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Arlington House has reopened after a 3-year renovation. It seeks to memorialize Robert E. Lee and acknowledge his role in the Confederacy while also telling the story of those enslaved there.
ARLINGTON, Va. (7News) — A new bill from Virginia’s leaders looks to rename Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial. Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) introduced a bill alongside Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA ...
On Saturday, descendants of the enslaved gathered on the grounds of Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, for a ceremony to honor their ancestors.
The descendants of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and those of the people the Lee family enslaved came together for the first time at Arlington House, the national memorial to Lee in Virginia.
Descendants of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and descendants of slaves owned by Lee participate in a reunion at Lee’s former plantation home, the Arlington House, at Arlington National ...
They had returned to the site, known as Arlington House, where their ancestors had once lived and worked, the site of the plantation once owned by Confederate general Robert E. Lee.
Park Rangers talk near Arlington House, a memorial to Gen. Robert E. Lee in Arlington, in June 2021. (Craig Hudson for The Washington Post) I am weary of the exhortation to stop “rewriting ...
A bill that would no longer allow the state to issue “Sons of Confederate Veterans” and Robert E. Lee special license plates has passed in both the Virginia House and Senate.
Va. Gov. Youngkin proposes a ... which he sacrificed so much,” said Henrico resident Charles Hague during an earlier House ... 1,783 Robert E. Lee plates and 543 Sons of ...
They're strangers with a painful shared bond: Robert E. Lee enslaved their ancestors. ARLINGTON, Va. — There was a one-of-a-kind reunion over the weekend at Arlington House, the national ...
The descendants of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and those of the people the Lee family enslaved came together for the first time at Arlington House, the national memorial to Lee in Virginia ...