Robert E. Lee was the son of a Revolutionary War hero who was a trusted aide to George Washington. In 1861, after 25 years in the U.S. Army, Lee turned down an offer to command Union forces in the ...

New Yorkers need only look to Brooklyn — where a plaque honoring Gen. Robert E. Lee has been affixed to a maple tree outside a church for more than 100 years. It won’t remain there much longer ...

A time capsule from inside the Robert E. Lee Monument in Richmond, Virginia, has finally been opened over a century after being buried inside the statue’s pedestal. Nexstar’s WRIC was t… ...

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 ...

There’s been much controversy in Charlottesville and beyond about preserving monuments to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. But if you had a chance to ask him, he’d most likely say, no thanks.

More than 130 years after artifacts were placed in a copper box and sealed within the pedestal of what would sit beneath the Robert E. Lee statue on Richmond's Monument Avenue, the Department of ...

After witnessing a protest Tuesday calling for the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue outside the Montgomery high school bearing his name, Kesha Parks had an honest conversation with her daughter.

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 ...

Heritage groups are fighting to re-install a historical marker to Robert E. Lee in front of a Charleston school. The Civil War general didn't cotton to such.

Adams, formerly Fort Lee, was in 2023 the first Army base to be named for Black Americans. Now, it'll be the first named for a Buffalo Solider.

This historic South Carolina plantation with ties to Robert E. Lee just sold for $9 million. Here’s what to know about it. Take a look.