Over 150 years ago, my family made a choice, one that defined a war, a nation and the realities we still face today. I’m a descendant of the Lees of Virginia. Confederate Gen. Robert E.

Can there possibly be any secrets left to discover about the life of Confederate icon Robert E. Lee? Yes—and the source ... that it was the choice he was born to make. To put it in some context ...

Robert E. Lee as traitor ... It took the Civil War itself to conclude otherwise. Although Lee deplored secession, he faced the choice of resigning from the U.S. Army or “drawing his sword ...

People in Richmond clapped and cheered on Wednesday as a huge bronze statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was removed from its place of honor on Monument Avenue. “Hey, hey, hey, goodbye!” ...

to clean out Confederate flags and symbols from Robert E. Lee High. “She was a great, great lady,” the reverend told me. “You couldn’t go wrong with that.” The reverend’s No. 1 choice?

Robert E. Lee has stepped down as pastor of his North ... the South will rise again with that person,” he told NPR. The choice to take a stand, despite his last name, was a clear one, he told ...

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam announced Thursday the removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee from ... while dressed in Civil War-era clothing, and have pushed for these and ...

By the end of the book, Guelzo chooses not to pursue the case against Lee for his treasonous choice to make war on the United States. While the tenor of “Robert E. Lee” is far from that of the ...

The dignified likeness of General Robert E. Lee in his Confederate Army uniform ... to the South? For Lee, the choice could not have been entirely the product of political analysis; that’s ...

The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was at the center of the deadly 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., was secretly melted down last week to be remade into a more ...

A year before the Robert E. Lee opened, the U.S. Decennial Census listed Winston-Salem as the state's largest city. Dick Stockton ran his family's clothing store, Norman Stockton, which was across ...