About the Author

Sandra K. Schmidt has been researching the history of the cemetery for almost 20 years. She has collected biographical information for over 20,000 of the individuals interred there, and she built the first Congressional Cemetery website to make that information available to the public. As the cemetery's program director, Rebecca Boggs Roberts turns those stories into tours and events. Tours include Uppity Women: HCC's Suffragists, Sinners and Scoundrels, Lincoln's Last Day, and Last Call: Prohibition in Congressional Cemetery.