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.

Lee; his wife, Mary Anna Randolph Custis, had inherited the property. The Lee family abandoned the estate when Virginia seceded at the start of the Civil War. The original cemetery was 200 acres.

Between ten and eleven on December 14, Washington died in his bedchamber with Martha at the foot of his bed. His last words ...

And, since 1916, the federal government has imposed an estate tax on the transfer of property owned at death. If the Death Tax Repeal Act were to become law, it would happen at a pivotal moment.

The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act raised the federal estate-tax exemption from about $5.5 million to $11 million, and inflation adjustments have brought it up to nearly $14 million. But the increase ...