When it comes to controversial figures such as Robert E. Lee, university presidents have largely adopted a policy of shoot first and ask questions later. Largely, but not entirely. At Washington ...

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 ...

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 ...