Robert E. Lee was a central character in America's defining national trauma, the Civil War. These images explore other facets of his life, from the young boy coping with the abandonment of an ...

The most recent victory on this score occurred in New Orleans this past weekend when a statue of General Robert E ... “present-day American youth” aspired to “emulate” Lee’s “rare ...

President Dwight Eisenhower kept a photo of Lee in his office, and when a constituent wrote him a letter saying, “I do not understand how any American can include Robert E. Lee as a person to be ...

Last year, a group of African-American college students urged their university's administration to denounce Robert E. Lee for his "racist and dishonorable conduct," and for his participation in ...

The controversy over his lineage comes as lawmakers in several states continue to restrict what is being taught about race and American history. Rev. Lee believes the history of Robert E.

A son of American Revolutionary War hero Henry “Light-Horse Harry” Lee, Robert E. Lee graduated second ... forces although he had little experience leading troops. He struggled but eventually ...

Robert E. Lee, going from one knot of men to the next, urging the law be allowed to take its course. Off, in the end, went the thief for an 18-year prison term. How deeply does the American ...

Robert E. Lee — of whom statues stand in ... learned from my father and his family, and my own experience. I love my whole family and our American story because it made me who I am today.

On Sunday morning, President Trump broke with precedent, discarded norms, and did something few of his predecessors would ever have considered: He angrily denied the suggestion that he had praised ...

Robert E. Lee at age 31, then a young Lieutenant of Engineers, U. S. Army, 1838. PD. Robert Edward Lee is the fourth child born to Colonel Harry and Ann Lee, prominent members of the Virginia ...

The Dec. 13 letter from Wesley C. Haines-Ynfante extolling Robert E. Lee as "a great American hero" ["Lee was not a proponent of slavery"] was the final straw for me. A man who betrayed his oath ...

Robert E. Lee — of whom statues stand in many cities and towns, including, now infamously, Charlottesville — my American story ... his family and my own experience. No telling of Lee’s ...