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 ...

White supremacists, neo-Nazis and others have protested the removal of Confederate monuments. But the Confederate general Robert E. Lee himself never wanted such monuments built.

Rather than Confederate General Robert E. Lee, the installation now pays tribute to Private Fitz Lee, a Black soldier from ...

“I think the myth of Robert E. Lee — the marble man — has kind of aged out,” says Zwonitzer, a Connecticut-based documentary producer and author on American history.

Given that some Southern politicians seem motivated to recast the Civil War in heroic terms — a battle for states’ rights against an oppressive federal government, never mind the whole slavery ...

Warning: This new 90-minute documentary on Robert E. Lee may make you see the man differently. Over the 150 years since the start of the Civil War, most of us Yankees have been taught that Lee ...

A statue commemorating Gen. Robert E. Lee was taken down in Richmond, Virginia, on Sept. 8. Days after the statue was removed, Facebook posts about Lee misleadingly claimed he freed his slaves ...

Bookshelf ‘Robert E. Lee’ Review: A Marble Man, But No Pedestal A historian reconsiders the reputation and moral culpability of the Confederate general.

Robert E. Lee's Early Military Career Allen Guelzo talked about Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s military career before the Civil War. The Atlanta History Center hosted this virtual program.

President Donald Trump may see the statues commemorating the Confederacy and Robert E. Lee as things of “beauty” that will be “greatly missed.” But Lee himself was under no such illusion ...

On several occasions before he died, former Confederate General Robert E. Lee expressed opposition to proposals to erect Civil War monuments and memorials, including some devoted specifically to ...