1. Grave Affairs: Arlington National Cemetery and the Politics of Death and Honor Micki McElya Assistant Professor of History University of Connecticut November 7, 2011

2. At center, the Tomb of the Unknowns and Memorial Amphitheater. Photo credit: Minot Air Force Base, stock image

3. Photo credit: http://www.army.mil

4. “It has been said that Arlington is the heart of the republic.” —Arlington: In Eternal Vigil (2006)

5. Photo credit: Arlington National Cemetery, stock image

7. Postcards from Cemetery Gift Shop 2008

9. Mathew Brady, “Long Row of Blacks Reading from a Book Outside at Contraband School, or Freedman’s Village,” (1865). Harper’s Weekly May 7, 1864

11. Spanish-American War Memorial, 1902 (left) Spanish-American War Nurses Memorial, 1905 (right)

12. U.S.S. Maine Memorial, 1912 (left) Confederate Monument, 1914 (right)

13. Fritz Guerin, Little Cuba (1898) Gettysburg Reunion, July 3, 1913

14. Burying the Unknown Soldier of WWI, 1921 Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons

15. “It has been said that Arlington is the heart of the republic.” —Arlington: In Eternal Vigil (2006)

16. Heather Lynn Johnsen, Tomb Sentinel, March 22, 1996. Photo credit: Mark Wilson, Associated Press

17. Unknown, Grave 449, Section 68, 2009 Photo credit: www.salon.com