The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that once stood in downtown Charlottesville ... which it has named Swords Into Plowshares. Creating the art piece will help engage the Charlottesville ...

DEBBIE ELLIOTT, BYLINE: A massive bronze sculpture of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in uniform astride his ... and create a more inclusive public art installation. JALANE SCHMIDT: We want ...

Check out the video below, featuring incredible footage of metalworkers melting down a statue of Confederate Gen ... to Robert E. Lee. We’ll always be reminded of it when we see the new art ...

Kennedy Jr. said he had a “visceral reaction against” the removal of the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that ... statute of Lee and melt it down to create new public art.

Regarded as the war’s finest general, Robert E. Lee was a master of the organization of war. The country’s most experienced general in 1861, he declined President Lincoln’s offer to head the ...

Superintendent Ann Roy Moore said the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was removed from in front its namesake high school in Montgomery was never returned because it was so damaged ...

Family members of Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee and descendants of people the Lee family enslaved will meet on the very same land their ancestors lived and worked on in a reconciliatory event ...

Among them is Rob Lee. "I am General Lee's great-great-grandson, and I am Robert E. Lee the Fifth," he says. Lee and his sister, Tracy Lee Crittenberger, say they were surprised at first that the ...

Instead of storing a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, officials will melt down the 1,100-pound bronze monument into metal ingots—raw material that can then be used to create new art.