Robert E. Lee that once provoked ... subject to years of petitions from Native American groups. Both of those monuments came down the same weekend as Lee, and many groups submitted proposals ...

Robert W. Lee tells NPR's Michel Martin what it's like to grapple with the legacy of his ancestor, Confederate General Robert E. Lee. He wrote about this in a memoir, "A Sin by Any Other Name.

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.

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, 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 ...

All this and more can be found in the new book, "The Man Who Would Not Be Washington: Robert E. Lee's Civil War and His Decision That Changed American ... war against his native state of Virginia.

Robert E. Lee from its perch ... his decision to remove the Lee monument began with a conversation with an old friend, renowned jazz musician and New Orleans native Wynton Marsalis.

Even after Confederate commander Robert E. Lee surrendered in Appomattox ... much of the Confederacy's officer class — but by a Native American chief called Stand Watie. So how did a leader ...

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 ...

Latest update on Robert E. Lee statue: Confederate group gets personal ... after the indigenous Native American tribe that lived in Southwest Florida first. The following year, Fort Myers ...

Lee Street in north Phoenix. Both street names are widely considered offensive — squaw is a derogatory word for Native American women and Robert E. Lee was the commander of the Confederate ...