This is the grave of Morris Rosenfeld. I have used this image before, to profile Vladimir Medem. But the graves are so close together in this cemetery that I couldn’t only take a picture of that
Huh, imagine doing this to one Donald Trump: Since the pandemic started, one in 10 people living in Brazil has contracted COVID-19, and more than 600,000 deaths have been reported. Despite these stagg
This is the grave of Francis Wardlaw. It is rare that I have little to say on these grave posts. Francis Wardlaw was the author of the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession in 1860. No one did more to
This is the grave of George Creel. Born in 1876 in Lafayette County, Missouri, Creel grew up in a downwardly mobile family. His father was a college educated Virginia near-elite, former state legislat
Faculty are going to have to lead the fight for the continued exploration of complicated and controversial issues in our research because feckless administrators will cave to right-wing members of sta
Martha Jones, one of our finest historians of the Black freedom struggle, has a powerful essay on trying to find evidence about the life of Abigail, the slave of John Jay, who attempted to escape whil
This is the grave of Grover Washington. Born in 1943 in Buffalo, Washington grew up in a musical household. His mother was a church organist and his father played the saxophone. Young Grover would als
This is the grave of Norma Miller. Born in 1919 in Harlem, MIller was the daughter of a Barbadian immigrant shipyard worker and a mother who worked as a house cleaner. Her father died before she was b