The newest installment of Historic America’s YouTube series Dead, White & Blue has been released. In this episode Aaron & special guest Jake Wynn (from the National Museum of Civil War Medicine) spotlight the short life of Abraham Lincoln’s best loved son Willie.

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Smithsonian Connections at Oak Hill Cemetery

Today we’re excited to welcome Laura Hackfeld to the Historic America Journal. Laura is a senior staff member at DC’s Historic Oak Hill Cemetery and her article is all about the cemetery’s notable interments and their connection to America’s greatest institution of learning…

Preserving Mount Zion

Oak Hill Cemetery is a historic treasure in Washington DC. Visible from the grounds of Oak Hill, are the grounds of Mount Zion and Female Union Band Society cemeteries. The contrast of picturesque, meticulously preserved Oak Hill Cemetery, to the peculiar blight just east of it’s boundary, is a visual representation of systemic inequity, the indignities of segregation, and the devastating cultural erasure of gentrification.

History America Behind the Scenes: Dead, White, and Blue

Join Historic America’s Aaron Killian and Christopher Surridge behind the scenes of the next installment of our “Dead, White, and Blue” series at Oak Hill Cemetery! While you wait however, make sure to catch up on the stories of famous Americans buried at Washington DC’s Congressional Cemetery.