History Resources

The Honored Dead: African American Cemeteries, Graveyards, and Burial Grounds

Memorializing the Gravesites of Twentieth-Century African Americans

Essay

Karla F. C. Holloway

African American Burial Sites in New England from Colonial Times through the Early Twentieth Century

Essay

Glenn A. Knoblock

Jonathan W. White - "A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House"

Video

The New York African Burial Ground

Essay

Edna Greene Medford

Our National Cemetery and Its Honored Dead: The African American History of Arlington

Essay

Ric Murphy

"What We Leave the Earth": The African Burial Ground in New York City

Essay

David Mills

Literature

From the Editor

Essay

Carol Berkin

Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross - "A Black Women's History of the United States"

Video

America's Unseen Soldiers

Lesson Plan

9, 10, 11, 12, 7, 8