In his 2019 book “A Sin by Another Name,” Lee says that for as long as he can remember, there was a painting of Robert E. Lee on his grandmother’s den wall.He describes how his “Nana ...

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 ...

Rev. Robert W. Lee felt like his integrity was being challenged when Confederate defenders continued to accuse him of lying about being a distant relative of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

The descendants of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and those of the people the Lee family enslaved came together for the first time at Arlington House, the national memorial to Lee in Virginia.

Families of Robert E. Lee and enslaved people unite to tell a more inclusive history together 05:29. Visitors can return to Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial, starting on Tuesday.

People gather around the Robert E. Lee statue on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, on June 4, 2020, amid continued protests over the death of George Floyd in police custody.

The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that once stood in downtown Charlottesville, Va., will be melted down and turned into a public arts project after receiving city council approval this ...

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 ...

Former President Donald Trump ripped removal of a massive statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Va., Wednesday, warning that “our culture is being destroyed and our history an… ...

Guelzo calculates that Lee may have had as many as four heart attacks before the one that caused his death on Oct. 12, 1870. Robert E. Lee opposed erecting statues to himself and his brothers-in-arms.

Rev. Robert E. Lee IV was a plaintiff in an Iredell County, North Carolina, lawsuit seeking to have a Confederate monuments remove.