Spring 2023 Newsletter: Laurel Cemetery in the Classroom
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.
What's Inside
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.
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.
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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