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NEW ISSUE: White House History Quarterly Magazine "Memorials, Cemeteries, and White House History"
Friday, August 15, 2025
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The White House Historical Association will release the 77th issue of its award-winning magazine, White House History Quarterly: "Memorials, Cemeteries, and White House History." The pursuit of White House history has often taken the Quarterly to memorials and grave sites, but this issue is the first wholly devoted to exploring the White House history found in cemeteries.
Principal photographer Bruce White has spent two years on the hills and winding paths capturing the beauty of these final resting places and calls the experience "moving and poignant--looking at the memorials is like reading biographies in miniature and, in an odd twist, sometimes they tell us more about the people who erect them than the person who lies beneath."
"President Kennedy once observed that 'history sometimes seems to be too much a study of abstractions and phantoms' and that a visit to the White House reminds us that our presidents 'were real people who ate and slept and worked and suffered.' The same could be said about the extent to which our knowledge of White House history is enriched by visits to the grave sites of not only the presidents but also their loved ones, their neighbors, their friends and their enemies, and even the journalists and historians who documented their stories," explained Marcia Anderson, Editor of the Quarterly.
Articles in this issue include:
-- Spending Eternity with the Executive Branch: White House Connections at
Historic Congressional Cemetery -- Rebecca Roberts opens the issue with
a tour of Congressional Cemetery, established in 1807. Nearly every
member of Congress who died in office in the early nineteenth century
was either laid to rest here or remembered by the distinctive
cube-shaped and domed cenotaphs found nowhere else. The remains of
President John Quincy Adams and First Lady Dolley Madison were
temporarily held in the Public Vault here before they were moved closer
to home, while Dolley Madison's son Payne Todd is here yet.
-- The Storied Paths of Oak Hill Cemetery -- In Georgetown, across the city
from Congressional Cemetery, Emily Guzick leads us through Oak Hill
Cemetery, designed to embrace the natural landscape. Here we find the
mausoleum that once held the son of President Abraham Lincoln, Willie
Lincoln, who died in the White House. Among the many other graves with
White House connections, we see the grand mausoleum of William Wilson
Corcoran, the cross-topped monument to President Zachary Taylor's
brother, Brigadier General Joseph Pannell Taylor, and the modest Seneca
stone fragment that marks the recent burial of historian and author
James Moore Goode.
-- The White House and Arlington National Cemetery -- Clifford Krainik
takes us back to the Civil War, when the U.S. government seized
Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Arlington estate on the banks of the
Potomac River, transforming it by 1864 into a cemetery for the Union's
war dead. Today Arlington National Cemetery holds more than 400,000
graves across 1,100 acres. Krainik highlights the burial sites of
President John F. Kennedy and President William Howard Taft, as well as
presidential son Robert Todd Lincoln and the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier.
-- From the Archives: President Herbert Hoover's Grave Site -- Jessie Kratz
takes us to the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library in West Branch,
Iowa, where President Hoover lies beneath a simple white marble slab of
his own design, inspired by the Quaker ideal of austerity instilled in
his upbringing.
-- Eternal Rest on the Hills: Rock Creek and Mount Olivet Cemetery --
Margaret Strolle continues the exploration of Washington, D.C.,
cemeteries with stops at Rock Creek and Mount Olivet. She highlights the
burial site of the designer and builder of the White House, James Hoban,
and, just a few steps away, that of Mary Surratt, who for her part in
the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln became the first
woman executed by the federal government.
-- A History Teacher's Fifty-Year Quest to visit every President's Grave --
Russell Beckman recounts his fifty-year quest to visit the grave site of
every U.S. president. As of May 2025, he has just one left (that of
President Jimmy Carter) on this list. His presidential encounters from
Vermont to California have inspired his life and reflect Americans'
respect and affection for the men who have led the nation for more than
two hundred years.
-- Presidential Sites Feature Grant's Tomb and National Reconciliation --
It was Union General Ulysses S. Grant who accepted the surrender of
General Lee at Appomattox Court House in 1865, effectively ending the
Civil War. Reflecting on Grant's legacy as a peacemaker and as the
eighteenth president of the United States, Louis Picone takes us to the
Grant National Memorial in New York City. Picone explains that the
150-foot-tall tomb was, and remains, the largest tomb in North America.
In contrast, many presidential graves are quite simple.
-- Reflections: The Tip of the Spear -- Stewart D. McLaurin closes the
issue at Old Calton Cemetery in Edinburgh, Scotland. There he discovers
a statue of Abraham Lincoln, erected in 1893 to honor the Scots who
fought and died for the Union during the American Civil War.
This 92-page issue of White House History Quarterly retails for $12.95. To purchase a single issue, visit?shop.whitehousehistory.org.
To subscribe to White House History Quarterly, visit whitehousehistoryjournal.org.
About The White House Historical Association
First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy envisioned a restored White House that conveyed a sense of history through its decorative and fine arts. She sought to inspire Americans, especially children, to explore and engage with American history and its presidents. In 1961, the nonprofit, nonpartisan White House Historical Association was established to support her vision to preserve and share the Executive Mansion's legacy for generations to come. Supported entirely by private resources, the Association's mission is to assist in the preservation of the state and public rooms, fund acquisitions for the White House permanent collection, and educate the public on the history of the White House. Since its founding, the Association has given more than $115 million to the White House in fulfillment of its mission. To learn more about the White House Historical Association, please visit WhiteHouseHistory.org.
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SOURCE The White House Historical Association
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