Arlington National Cemetery is preparing to take down its Confederate Memorial next week — despite pushback from a group of congressional Republicans. The statue removal comes following a ...

The removal of the Confederate Memorial at the Arlington National Cemetery may proceed, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, after finding that groups who tried to halt it failed to prove that keeping ...

As dawn broke at a frigid Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday morning, workers using a crane and harnesses began to take down a controversial statue that had stood there for more than a century.

Despite opposition from Republicans in Congress, the U.S Army will remove a Confederate statue in the Arlington National Cemetery in compliance to a Congressional mandate.

A statue removed from the top of a Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery is carried by ... More a crane past onlookers, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023 in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Kevin ...

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The cemetery installed that plaque in 2020, before the decision to remove the statue. "Most tour groups do not have the background to properly contextualize the Memorial," Ms Meeker says.

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.

An all-female veteran honor flight from the Greater St. Louis area visited Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

Notably, the first National Decoration Day, now known as Memorial Day, celebration took place on May 30, 1868, at Arlington National Cemetery, where a crowd of 5,000 gathered to decorate the ...

The removal of the Confederate Memorial at the Arlington National Cemetery may proceed, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, after finding that groups who tried to halt it failed to prove that keeping ...