Arlington National Cemetery's Section 27 is the final resting place of more than 3,800 formerly enslaved people who escaped to Washington during the Civil War but died after they arrived.

The Arlington National Cemetery has removed key information from its website about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members as well as historical topics like the Civil War. The moves ...

Before the land became the national cemetery, it was the plantation of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Prior to the Civil War, about 200 enslaved people lived and worked there.

"Arlington National Cemetery has removed information on Black, Hispanic, and female veterans to comply with Trump’s anti-DEI orders. They are literally trying to erase us ," lamented Democratic ...

Arlington National Cemetery, which covers 639 grassy, hilly acres in Virginia near the Potomac River, is the resting place of more than 400,000 veterans and is the largest U.S. military cemetery.

An independent commission has recommended that the government should topple Arlington National Cemetery’s 32-foot tall Confederate monument. It is an egregious paean to the Lost Cause. And ...

From George Washington to Robert E. Lee, Arlington's history is as complicated as our own. Here's how it became the hallowed ground it is today.

Arlington National Cemetery is seeking public input on its proposal to remove the Confederate Memorial from its grounds. Atop a 32-foot-tall pedestal in the cemetery stands a bronze statue of a ...

Thursday’s burial marked the first time a Civil War veteran has been laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery since 2018. Bender received Hart’s burial flag on behalf of her family, and she ...

Arlington National Cemetery was established during the Civil War, on the land confiscated from Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and where (what used to be) his home still sits today.

They did so by "putting forward a sanitized, romanticized version of the pre-Civil War South," Rowland said. Arlington National Cemetery had said that bronze pieces of the memorial would be ...

The Arlington National Cemetery has removed key information from its website about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members as well as historical topics like the Civil War. The moves ...