US states celebrate Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on the federal holiday honoring Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Which ones? What we know

Barton Mitchell discovered General Lee's plans for the Battle of Antietam. Little known history of Barton Mitchell, a corporal from Bartholomew County, who served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Mitchell discovered General Robert E. Lee's plans ...

A painting of Gen. Robert E. Lee dressed in his Confederate uniform is back on display in West Point's library, several years after the storied academy removed honors to the Civil War military leader.Related video above from 2021: Robert E. Lee statue ...

A statue of teen civil rights icon Barbara Rose Johns Powell has replaced that of Confederate general Robert E. Lee at the US Capitol, five years after the latter’s removal. Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin unveiled the bronze sculpture on Tuesday ...

A confederate memorial to Robert E. Lee is now sitting in Marion Square, but questions have arisen about how the tribute to the controversial figure came to be in such a prominent spot. The highway memorial displays the seal of confederacy in tribute to the War General Robert.

A revealing historical and photographic tour of the homes of influential Civil War figures, including Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Clara Barton, Stonewall Jackson, and others. Timed to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Civil ...

While previewing a proposed construction of a Paris-style arch in Washington, D.C., supposedly in his honor ahead of the United States’s 250th anniversary, President Donald Trump also gave a nod to Confederate General Robert E. Lee. On Wednesday, Trump ...

The U.S. Capitol on Tuesday began displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school, a pointed replacement for a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was removed several ...

On the eve of the Civil War, one soldier embodied the legacy of George Washington and the hopes of leaders across a divided land. Both North and South knew Robert E. Lee as the son of George Washington's most famous eulogist and the son-in-law of ...