Congratulations to the students in our HIST 490 Seminar in History: Richmond Cemeteries course at VCU in the Fall 2024 semester, who completed a range of fascinating studies as part of their capstone undergraduate course. Here is a list of the students’ paper topics:
“A Legacy Of Compassion: The Life of Dr. Ali Hossaini Sr.”
“The Forgotten Victims of the Civil War and the Path to Remembrance” about the 1863 Confederate Factory explosion victims
“The Strange Case of Dr. Christopher Tompkins: Distinguished Night Doctor Extraordinaire”
“Death and Burial in Virginia, Defined by the Cabell Family from 1774-1889”
“Echoes of Her Life: Gender, Memory, and Social Roles in the Inscriptions of St. John’s Churchyard”
“The Richmond Slave Trail”
“Death and Unity in the Knights of Columbus”
“Tokukichiro Abe and Sayyid Wajih al-Kilani: A Comparison of Two Foreign Burials in Hollywood Cemetery”
All represented a great deal of effort and research, and all helped uncover important elements of the area landscape.