As a historian, Allen C. Guelzo is acutely aware of how perceptions change over time. When he started his latest biography, “Robert E. Lee: A Life,” back in 2014, “Lee was a different person ...

ROBERT E. LEE A Life By Allen C. Guelzo The historian Allen C. Guelzo is a self-described Yankee partisan. In a dozen books on the Civil War and Reconstruction, he has portrayed the Union cause as ...

He tried to check out a Robert E. Lee book from the library. ... His attempt to borrow "R.E. Lee: A Biography, Vol. 1" by Douglas Southall Freeman on Feb. 27, 1960, was interrupted by shouts.

He's the nephew many generations removed of the Confederate General Robert E. Lee. His new book, "A Sin By Any Other Name," is available now. Reverend Lee, thank you so much for talking with us.

Crews work on Sept. 8 to remove a towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond. (Steve Helber/AP) In 1935, the year before Margaret Mitchell’s magnolia-scented novel “Gone ...

By the end of the book, Korda defends his unflinching approach to his subject: "Lee loses nothing by being portrayed as a fallible human being." Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E ...

No man proved a more worthy opponent to Ulysses S. Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee was born the fourth child of Colonel Henry Lee and Ann Hill Carter on January 19, 1807. Lee's ...

Time capsule hidden beneath Robert E. Lee statue is opened 01:28. A rust-colored 1875 almanac, a cloth envelope and a silver coin were found Wednesday in a time capsule that lay hidden beneath a ...

The great-great-great-great-nephew of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, the 26-year-old North Carolina native writes about his fight in a new book, "A Sin By Any Other Name." ...

The tangled, at times farcical, tale of why Lee never faced trial on the treason indictment makes up the bulk of Mr. Reeves’ book. Lee’s indictment was handed down on June 7, 1865, by a ...

Experts find books, a coin and an envelope in Robert E. Lee statue's base A small box was found in the pedestal that used to hold a statue of the Confederate general in Richmond, Va.