Lee's father, Maj. Gen. "Light-Horse Harry" Lee fought in the Revolutionary War. Robert E. Lee Memorial Association, Stratford Few figures in American history are more divisive, contradictory or ...

Trude Lamb said at a school board meeting she wanted to change the name of the school to be after "someone who we can all be proud of" Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE.

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 ...

“They replaced the Robert E. Lee statue in New Orleans with this,” reads the caption on the post. “This is diabolical.” Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each ...

Lee. Congress dedicated the Arlington House in 1925 to honor Robert E. Lee and his outspoken efforts to reunite the country after the Civil War. The Arlington Memorial Bridge, built in 1932, connects ...