How "Arlington House" Became "The Robert E. Lee Memorial"

2026/06/05 by W. Caleb McDaniel · 1 voice

paper · doi:10.25611/3kfs-1a94

openalex publication_date 2026/06/05 · openalex created_date 2026/06/06 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

There was nothing inevitable about the transformation of Arlington House, a National Park Service historic site, into a Confederate shrine. In this essay, originally published on my personal blog, I share new research about the legislative history behind that transformation.

Discussions

• I’ve uploaded a PDF version of my new post on the history of Arlington House to Rice’s Research Repository. DOI: 10.25611/3KFS-1A94 [bsky, 7 points, 1 comments]

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