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.

Aaron KillianApril 9, 2021Willie Lincoln, Dead White and Blue, Abraham Lincoln, Death, Funeral, Burial, Oak Hill Cemetery, Oak HillComment

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…

Laura HackfeldMarch 23, 2021Smithsonian Castle, Smithsonian, Joseph Henry, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Charles Rau, Oak Hill Cemetery, Dead White and Blue, Smithsonian Institute, Oak HillComment