs. Archived from the original on May 27, 2010. Retrieved May 28, 2010.

washingtonpost.com

Brockell, Gillian (May 27, 2019). "Memorial Day's Confederate Roots: Who Really Invented the Holiday?". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 9, 2019.

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"Mississippi Confederate Monument – Jackson, MS". WayMarking.com. Retrieved October 30, 2019.

web.archive.org

"Memorial Day". United States Department of Veterans Affairs. Archived from the original on May 27, 2010. Retrieved May 28, 2010.
Kickler, Sarah (May 28, 2012). "Memorial Day vs. Veterans Day". Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on October 21, 2013. Retrieved April 7, 2014.
"Today in History – May 30 – Memorial Day". United States Library of Congress. Archived from the original on May 25, 2019. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
Mechant, David (April 28, 2007). "Memorial Day History". Archived from the original on November 1, 2018. Retrieved May 28, 2010.
Jabbour, Alan (May 27, 2010). "What is Decoration Day?". University of North Carolina Blog. Archived from the original on May 22, 2013. Retrieved May 27, 2019.
"Decoration Day". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Archived from the original on October 6, 2018. Retrieved May 31, 2019.

worldcat.org

Bellware, Daniel (2014). The Genesis of the Memorial Day holiday in America. ISBN 9780692292259. OCLC 898066352.
Muffly, J. W. (Joseph Wendel) (1904). The story of our Regiment : a history of the 148th Pennsylvania Vols. Butternut and Blue. p. 45. ISBN 0935523391. OCLC 33463683.

wtop.com

"The forgotten history of Memorial Day". WTOP.com. May 25, 2018.

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Blight, David W. "Lecture: To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings, Overview". Oyc.Yale.edu. Retrieved May 31, 2014. Professor Blight closes his lecture with a description of the first Memorial Day, celebrated by African Americans in Charleston, SC 1865.