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'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.

"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 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.

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.

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 ...

Arlington National Cemetery is preparing to take down its Confederate Memorial next week — despite pushback from a group of ... but rather celebrates American unity in the wake of the Civil War.

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 ...

Related article Unknown Civil War soldiers buried in new section at Arlington National Cemetery Army Chaplain Capt. John Ulrick spoke of his five children, four of whom are Black.

In 1898, 33 years after the end of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War brought a sudden, ... who asked to be buried at the memorial in Arlington National Cemetery.

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 ...