Descendants of the enslavers and the enslaved unite for a family portrait at the Arlington House, the former plantation once owned by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and his wife, Mary Custis Lee. (Dee ...
Descendants from two different histories of slavery came together in Virginia over the weekend to celebrate their ancestors and continue their transparent discussions of race and collaboration.
Arlington National Cemetery is one of the most sacred parts of our country. It is no accident that this cemetery is named Arlington. Just as it is no accident that Arlington House, which was the home ...
Arlington National Cemetery is one of the most sacred parts of our country. It is no accident that this cemetery is named Arlington. Just as it is no accident that Arlington House, which was the home ...
Regarded as the war’s finest general, Robert E. Lee was a master of the organization of war. The country’s most experienced general in 1861, he declined President Lincoln’s offer to head the Union ...
A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was a focal point of a deadly white nationalist protest in 2017 has been melted down and will be repurposed into new works of art. The Jefferson School ...
Those who value anti-Robert E. Lee/anti-Confederacy sentiment grasp that it originated upon his resignation from the U.S. Army to become an enemy combatant. As soon as Lee turned traitor, the Union ...
There was a one-of-a-kind reunion over the weekend at Arlington House – the national memorial to Robert E. Lee that sits atop a hill in Arlington National Cemetery. Descendants of the Confederate ...