Gen. Lee was one of America’s best generals Regarding Robert Brown’s letter (“Celebrating the birthday of a traitor to country,” Jan 14): Far from being a traitor, Gen. Robert E. Lee is ...

1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See Bruce Chadwick, . . Sourcebooks, $24.95 (355pp) ISBN 978-1-4022-0941-3 ...

Sidney Blumenthal describes Abraham Lincoln as a masterful politician confronting the key issue of his time: slavery. (Jonathan Newton / The Washington Post) You'd be hard-pressed to find a 63 ...

The sun rises behind the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, Virginia, on January 17, 2021. (Photo by RYAN M. KELLY/AFP via Getty Images) The sun rises behind the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond ...

The issue: What was Robert E. Lee’s stance on slavery? Rep. Larry Pittman, a North Carolina state lawmaker who once compared Abraham Lincoln to Adolf Hitler, ...

A time capsule found in the pedestal of the Robert E. Lee monument in Richmond, Virginia didn’t contain a photo of Abraham Lincoln in his coffin, as expected. The discovery of a second time ...

A biography of Gen. Robert E. Lee and a book about the relationship between President Lincoln and abolitionist Frederick Douglass were this year’s winners of the Lincoln Prize for Civil War ...

Abraham Lincoln issued the "preliminary" Emancipation Proclamation on this day in history, ... ROBERT E. LEE MONUMENT REMOVAL TEAM FINDS WHAT IS BELIEVED TO BE 1887 TIME CAPSULE.

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 ...

Historians had hoped to find a rare, century-old photo of Abraham Lincoln in a box discovered beneath a pedestal of a statue of Robert E. Lee. It was not to be.

After finding a time capsule from 1887 inside a Richmond's Robert E. Lee statue, Virginia conservators opened the box, ... but not a rare picture of Abraham Lincoln it was rumored to have.