Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee was hated during the American civil war only to become a heroic symbol of the South’s “Lost Cause” - and eventually a racist icon. His transformation ...

General Lee with his generals, 1907. Courtesy: Library of Congress Letter from Robert E. Lee to Winfield Scott, written two days after his meeting with Francis Blair where he refused command of ...

No man proved a more worthy opponent to Ulysses S. Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee was born the fourth child of Colonel Henry Lee and Ann Hill Carter on January 19, 1807.

When it comes to controversial figures such as Robert E. Lee, university presidents ... it will be impossible for Washington and Lee to preserve General Lee’s vaunted status as a demigod of ...

“They replaced the Robert E. Lee statue in ... since well before the Lee statue was removed in 2017. A 16-foot-tall bronze statue commemorating the Confederate general was taken down from ...

When an enormous statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee was hoisted off its pedestal Wednesday in the former capital of the Confederacy and carted off to storage, many civil rights activists saw it as a ...

the house is now associated more with the man who married into the family and lived there for 30 years — Civil War General Robert E. Lee. Congress dedicated the Arlington House in 1925 to honor Robert ...

Lee When the federal holiday was adopted in the 1980s, Mississippi and Alabama lawmakers opted to add it to an existing ...