His new book, “Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause,” offers hope that those who attempt to set the record straight about racism in the United ...

In May 2017, a crane removed a 16½ foot-tall bronze statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee from its perch 60 feet above New Orleans. The statue was one of four Confederate monuments the city's former mayor ...

Robert E. Lee is the uniter America has been looking for At war's end he wished nothing more and nothing less than to bind up the terrible wounds caused by four years of bloody conflict. He knew ...

Robert E. Lee is considered by many Generals to be the greatest strategist of them all. President Lincoln wanted him to command the North, in which case the war would have been over in one day.

A pastor who claimed to be a descendent of Robert E. Lee during a series of high-profile civil rights speeches denouncing the Confederate isn’t related to the general at all, it has been revealed.

RICHMOND — Workers have removed Virginia’s biggest statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from its towering stone base and cut it into two pieces, ending the monument’s 131-year reign ...

The statue of Robert E. Lee, which had stood along Monument Avenue in Richmond since 1890, is dismantled on Sept. 8. (Parker Michels-Boyce for The Washington Post) Imagine a magnificent statue ...

A neighbor wondered if the 3:40 a.m. removal of the historical marker outside Lee's childhood home in Alexandria, Va., was connected to efforts to sell the property for $5.9 million.

Lee's father, Maj. Gen. "Light-Horse Harry" Lee fought in the Revolutionary War. Robert E. Lee Memorial Association, Stratford Few figures in American history are more divisive, contradictory or ...