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Spring 2023 Newsletter: Laurel Cemetery in the Classroom

by | Sep 17, 2026

This issue highlights how students and faculty at Coppin State, Johns Hopkins, and Morgan State are using Laurel Cemetery to study Baltimore’s African American history. It also explores Samuel E. Young’s community legacy, historical causes of death at Laurel Cemetery, and connections to Washington, D.C.’s Columbian Harmony Cemetery.

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What's Inside

Coppin State, Johns Hopkins, and Morgan State students touring Mt. Auburn Cemetery as part of a collaborative study of Baltimore’s historic Black cemeteries.

1 | FEATURES

Laurel Cemetery in the Classroom

tudents from three Baltimore universities explore Laurel Cemetery through collaborative courses, lectures, field trips, and research focused on Black history, preservation, and public memory.

Historical portrait of Samuel E. Young displayed with archival materials and a cemetery scene representing his life and connection to Laurel Cemetery.

3 | PROFILES

Samuel E. Young (1836–1916): A Positive Force

Profiles Samuel E. Young, a Baltimore civic, religious, political, and fraternal leader whose decades of community service ended with his burial at Laurel Cemetery.

A Place for Memory beside a Laurel Cemetery research table listing recorded causes of death from January through June 1885.

4 | RESEARCH

Deaths in Laurel Cemetery: It Was Not Easy to Be Young

Examines historical causes of death recorded at Laurel Cemetery, particularly infant mortality and the widespread 19th-century misdiagnosis of “dentition” as a cause of childhood death.

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