Dear Helaine and Joe: I have enclosed a copy of a letter written by Robert E. Lee to his mother, plus Emily Ann Lee’s report card from the Miss Anable’s School, dated July 12, 1849, all of which have ...

Robert E. Lee Memorial Association, Stratford Few figures in American history are more divisive, contradictory or elusive than Robert E. Lee, the reluctant, tragic leader of the Confederate Army, who ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Sunday, Jan. 19, the state of Florida officially honors the birth of a man who led armies to fight against the United States of ...

On Monday, as President Donald Trump’s inauguration coincided with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, some of the president’s most extreme supporters chose to celebrate Confederate general and slaveowner ...

A painting of Gen. Robert E. Lee dressed in his Confederate uniform is back on display in the West Point's library, several years after the storied academy removed honors to the Civil War military ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was hoisted away from its place of prominence in Charlottesville on Saturday and carted off to storage, years after its ...

While previewing a proposed construction of a Paris-style arch in Washington, D.C., supposedly in his honor ahead of the United States’s 250th anniversary, President Donald Trump also gave a nod to ...

Three design firms are vying to recast the two tons of bronze ingots rendered from melting Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee statue, with competing proposals to be presented to the public in mid-March.

“The Commonwealth of Virginia will now be properly represented by an actual patriot who embodied the principle of liberty and justice for all, and not a traitor who took up arms against the United ...